No GPS

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June 25, 2020

Open mouth.  Put foot in.  Not just me!  I’m falling witness to a lot of free form talkers putting things out there that are sharply judged.  Hip Hop artist Lil Twist told me the other day that he’s working extremely hard on making sure everything he says is clearly thought out.  On this podcast episode we jump into the subject of why we think have to always say something.  Even while daily writing I’ll throw sentences into the paragraphs that make no sense.  It’s as if I didn’t want to be left out of the conversation.  One of my crutches is writing “And so…”  Which means what?  In all honesty it’s no different than someone saying, “Ummm.” What are we actually trying to bring to the moment?  In many cases it’s nothing more than a bunch of weight caused by anger, depression, guilt and sickness.  Each are on a huge increase in America. Few people want to talk about that.  It seems so simple to pick up the big book and start sharing spiritual versus.  Problem is someone’s gonna find that offensive and begin making a lot of noise.  We honestly don’t have a GPS system.  Not today, not yesterday or any other time in history.  We loaded up the wagon and somehow made our way to the West coast.  In doing so history was written.  No GPS.  Today though is a different story.  We need direction.  We need leadership.  We need to know what we can say without feeling like we took a left turn at the railroad tracks when it should’ve been a right and now there are people hating you for it.  How did we get to this point?  Actually I’m a little afraid to want to know the answer.  Ripping out history has become the new norm.  Which reminds me so much of my first wife.  She lived her life with one rule, “If it’s not happening right now.  Then it never happened.”  Another flashback.  The story of Jesus walking up to the gathered crowd throwing stones at the woman who had sinned.  Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. History is no different.  If we’re going to rip it away.  It starts with self.