Day 137 – The Impossible made Possible
I saw a ballet performance the other day. The few times I’ve seen this art and watched as a person balances on one toe, I’m reminded of the impossible being made possible. Continue Reading →
Category: Raw Truth Thought Journal
At 35 years old, it was all supposed to be complete.
A loving wife, three or four children, one adopted, a successful writing career, and financial freedom so that money anxiety wasn’t a hindrance.
I even moved countries, just to make sure it would all come together.
There was no way I would be the single guy at the prophesied ‘adult’ social dinner.
How did it go so wrong when I really tried to fulfil this?
I’d had the dream since I was 10 years old!
Why didn’t I succeed?
Was my request too much?
Raw Truth Thought Journal is about life’s challenging moments and the spontaneous perceptions that emerge in my mind.
Now that I’m in no man’s land with an expired life plan, God at the helm, and faith through Jesus as my daily guidance, might as well keep a record to see where this all goes…
Day 135 – Objective Morality
With every single person I’ve ever met, there is some situation, inconvenience, pain, or worse that they will passionately reveal as objectively wrong, YET to this day, there is still a debate over whether objective morality really exists… Continue Reading →
Day 133 – The Power of ‘Turn the Other Cheek’
The other day, a man asked me if I could ‘turn the other cheek’ if I was physically assaulted. I answered truthfully. In history, the “bridging” power of ‘turning the other cheek’ is second to none. Continue Reading →
Day 131 – Glad Surrender
Seems like a contradiction. ‘Glad’ and ‘Surrender.’ When is someone glad to surrender? One core pool of thought produces glad surrender: Admission of being absolutely, unequivocally wrong. No ‘buts…’ or excuses – just ‘sorry’ and ‘the want to change…’ Continue Reading →
Day 129 – 3 Towering Moral Standards…
To give up your only child to rescue the life of an enemy
To sacrifice your own life for the life of an enemy
To forgive, love, empathise, show compassion, and give good things to an enemy Continue Reading →
Day 127 – Something has gone terribly wrong…
…when a person takes pleasure in inflicting unwanted, unexpected pain on others. There is universal agreement on this. The problem is the discrepancy over what is considered painful between one person and another…subjectivity morality: the greatest confusion in existence. Continue Reading →
Day 125 – Prepared for Pain
No matter how much we prepare ourselves for hardship, it’s only in the MIDST of the challenge that we KNOW how we’ll respond. Continue Reading →
Day 123 – Popular Proposals
Be positive. Be happy. Be thankful. Popular sayings, copiously spurted, superficially abundant, internally scarce. Continue Reading →
Day 121 – Lessons no one want
All manner of ‘self-development’ is in the grasp of the individual, but selfless-oriented progression comes from furnace, wilderness, and valley moments. Continue Reading →
Day 119 – The Humiliation Equation
Humiliation = A cherished, subjective perspective of sacred value about the ‘self’ (+) a force of disparagement.—– The escape? Lowliness and therefore, no conflict. Continue Reading →