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  • Am I the only one that can loose my grip on a good attitude in a heartbeat? In a split second I can slip into the same old patterns I so badly want to shed.
  • Social Media’s greatest contribution is the entree it creates for real relationships. And as with Christ’s example, relationships are only consummated when flesh touches flesh. I have thousands of social media “friends” but real relationship happened when we looked each other in the eye, shook hands, embraced, and broke bread together. Before that we were acquaintances separated by a thin digital line. When we met, real people became real friends. Real relationship was born.

  • Bill Gothard, isolated four “Levels of Friendship”:

    1. acquaintance

    2. casual friend

    3. close friend and

    4. intimate friend

    Here is my question: Do our “cyber-friends,” the social network “friends” we have never met, fit in any of these categories? Are they part of another category all together? Are they really friends?

  • Several years ago I came to the sad realization that I had almost no friends. I had thousands of fans, I had a successful career, I had lots of stuff, but I had no real friends. I had people all around me and I was still alone. I remember telling my wife, Diane, that I was afraid when I died she wouldn’t be able to find six people who were willing to carry the box I was buried in. 
I had nightmares of her pulling the casket down the church steps alone; thump, thump, thump...I have good news! I now have friends!

    So how did I find friends in a desert of fans? I assessed what would be required to develop friendships and I purposefully changed my lifestyle to make it happen. 

 Here’s what I came up with.

  • I was stunned by Pat Robertson’s recent proclamation that a man is free to divorce his wife if she has Alzheimer’s disease, on the pretense that “She is not there.” I am compelled to respond because if I remain silent, I do a disservice to my family and my father.

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Prayer & Spiritual Life

  • No matter where you are in life and regardless of the bad decisions you have made, your next decision can be a good one.
  • The hardest part of almost any task or challenge we face is getting started. I am an expert at sitting on my rear while I analyze how difficult a task is going to be, agonize over how long it will take mull over whether I will be able to do it to perfection.

  • I promised to give you my response to the question, “How do you keep doing it when you don’t feel like it?” So here it goes. You have to want to live.

  • I was stunned by Pat Robertson’s recent proclamation that a man is free to divorce his wife if she has Alzheimer’s disease, on the pretense that “She is not there.” I am compelled to respond because if I remain silent, I do a disservice to my family and my father.

  • Several years ago I came to the sad realization that I had almost no friends. I had thousands of fans, I had a successful career, I had lots of stuff, but I had no real friends. I had people all around me and I was still alone. I remember telling my wife, Diane, that I was afraid when I died she wouldn’t be able to find six people who were willing to carry the box I was buried in. 
I had nightmares of her pulling the casket down the church steps alone; thump, thump, thump...I have good news! I now have friends!

    So how did I find friends in a desert of fans? I assessed what would be required to develop friendships and I purposefully changed my lifestyle to make it happen. 

 Here’s what I came up with.

  • Bill Gothard, isolated four “Levels of Friendship”:

    1. acquaintance

    2. casual friend

    3. close friend and

    4. intimate friend

    Here is my question: Do our “cyber-friends,” the social network “friends” we have never met, fit in any of these categories? Are they part of another category all together? Are they really friends?

  • Social Media’s greatest contribution is the entree it creates for real relationships. And as with Christ’s example, relationships are only consummated when flesh touches flesh. I have thousands of social media “friends” but real relationship happened when we looked each other in the eye, shook hands, embraced, and broke bread together. Before that we were acquaintances separated by a thin digital line. When we met, real people became real friends. Real relationship was born.
  • Am I the only one that can loose my grip on a good attitude in a heartbeat? In a split second I can slip into the same old patterns I so badly want to shed.

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