Daily choices have a big impact on our progress in life. How we look at a choice can make a lot of difference. One way to look at our choices is would be as a summary of what we have done. Sometimes it appears as though others have done more than us. It seems like what we have done is less important that what we could have done. A better way to look at our past list of choices is to consider instead of what our choices were but to consider what those choices have lead us to be.  Who we are is more important that what we have done. The same choice can have a very different result on a person depending on the persons attitude, motive or desire. Tonght in FHE we were considering why prayers were not answered unless we had faith that they would be? Why do you need to know you will get an answer before you will get an answer. Why does motive or real desire or attitude matter? Apparently it is more than just the choice it is why we made the choice.

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The blogger info is new and after all these years I just don't know how to post anything using this?

home on the river in Phnom Penh

Our friends the Synders blog each week. They left to serve a mission in Cambodia in July of 2010 and are on a a 23 month mission so I think we will see them soon. Many of the homes along the riverside in Phnom Penh they say are like this. They rise with the water.

Us reflected

I like pictures that are shadows of something else. I see myself in the reflection and I am reminded that how I see myself is probably different that how others see me. It could be KJ and me reflected on the wall. It could be me looking back in yesterdays post.

who we are, rewritten

Some thoughts about

"Yin and Yang"............ a symbol that is used to describe, among other things, how contrary forces are connected. Put another way the symbol is a way of expressing that opposites only exist in relation to each other. For the purpose I have used it today the symbol is more of a representation of a whole that has complicated parts that struggle with each other..................The symbol itself is interesting. Maybe the whole is made up of two complimentary halves but I suspect that it takes a lot of work to become complimentary to each side.

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I recently heard a talk about the "soul of man". A persons "soul" we were told consists of the body and the spirit. If you look at it this way you would have to conclude that we may have been incomplete before we gained our body. If gaining a body completed the entity then are the two halves opposites, or contrary forces, and how does the struggle impact us?

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Since it is the bodies appetites and desires that create so many struggles it seems clear that the spirit is the "better half". Hopefully the day will come when the halves are equal.

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This might be a odd post. A rambling group of thoughts about our soul hardly fits into a blog of pictures of daily observations and events. Taking a moment to think about how really hard it is to master the body is one perspective on life. It just never really changes a lot. On the other hand if you look back and look at the memories of life you can see growth rather than just the struggle. You can see how far you have come.

A day to be Thankful for.............

To the left are some friends that we know from Church. They are serving a mission in Cambodia. Each week they send a blog link and we get to see their weeks activities. This one is a side trip they took because they got a couple of days off when their daughter came to visit. It is always interesting to hear from them. A few days back I posted a picture of a man named Tom who was an older man who was part of our church group for a while. I was thinking about him today, Easter, and thinking about the fact that in serving him I really grew to care for him. Serving others gets us to love others. These friends in Cambodia are serving others and each week express their love for the others. I was thinking about what service is. When I served Tom it often was a lot of work. You get to know others when you serve them. I suppose you learn about their weaknesses too. Since today is Easter I thought about why Christ might love us? Why He might have cared about us enough to pay the price for our sins. I thought about these little examples of service and note that our Cambodian friends are getting to know those they serve and Tom was someone I got to know. Christ, having paid for each individual sin that each of us, and myself in particular, has committed would have in doing so enabled Him to have gotten to know us more than anyone else ever will. It is hard to imagine that every single wrong thing I have ever done would have been known to Him and He would have paid the price for it. There is no hiding who I am or who we are from Him and maybe that is what helped Him love us.............................

hbtm a day early

Mike's birthday is tomorrow. I told him this morning on our walk that if he would find a wife and have a little boy sometime in the next couple of years when he was my age he could be out walking with a young man the same age as he is now..............................