Thursday, May 30, 2024

Where God Comes From

We must never forget the beauty that God raises out of pain.  We'd like to, pain is not our friend,  do you like pain?  Likely not, nearly unanimously not, or else you're considered to be mentally unbalanced.  Pain is not liked, learned nor loved, yet God uses pain to bring something we like, teach us and instill deep in our soul love. 

Beauty in the form of a lady confined to a wheel chair, but, who's mind explored the cosmos.  She lived, oh how she lived!  She loved,  oh my, how she loved.  She was as fearless as any person I've ever known. She might've been cruelly made to stay in a wheel chair, but her grace, dignity,  joy, majesty and faith, yes, faith; took her places my young soul desired to go, but in my youthful ignorance, could not, would not.

She always sought ways to make me think. My young ignorance believing only science, only human knowledge,  she found constant challenges to that, as today, is my stead.  Back there, in that past, she used her faith to powerfully plant pathos into my construct. What a wonder with wanderlust to seek my yet to be born again soul, I believe she saw it?

One day, think it was bright, sunny, as entering the kitchen she said,  "You claim there is no God because we can't prove where He comes from, right"? Sensing a trap, "Well, uh, sure." "No," says she, "I want a straight answer." I tried to dodge some more, but she kept nailing me until finally, "Alright- yes- you can't tell me where God comes from." She had me- "So if I could show you, in the Bible, where it says where God comes from, you'd at least have to consider it?" She smiled, delighted,  she knew she had me.  I said yes, yes already.  She said Habakuk 3:3.


Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Names of God Prayer

 We thank Blue letter online Bible for the study of God's names.  This isn't exhaustive as such, there are many more, but their work allows us a prayer point to pray over each attribute of God. If you have the mind and heart of prayer you may find Holy Spirit loves praise 👏

Thursday, February 9, 2023

Springhill is growing...haphazardly

 

“Springhill is growing: … ‘Haphazardly’  “I’m the Governor” ‘John Dutton’ by Kevin Costner  “Yellowstone”   Costner is without any doubt one of America’s primary leading men, awarded, decorated and highly respected, he has become a voice for conservative value- and that’s a tough voice to carry these days.  There are some things about this show that are worth your while, as a viewer, there isn’t much better writing than Taylor Sheridan, his name is on many shows, his skill in portraying how we are, is remarkable.  That being said, the punches don’t get pulled in this presentation, the language and skin time, aren’t held back, but they aren’t in real life either, are they?  Our culture is challenged these days to try and figure out what we’re going to do with what we have, because in America we have a lot.  Dr. John Sullivan many decades back in seminary put it this way, “America’s problem isn’t with want, we have more than what most in the world want, no, our problem is with affluence.”  You wouldn’t think it would be a problem, but quickly, it becomes one.  We have so much, yet if we simply redistribute it, people figure out how to achieve that as a goal, how to get, without earning the get, and that, creates entire generations that begin to do less and less expecting more and more- it’s a real problem, and we’ve got it.  So whenever we have a problem, and we’re aware of it, what do you think we do?  In this drama, John Dutton takes action!  Here’s an interesting thing about action, it can’t hit and miss, can’t be taken, without planning, Dutton plans and never haphazardly.

              Economic development in Springhill Louisiana has some very real problems.  It should, developing small business shouldn’t be so challenging, but, like the enormous West portrayed in Yellowstone- that seems to mean one thing, and yet, just might mean something entirely different, so it is with the challenging nature of, small rural community business development. We have a certain mind set about how that’s accomplished.  The only problem with that mind set is it works so deftly against what we want as a result.  We want store fronts filled with successful businesses and happy customers constantly telling us to go and shop at this place.  We want joy, we want success, we want profits, we want people getting jobs.  We’d like all that without us having to do a whole lot about it.  There’s a part of the problem, without you getting involved, no small business has a chance.  But that’s only a part of the picture- customers do mean profit, if the business is set up and running as it should.  However, just having customers doesn’t guaranty a thing, does it?  So there is an addition to the recipe for small business helping with economic development, what would you surmise that might be?  Part of the big problem is we solve it haphazardly.

