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s distinguished he talked freely much too freely about sex his comments were sometimes blatant sometimes suggestive and generally embarrassing i now know that my early concepts about relationships were influenced strongly by the stranger time after time he opposed the values of my parents yet he was seldom rebuked and never asked to leave more than fifty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family he has blended right in and is not nearly as fascinating as he was at first still if you could walk into my parents den today you would still find him sitting over in his corner waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures his name we just call him tv note this should be required reading for every household he has a wife now we call her computer their first child is cell phone second child i pod and just born this year was a grandchild ipad posted by danny at 9 39 pm 3 comments sunday february 10 2013 how to make smart decisions success is largely a matter of making wise choices as f w boreham said wemake our decisions and then they make us that s why every decision has an element of risk to it we cannot always predict the outcome are you dealing with any difficult decisions these days try following these eight steps for decision making from the book of proverbs in the bible step 1 pray for guidance principle of inspiration start by asking god to help you see his perspective on the problem intuition is often wrong a man is foolish to trust onlyhimself but those who use god s wisdom are safe prov 28 26 step 2 get the facts principle of information don t make decisions out of ignorance find out all you can first every prudent man acts out of knowledge prov 13 16 how stupid to decide before knowing the facts prov 18 13 get the facts at any price prov 23 23 step 3 ask for advice consultation talk to someone who has already taken the rise if possible it s wise to learn from experience but it is even wiser to learn form the experiences of others that way you don t have to learn everything the hard way get good advice and you will succeed prov 20 18 the intelligent man is always open to new idea in fact the looks for them prov 18 15 step 4 set your goal selection be sure you understand the reason and purpose for the decision you re about to make you can t chase two rabbits at the same time an intelligent person aims at wise actions but a fool start off in many directions prov 17 24 step 5 count the cost evaluation this is called calculated risk ask yourself 1 is it necessary 2 what will it cost in terms of time energy money 3 is it worth it it is a trap to dedicate something rashly and only later to consider your vows prov 20 25 step 6 plan for problems preparation remember murphy s law and he was an optimist don t ignore problems they won t ignore you so be prepared don t go charging into battle without a plan prov 20 18 a sensible man watches for problems and is prepared to meet them the fool never looks ahead and suffers the consequences prov 22 3 step 7 face your fears confrontation fear is not a sign of weakness it is a sign of your humanity courage is not the absence of fear but rather it is moving ahead in spite of your fears fear of man is a dangerous trap but to trust in god means safety prov 29 25 step 8 go for it initiation this is the point at which you must stop talking and start acting you must begin commit to the lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed prov 16 3 posted by danny at 10 55 pm no comments friday january 25 2013 a quote and a response as i make my slow pilgrimage through the world a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow a c benson on the darkened horizon however comes a spark followed by a cold vapor muffling the solemn ravenous call i recoil from the slow deep bass blatant mouthed demand of rigid severe exact mechanical realism escape into wonder only to be taken under siege by engine and fire to be driven forth by the demand of reality blinded by maddened tears bereft of beauty by smoke and howl to shiver screened through waste and ruin slinking and hiding until a fever of exhaustion drops me into oblivion only to be blasted awake again wrung from the dregs in constant fear of discovery and denunciation of abandonment to the bullying menace a threat to be cut down and decimated by the slash and burn scorched earth tactics of the realism driven fantasy abhorring mystery inquisitioning minions who surround and sneer and creep and mutter and spy out and watch 2013 j daniel hastings posted by danny at 4 41 pm no comments sunday january 13 2013 i sent this out 10 years ago time for another dose subject a poem i found that demonstrates succinctly how i will never be able to write decent poetry poem athanasia by oscar wilde to that gaunt house of art which lacks for naught of all the great things men have saved from time the withered body of a girl was brought dead ere the world s glad youth had touched its prime and seen by lonely arabs lying hid in the dim womb of some black pyramid but when they had unloosed the linen band which swathed the egyptian s body lo was found closed in the wasted hollow of her hand a little seed which sown in english ground did wondrous snow of starry blossoms bear and spread rich odours through our spring tide air with such strange arts this flower did allure that all forgotten was the asphodel and the brown bee the lily s paramour forsook the cup where he was wont to dwell for not a thing of earth it seemed to be but stolen from some heavenly arcady in vain the sad narcissus wan and white at its own beauty hung across the stream the purple dragon fly had no delight with its gold dust to make his wings a gleam ah no delight the jasmine bloom to kiss or brush the rain pearls from the eucharis for love of it the passionate nightingale forgot the hills of thrace the cruel king and the pale dove no longer cared to sail through the wet woods at time of blossoming but round this flower of egypt sought to float with silvered wing and amethystine throat while the hot sun blazed in his tower of blue a cooling wind crept from the land of snows and the warm south with tender tears of dew drenched its white leaves when hesperos up rose amid those sea green meadows of the sky on which the scarlet bars of sunset lie but when o er wastes of lily haunted field the tired birds had stayed their amorous tune and broad and glittering like an argent shield high in the sapphire heavens hung the moon did no strange dream or evil memory make each tremulous petal of its blossoms shake ah no to this bright flower a thousand years seemed but the lingering of a summer s day it never knew the tide of cankering fears which turn a boy s gold hair to withered grey the dread desire of death it never knew or how all folk that they were born must rue for we to death with pipe and dancing go nor would we pass the ivory gate again as some sad river wearied of its flow through the dull plains the haunts of common men leaps lover like into the terrible sea and counts it gain to die so gloriously we mar our lordly strength in barren strife with the world s legions led by clamorous care it never feels decay but gathers life from the pure sunlight and the supreme air we live beneath time s wasting sovereignty it is the child of all eternity posted by danny at 9 30 pm no comments thursday january 10 2013 well begun is half done mary poppins plagerizing aristotle posted by danny at 3 