Always Managing

Fixing Messes

Managing is like fighting fires, or messes, you seem to have to run from one mess or fire or problem to another to fix the mess, problem or put out the fire. The trouble is with messes is that usually someone else makes themm and it is the managers problem to sort them out and get them fixed. Don't blame me it was not my problem, but I have to fix it for someone else anyway. I can't stand messes and I want my place, tidy, smooth running and organised. That is how it seems to be in life sometimes, on the shop floor and in real life situations , the factory, the production line and the panel beaters where we know, like mechanics, the car has to look good, by being repaired and being well maintained to run or work properly. Fixing messes is about trouble shooting, looking for things that are wrong, just to get them straight and get them right. This is what organising is really also about, we just seem to have to go from one mess to another in our minds in our head, to the workshop. It is just one big job of a lot of small processes to sort things out and get them straight. We use our heads to think things through, to process thoughts and these problems which we deal with logically and systematically are just part of the every day handling of things as we go through fixing messes. The organising mind is just a problem fixer, processing messes to see that you can clearly function and process problems, ideas and work loads. I don't like fighting fires, but I do like fixing messes because it enables me to see where I am going and to travel the road to where I am going in life in a clear and organised fashion and direction. Cleaning out the closet, tidying your desk, which is my next job after this, is just waiting to happein a logical get rid of the chaos and start living properly, sort of idea. Without the backlog of work and problems that we put off and hold onto, we would be well on our way to further, future advancement and forward continuation. Why do we sit back and wait for things to fix themself, I often wonder as I consider my desk again and the papers that just need to be thrown out, because if I have not read all that stuff by now, I probably never will. People are horders, they just hold onto things for the sake of it, thinking one day I will need that, but by the time they do, it has been supersceded or outdated and updated. God knows only too well that we wait on hHIm for things that we really should well be doing for oursleves, Instead of burdening God with all these prayer requests for help and assistance, we just need to get on with the job, clean up our act and fix the messes. Fixing messes is something we have to look to ourselves for, God helps those who help themself and when it seems all too impossible that is when God steps in and takes over and we will never have the chance to get it the way we wanted it ourselves, because it is too late and then it is under somebody elses care and duristiction. If we want to be right with God, we have to do the work to be in that relationship, organised, clean and tidy, by fixing the messes ourselves. Heaven is a state of being, as well as a place to dwell and we can only have it the way we make for oursleves, if we do the work, we are happy, organised and have done the methodical processing of the work of fixing the messes.

Keep It Straight

Once you have out the fiire out and organised your mess, you need to keep it straight. If it is fixed don't brake it again. Don't go looking for things to brake and once you have fixed your mess, keep it straight, I repeat, keep it straight. Don't go back to burying your things in a hole again. If you try and do the right thing all the time and stay on the straight and narrow, then there is not need for you to get in a mess again, Keep it tidy by doing that little job all to so often, like I just tidied my desk and I can live with it now for the next little while, while it is still tifdy, but when it just starts to look messy again, I will have to fix it to keep it again for straight all the time. It is like that with moral issues, if you keep yourself on to the straight and true on the narrow road, then there is a lot less chance of you going back down that dark alley again, to stress, worry, anxiety and depression. We all too often fret and stray because we are lazy, we think that job will wait, buit it won't, we have to take the bull by the horns and tackle the issue as soon as possible, if not straight away. We have to aim to keep it straight all the time, from the moment we are born until our final breath, but is never that all too easy, life is a long and hard road to live and we must take that road. Noboby is perfect all the time and we have to admit that fact, the truth is most of the time we are after anything we can get for free, cheap or just dropped into our laps without having to really work hard for it. God knows we all stray and drift away, but we have to come back to the straight and narrow road as soon as it is recoginisable that we are drifting. We like to look in the mirror and say to oursleves, hey!! you look pretty perfect, but if we look long and hard and often enough we will see all our many flaws and pitfalls that want to come back and haunt us, so we have to aim to keep it straight and then try and maintain that look and purpose of right behaviour. If it is good enough for me, then it will be just that, good enough for me, but that may not be how everybody else sees it, we have to play our part and get the people's perspective on how we are doing and how things actually are. Looking at oursleves may be pyschologiically advantageous, but God's picture of ourselves and how we see oursleves may be completely different, to the way we see oursleves. We have to see things through other peoples eyes, once we have got it straight then we need to keep it straight and not divert too far from the main way and leading edge or trend for doing things. Once you have got it right, keep it right, when it is bent, straighten it and don't bend it again on purpose for no reason. God knows what we need before we ask, ask with confidence and you will get it, if it is line with His way fo thinking, if it is on the straight, true and narrow, you have a much better chance of getting what you ask. Basically keep it straight and don't bend it, if it was a house that was built crooked, it would be on a lean and eventually topple over. Otherwise it would fall down in the storm, like the house bulit on sand that Jesus talked about. Build on the rock and keep it straight. Use a ruler to draw straight lines, rule a margin so that you look neat and tidy when you write. If we keep to the straight and tue, the right and honourable, then we are on our way home to the heavenly realms. Keep it straight, keep it true and you will be right all the time, if you do.

