As the day brightens this November day, I just turned the TV on to CNN since I awoke at 0500 and all I hear is about Herman Cain, leaking, baseless charges, unraveling, etc, etc, etc. The supposed "leaker" has now denied any knowledge so As the World Turn or like sands through the hour glass, so are the Days of Our Lives ... Are you feeling the love this morning?
So as Athens burns down, as Greece will no doubt exit or be kicked out of the European Union which will bring global reverberation negatively in the markets, will rattle the very foundation of what we know as the EU, we hear only about leaks, baseless, blah, blah, blah. So where am I going with this today?
If one chooses to run for POTUS (President of the United States) then one chooses to have his or her life opened even for generations before their birth. All the hoopla is about a leak, outing, but the fact is, admittedly, Cain did have issues with real life, real time women in his past as the head of a major organization, lawyers involved, money passed, confidentiality or gage orders established SOOOO the issue, then, is not the leak but the fact, right?
My students hear me time and time again speak to what they do with their lives, their bodies, their hopes are all based on choices; right ones and wrong ones and with each bad choice are bad consequences. We ALL can wax poetic of bad choices and bad consequences in our own lives. So the issue, really, is less about it coming out some time in the future but in not making bad choices to begin with, right?
So right or wrong, politically or not, Mr. Cain is reaping the harvest he sowed; we all have sowed seeds we hope never to come to harvest but if you sow, you will reap, right? If it sounds like I am preaching, well, I am preaching for I see the scars of bad choices every day of my life as you do also if you are honest with yourself. Please, be honest with yourself!
With all the craziness of our world which has always been filled with craziness, it really comes down to one thing, one person, YOU as to the decisions you make, the choices you choose and the impending result of those decisions and choices, doesn't it? So as we watch the skewering of a POTUS candidate under the hot lights of the cameras, that is all part of the dance. This will blow over soon but there will be a next and a next and a next; c'est la vie (that is life). But the root question is what do you want your life to be, to reflect, to project, to be spoken about after this life is over for you and I think all of those questions form the boundary markers of this thing called life. They, therefore, frame one's values and it is your values that will anchor or project a person I have learned and learned many times at the infamous University of Hard Knocks; have a PhD in those knocks.
But I will close my thought for this day with this reality in my own learning journey. Wisdom is a matter of the heart. Knowledge is a matter of the brain or the hard wiring of your God-created computer. Wisdom comes when Knowledge is applied to a situation, bad or wrong things happen as a result and you learn, with the heart, Wisdom, NOT to repeat that Knowledge-driven action a second time. Does that seem simple yet logical? It does to me!
Today, make some really RIGHT CHOICES for we the villagers of the global region are really in need of some really right choices by you and the other seven billion inhabitants. But it all starts with one; that is YOU! Be blessed this day!
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