Bill Whittle: "It's not a brain issue, it's a heart issue"...video

My advice? Reprogram your brain to soothe your heart.

Advice I need to take to heart (see what I did there?)  Okay - cheap shot, but worthy of reflection.

Just a few days ago I posted a video of Benjamin Hardy telling us how our brains work, or don't, as the case might be, and how to be a high hope person.

So what did I do yesterday? While doing my morning routine of journaling, checking my agenda for the day, prayer, and spiritual reading, I actually wrote "yuck" next to one of the items on my schedule for the day.  It was defrosting the large upright freezer in the barn - a task I'm obviously not fond of doing.

By the time I finished my spiritual reading, I thought to myself, "What the hell is wrong with you? There are people who don't even own a freezer packed with all sorts of delicious food. And you think defrosting it is a hardship?" 

After re-framing the job in my mind as a privilege I was able to whip it out in record time (mainly since I discovered years ago using a shop vac made short work of the ice and water.)  And, guess what? It wasn't "yuck."

Bill Whittle: "I can't be the only person who looks around and says what the hell is happening here?"

Trust me on this, Bill - you're not!

Bill, Scott, and Stephen discuss this issue in their video. 

When you spend your life immersed in news that leaves you deeply sad, how do you handle the heartache? In this intensely-personal episode, the men of Right Angle — Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott — grapple with the emotional impact of the barrage of 24/7 news.

 

More:

Virtual Mirage: Sunday Sermonette  LL outdid himself with this fine sermonette

MOTUS:  Let The God's Of Copy Book Headings Limp Up To Explain It Once More 

The demented dark demon driven hatred of the commie/libtards...

 is in full flower.

In my wildest dreams, I would never say the things about anyone passing I've read online about the passing of Rush Limbaugh.

Yeah, I know they're trolls and bots - or whatever.  It doesn't change the fact people's thinking is so distorted as to wish such ill on another human.

Listen up here; never, ever "hope" for ill to come to another person and wish them in hell. You must hope for all, even the most heinous of individuals, to be saved.

To do otherwise is a grave sin and the only damage done is to your soul. Don't do it!!

And always remember:

 Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 17, 2021

Pay attention to how they speak of Rush Limbaugh today. That’s how they feel about you.

Hope

 Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ's promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit. "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. The Holy Spirit . . . he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs in hope of eternal life.

The virtue of hope responds to the aspiration to happiness which God has placed in the heart of every man; it takes up the hopes that inspire men's activities and purifies them so as to order them to the Kingdom of heaven; it keeps man from discouragement; it sustains him during times of abandonment; it opens up his heart in expectation of eternal beatitude. Buoyed up by hope, he is preserved from selfishness and led to the happiness that flows from charity.

Christian hope takes up and fulfills the hope of the chosen people which has its origin and model in the hope of Abraham, who was blessed abundantly by the promises of God fulfilled in Isaac, and who was purified by the test of the sacrifice. "Hoping against hope, he believed, and thus became the father of many nations.

 Christian hope unfolds from the beginning of Jesus' preaching in the proclamation of the beatitudes. The beatitudes raise our hope toward heaven as the new Promised Land; they trace the path that leads through the trials that await the disciples of Jesus. But through the merits of Jesus Christ and of his Passion, God keeps us in the "hope that does not disappoint." Hope is the "sure and steadfast anchor of the soul . . . that enters . . . where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf." Hope is also a weapon that protects us in the struggle of salvation: "Let us . . . put on the breastplate of faith and charity, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. "It affords us joy even under trial: "Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation." Hope is expressed and nourished in prayer, especially in the Our Father, the summary of everything that hope leads us to desire.

 We can therefore hope in the glory of heaven promised by God to those who love him and do his will. In every circumstance, each one of us should hope, with the grace of God, to persevere "to the end" and to obtain the joy of heaven, as God's eternal reward for the good works accomplished with the grace of Christ. In hope, the Church prays for "all men to be saved." She longs to be united with Christ, her Bridegroom, in the glory of heaven:

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience makes doubtful what is certain, and turns a very short time into a long one. Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.

Sock Puppets for War...

H/T to ZipADee  who said in the comments:

The way you presented your thoughts in this posting motivated, and helped, bring it about. I'd heard of a.k.a. obama as a 'Sock Puppet' before, but the idea for this show came from your posting: let's go with that! The 'lunacy' of it all is better seen when we take off the 'OZ glasses!' Thanks!

We need to quit focusing on Obama.  He's a sock puppet.  His handlers purposely keep your focus on him (can you say golf, vacations, tan suits, bad "optics") so they may maneuver behind the scenes unimpeded.

And if anyone thinks that the "been around forever" Republicans are any different, they need to increase their meds.

Francis Porretto has some thoughts about this.


In the meantime, I'll help the cause by donating through Ten Buck Friday. Because I believe in Hope.  Not Obama's phoney hope, but the Theological Virtue of Hope.

Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ's promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit.

"Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful." "The Holy Spirit . . . he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs in hope of eternal life."


The virtue of hope responds to the aspiration to happiness which God has placed in the heart of every man; it takes up the hopes that inspire men's activities and purifies them so as to order them to the Kingdom of heaven; it keeps man from discouragement; it sustains him during times of abandonment; it opens up his heart in expectation of eternal beatitude. Buoyed up by hope, he is preserved from selfishness and led to the happiness that flows from charity.

Despair is a sin against the Virtue of Hope.  I have more than enough sins without adding despair.

You didn't really expect to escape without a kitteh picture, did you?

NB: Any mistakes in this post are completely attributable to me.  My editor has a cold and is taking a nap.