Putting Out Fires

We started off this chapter saying that managers were like fire fighters. Now we have to put out the fires that we create with our messes. Just last night The Notre Damn Cathedrral in Paris, nearly burnt down, it was so badly damged that it will take millions of Euro and years to rebuild, the roof burnt off and the tower was destroyed. There were workmen working on restorations and they say the fire could have started by them. No one in their right mind would do that on purpose to a 150 year old heritage listed building, because they just don't make them like that any more. Maybe it was getting too expensive in repairs and an arsonest lit it for insurance purposes, maybe it was just an act of God being frustrated with His paritioners that he created an electrical short circuit in the overhead wiring, too many drinks on the house and not enough love to go around, I don't know how, you try and explain it. I am sure that the police will try and work out the cause of the damage and how or who started it. Life is like that, sometimes no matter how hard we try to do the right thing for something or someone we love, we are slapped in the face or kicked in the teeth and all our beautiful possessions and things that we love can be destroyed or go up in smoke. It could have been a loose cigerette that just found enough tinder to destroy nearly the whole thing, an act of carelessness and frivolity. The Government and worthy parisheners have pledged and donated over a hundred million to the rebuilding. If it was an insurance job then the money was probably not needed anyway. So as it now seems to appear, these little fires or big ones in our life are just a way of disturbing and annoying us by damaging our treaured possessions. Fortunately no-one was hurt and injured and nobody got burnt. Sure we can rebuild it, but it will never be exactly the same as before again, no matter how much they spend, even with new materials and better quality and newer woods, they will never be able to replace it or repair it, back into its original condition, it is just a shame and a disgrace that it could happen. Like our everday lives, we do the worng thing and get frustrated with life and then it is just a matter of trying to fix our problems, like putting out fires. We have it all planned out and something goes wrong, a spanner in the works or in this case a live wire or spark that spooked things. So what with and how do we address these things in our daily lives, run around and try to put out the fires or simply be a bit smarter and more clever and try and prevent the fire happening in the first place. When the dog drops a poo on the carpet, you don't hit the dog, but you just have to clean up the mess and use some air freshener, don't you? better to lock the dog outside than have it dirtying the house all the time. You have to think like that in every given situation, don't leave things to chance and take as many precautions as is humanly possibly can for safe keeing. If we just keep on running around form one fire to another, all that happens is that things get burnt and then it is just too late and beyond repair most of the time. We can pull it down and build new ones, but you had better convince the insurance company that you have had nothing to do with starting the fire in the first place or you won't get a brass razoo. I would have written this differently if Notre Damn (a highly loved and respected building) had not happened overnight, but to take and make use of a major news event was too tempting. I would have started off and said, if you play with fires you will get burnt or don't light a fire when you have cans of petrol around. But anyway that is how it turned out and there was suitable writing criteria, I wish that never happened, I would have much rather gone into the depths of despair and anquish by looking at our own inadequacies and inabilities to do the right thing and having to keep fixing our own messes. Have a good, long and hard think about the way that you do things and perhaps you can avoid these pitfalls and tragedies in your life, instead of running around trying to put out fires.