16 pm no comments sunday january 6 2013 the currant bush you sometimes wonder whether the lord really knows what he ought to do with you you sometimes wonder if you know better than he does about what you ought to do and ought to become i am wondering if i may tell you a story that i have told quite often in the church it is a story that is older than you are it s a piece out of my own life and i ve told it in many stakes and missions it has to do with an incident in my life when god showed me that he knew best i was living up in canada i had purchased a farm it was run down i went out one morning and saw a currant bush it had grown up over six feet high it was going all to wood there were no blossoms and no currants i was raised on a fruit farm in salt lake before we went to canada and i knew what ought to happen to that currant bush so i got some pruning shears and went after it and i cut it down and pruned it and clipped it back until there was nothing left but a little clump of stumps it was just coming daylight and i thought i saw on top of each of these little stumps what appeared to be a tear and i thought the currant bush was crying i was kind of simpleminded and i haven t entirely gotten over it and i looked at it and smiled and said what are you crying about you know i thought i heard that currant bush talk and i thought i heard it say this how could you do this to me i was making such wonderful growth i was almost as big as the shade tree and the fruit tree that are inside the fence and now you have cut me down every plant in the garden will look down on me because i didn t make what i should have made how could you do this to me i thought you were the gardener here that s what i thought i heard the currant bush say and i thought it so much that i answered i said look little currant bush i am the gardener here and i know what i want you to be i didn t intend you to be a fruit tree or a shade tree i want you to be a currant bush and some day little currant bush when you are laden with fruit you are going to say thank you mr gardener for loving me enough to cut me down for caring enough about me to hurt me thank you mr gardener time passed years passed and i found myself in england i was in command of a cavalry unit in the canadian army i had made rather rapid progress as far as promotions are concerned and i held the rank of field officer in the british canadian army and i was proud of my position and there was an opportunity for me to become a general i had taken all the examinations i had the seniority there was just one man between me and that which for ten years i had hoped to get the office of general in the british army i swelled up with pride and this one man became a casualty and i received a telegram from london it said be in my office tomorrow morning at 10 00 signed by general turner in charge of all canadian forces i called in my valet my personal servant i told him to polish my buttons to brush my hat and my boots and to make me look like a general because that is what i was going to be he did the best he could with what he had to work on and i went up to london i walked smartly into the office of the general and i saluted him smartly and he gave me the same kind of a salute a senior officer usually gives a sort of get out of the way worm he said sit down brown then he said i m sorry i cannot make the appointment you are entitled to it you have passed all the examinations you have the seniority you ve been a good officer but i can t make the appointment you are to return to canada and become a training officer and a transport officer someone else will be made a general that for which i had been hoping and praying for ten years suddenly slipped out of my fingers then he went into the other room to answer the telephone and i took a soldier s privilege of looking on his desk i saw my personal history sheet right across the bottom of it in bold block type letters was written this man is a mormon we were not very well liked in those days when i saw that i knew why i had not been appointed i already held the highest rank of any mormon in the british army he came back and said that s all brown i saluted him again but not quite as smartly i saluted out of duty and went out i got on the train and started back to my town 120 miles away with a broken heart with bitterness in my soul and every click of the wheels on the rails seemed to say you are a failure you will be called a coward when you get home you raised all those mormon boys to join the army then you sneak off home i knew what i was going to get and when i got to my tent i was so bitter that i threw my cap and my saddle brown belt on the cot i clinched my fists and i shook them at heaven i said how could you do this to me god i have done everything i could do to measure up there is nothing that i could have done that i should have done that i haven t done how could you do this to me i was as bitter as gall and then i heard a voice and i recognized the tone of this voice it was my own voice and the voice said i am the gardener here i know what i want you to do the bitterness went out of my soul and i fell on my knees by the cot to ask forgiveness for my ungratefulness and my bitterness while kneeling there i heard a song being sung in an adjoining tent a number of mormon boys met regularly every tuesday night i usually met with them we would sit on the floor and have a mutual improvement association as i was kneeling there praying for forgiveness i heard their voices singing it may not be on the mountain height or over the stormy sea it may not be at the battle s front my lord will have need of me but if by a still small voice he calls to paths that i do not know i ll answer dear lord with my hand in thine i ll go where you want me to go i arose from my knees a humble man and now almost fifty years later i look up to him and say thank you mr gardener for cutting me down for loving me enough to hurt me i see now that it was wise that i should not become a general at that time because if i had i would have been senior officer of all western canada with a lifelong handsome salary a place to live and a pension when i m no good any longer but i would have raised my six daughters and two sons in army barracks they would no doubt have married out of the church and i think i would not have amounted to anything i haven t amounted to very much as it is but i have done better than i would have done if the lord had let me go the way i wanted to go i wanted to tell you that oft repeated story because there are many of you who are going to have some very difficult experiences disappointment heartbreak bereavement defeat you are going to be tested and tried to prove what you are made of i just want you to know that if you don t get what you think you ought to get remember god is the gardener here he knows what he wants you to be submit yourselves to his will be worthy of his blessings and you will get his blessings elder hugh b brown the currant bush new era jan 1973 posted by danny at 11 59 pm no comments thursday january 3 2013 poem just fallen snow the snow just fell after the sun just hung there in the haze the afternoon just cold drear grey all around the snow just heavy wet the tall weeds in the meadow just sticking out of the sodden ground like a field of just cut straw just recovering by danny hastings posted by danny at 11 01 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to 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