I Am

Trying to teach my kids that they need to take responsibility not just for their actions but for things they can improve.

Whenever you face a choice you can choose to take a positive action or no action.  Simple positive actions repeated over time determine the life you lead.

If they see a piece of garbage on the ground they need to stop and pick it up.  "I'm not the one that dropped it," is not acceptable.

This very simple lesson is important to me.  One person can make a difference.

When asked who is in charge "I am" should be the first and only answer that ever enters their minds.

A little effort each day will result in huge rewards over time.

We use piano to demonstrate this to them.  When they get a new recital song, the song is always very difficult.  By practicing every day little by little the song becomes possible.  Everyday  . . . no matter how inconvenient.

Is there something you know you should be doing?  What's stoping you from taking positive action?

I want my kids to know in their souls if they don't do it "who will?"

When you do positive things it increases the chances that positive things will happen to you.  Your smallest actions affect you and the people around you even if you are not aware of it.

The foundational prayer that we pray with our kids is "God, Help them do the next right thing!"  This takes a lot of courage.  When you are a teenager and your friends are experimenting with drugs and alcohol "No." Takes courage.
When you take responsibility for your employees actions this too takes courage.

When asked who is in charge around here? "I am!" Takes courage!

This week I read James 4.  The great thing about the bible is that every time I read it something new speaks to me.  The verse  ^"If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them."  

The important thing that jumps out in this verse is "for them!"  I truly believe that sin is part of the personal relationship that we each have with God. What is a sin for me might not be for you.  Evil is 

By seeing something that can be done better and not attempting to do something about it you have sinned.  

Walking by a piece of garbage on the street "that you see" and not stopping to pick it up is a sin!  This is a very simplistic example but an easy lesson for kids.


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Listen God

My prayer this morning,

"Listen God. You and I both know that we ( +Annette Bosworth, MD ) are doing our best. 

You can see we are putting everything we have into this.

If you want us to do better you got to show up and do your part of the deal. 

The "Hell with it" you know we are not capable of doing anything less than our best because that's our job. 

Just give us a high five on our way through the pearly gates and say, "The two of you did an awesome job!"

+Annette Bosworth, MD +Walker Haber after orchestra

I think that if we are allowed just a little bit of time to heal we will grow from all that has happened to us Post Traumatic Growth.  The issue is that we are not given that time everyday the attacks come from the same man.  This is called "economic terrorism" - attacking constantly so that there is no way to defend - historicaly the preferred weapon of corrupt governments.








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"Happiness = Satisfaction / Desire"    Anonymous

“If you have enough money to satisfy your desires, you are rich. But there are two ways to be rich: You can earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet expensive desires; or you can cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have more than enough money.”  Dave Ramsey, lots of people, but I think Dave Ramsey will get traffic to this blogg

Rich = Wants / cash flow   

Step one—Ask for God’s great blessing and He is bound to bless you

I pray that God will give me "Super Natural Favor"  I have had this every day since I accepted that this is what is intended for me.

What is "Super Natural Favor?'"   Annette has been using this term.  I did not slow down enough to process what she was saying.  There is a distinction between "favor" and "super natural favor."   The word "Supernatural" has always made me flinch.  Annette using the term "Supernatural favor" bothered me.  This raised my awareness to others using "Super Natural Favor" I agreed with Annette.  We (Annette & I) have been given "Super Natural Favor".  

Natural favor must be earned, but supernatural favor is a gift. Natural favor says, If you work hard enough and long enough, some people will like you some of the time.

But that acceptance must be maintained, and having to say and do all the right things becomes a form of slavery. God does not expect us to run around trying to earn favor with Him or with others. 

Example I liked "God isn't impressed with us for climbing the mountain, he made the mountain." Keith Loy

God expects us only to do God's will whether it is popular or not. Just do your best and leave the results to God.

Annette's prayer as long as I have known her "God grant me the courage to do the next right thing."

 Step two—Ask and God will enlarge your territory (Grant you success)

I pray that my territory continues to grow.  Last week was a prime example of this, I thought that my territory had shrunk by 700 instead God was showing me that my territory was already 70,000 and I was not to doing my part.