Covering Old Turf

I hear people saying, What ever happened to the good old days? or Why are you trying to cover old groud or turf? these are oppossed and total contradictions to each other, but both have there time and place in our world. Memories from the corner of my mind, misty watered coulour memories of the way we were. It seems so good to go back on the past and well on the old times when we did it a certain way and everything worked. Then they bring in all these new ways of doing things and it is hard for old people to learn and so they go back to the old ways of doing things by covering old turf. You can't live in the past all the time, The new ways of doing things are surposedly better and much faster and simpler, more efficient and mainstream in their ideas of thinking. Easier to use, or are they, more high tech or more problems or does it just simply make life easier for us and they suggest in all the advertising campaigns. But does that really help with people who love to do things of the old world and school, who live in the past and they are much happier to do so, like the Amish who don't have cars and televisions and build and make all there houses themslves, with all their own crockery and utentsils out of natural products and resources. Things were better off left alone without all these modern adaptations and new inventions and creations. Ancient Rome was build to last and it has gone down through the centuries just as it was. Don't try and change things just for the sake of change. That is really what covering old turf is really about, but still we do it. We go back on things that have hurt us in the past and try and fix the problem instead of going through things to throw them out and updating everything. What happens is the slow and painful process of learning by our mistakes, which is really the only and best way to do things, but still it is painful. Don't kick a animal (dead or alive) and don't kick someone when they are down, help them get out of the pit, left them up to be with Jesus and He will lead them into a place of healing and restoration.Time heals all hurts and as painful as it can be and seems sometimes, there is always light at the end of the tunnel. We try and dig ourselves out of our own holes instead of letting other people help us, that is away to, for getting the job done a lot quicker. It is still nice to look back on the past, reminisse and well on past loves and beauties, but we have to learn to let go of those memories that are hurting us and move on into a newer, brighter and greener pasture or place to be and live. There is nothing I like better than going back to my childhood days and remembering all the good old times, when things were without worry and stress, when the beauty of naivity was heaven and purety was a ramification of innocent behaviour. But we all move on and sin, we all are more guilty of doing the wrong thing more often now, as each of us gets older, we look for cheaper and faster ways around things and that causes heartache and pain, which are nastier and hurtful. We have to learn to slow down and go back to the old fashioned ways of doing things with ethical behaviour and a moralistic view. Covering old turf maybe just looking back on the past to where we have gone wrong and avoiding those pitfalls and mistakes again. It maybe using those examples to learn from our wrong doings or it just may be learning to leave well alone and getting on with the new and future, positive direction in our life. I will leave those questions up to you to answer. I will say and add though, that you do have to make a choice one way or the other, it is very hard to live in the old world and the new world at the same time. Once again the choice is up to you.

