8/17/2019
Oh, what a beautiful morning! The air is calm, cool and filled with sounds (from insects, birds, and cows—all)! I awakened this morning with a Sergio Mendes SIMH, one that I really like the tune of, but couldn’t remember but one or two words. To the rescue comes Google! (What did we do before Google? Oh, yeah, we bought massive encyclopedias which could never hold enough information!) Anyway, I found it on Google. Great lyrics:
“So close your eyes, For that’s a lovely way to be
Aware of things your heart alone was meant to see
The fundamental loneliness goes
Whenever two can dream a dream together
The song has 5 verses with a little “bridge” that says, “When I saw you first the time was half-past three, When your eyes met mine it was eternity” —what a call-to-love song!
Sergio Mendes called this song, “Together”—but the writer fit it into and as a cover to “Wave,” by Antonio Carlos Jobim (never heard of him, don’t know what Wave is, but he was prolific in his writing.)
Too much time on SIMH? Probably, sorry. Goes back about 50 years.
Mowing is the order of the morning, I’ll get to it momentarily because the “cool” of the morning will not last long. After mowing until I get too warm, I think I’m going to go to a restaurant we like who now is trying a Saturday brunch—I like the menu and I’m sure they’ll do a good job, I’ll let you know. The older I get, the better restaurant critic I become (chuckle.) Barb and I like brunch menus, partly because I love breakfast and she can take it or leave it. Brunch menus normally have specialty breakfast stuff as well as a lunch-type item or two, so it can satisfy both our tastes. She can’t go with me today, so she’ll just have to take my word on how good it is. She can trust me, you know.
Getting people to understand what they have as a possession comes about by making their conscious mind aware of it. Interesting problem. Most of the time, none of this matters to anyone except the one whose forgetfulness is costing them something. We’ve all experienced this, I’m sure. We’re in a store and see an item we generally use or have used, so we pick up the package or can or bag and buy it. Then, when we get home to put it where we keep those things we find we have two more unopened !
But some things we possess are larger and of more importance than a can of WD-40 or a package of frozen peas. Some are farther reaching in importance to our prosperity or our posterity. For instance: if you are a saved individual you might forget (momentarily) that you’ve been “bought with a price” and you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. This slip of the fallible mind might bring on a rash statement or rash conduct that if you had remembered who your Lord is, you would never have done or said such a thing! Being blessed to live here in the “dispensation of the grace of God” is truly thank worthy in that a slip up such as this doesn’t remove us from our relationship with Him, though it might appear as a loss when we go be with the Lord forever.
There are more present time forgetfulnesses which can be costly here in this life, however. Take, for instance, we sign an agreement which says, “if you do ____, then you’ll get _____. But, instead of doing the correct thing to benefit from what it brings, we decide to go another route, or use another product or assert ourselves instead of asserting the other thing, but then a ways down the road we find ourselves saying, “Oh, why didn’t I do what I signed up to do!”
We have that situation now with some associates and I’m trying to figure out what or how I can get this across to them. They have every confidence they’ve done what’s best, while in reality they are “biting the hand that feeds them.” A conversation needs to come about that will cheerfully and carefully get the point across to them and preserve their future success. Somehow the right words need to be spoken or written in precisely the right way so as to draw the associates back into full association! We’ll work on this tomorrow, several of us.
Thanks for reading, the Elder
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