              How do solutions to necessary problems solve them, without the solutions merely meeting the immediate need?  They have to be part of a larger, better, more well realized plan, and that, your community doesn’t have.  We’ve been saying it now for at least two decades, and so far, nobody wants to actually grab the bull by the horns and try to ride that issue- if you fail to plan, which we do, then you are really planning to fail, which is where we are.  Planning, it takes work, hard work, and lots of it, no matter how precise your plan is, it cannot anticipate the things that are outside the plans realm.  What that takes is a professional trained in the ways of flexible and adjustable plans, and such plans don’t just happen by wishing they existed, but that’s how your community continues to act like they can.  Why your leaders won’t plan is almost too simple, nobody actually knows how- isn’t that bizarre, you have leaders who’ve never had to plan beyond the immediate needs.  Business these days seldom comes from a well planned out agenda, business is taught, at the highest levels of collegiate research, as a “Make a decision,” if we’re to listen to men like Jack Welch, a well respected author about planning, such should be “From the gut.” The problem of quick decisions and adjust to the consequences is, the consequences can become, and almost always do become, overwhelming, and usually that’s not to the positive side of outcome- it’s done far too haphazardly.

              It’s odd that in our community we pay for things that we really ought not to have to, but when you the voters elect people who don’t know how to plan, and then let them not become trained to plan, you set yourself up for charges to come at you that shouldn’t.  You spend way too much for far too little, but you don’t believe that you’re part of the problem.  You are, you don’t talk to your leaders, you don’t demand that they be responsible, you don’t ask hard questions such as, “Why do we pay 100 percent for static systems that only function 25 percent of the time, but, then, we’re told those charges are necessary?  We never question such, and if we do, do the people we’re questioning act like they’re glad we’re asking?  See the test for such is, you call your leader and instead of getting a cold shoulder feeling that you shouldn’t have asked, you get a warm thank you for asking.  Make the call, your utilities are too high- unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand you ought to know this- even in the major cities of Louisiana, they pay less for their utilities than you do in a small rural one- that my friend, is beyond ridiculous, since the powers that be are willing to supplement local rural use- if it’s asked for?  Think your leaders are asking, or is it possible they’re so proud they can’t bring themselves to?  If they finally do, it’s haphazardly.

              Ask a judge what the saying is for a person who represents themselves when they should have an attorney?  That judge will let you know right snappy, such a one is called a fool.  When you elect people to office who can’t get their own egos out of the way- when they can’t get straight in their thinking that they really “Aren’t all that,” too big to fail- ‘Yellowstone,’ shows that danger.?  If you allow your community to be led by those who are out of touch because they can’t be bothered to find out what being in touch is about- that failure won’t happen haphazardly.

Dr. Dana C. Richardson,  “Inverted Culture” on Amazon, and Dr. Steve Broe, author, “Leaders in Transition.”

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Oh you're ready for 2023- great!

     There's always someone who knows it better, isn't there?  But sometimes you decide not to argue with them, don't you?  If you're that person, or know someone like that, then this may be your moment to meet a new writer that you can understand, maybe not agree with, but, understand.

    That may be a bit freaky to you, maybe you've read some of my stuff before, and it just wasn't catching?  Too technical, too strange, too hard to get?  Most of the people who do read me say things like that, I just never listened- until- last year.  Last year was one of the weirdest for me, ever, not just because it was coming out of Covid- but also because it was watching the world come our of Covid as well.


    We've changed, Covid did change us, we can continue to pretend it didn't, but most people sense that very few things, from the coffee shop to the store to shop, are the same.  Our outlook about how things happen, it has changed.  Our way of thinking about how things should go, that's changed as well- so to think that the same old way of doing everything would be O.K., seems a bit off, wouldn't you think?

    So what has all that got to do with writing about the book of James?  Catch us next, subscribe so you'll be notified, because we're going to see some things out of this New Testament book that may in fact shock the socks right off you....thanks and do stay tuned...

-Dr.D

   

Monday, August 9, 2021

RAW HONEY YOU NEED IT


 

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Monday, March 8, 2021

Why we need voices of reason

When someone tells you to shut up, 

they're saying three distinct things:

1.  Your opinion isn't one I want to hear.

2.  Your opinion isn't based on what I accept.

3.  My opinion is better so let me say it.

There are more reasons, I'm sure you can

add some, but...there's that enormous...but;

always bear in mind- after we shut up- 

we listen with different ears.

In Seminary a lady missed class, all the folks

knew she'd need the assignment, but everybody

was slightly hesitant to volunteer to take it to 

her.  She was the wife of the then chief of Police

for the city...guess who finally got volunteered?

I'll never, ever forget; going to the door

with the papers and being greeted by this

sweet lady...with two gigantic Rottweillers'.

Thursday, June 6, 2019

Experiential Learning


Is it possible that we've caught up to ourselves in technology?  Are computers and computer information systems for small rural American communities becoming out of touch because we who contribute to the feeds from those small towns aren't getting savvy about it?  Consider that no matter where in the world a person is getting their feed, they still learn the same way?

Because of it's size this may not work...but..we'll try...if you can see the model...it's circular and it begins and ends with a new situation...which...pretty much...you're in now...as you have questions...drd1201@gmail.com

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