Put The Past Behind

You have heard it said before, put the past behind and get on with the job and look to the future. What that means or people are trying to say is, don't look back on what you have done in the past, but stay focused and head or aim in the direction of what is still too come. Sure we don't klnow what the future holds, but we must strive to achieve a better life for ourself by getting on with the job of doing and seeing what comes out of it as we seek to address the problems and pitfals of life and make amends and corrections where needed to fix the future for a brighter path ahead and to come. We can create and control our futures by always looking ahead and not behind, if we can see clearly where we want to go and work towards that in a positive direction then we will get to that place or destionation as we intend to do. Of cource there is a chance of things coming up and crossing our path to stop us or slow us down form achieving our goals but we careful management and contingency palnning we can avoid those obstacles and find a path around them or just wait for a more opportune time to tread that particular path. By puttting the past behind is just another way of saying don't look back on what you have done allready but continually seek and strive forward towards the future. Sure we have learnt how to do what we have done by all the work we have done in the past, but we must only use that by retrieval methods from our memories, to make the future better and that gives us the know how in order to do so. When we make a mistake, it is not the end of the world and by putting the past behind us, we are saying OK, I did it wrong, but I am willing to forget my error and move on and get it right next time, now and in the future. No good dwelling on things that went wrong, don't through effort after foolishness by making the same mistake again and don't look back and say to yourself, wasn't I such an idiot for doing it that way. At least you tried and you have learnt from your failure, not to do it again that way. No problem is too big that it will always get the better of you, time heals all wounds if we will just look to God for the right way out of the bad situation. A comforting word from a friend to help point you in the right direction is also well advised to be acceptable as well. But don't listen to the advice of fools, they will just lead you up the garden path and get you into more trouble. Learn to be discerning and understanding in everything you do, look to the tried and proven trusted ways of doing things and try not to divert or stray from them too much at all if you can help it. God has a desired waya nd a perfect plan for all of our lives and looking towards Him and what that is that He has for you will see you well and good for as long as you can follow Him. The simple answer is put the past behind and learn from your mistakes, don't make the same mistakes again and look to God for the way out fo your hole. Remember that you can't stay in that hole forever and the sooner you realize that the sooner you are on your way out of that and on to greater and bigger and brighter things to do. Leave your hole behind you, don't dwell in the past, put the past behind you and move onward and upward in life leaving those who dig there own holes and can't get out of them to stay there, if they can't achknowledge God that is. Holes are the rutts and life has so much more to offer than being stuck in deep despair, look up to God and he will show you the way to get out of your hole and lead you to a place of peace and well being. He will give you the commfort and love of being His treasured posession in heaven, there is not much more that you can want in life than that. There is so much more to life than death, put the past behind you and move on and up into a brighter future, you owe yourself at least that.

Law And Order

Law and order is a form of structured rigidity and rules are meant to be obeyed for our own good and well being, with health implications added to that as well. Things have to be done the right way for the good of all. This is why laws are made and implanted into our social system for us to obey, repect and follow. Learning the laws may seem like a hard and arduous task, but they are a necessary part of our community and a valueable asset to have knowledge of and trust in once you are old enough to know what is the difference between right and worng. God gave us His laws in The Ten Commandments handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai thousands of years ago for us to know what God'e requirements for us was. Then down through the eyars and generations of government leadership and debate they were softened or mellowed to make life more comfortable and bearable. However the rules were made for a reason and leaving out any part of the law is an inadequacy and failure on our behalf. Rules and laws can be too harsh or two weak and we must achknowledge the changes as long as they are for our betterment. Laws are designed to mainatin order and that elads to a more highly structured and respected society as a desired outcome and goal. We can become too lax and take things for granted with softened laws like gay marriage and abortion or euthenasia. We must keep and maintain the dignity and sanctity by respecting all life as the unltimate law to be governed by. Speeding up the road to get away from a drug deal or putting other people in unsafe postions because of our driving is a total no no. These are just a couple of examples of rules that are broken everyday which people must be caught and punished for. Police have a mammoth job trying to patrol the streets to look for would be offenderes and just because you are caught doing 10 kms over the speed limit or fail an blood alcohol breath test, is no the end of the world, but a way of recieving a stern warning for the things that you are doing wrong and having to pay the fine or handed down punishment for the offence. No one is perfect and we all make mistakes, but we all must try and obey the law to the best of our possible abilities. If we try and achknowledge the punishment as a deterant, then it is a good enough incentive to not break the law or sin. Then there is the law of freedom which means that for those of you who are Christains, if you are a slave to Christ then you are free from the law of sin and are able through His help to live and maintain a righteous lifestyle. Simply if you always do the right thing then you will stay out of trouble and avoid the punishment awarded for the wrong doing. Life was not meant to be easy and laws to make things harder, but laws are also there for our beneifit to keep us safe and out of trouble with other would be offenders. In other words if people know that they will be punished for their wrong doing they are less likely to offend others by breaking the law. Then there is property laws where a contractual law gives a person permission to own a piece of property with a cash settlement ofr perhaps it being bequeathed to family memebers. There is the law of the land and if the farmer does not get rain when he plants his seed then he has wasted his time. God allows for that and provides the rian in the right time and season. That is Gods law, that if you do the work then you msut be paid for your efforts. Shops put a price on there goods and that is an invitation to treat for us to buy, with a financial transaction to pay for the goods. We have to learn to accept that the law is good for us and will not hurt us if we maintain and do the right thing by the law. The Bible says that the worker is worth his keep and those who don't work should not eat. The law, take it or leave it, it is there for a reason and you are best off believing in it and you will have to one way or an other anyway.

