Opposing Opposites

Wet And Dry

Wet and Dry
With the recent rain here over the last few weeks, each and every second day it is wet and dries up again and even sometimes two or three times in a day. But the weather is like that in that we have to put up with what we are dealt with. But as such an appropriate time when I have written twenty pages over the last little time period of the rainy periods. It is good to read and write inside while it is wet outside it is still dry on the inside. We have a shower every day to clean ourselves we do the washing both of our clothes and dishes unless we get the dry cleaning done or have a dish washer, that dries as well as washed. Then to we have kids who are a bit wet behind the ears and their parents tell them to make sure that they dry that area properly. As well we have people who are wet and dry from drinking in that those who have drunk too much alcohol are considered wet and a dry martini is not the right way to become dry again. We have we at and dry paint when we paint the house on the panel beater resprays the car and the paint takes up to twenty four hours to dry. We have plants that prefer wet soil and live in rainforests and there are species that prefer the dry and live in the desert where there is less water compared to the heavier rainfall of coastal areas. We have wet and dry sandpaper and wet and dry look with some peoples hair. In fact when you come to think of it there are many other wet and dry products as well, like glue cement pools when they are empty or full like the bath. Even to the extent of a waterfall the surface below is constantly wet. Just as the rivers lakes seas oceans and dams all break up the dry land with wet water we live with seasonal and cyclonic conditions and tsunamis, monsoons, floods tornadoes that through debris around in a severe storm. In fact my eyes are dry now and like my saliva teas are essential for emotions and feelings of sadness and love. Taste that the lord is good.

Fresh Or Stale

Fresh or Stale
Like the fresh air that we breathe or the stale air that we expire and the room that has the windows shut for prolonged periods of time when the air becomes musty and stale or the fresh bread that we buy from the shops every day. That when we leave it sitting for too long without using it, it becomes stale, which is hard dry and crumbly crust. So too are our lives when we don’t use them for good things when we fail to use our gifts or abilities to be productive and useful we too become flat, stale, unnecessary and start to waste away like the stale bread we feed the birds or throw in the bin. Being fresh like when we wake up every morning, supposedly as fresh as a daisy or at least some fresh picked or bought flowers. We have a shower each morning to feel clean and fresh, but if at the end of the day we have done nothing, then we feel flat unless lazy lethargic and that is like being stale not using our gifts and abilities to provide make things or contribute back to our society. So we are faced with another life balance that of begin fresh or stale, just like a loaf of sliced bread. The breeze blows the currents shift by the wind to circulate the air and our breathing by animals insects and all types of living organisms that require oxygen to the plants the breathe in the carbon dioxide that we breath out and plants expire oxygen for us to live on. So we have this circulating cyclic system of air for living things that all things with life can be sustained to and by fresh air like fresh ideas or stale ideas, things that have gone flat and should be thrown out superseded like all food that is fresh goes off to be stale and like the waste of life is a stale grail for those that live in the grave and have seen better days. We must stay interested in life and breath the fresh and new taste of air.

Best And Worse

Best and Worse
If god is the best and the Devil is the worst of people that leaves a lot of grey areas for people in the middle. We have the best runner or athlete the best musician in their field the best baker, builder or plumber and electrician which all have a right to change the best price for their quality work within their industry. The best writer the best chef, best politician or worst and in fact in newly every area there is a best in their own speciality of work or expertise. So what does that say for the worst in their fields don’t they know what to do, are they still learning do they deserve the right of a fair go should we pay them or listen to them, are they worth anything at all or nothing. In gods eyes the best person and the worst person and no different, despite their many abilities or faults, they are all created equally in the likeness of God and no matter who it is, the best person or the worst person each has a right to daily meals, fresh water shelter. Prisons and gaols are full of the worst people on earth, but they too have some rights as human beings. The best people in the world might be the richest but they exploit the most generous but they keep most things to themselves the most beautiful but they are ugly inside. Even sharks and crocodiles may be the worst predators and eat people, but they are the sweetest to eat if you have your ever tried their meat. In fact in early ever order of hen pecking there is a best and a worst, and to judge may be wise or unfair depending on each individual case or situation. The best people should not boast, but they do, the worst people should not eat but they relish on fine food. In fact the slums with beggars are often happier than a lot of the world's leaders, who are never content with their situation or really understand their circumstances like the derelict. They may be the best in most people's eyes, the world leaders but they have trod on the toes of many people in their way to the top to get right there. So as Jesus might say the best are worst and the worst are best in the paradigm shift of the paradox of being best or worst kinds of people.

