If you were looking for my "other" blog, I'm done with it. I've been thinking about some stuff, and I've realized that I need to focus on better things. I know that I've shut down the "rant" before, but I'm doing it again. Maybe this time for good?
Thanks, AC, for kicking me in the butt and making me realize that life is good, even when it's hard.
And AC, I found an old mini-disc of a song called, "Mr. Bag of Bones".......I should clean it up and send you an mp3, it's pretty cool.
If anybody wants to shout out some prayers for me, that'd be cool. God's definitely dealing with me on some stuff after a long conversation with a mentor of mine today.......it's good.....tough....but good.
God Bless,
Scottie
Thanks, AC, for kicking me in the butt and making me realize that life is good, even when it's hard.
And AC, I found an old mini-disc of a song called, "Mr. Bag of Bones".......I should clean it up and send you an mp3, it's pretty cool.
If anybody wants to shout out some prayers for me, that'd be cool. God's definitely dealing with me on some stuff after a long conversation with a mentor of mine today.......it's good.....tough....but good.
God Bless,
Scottie
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Glad I could help? Dude, I'm sorry for getting all "lawyer" on you on your old blog. CJ says I have an edge to me now, that I'm not as soft interpersonally as I used to be. I kept pushing once I saw the "real" issue because I felt that I wouldn't be much of a friend if I didn't.
Send me that mp3. Is that the one we recorded on the piano?
It's all good. A light went on today after several different conversations I had with people about some stuff in my life that I need to deal with. Resentment about things in my past is a bigger obstacle to my success than anything outside of myself could ever be.
It's time for me to stop looking outward, and look inward.....with God's perspective....for a while. A while back, I felt like I should stop the "rant" blog, but I started it up again because I want someplace to be angry at The Man or at Injustice, or whatever....
You know what, if I really walk out my faith, God is my judge, and he ultimately will bring true justice. Nothing I blog about can really have any effect on anything, it's just bitching, really.
And where I'm at inside really effects my attitude toward my job, my home, and my community.
Anyhow, you basically kicked my a$$, but it's ok....I needed it. We may have lost touch a bit over the last few years, but you still know me better than most people know me. You read me like a book.
To tell the truth, I was a little surprised at the last post on your old blog.
Negativity can have such an effect on every aspect of our lives. I can talk, I'm one of the most negative people I know! :) I have to keep telling myself that resentment and griping won't get me anywhere, and that it's really only "righteous" anger if it moves me to righteous works.
Hmm... I may blog about that...
Anyway, I support your decision. :) Bless you, Scottie!
Yeah, I am just tired of being PO'd at everything. Living in L.A. has this way of amplifying everything that is wrong with the world, and it has really weighed me down. Almost three years after moving here, I'm still having to adjust to life here.......and honestly....in LA.....you just have to become selfish to really be happy here. You have to ignore the problems that are beyond your fence.
I'm starting to see why everyone here builds an 8' concrete walls between them and their neighbors. When Melisa came to Valparaiso last month, she said she thought it was weird that people didn't have fences around their yards. Of course, I think it is weird how they do in California. But now that I live here, I understand why. Nobody here has any personal space, and the world is a crush of development, strip malls, and endless concrete. Your little postage-stamp lot (that goes for $750,000) is all the personal space you have here.
Makes sense. We have a fence up to block out the view of the neighbor's nasty yard with a rusty shed and no grass and a big hole where an above ground had been (They apparently wanted to make it an in-ground pool, so they dug a hole and plopped it in). And then never filled the hole back in. Classy.
;)
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