Let Go, Let Do

You might have heard it dais, let go and let God, well I am saying let go and let do. As in once you have done all the work in putting down in writing your thoughts and opinions, get out there and do something for sombody else. You can't do everything yourself and when you have been trusted in your writings let it go for someone else to use and beneifit by and of, let it go out there into the world, for other people to do and act upon what has been lead. Leading by setting an example, or just putting yourself out there to be recognised is to no real personal value unless you have proven that you were right and that your writings have been thoroughly tested. Arguing the case simply for point of fact does not deserve recognition, but when a major contirbution to the writing world or political socio economic world is made, then people deserve the right to achknowledge the credibility or reject it. Being egotistical is self defeting and no-one will read a maniacal idiot and so establishing credibility is crucially important. Being recognised in the writing world depends on your factual evidence, your dialogue and discussion in the explanation and description of the writing. Then it is how sure you are about the facts and points that you are trying to put across or argue about in order for what you are trying to say to be recognised and achieve something of substantial worth. You have to have tried and true practiced and proven facts and not circumstantial evidence. All considerations must rely and depend heavily on the truth. Having said that, it is no good keeping all of your work to yourself, you have nothing to gain by your own achievement and it is only when you make a positive contribution to other people that you can make any difference or impact on the world. Once again, once you have done that let it go, let it fly around and circulate out there in the wide and broad world beyond. Information is only good, if it has a relativity to sombody else. All the knowledge in the world won't save you from yourself, but when propperly dialogued and displayed you can change and have a major impact on the world to and through other people. Writing is just a literal form of oral communication and it has no real value unless somebody else can use it to their advantage. So what I am trying to say is let it go and let other people do what they like with your work. Whether it has any monetarial value or not is immaterial, what matters is your positive contribution back into society. Sure you have to eat and through the years of experience you would have had to make pretty sure that you can do that. Writing is definitely that, food for thought and the worker is worth their pay and food. So don't worry about the accumulation of massive personal posessions, they come with the job if your are careful and prayerful. What matters is distrubution and circulation of the work, that comes by letting go and letting other people do what they like with it. Don't accept destructive criticism without substantiation and evidence but to try to encourage people to see the work in the true light and how you or God would want to have the visual evidence portrayed or projected. Let go and let do, it is not that hard really, let go and let God would be the first preference in doing things as you have to trust in His discression with everything you do, but give people the chance and the credibility they deserve in handling matters and affairs. Achknowledge that your own understanding can be inadequate and when you relfect off your ideas into other peoples eyes, you are really allowing self examination. Hope and pray for feedback, but let go of the work and let other people do what they want with it and like. When there is enough consideration and trust in the work by you and them, they will let you go and get on with it in other ways and God will look after you to. It is like saying cast your bread onto many waters and it will come back to you a thousand fold.

