A Little Inspiration

This is one of the daily inspiration emails I subscribe to ... (yeah ... I do) and thought I'd share it with you all as it is so relevant to our everyday lives. Be inspired!

Crickets and Scorpions
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I usually spend time in prayer at five a.m. each morning.

I shall relay a lesson that God taught me very dramatically
during one of those early morning sessions.
I pray in a closet that is actually the vocal booth
of our former home music studio.  It is soundproof.
As I entered clad only in shorts, I heard the sound of a cricket chirping. 
There in the shadow, I saw the cricket.
It was very close to where I sit on the floor each day.

"Sit down and don't bother the cricket,"
I heard a soft voice speak in my spirit.

I obeyed.
I turned out the light and sat in total darkness and silence.
I felt something crawl up on my leg.

"Don't bother the cricket," I heard the voice say again,
"I am trying to teach you something."

"You need to learn to distinguish the difference between
crickets and scorpions in life.  Don't bother the cricket."

The cricket crawled.  It is an eerie feeling to say the least. 
I wasn't afraid of the cricket.  I knew it couldn't harm me.
It wouldn't bite, sting, or even so much as scratch me. 
It was just a highly annoying and extremely icky feeling.
A cricket crawling all over you.  I let the cricket crawl for almost a minute
until I couldn't stand it anymore.  I brushed the cricket off,
turned on the light, picked it up in my hand, and took it outside and let it go.

I understood what God was trying to show me.

Life has scorpions and crickets.

Scorpions are the things that can hurt us; things that are truly
destructive and dangerous.  Crickets are the things that have
absolutely no power to hurt us, they are just irritating.
They get on our nerves; they try our patience.

I saw things differently after emerging from prayer that day.

I realized that the vast majority of the things that really
irked me

...were crickets.

The vast majority of the things that irk you

...are crickets.

Don't bother the crickets
and don't let the crickets bother you.


~A MountainWings Original~

We still suck!

Why do we always have communication problems with our fellow man? It is amazing with all the ways to communicate these days and we still suck at it! Telephone, letters, fax, emails, blogs, IM and yet people continue to misunderstand what we say and vice versa, ending up in a mood of frustration for not having achieved the objective set out to achieve.

In reading an article published by the University of Colarado, communication problems exist for a variety of reasons on each side of the communication equation, i.e., speaker and listener.

Also, the age old saying, "It's not what you say, it's how you say it" is one that rings true to this day. We continue to ignore the non-verbal ways people communicate with us and then say "what did I miss?" when you get a reaction or response you were not expecting and certainly one you don't think was appropriate.

So, how do we solve this? The famous George Bernard Shaw has a quote:

"The single biggest problem in communication
is the illusion that it has taken place"

There is no easy way to solve this. It is just something that the 2 parties must work on in order to reach a common ground. The truth is that some people communicate more effectively than others and it is just a matter of dealing with that in a way that will resolve whatever the problem is.

But ... the question is ... are we game?

Can you tell I'm going through an identity crisis?

This is the 3rd time in 2 days I've changed the template for my blog. I wish blogger would come up with some new cool templates for me to choose from. I've just not found the one that makes me say, "Yes, this is the template I want to keep for as long as this blog is in existence".

One of the most unique blogs I've seen is Supine Fever. I've not read her in a while come to think of it, but I just like the look of the blog.

So my apologies for the constant change of template ... and again, here is an invitation to all my technologically advanced blogger friends who can help me to add a little excitement to my blog templates. As you can see, I've tried to make it a little different with my headers, etc ... but it's still just blaaaahhhhh!!!! Help!

Damn Those Spammers

It is with deep regret that "Patience Is A Virtue" has been forced to make the process of posting a comment on this blog a little bit more time consuming. This is as a result of the increase in the number of spammer comments I have been receiving on my blog in recent times.

As you can appreciate, one must protect all assets from any impending danger. My computer, my soulmate and friend will only suffer from potential viruses included in said spammer comments and as such, the necessary measures have been taken to address this issue.

Effective immediately, all my commenters will be required to do the "Word Verification" aspect of commenting as offered by Blogger.com for this explicit purpose.

I do apologize for any inconvenience caused by this change in procedure but welcome any suggestions from you, my faithful techny-savvy commenters, that may be a more hassle-free solution to the problem.

Yours sincerely,
CD ... fed up with those f**kin' spammers!

Is it too early to start asking for Christmas gifts? I saw this beautiful ring and bracelet set on my recent stop-over in Grenada and would love to have it for Christmas ...

What A Night ...

It rained most of last night. I fell asleep early and got up a little after 12 to the sound of drizzling raindrops. It started to rain harder and is still raining on and off right this minute.

I absolutely love the rain. It is one of the most erotic pieces of nature for me. I enjoyed it immensely last night, listening to the raindrops beat against my roof and window. I was so tempted to get in the nude and go outside, stand there and let it pound my body. Crazy thoughts but I couldn't because there are about 3 pervert men who live in close proximity who I've caught eyeing my ass as I go up my stairs on a daily basis, especially when I'm in shorts.

The rain is kinda putting a "damper" (no pun intented of course) on me getting my car washed! It is absolutely dirty having not been washed for about a week now ... gotta get that done today!

I would love for this rain to continue through into tonight so that I can make the most of it in those erotic ways I love so much ...

Catch you later.

It's Friday?? Yippeee!!

Can you tell I'm glad it's Friday. This has been quite a hectic week and I am so happy to finally be able to relax, not think about the office and the bitches/assholes I have to deal with, and just chill!

Not much planned for the weekend as usual. It doesn't help any that I'm as broke as hell but I'm pretty confident I will find something to occupy my time enjoyably.

To all my blogger peeps, have a crazy-hype weekend!