Betting Or Certain

Betting or Certain
In life it is important to make sure that we know what we are doing and making certain of the facts to secure a safe and comfortable lifestyle, is always important to make sire of and attain as a certainty if you can. Betting on the other hand puts your life or finances at risk, even with a calculated gentle there is still room for error and facts become disturbed and the truth is hard to realize. On the other hand being certain of the truth is an establishment of facts on which you can base calculated and correct decisions on for the necessary survival and comfort enhancement for the future. Betting or gambling leads to unseen lifestyle and possibly corruption of the mind for good. The only thing that can save you is to turn from your stupidity and get back on the right track and the road to certainty. Betting or being certain is another example of life balances and in fact it takes all types of people in the world to make it go around but gamblers play to win and lose while usually managers to succeed by proven methods and tried and trusted resources lead to and make a more certain and comfortable lifestyle to make a right or left turn at an intercession is a choice likely to end up in the wrong place but a certain indication of your turn based of proper knowledge information and experience is going to guarantee you end up in the right place. While the other person makes the bad choice and gambles you must make the right choice and be certain. Knowledge based on facts and truth of tried and tested answers with results that word and influences current things for the right decisions and choices way is the certain way to live betting will always give you the other option of losing and the odds are stacked against you in gambling.

Sure Or Risky

Better to be sure of yourself than uncertain of yourself and take chances and get into risky positions of instability and chain reaction potentials to danger. Sure you have to take a risk sometimes to better yourself in the financial world, but better to take your time and make sure you are doing the right thing, than to fall into some monetarial trap of deception and fall flat on your face or bankrupt. The thing is to be sure or certain of what you are doing gives you confidence and so how do we make sure of that. We have to get our facts right and make and base decisons on proven truths and accepted norms, trying to branch out too far into the unknown is both risky and an area of uncertainty. Still we find the need to succeed and the urge to excel, but at what cost, lost of family conditions, loved ones going astray, people we know and care about, suddenly ignoring us. These are things that we have to consider carefully before we make hasty decisions about money and life. Putting your life at risk at any stake or time is a big no no, but still we fly around the world, want to drive fast cars and behave like children when we are adults. I guess that having the biggest house you can afford also makes other people jealous and envious of you and puts you in jeopardy of theives and snobbery. Try and be sure of yourself for sure, but be careful of over confidence and trying to out do everyone else. Like taking a risk, you cannot afford to become complacent or too cocksure of yourself, but you must maintain a steadfast heart and sure spirit. Not necessarily a spirit of determination but one of humility and contriteness of heart, soul and mind. It is so easy to want to portray yourself as a person who knows what they are talkng about, yet to other people you are just a big bag full of wind who shoots their mouth off for self gain. Much better to win a soul and a friend than to big note yourself and invite people to be envious of you or foul mouth you and even make you their enemies. Taking time to be kind and thorough is important as you gain respect and honour from time centered friendships and work associations, where loyalty and respect are multiplied in time, rather than short winded conversations that end up in worry and error. Better to be sure than risky for sure, you don't want to put yourself at risk in anything unless you absolutely have to, make sure of everything and do what you are sure of first, before you take the next step and risk something going wrong. Risky or sure, sureness is always a safe bet, risky always takes too many chances. Be sure of what you are sure of for sure, take as few chances as you possibly can that is being risky. Knowledge of being on the shore is always better than going out to sea, nothing ventured, nothing gained, but better to be sure than sorry. At least you have come this far if you are alive and reading this.

Nice Or Nasty

All things in life can be nice or nasty and understanding the difference is sometimes hard to understand, while at others when someone gives you a sharp blast, you know that you are alive by their nasty nature. Being nice is a much more pleasant thought and people always prefer people who are nice to them than those who are nasty. Spiteful and hurtful natures are nasty and we hate the experience of the people who hold and use these personality traits.