Correcting The Wrong

Correcting the wrong is a big part of always managing and once again like fire fighting or fixing messes, we are correcting the wrong, whether the mistake was made by us or someone else, me or you, it is immaterial. You don't have to be too point of fact and critical in the acusation, it won't get you anywhere anyway, but quietly go about your work in correcting the wrong, to get things right. I am not perfect and I make mistakes, but it is not too hard to go back over the work and check to make sure that what you have done is right, what you have written will stand the test of time and being, so that you have earnt the trust of others in credibility. I have so much work to do and it seems that there is no end to the work I have to do in checking and correcting my own work. That is up to me and I have to make sure that I get around to doing just that, checking all of my own work. Time does allow, but it is a very painstakingly difficult job and I am sure that you feel the same pain, with or in your own work. We have to bight the bullet and get on with the job of doing just that, correcting all the mistakes we make and fixing them so that they are right and will last into eternity and the test of time. Whether it was my fault or someone elses, I still have to assume the onus is mine and take the blame and responsibility for all of my own work. God has to help us in some situations, life is tough and we can't do it all on our own, but with a little freindly help and direction pointing God can lead us and steer us in the right direction to get those problems fixed and to aleviate painful hurts and burdens of people pointing the judgemental finger at you and saying you did that wrong, how about getting it fixed. God helps but we have to take the work on ourselves in however long it takes to get things right by correcting what was wrong and fixing the problem to have things right and in good working order and condition. God does it in a nice way, when you are wrong, He does not yell and scream and shout, but quietly lets you self relfect on how He would do things and then you can see how to change and adapt in order to put things right and closer to the way He sees things being done and left acceptable. There is nearly nothing worse than being told by someone else that you are wrong, we have to take and accept positive and constructive critiscism, but we also have to make sure that we are left with some form of pride after all the work we have done and only got one thing wrong. Each one thing we get wrong, we can easily fix one thing at a time, but when a whole lot of problems are dumped on our lap, of things that other people can't handle we are left in despair and desperation on how to go about fixing the problem or correcting the wrong. Again you just have to be patient and tackle each problem one step at a time, work your way through the list of items individually, correcting and fixing, adjusting and repairing the situation. Then we can watch each thing that was wrong. They can be slowly corrected and made right as the task comes about and we deal and handle each one of the problems as we can and see fit. What is wrong, can always be made right again, it just takes time and patience in working through the job and getting things done, systematically, logically and thoroughly. Take time to plan your day, assess each problem individually and work through in those things in a step by step order, then slowly and gradually make what was wrong, right again, by correcting the mistakes, problems, streses or worries. Don't give up, it is never too late, just keep working through it as you can and see fit and you will get there in the end, everything will be ship shape, honkey dorey, Bob's you uncle and in perfect standing when everything is finished.

I Did It, So I Have To Abide By It

Today is Good Friday, I am reminded that Jesus did it all for me by dieing on the cross to forgive my sins. I also remember the old Hymn, Abide with me fast fall the even tide, the darkness grows dim, Lord with me abide. I did it and so I have to abide by it, well ateleast Jesus di it for me and you to if you accept Him for that. I have writeen a lot of pages over the past so many years and it sticks with me, I don't remember all I wrote all at once, but I recognise all my own material when I see it. Not just because it is on my website, but because there is stuff out there that I have written long ago in school and Tech that crops up from time to time that I remember. I did it (wrote it), So I have to abide by it. Like anything we do in life, it is only as good as us putting our name to it and abiding by the rules of what you have done and what you have not done. You know if you have done something or not, if it is something good and you enjoyed doing it, then you like to talk about it and wil have fond memories come back to you when you do. By the same token there are those things in life that we would simply choose to forget, things that we have done wrong or are ashamed of and don't want to talk about them and they come back to haunt us later on. When they do we do we try and ignore them or hide them in the past. These things can plauge our minds and our consceniouses and unless we repent and ask forgiveness or fix the mess that we have created they annoy us and irritate us until we do. Little things like stepping on someones toes when we really want to try and be nice, a simple apology is hard to do, but can turn the whole situation around and fix the whole problem. Husbands and wives have arguements and unless they can talk about it and come to an agreement then that could lead to a divorce and the other option is for them to see a marriage councellor. Better to stick to the facts and be honest and at least the truth is there to protect you and ensure your arguement is correct. Why lie and get yourself into trouble when it is much nicer to say I love you than try and win every debate or arguement. These little conditons work and the more we take time to care for other peoples needs, the more we are able to get on with people and enjoy life. No-one likes a trouble maker and we should try and avoid the pitfals of getting ourselves into that situation. I did it and I have to abide by it, whether I am mean or nice, I have to stick to my guns or do I. Isn't that the way or is it, the simple saying of the hardest word being, sorry! much easier than getting yourself into a whole lot of trouble later. But in life if you want something or you own it, you have to have credability for what you have done. A lot of people pay accoutants for there tax purposes and you have to be shrewd and accurate with that. After all if you rip off the government they won't like you, just the same as if someone diddles you out of your hard earned savings you won't be happy either. If some one diddles your bank account, then you will be quickly on the phone to complain to the bank. LIke my wbsite, I give an accurate account of what I have done and what I write, I have to stick by and acocunt for, it is up front and centre for you and all to see and if my credability is not there, then I either can't write it or will be ashamed for you to read it. We all have to stick to the facts to have credability, that is what life is all about, do the right thing and be happy or do the wrong thing and pay for it later. If you steal something you have an instaneous gratification and feel good now, but later on when you get caught, you feel rotten and the police charge you with theft, you won't be happy paying the fime or doing time in jail. Don't think that you will get away with everything, The Bible says, be sure your sins will find you out. Better to do the right thing in the first place and stay out of trouble, than suffering the shame and embarrassment later when you get found out. I have to be meticulous and blameless with everything I write and I can assure you that is not easy. If I write the wrong thing, then you won''t be happy and neither will I. The truth is in accountability with everyone to God and you have to be transperant in all dealings to be sure you are safe and right. Be sure that you have to pay for everything you do in the end.

