The decision is mine

To blame is simple. After purchasing a new bat and the first time going to the plate I struck out. The next time to the plate I was handed another bat to use from the dugout struck out again. “it was the wrong bat I was handed” is an easy thought.  Another  ‘it was not the one I ordered” they store sent me the wrong one.” The next game we played trying another bat from a teammate, still having trouble at the plate, “this time it was a bad call from the umpire.” Not taking responsibility for my own decisions or actions is very common. It is the other ones fault for my bad judgment. It is just as simple to blame others for misunderstandings or choices, when they are not the way I think the answer should be. All the teams I have played on the best way to be called a “Team” is when we win or lose, we do it all together. To be there for others will be the best way to win with success. To find the reason many times looking into a mirror will provides the answer. 

Lifetime Teammates

Being approved or feeling you have to be is common idea, to desire or make ones feel they have to prove themselves to others that they are up to the level or where you feel or others desire you to be higher plain. By degrading ones and not being where you or others should be, you may come up to a time when you are looking up while asking to help realizing you need to be pulled up.

Security or insecurity, which one does what your mind dwells upon?

On a ball team playing with others the best way to really feel like you are jelling together or playing as one, is not thinking where your teammates are on the court or field. If everyone is thinking the same as a team the plays will cone together or each thought or idea is common, that is called “in one accord”.

That is how a winning team needs to be.

A good team no one has to prove to the others you are on their team, the feeling should be mutual without effort.

Just like family and friends each will be there for the others without a thought, it will be a desire through the heart to be there for the others. No questions asked, just emotional security with fervent love for the other.

No matter distance or disagreements between family, friends and teammates you may try to forget, but the best of times will never be forgotten. Priorities is what changes any bad times of past, to building on the good times for the present and for the future.

Close Knit

Family and friends are a help to keep a life solid. When someone close to your heart is no longer able to be with us, the good times are never able to be taken away.
Close people with care and love are built like strong structures, natural events can take a roof or outside pieces of the building. When the ground shakes it may cause damage within the building. But I have seen wind, rain destroy roofs, walls and the framework. I have seen earthquakes not take away the foundations but may have cracked the concrete. Anything that may disturb the house you live in, great memories of love will never be taken away. Prior love and emotions will never leave us. The current time you have with ones may have had times of trouble or disturbances, like a place you built and live in, you can remodel or change decor you still have the original house built for you. Managing a good landscaped home while making sure the weeds are being pulled out by the roots while the ground is moist from a clean fresh rain is easier to keep the yard, gardens from dying or being controlled and taken over by weeds, poison ivy and such like.
Caring for trees and plants pruning and trimming them will help limbs and plants to grow and become a healthy plant to keep their color with strong limbs for continual growth. Pulling weeds out as soon as you see them start to come up from the ground is easier to bring forth others than letting the roots dig in deeper and spread out in the ground.
Keeping a homes landscape kept clean makes the outside looking great. But the inside of the house may be a disaster.
When you are trying to sell your house you keep it presentable for anyone who may be searching a house just for them. And looking at an inside of a home that is clean and maintained is a easier way to make a sale.
As your life continues it’s journey while trying to enjoy the time you have to be with family and friends. There is nothing better than recalling enjoyable moments you shared with others. Memories are hard to beat when reminiscing good times together. of course with the times of joy, you do recall disappointing moments you may desire to have the ability to change the past. Many times the past is great education for the current times and future.
Wounds are difficult to heal if after the process of healing if the scab continues to be pulled off, then it takes time to start the process again.
The deeper the cut the longer it may take to heal. As ones has had times of stress with others circumstances arise many times not even planning on it. Just like a bandage will help heal, comfort and pure emotions will help reassure there are open arms to catch you and lift you up. After you fall down while you are being helped up both have a grip using muscle to pull the other up.

Forgivness

Accepting forgiveness is like looking at the sun setting over the pacific ocean that day is over and will not be seen again that day. Asking for forgiveness will bring light into a darkened past, then looking for brighter days ahead. 

Trying with hard effort

Recently an historical monumental tree in Cal. was brought down and destroyed by a natural source of lighting without chance of restoration. In other cases in Cal. I saw earthquakes take down structures thinking they would not recover or be brought back on the solid foundation. But through consistent vigorous work and new materials the buildings were rebuilt and restored with more advanced and greater conditions than even before. Family and friends have had divisions and separations, but revamping and reconciliation takes effort with hearts if understanding of one another and mercy and open minds and hearts would be allowed and forgiveness will intervene to take control. With some disasters recovery is impossible. But through time, humbleness and original feelings and concerns whatever damage has taken place in ones heart and mind, through the fruits of the spirits, respect and care for others repairing and starting over can begin. Choice can be the greatest or worst decisions in our daily walk. But many times the right choices in some predicaments is through respecting another idea and study how it may be beneficial and instilled to help continue building on ones own thoughts. Education never stops until you stop trying.