They just don't think most of the time and there short tempered fuse just attacks without cause or reason and the recipient of the attack is just left feeling cold and strange without understanding reason or why most of the time. The thing about being nice is that peopel are much more attracted to this type of eprson, they win freinds more easily and have a lot more freinds than nasty people. It is a matter of being patient and staying calm when an attack comes as well as avoiding attacking someone when you feel that they have done the worng thing by you or that you have been hurt yourself. Never reciprocate a nasty painful attack just because you have been given one. As two wrongs never make a right and the only thing that can come out of defending yourself is the possibly of violence. Don't allow yourself to be it by a nasty person and walk off or run theother way if the situation arises. Nice people have a much more loving personality and much more pleasant to be around. Try and seek out nice people and avoid nasty people as much as you can.

Try and read as much as you can, as readers are more understanding of other people and can assess a nasty or nice person quickly or at first glance. Nice people will always win in the end and realy a nasty person goes nowhere fast. Experience is the key to this and also important in recognising those undesired nasty epople. If you are nice yourself, generally people will be nice back to you and if you are a nasty person the same is true to them as well, people will be nasty back to them. Always try to avoid the confrontation first and if you are a nice person the confrontaion is less likely to arise. Nice people win and nasty people lose in the end, be nice and not a nasty person.

Laughter Or Tears

Laugther or tears, sometimes it is hard to know the difference, we can cry tears of happiness or be in deep dark depression because we have been hurt and and end up in pain and tears. God help us to keep a quite spirit of humility, truth and understanding, sure there is a time to laugh and a time to cry, but father and Lord help us to know the difference and the applicability of time, appropriateness is just as important as sussceptiveness. We can even laugh when it hurts but God help us to know you and be sensititive to pain. Our anguish, hurts and fears are all distilled in your spirit and those fears and doubts, all fly away in your presence. Conflicts can dissapear into invisibility when your spirit comes to us Lord. Teach us to wait upon the Lord for all things in His good time, when we shed tears, laughter will come in a while. Help to us see clearly your purpose and plans for our lives, we know you have control of our lives once we have accepted you, but the clouds of doubt and despair seem to depress us and upset us and make us feel insecure, even enough to cry sometimes, we need to learn to laugh at adversity, but be sensative to others needs and hopes and dreams which inturn encourages us and them. The realms of darkenss want to consume us, but your love is greater than any demons or disturbances, oh God. Give us neither tears or laughter, but peace and understanding. However when tears do come to us, let us see the beauty of your natural warning for joy, peace and love in our hearts. Through every problem is a hope and dream, through every tear of pain is a light shining in the darkness, to every tear of pain, there is shelter under your wings. To ever fear, a hope and every tear leads to laughter in the end, just give us time to let the Lord work and show us the truth of His everlasting love. Give Him time and patience to show you His ways, The Lord is there when you need Him and He will help you when you are in need and support. God remeinds me of Davids failure with Bethsheba and sending Uriah The Hittite to the front line of battle to be killed, Then God explains to David that he had done wrong, by letting David's private personal little ewe lamb be slaughtered by a stranger / visitor for a meal. David said whoever did this must be killed, God said to David he was this man who did the wrong. He forgave David, but David anquised for years of lament in writings and expression, portrayed in his many Psalms and Poems. God give us wisdom and understanding to know the difference between sadness and happiness, laughter and tears. It is time to achknowledge that God is sovereign and Lord of all, we are just here to play the game His way, laugh or cry. God knows, God cares, he sent His son to pay the price of all our sin, how do you think God felt, sad or happy, tears or laughter, deep dark answers to everything lie hidden in that. 

