When you represent your business, put your best food forward.  Look like you want others to look up to you. See what they see.  Be who you want them to see.

Dress for your personal success.  Associate with those you admire to succeed with.

Make your personal goals higher standards.  Walk with your head up, proud of the knowledge of who you are.

Choose to stand alone, when the choices to stand with are not acceptable to your personal standards.

Honor the you that you can and want to become.

Set one goal that makes you do something that teaches you a forward needed skill.  Be your best and make a plan.

Plan to walk a little taller.  Dance a little longer.  Sing a little sweeter. Love with all that you are.

and never stop praying.

Believe in your religion.  Know doctrine.  Don’t worry about what you don’t know about other religions.

In all my experiences, no one, other than the person who believes and practices their own religion, KNOWS that religion.

The worst thing you can do, is tell me what I believe.  No one knows what I believe more than I do.

If you want to know about what I believe, ask me.  No one else can tell you.

Just as I wouldn’t go ask a baker how to change the oil, in my car, I would not go to a particular leader, of any church, and ask about another church.

Its  not insulting to my religion.. its insulting to my intelligence.

Abraham and Sarah -> Isaac and Rebecca -> Jacob (twin Esau) is later “Israel.”  The 12 Tribes of Israel (Israelites or “House of Jacob”) are Jacob’s 10 sons and 2 grandsons (through Joseph.)

OK.  Now Theosis.  My own word, for this, in the past, is “Eternal Progression.”

Today, I would call it “My Walk with God” or better “Life’s Purpose: My Walk to God.”

Honestly, I’ll keep calling it Eternal Progression, but I loved this book Theosis: The True Purpose of Human Life.

I, especially, appreciated the Glossary[PDF], at the end.

“But one thing is needful..” (Luke 10:42) really gets my attention.  Its personal to my “Martha” world.

I shall keep striving to be as a little child.. and pray for the patience I don’t have.

I’m not very surprised by anything new, that I’ve learned.  Maybe I didn’t learn anything new.

I, already, consider Fast Food FAKE FOOD.  Its easy to drive right by, when, in my mind, its not food.  Its “not real” has been engraved on my soul, by Marianne Williams, even if unrelated to food.

I’m more disgusted with the legal issues and the red tape..  and hidden food labels..

Its all pretty simple, to me.  I can’t grow it all.. I can’t eat it all.  I make exceptions.

I like the idea of thinking that dry pasta, in a box, is convenience food.

I’m so pleased that this movie was made and watched by so many.. I want the awareness to make Organic Foods less “weird” and more plentiful.

If more of us felt food was fake.. we’d have better food choices, so we could eat better.

This movie isn’t about not eating fast food.. its about all of our food.  It won’t make you stop eating meat. It won’t make you stop eating dairy.  It will teach you that all of our food is a dollar in some companies hand.

Conspiring men in the last days.. will feed us to death!

I taught them bad words, so they knew not to speak them.  I taught them porn terms so they knew what to avoid, online.  I taught them to be a Scrooge, at Christmas.

Now I need to teach one how to not be “cliquish.”

I just can’t stand the “big bully on the playground!” and “cliques” are not just about being shy.. they can be blatantly just selfish and rude.

I’m not sure where to start.. I just got mad and said “you don’t know how to be on the other end.. but I find it wrong to be in a church youth group and flat out be rude to any other youth.”

It was my bad way of trying to get the point across..

I also told said child that if one of her “friends” doesn’t shape up.. she won’t be doing anything, in the future, with her.

We’ll see where this goes..

I’m such a mean mom!

The problem is that most of these magazines were saved for a particular reason.. and I don’t find myself throwing out too many..

Like.. the January 2006 Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients.

Interviewing Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of “101 Exercises for the Soul” and “365 Prescriptions for the Soul,” (in ref to 101 Exercises) they ask, “If I were limited to practicing just one “exercise” in your book, which one should it be?”

He replied, “Find a role model and live and act as if you were the person you want to be and treat yourself as well as you do your beloved pet.  By rehearsing and practicing and having coaches to criticize and provide feedback, you can become a more loving human being  and be happier too.  you are a work in progress so don’t be critical of your mistakes and give up, but instead, forgive yourself, apologize, and move on.  My role model is WWLD.  Whenever I have a problem I ask myself, What Would Lassie Do?”

Both books have been added to my Amazon Wish List:

I believe we face judgment for the life that we live..

After that judgment, I will know my fate.  Not before it.

One should not presume that they are saved.

We should do our best, to set standards, in our personal life, and be examples to others, in our deeds, attitudes, and actions.  We should seek to honestly share the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We should serve others as restitution of our sins.  We should teach others and guide them, when they are lost.

We should lead lost sheep back into the fold. (We should not assume one is lost.  They can assume on their own.  When they are looking or seeking.. we can guide and share what we know..)

We should do as we are commanded.. loving one another.. and let the judgment come when it may.

Its not our job to make that judgment of ourselves, or anyone else.

It is only our job to be, pray, and endure.  Seek forgiveness in your thoughts and actions.  Do your part, on the path to righteousness.

Then pray some more.  Aspire to be forgiven.  Let the judge forgive.

No worries.  Just strive to do your best.  That’s all you can do.  When you fall off the path.. get right back up and start again..  and pray some more.

If you are after September 21, 1823, then you should seek out The Book of Mormon.

If this time has yet to come to pass, I would tell you of the most important truth that I have the honor to share.

I know not your personal circumstance, but this much I can say..

No matter who, or where you are from, this information applies and can aide you.

These are simple truths.

• There is a God.
• He does care for you.
• He has a personal hand in your life.
• He has a son, Jesus Christ.
• Jesus Christ loves you, enough, that he died and provided a personal atonement, for you.
• You have a purpose.
• You matter, more than you know.
• Choosing the right is the way back to live with God.
• If you live righteously you will have true happiness.

And now, when you receive these words, I ask that you open your mind, and ponder with your heart, and your mind, what has been spoken.

I would, also, ask that you pray, on these things, with a sincere heart, and with real intent, believing in God, that he will make known the truth, of it, unto you.

I, also, ask that when you receive this truth, that you would remember the feeling it gives.  For by it you may learn all things pertaining to the mysteries of God.

My final piece of advice, is that you hold to the feelings, and seek out the truth.

Endure to the end.

If you lose your way, remember this letter or start one of your own.

I ask, that when you have finished reading this letter, my testament, that you would add a few words.. a short letter to it, and pass this on.

Together, we shall make our own plates of old.

A wise man once said, that if you spend your whole life crying repentance and have a hand in the saving of one soul, “Great shall be your joy.

Know you this, you have already saved a soul.  My soul.

For in writing this letter, the Lord has allowed me to reach out with my soul and feel yours.

My joy is great, for I am familiar with your spirit and I stand as a personal witness of you.

If your joy be great, with saving one soul, how great shall be your joy, if you save many souls and gain this personal witness?

I love you and look forward to meeting you one day, face-to-face.

Endure to the end,

M.D.F. (Modern Day Fisherman)

(** This is an anonymous letter I have come into contact with. The blog author did not write this.)

I know there are a lot of books “on my nightstand,” but Marianne Williamson was calling to me, this morning.  I started reading Enchanted Love.  Amazing Author.