Tweets - May 6th - Forgiveness, Trust, Funny Night

Do you think forgiveness and forgetting are mutually exclusive or not mutually exclusive? ~ Henry's tweet (someone I follow)

I can forgive someone and not trust them (if this is what you mean). For me, forgiveness is an action: you know that I've forgiven you without having to hear me say, "I forgive you" or "I accept your apology". Doesn't mean I openly and blindly trust them.

The only thing I require from anyone is kindness and decency; if I am denied, then I can't trust them. No need to be a doormat for the sake of making others feel better about their poor choices.

If they value your relationship (friendship, family-ship), then what they did wrong needs to be made plain and clear, so they'll think twice - no, 10 times - before letting it happen again.

For instance, I have a friend who if he asked me to help him move furniture into a new place, I'd be right over. He is a friend who is not welcome in my home. A few years ago, on 2 occasions, he became physically violent with other friends - once, neighbors called the police.

The last time was he was over was maybe 5 or 6 years ago. He knows he isn't welcome here, and hasn't been in all these years. If I do decide to invite him over my place again (which won't be anytime soon), then he understands the severity of the matter (if he truly cares).

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God wants to help you. He wants to heal you, to free you, to increase you, to take you places that you’ve never dreamed. He’s longing to be good to you. Look to Him as your Source. ~ Joel Osteen's tweet

Then if God doesn't do these things, then it's all your fault? Why all the victimization? Just going by what we see and experience as humans walking this Earth, we have absolutely no control over what God does. NONE.

If God wants to heal me, then God will heal me, whether I "look to him as a source" or not. Faith, which is trust, is not established on someone promising you mercy after a sacrifice is made ("look to me as a source and I'll heal you"). Is this why you trust your mother?

Faith (Trust) is established by God FIRST AND FOREMOST through acts of merciful kindness, and not hope. This is why Faith belongs to God, and not you or me. You can only be faithful if God wants you to be faithful. No need to blame victims who have no control over what God does.

I was out earlier talking to God about how things have always been laid out for me. I can go and learn as often as I desire, but whenever God wants me to know and understand things, they are presented to me, laid out bare, like a table of open books, all turned to the right page.

Faith without God's work is dead.

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Funny night. I was out tonight having dialogue. The last spacecraft I saw slowly flew across the sky; it faded in and out of sight - 8 seconds on, 12 seconds off, or so I determined based on my own version of "seconds". (Like a child counting to 10.)

Trying to be precise, I counted over and over until it began to fly overhead and out of view behind my home. As it was about to fly out of view, while I was counting the "on" seconds, it quickly flashed, then flew out of view. It made me smile.

It reminds me of when someone you love dips the tips of their fingers in water and flicks it in your face. It made my smile. They are like children playing, and it made me smile. We can get back to business tomorrow.