Perfect and Flawed

Perfect and Flawed
I have written a lot on right and wrong choices and decisions but I can't tell you what they are, you must make them for yourself based on morality and ethical reasons and cases. Being perfect is about all the right choices we have got to make in life and being flawed as a person is about wrong ones. Perfection is that state of being where we are right minded in everything we think. Flawed thinking is based on wrong and poor choices and ending up in a sad state of affairs instead of a bright and happy disposition as is with the meticulous organised and efficient person who considers themself in perfectionist then with patience, persistence and perseverance often a person become one is already a perfectionist. As I have said flawed thinking o poorly directed results from those directions and steps taken to a sad or bad temperament and mood that makes us flawed in our personalities. This spiritual being or personality is what we are talking about when we consider being a perfectionist or have a flawed character attribute in our personality. Each of us posses good and bad qualities in our personality and character traits can be both positive and negative. Then it is a matter of eliminating the negative and bad trait and replacing them with good and positive ones to be more perfectionist than flawed. It is true when it is said that none of us is perfect, but then it just becomes a matter of degree that you are or you aren't perfect. With a flawed character sometimes we have a just give a go out of our way to do the wrong or bad things. This is a typical quality trait of most criminals. They make a conscious decision to steal, rape, speed, take drugs or murder and this is past being a flawed character, but completely wrong. People who aim to be perfect are hygiene and clean and can't accept anything wrong. Jesus was perfect but he loved sinners, so if we are flawed like most of us are be happy you are loved.

Beautiful Or Aweful

It is a hard subject to write on but being beautiful is a lovely thing, but too often its couterbalce of being awaeful shows its head, We see lovely people walking down the street, nice people in cafes we would like to talk to and sometimes we just turn our head in awe at the attractiveness of women in general who go out of their way to make themself look beautiful and entice men into their arms. It is not always that easy though some people have a nasty habit of being unkind, wanting too much for themselves and are quick to tell you so with their off the cuff short tempers. Usually through bad manners and ingnorance more than anything else. I am pretty sure that no one wants to be hated or unpopular, but still we feel the stinging tongue of insensitive people lashing out with verbal diareire and having a go at someone. How much nicer it would have been if they could have kept their mouth shut for a minute, taken their time to think, thought of a few nice jestures, forgotten and forgiven their hurt and just got on with the show of being nice. Beautiful people are nice to be around, nasty or aweful ones are best to avoid. I can't tell why some are nice and some are aweful, why some bight your head off and others praise you. It seems all the same to me who has a pretty stable personality and is easy to predict and is straight up and front and center with most people and my own ideas. You get to see what I want, what I do and where I am heading. We seem to have to get the message, be nice and if you can't be nice, buzz of. I don't want you hanging around if you want to annoy me and frustrtate my conversation, learn to deal with your situations and don't let other people bother you, it is not worth it in the end, better to walk away than to start a fight, I would like to say that if you start it, I will finish it, but I think I will stick with my first arguement and walk away from that one to. How much more lovely, wonderful and enticeing is the feet of those who bring good news, good news, good news is what the world needs a little more of everyday. What the world also needs now is love sweet love, its a little thing that the world needs plenty of. I guess I had better stop there before I get twisted around and double abck on myswelf, beuautiful people whether they look like that or have personalities like that are still beautiful to see and eal with, Aweful people you just don't want any sort of confrontation at all, I hope they get the message clear and swiftly, if you can't be nice, say nice things or just be nice in general, then crawl back into your hole and stay away from everyone else. Jesus said forgive and forget, still a good idea, I don't have His patience but I respect His ideas, lest us get on with it and try and see the beauty in Jesus to who had the keys to death and life and also heaven and hell. There is beauity in that for sure.