 Step three—Ask and God will bring a touch of Greatness to your life 

By being persecuted I'm showing that it never was me that was doing these things it was my God through me.  By being stripped of the distractions that money and possessions bring, I was able to finally see that I am much more.  

Step four—Ask and God will keep the "Appearance of impropriety" away.

In my case, I pray that the devil remains using incompetent tools.
I pray that, "Appearance of impropriety" stays outside and does not return to within my family.

This week I have people asking me how are you going to make money?

Money does not = Happiness

I will not go back to the "happy does not exist" rant.  But, one thing that is beyond question is that money is not the answer.

My wants/things that will satisfy me are very simple.  

I want my wife to be left alone.    This one I know is unattainable, she is not capable of walking by somebody in need that she has the ability to help.  Annette's foundational prayer "Grant me the strength to do the next right thing."  Will always keep this out of reach.  It is good for a man to want and to have something to strive for.

I want our influence to continue to grow.  I want time with my wife and kids.

This is unrealistic an assistant attorney general is a very powerful enemy to have.  They have the power of the State the "Department of Criminal Investigation" as staffers.  This is unimaginable power.  I have seen people intimidated, threatened for supporting Annette.

I want people to look beyond the headlines, and see that they could be next to be attacked.  The accusations are horrific with no facts.

Money is not the answer.  There is not enough money that any single person has to do this.

Prevenient Grace

I have not heard this term since I went through my confirmation class. I was confirmed United Methodist around 1982.

Prevenient Grace, "There is nothing this man can do to save himself. Outside help is his only hope." John Wesley founder of the Methodist Church.

I need to reread John Wesley's "Appeals to man of reason and religion." I think I would take more from it than I did when I was twelve.

Bedtime stories from 2000 miles away

I have seen this feature advertised for months.  I honestly had no desire to try it.  I took my three young boys to Haiti.  My wife had to stay home.  My boys are well traveled.  I didn't think much about the trip.  My six year old started complaining about missing mom.

I tried Google Hang Out, I'm in Haiti.  Odd we have internet for free but no cell coverage($3/min) equals no cell coverage.

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I sent her a Facebook message to try Google Hangout.  The whole process took a few minutes to get it to work the first time.  This was a great experience, the next night the fun of playing with the funny hats and sounds was done and Annette got to make her normal funny sounds.  The boys loved it (including me).

Push Back

Ralph Waldo Emerson described this truth of human nature accurately:
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

POINT #1: YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES AREN’T YOU

POINT #2: YOU CAN’T CONTROL WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU, ONLY YOUR REACTIONS

POINT #3: WHEN YOU STOP BLAMING, YOU TAKE BACK YOUR POWER


Today when I look at the kids in Haiti. I have more hope for them than I do my own kids.
The statement that has stuck with me about Annette's ordeal is "shocking to one's sense of fairness."

The Haitian kids don't expect things to be fair. But, they do expect to be able to have a rational and reasonable conversation.

They don't expect to be treated fairly by the government. The expectation by Haitians is that if you are noticed by an official (doing above average) your lively hoods, business, kids and land will be taken by the government.

When I am able to take a step back and look at the situation from Haiti. The most likely direction for the Haitian kids is up. My kids the next leg will likely be even further down.

Drop off

The little kids in the back of the tap-tap are being dropped off at a Haitian orphanage.

The whole experience brings back memories of taking livestock to market in the back of a pickup with my grandpa when I was a kid. The only difference being that at least some paperwork was done on the livestock(a check if nothing else).

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I Believe!

I believe everything can be done better.

I believe that everything we do should be challenging the Status quo. How can we do this better? Why has it always be done that way? Why does it matter that that is the way it has always been done? What is the purpose? What is your motivation for doing that?  Are you getting the desired result?

I believe that every situation, individual, idea should be treated as the unique potential that they possess.
I believe that "U + I  > 2"

I have been told that I should never talk about:

1)Sex: as far as I can tell the reason for living
2)Religion: The purpose for living
3) Politics: Which I have just found out is more important than breathing.

4th grade

Slow down long enough to make sure to see what is happening.

Sunday

I have spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out how to start this blog.  The point of this blog is to just tell my story as it happens.  I am about half way "ish" through my current life expectancy unless Ray Kurzwell is right then I'm just getting started.  I think no matter how you measure a life I have exceeded expectations.