Encourage rather than weaken;
Fix instead of complain;
Unite, not divide;
Speak truth when necessary, keep quiet when not;
Respond to the brokenness, not the anger;
Bring light to dark;
Allow compassion to reign ;
Embrace the good;
Comfort the suffering;
Put people over process;
Choose joy;
Choose peace;
Choose forgiveness;
Choose Him;
Now tomorrow is a whole different story….;)
Howdy and thanks for stopping by! I'm weirdly obsessed with individual liberty and feel it's not given enough credit as being a necessary factor for living a truly empowered and fulfilled life.
Whether it's self serving politicians who are constantly trying to make victims out of us, or the negative fixed narratives we impose on ourselves that limit what we can do, we are constantly giving up personal power over to some person or thing which ironically only shrinks our world further.
This blog is about sticking up for freedom and hopefully opening up a deeper conversation on what it's meaning is, how it enhances our own empowerment and why it's so important to protect.
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Freedom Through Empowerment 
You are meddling! Stop it LOL.
Actually Tricia, thanks for a wonderful reminder that just happens to be very handy today.
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Yup, just can’t help myself Wally, lol. Glad the post was helpful, I needed the reminder too…
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You had me, all the way to “Choose him.”
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I figured that Arch, how about choose a doughnut then? Everyone likes those….
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Watching my waistline – a waist is a terrible thing to mind. How about if I just delete the last line?
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No. 🙂
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But then what would a little drink of water like you know about minding a waistline?
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I likes.
Now about tomorrow…. 😉
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Hey tricia, just a heads up, I removed a rather vile comment to you by this person at my place. ‘Free speech,’ yea ok, sure, but I got your back……….
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Thx ColorStorm…I saw part of it in my notification tab and noticed right off the bat it was in all caps and she spelled my name wrong so I didn’t bother reading the rest. I can’t imagine it offered much fruit. 😉
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Some dead fruit isn’t all that bad to look at…………it’s the lingering smell that offends the neighbors……..;)
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Lol!
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Oh I guess I was mistaken, it was a comment she left here which I deleted. Strange and disturbed individual….
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VILE COMMENT. LOL.
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“I got your back……….” – Oh my, how reassuring!
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Yes, actually it is.
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You must see something in him that I don’t, or maybe it’s that I see things in him that you fail to discern.
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you phony Christians are a laugh riot!
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Yea, and your avatar exemplifies the grace of God, which is the essence of Christianity, but it appears that memo escaped your notice………….
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SaintPaulieGirrl…it gives me great pleasure to announce that you have won the honor of being the first person ever to become banned from this blog, congratulations! I allow a wide variety of opinions here but yours are disrespectful, filled with hate and show some disturbing personality traits that I hope you one day are healed from.
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Good for you tricia, You may appreciate knowing that certain people have ‘praised’ such commentary from that basement of mold and mildew………..and that word: ‘a man (or woman) is known by the company he keeps’ rings true.
I am really glad you are sensitive as to how some want to play games as the villain. Also, I think I may have beat you when i erased earlier every one of his/her comments at my place. 😉
God bless ya.
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Tkx for this, another example of a comment of yours repeated 50 times. I know what I wrote, and for the 50th time, the scriptures, can withstand EVERY scrutiny.
‘Moses never lived?’ Hardly worth your alleged ‘scrutiny,’ as you have no interest in the truth of scripture. It is obvious.
Your schoolyard and immature games of taking a conversation to your ‘friends’ house, is proof of your feigning.
You have wore out every hammer, and God’s anvil remains unflawed with not a scratch. I thank God for discernment to the plots and devices of men.
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Tired, tired rhetoric, CS —
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Well CS, I must say that I sometimes still get surprised by vapid comments but have caught on that not all are here to play well with others. Nice to have that delete button so handy. Still waiting on my 5 sighs one though….;)
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Ha, good one 😉
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Lovely thoughts, wonderfully written…
Indeed very profound.
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Thank you Nihar. 🙂
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My pleasure…
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I liked it. Who knew something so positive could elicit negativity? Each school of thought and religion can learn something from the other, even if it’s to see the other side in order to strengthen one’s own opinions. That being said . . . if thou shalt troll, then thou shall be blocked.
On a side note, if it gets to be too much, you can always switch your WordPress so that you have to approve each comment.
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Yeah, you should have seen the comments she made that I deleted, just pure vitriol. To each his own I guess but not here. I like your “thall shalt” summation, very true!
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I accidentally pasted a link to one of my other posts to you in the response, sorry didn’t mean too…;)
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That’s okay. 🙂
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