Pretty And Ugly

Well what is pretty and what is ugly, we have entered into a pretty meaningful discussion that could get a bit ugly. I am not sure where to start or what way to go, but there is definitely room for discussion. It is a pretty day or does that just set the pretty scene. There she is and she would not want to get ugly or we all will know the sting of her bight. I was just sitting down thinking what a wonderful day it is and how pretty the picture is of all God's goodness towards me and what mankind really is or should be. Then I got the pretty aweful picture of things starting to get ugly how there is room for improvement all the time, even when things are pretty bad and ugly there is a good side to the end of every story as well. Our job of course is to sort out and distinguish between the good, the bad and the ugly, to try and find the pretty picture admidst the toil and strife. There is a lot of good in the world and that is the pretty picture, but people throw a spanner in the works and things go rotton and odd. That is not the end of the world though, we are here to intercept the wrong doing and set a new path of being straight, true and correct. Find the winding path and look for ways to put a nice straight highway through. When it all turns out for the best in the world, we have accomplished our goal and got the pretty picture back again to look at and admire, then hopefully we can then stick to the straight and narrow path, if the windy road is not a highway yet. You might say, there is a pretty girl walking down the street, that does not mean that we have to race up to her and try some trickery to subdue her, that is when things get ugly, she does not get what she wants with some idiot chasing after her. The pretty picture is to stand back for a while and just admire the goodness that God has created in a woman. Things remain cool and above board, when we leave the good and right alone and know things are best left the way God intended them to be, with unspoilt pristine loveliness and untouched virginity of beauty. The ugly side of the coin or picture is when we race into things like a bull at a gate, not thinking first, no plan or tactics. Just hoping to satisfy our personal curiosity and selfish desires and will. That is when things start to get ugly, when we think of ourself first and never spare a thought for anyone else. Just because she has a frown on her face does not make her ugly, she just needs some encouragement and some positive cheering up. Look inside the heart of the matter, see what the problem really is before you jump to premature conclusions. There is beauty in every ugly situation, we sometimes just have to look and work hard to find the pretty picture again out of the problems and set things right and true, justified and restored to its full loveliness. Sure she is a pretty woman, but her hurts and pains can make her look ugly, that might be our fault, we need to make things right again before we can expect love to come back to us in return, judge and you shall be judged, judge not and be not judged, that is the pretty picture of righteousness, if it is well with her, then leave things alone and don't interject with your half hearted, quick tempered buts, leave well alone and stay safe. Its pretty and ugly all right, things are best left alone, don't you think?

Useful Or Worthless

Useful or worthless, it comes down to that same old question, do we keep the old thing or throw it out. What kind of price do we put on our junk? Do we have a use for everything we own or is there a need to throw things out, update and replace old equipment. Like the girl that went to the rubbish tip and found an old doll, worthless to someone else but this little girl picked it up and treasured it as her most valuable possession, she had never had a doll before, but someone else could afford to throw one away. Often we question the use for things, is this worth hanging onto or should I get something else new. We can even treat people like this as well, someone who has lived a valuable life of old age and ends up in a nursing home, just to be left on the shelf like some old book, uncared for with people just waiting for them to die to get an inheritance. If you knew the pain and suffering that had gone into this life with all the years of lived, life experience, you would think that you would think again and care a whole lot more about that person on their own, waiting for someone to remember them and love them back for al the hard earned work and pain that they put into their life and now is the time that they need you most and you turn your back on them, how wrong is that? We consider things and people as worth something or not, trying to put a price on their head as if they were just something sitting on the shelf in a shop, not a treasured posession of The Allmighty God who sent his son to die for them. Sure things we make are worth something and deserve to be bought and looked after in a nice caring family home. Then there is all the Op Shops with all the preloved goodies that people just love to go hunting for a snatch up a bargain for something that someone else did not want but they can give that item a good home and find a use for it. It is said that someones trash is considered as someone elses treasure. It is just a matter of perspective of how beauty is seen in the eyes of the beholder. The fact is that for everything that someone does not want, someone else is glad to take it or help with a new way or use for this thing that what appears to be no one else will want. Is it useful or worthless, that is a damn good question, that we all need to consider a lot more belfore we throw the next thing we don't want out into the bin or recycle center somewhere. There should be no damn condemation at all, everything deserves a good home and things should be in heaven without swaring and cussing when something brakes or things go wrong. You are better off mending the torn arm of that old teddy bear than seeing him end up on the rubbish tip for some boy to find, I think. Everything has a bright side of course and there is a silver lining to every grey cloud. Look to the beauty of a saviour who offers restoration and forgiveness next time you want to throw things out, saving a soul is like replacing the old sole on your shoes, worth something and not useless. There is far too much waste in the world and we should look to repair rather than replace more often, just because they can make more new things quicker than we can all buy everything new on the shelf, does not mean that we have to be watseful or a spendthrift buying new things we don't really need when we have something that is still capable of doing the job with a little more TLC, (tender, love and care). Useful or worthless, worth something or useless, I will once again leave that up to you to think about, one more time. Spare a thought for the pawnbroker and maybe you you can make and save some money out of something second hand rather than buying new things all the time. Sure it is nice to have something new, but like Jesus said with the wine skins, the old was better all the time. Maybe it was a car instead, maybe you have to recycle your life, give it to Jesus, he will make something new for you out of your old self.