Further Ahead

Looking down the path ahead to a future that is bright and not dismal. To come from the past of the dull and dark ages and move into a position of clear visibility and direction for where you want to go. You have to ook to the light of God and see what exactly He has planned for you and prepare yourself and plan out things accordingly with His grand design and purpose. There is meaning and pupose in life and we have to ensure that we are on the straight and narrow road in all apsects and dealings in and of our lives. God has a plan to prosper you and not harm you, to help you wherever possible if you only ask for His advice. There is God's divine will and inspiration in all aspects of life and a potential for good and bad. We have to be wise and choose the correct path. Obeying His rules and conditions and following His stipulations in accordance with His divine plan and purpose. There is a right way and a wrong way to do everything and we must ensure that we are careful and accurate in deciding in accordance with God's will what that is. Laws of the land are there for a reason and would not be there without God's consent and achknowledgement. People have power and in a majority, things can go against God's will, but the truth will be known and there will be adequate compensation for any wrongly instigated man made laws. Futher ahead things are brighter, while we live in the now of today when things have to be seen clearly here and for the future now, we have to understand the desire for all things to be potentially good and act accordingly to ensure that they are. A brighter future is a happier future and that comes about by seeing clearly the rights and wrongs and making sure that we choose the right and not the wrong way. Further ahead there is the potential for an ideal world, with everything in the light and nothing hiding in the dark. We have a hope and a plan and a desire to see this happen and it will come about with plenty of prayer, so it is up to us to ensure and make sure that it does happen and keep asking god for his guidence in everything we do and want. Things are not all bad and most of the world is good, there is just a few problem areas that need to be addressed for a more positive and reasonable way for people to live. The central hope is for all things to be good and kind, for us to be nice to each other and not too mean. It is reasonable to assume that we can make a better world for oursleves, with our own dilligent efforts, in the right and positive direction of good and God's will, purpose and design. God is a great God and we have to catch the vision and hope of everything in the right and true perspective, somewhere, where things and people will be will be safe and not harmed, a perfect place of unity and enhancement. A place to be at one with the one who made us and live with Him in peace where He is in heaven. The creation was doomed from the start, but everyhthing has been restored to its perfect relationship, if we will only achknowledge our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. It was paid for on the cross two thousand years ago and He is still working for us today to make things right. It truly is a wonderful world that we were given, so let us not spoil it with all the greed, corruption and selfish desires of our own wants, needs, demands and requirements. There is enough to go around, if we share and carefully consider others above oursleves. The beauty is in the sacrifical giving of our hearts desires in love. To stop having to be always managing and start to be living the restored peaceful environment of the family home and social community of mutual respect and honest dealings. Further ahead all this is possible, so let us look in that direction now, where God holds the keys and he reigns on high above to serve.