Taking responsibility

Common thought “is always someone else’s fault” Blaming others is easy for projects or ideas not coming out as you think or thought it should have been while the choice was yours.

To turn and blame others or blaming a manufacturer for a flashlight that will not work, then finding out the batteries were not in or they were not put in properly.

Another scenario is to blame shoe salesmen thinking they gave you the wrong shoes because they keep coming off, then realizing you are not tying the shoes right, or they were laced incorrectly. Mistakes are easy to be made, blaming your catcher after you threw a wild pitch or forgetting the correct sign.

In most cases as the saying is “hindsight is 20-20.

If Accepting mistakes wither it is your own or another you are searching for, the correct answer may be in front of you and the wrong decision was made by your own choice.

Reaping the benefits or adopting the incorrect ideas from the past may be helpful, by pursuing the correct or proper and receiving the answer was not judging history but learning from it.

History does not always have to be repeated, but continuing without maneuvering while watching the direction that is attended to reach, change is the key issue.

To finish this train of thought for the direction and path on this site I am able to stay in touch with a friend we were on the same teams in 3 different sports. We played different positions on each team different coaches and players had a part on each one. The common denominator on each team was playing with the same mindset like the the others “team work”. We came out successful 2 of the 3 teams and came short at the end of different seasons, but everyone had their own part on each team. But the heart of enjoyment of my part of playing on each team, was the bond and respect for each other and choices each player made was supported and backed up even if a misjudged play or decision made. It was a team effort no matter the outcome.

Like connections with others the same goals in business is trusting each other holding them up and working together is the need for success.

The most important ones in our lives is the family from blood to friends that feel and are the same in our lives. I just investigated through a company to seek my past blood line or genealogy of prior individuals in history.

It was interesting from the past but thinking of current family and friends my ambitions is to become stronger and closer with others while joining to reach out together. To become stronger takes effort desire and longevity to become unified. As the natural blood flows through the body at times scars and scabs that may not be healed up, while scratching them may cause some excess bleeding or fluid to flow out of the wound, but with bandage and a form of septic or ointment healing with start to take place. Before medical treatment was created nature had other means of healing assistance. an aloe plant is a pure form for a healing process to occur. The impact on a open sore with aloe will preform a process to clean and help to prevent harmful bacteria from entering into the body.

Though aloe an antioxidant and other natural plants and herbs can help the physical sores to heal, the attitude of the heart will be able to cause emotions and feelings to come to pass a mental, emotional or spiritual type of hurt and pain.  

Affection and concern will bring feelings to help and assist when ones are in need. Just like the use of a bandage tight around a cut it will help to stop the flow of our natural fluids within to be lost. Just like skin can be separated, hearts and true feelings can be the same. Having concern and affections towards ones that are close and well established in lives deep within, the bandage of forgiveness and feelings of charity will provide a true and complete healing that can never cause hardships as long as old wounds are not reopened and apart.

Just like when I hit my hand or foot by a quick painful object, the other hand reaches out to help supply the other damaged parts of the body. To reach out with emotions of concern and help will to help healing process to take place brings peace within hearts and minds. Many times my opinions can hold back or slow down problems rom healing, but assisting with a clean heart to reap benefit for clear ideas to share.

To be Zealous

Emotions, feelings are like a landmark or location. the area and angle is just the way you can study a direction you desire or are looking for.

Life is always searching for another or more.

The inner soul may feel the need to refill or just put in more for security.

History is like a mountain or the ocean, you can detour away and not able to return

but the original mountain or waters will always be there. Occasionally what we see behind can easily be helpful for further education for new decisions, while leaving the past.

You can come upon a new location and fulfill what may be low, as a car that is almost running out of fuel, the gas you put in may be from another station but filling up the car to journey on is what matters, as long as you can reach the new or next destination.

New inventions of vehicles may power from other way of means, but the land marks that are solid have not moved just the roads around them. 

Even we I go back to the city I was raised in I could see two mountains and the roads in that location ran north to south, or east to west. Here is Nashville the city is built around the river with bridges to cross. But like the mountains to be the guides, Nashville has 3 main passages through it, but 1 that goes and circles the city. So that is the best way to get back when you are returning home. And it has 1 skyscraper for a guide.

Overall the path way in our daily journey is to be guided by our hearts and minds, and when we would need a refueling to continue on prayer for new fresh energy can be available through pray and seeking God’s will to follow with his love in our hearts and his spirit within I s a gift to help guide us.