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Respeto
Todo el mundo lo necesita.
La mayoría de la gente lo recibe
porque se lo han ganado.
Comics quejarse de ellos.
Las unidades militares que formas.
La gente tiene que tenerlo
antes de que puedan conseguirlo.
Es respeto.
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Everyone needs it.
Most people get it
because they earn it.
Comics complain about it.
Military units forms it.
People have to have it
before they can get it.
It is respect.
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Listen to your children, and
to what they are trying to say.
We could learn from them.
After all we were children once,
but something happened along the way.
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Ecoute
Écoutez vos enfants, et
à ce qu’ils essaient de dire.
Nous pourrions apprendre d’eux.
Après tout, nous étions les enfants une fois,
mais quelque chose s’est passé le long du chemin.
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Highway billboards have become hi-tech, changing digitally every 30 seconds or have revolving slats that created a 3-in-one feature. Drivers have all sorts of distractions and these kinds of billboards contribute to a culture of distraction. Newspapers carry more and bigger ads to remain profitable. Text-savvy phone users, call it TMI, (Too Much Information) especially when a person goes too far for an unnecessary explanation.
The electronic barrage continues. Listen to the radio- more commercials …TV, (machines can cut out the commercials), and even video on the Internet have their own ads. Then there are those pesky pop-ups (but there is technology for that too). Once a person gets past the ads, and to the information itself, the choices are everywhere. ..magazines, newspapers, e-mail, blogs, and millions of articles about everything on the Internet. Information is good, but sometimes TMI.
An article(May I have my Attention , Please? July & August 2010) in AARP quoted Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming of the Dark Age, as saying, “We’re really facing the limit of human ability to cope with stimuli in our environment. “ The article continued with researchers at the University of California-San Diego that on average, American s daily see, hear or read 35 gigabytes worth of information- or about 100,000 words from TV, the Internet, books, radio newspapers and other sources. That figure has grown more than 5 percent annually since 1980.
Processing the information into what matters the most can be frustrating and lead to creating more stress. There can be much to remember and much to forget either on purpose or by accident. Scientists say our brains, in some ways, can’t cope with multi-tasking and half-listening. My wife accuses me of not listening to her at times. We can control some of the problem ourselves by limiting out “inputs,” makes notes (and I make lots of lists), and realize we can’t remember all the names of people where you used to work. There is one more source. Our Lord.
He is the one who gave us the ability to create the world in which we live. We can talk with Him in prayer to help know what is important and what is not important in our lives, including all the information we encounter on a daily basis. There are opportunities for us to see and hear His messages through the words and actions of other people that matter.
The Bible urges us to listen to the Lord, and live by the words in The Book. This will simplify this “Culture of Distraction.”
Peace be you with always,
Rev. Paul Abernathy
“Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.” -2 Peter 1:2
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Brother Brian Kohut shares a part of his difficult life with this poem.
Confidence
Before you can get help from other people,
you first must help yourself.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Someone has to pick up the tab.
With confidence inside, you will survive.
Without it, lose and get left behind.
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Don’t give in to the cowboy who doesn’t
carry a Bowie or a six-gun,
especially if he seems to be the lonely one.
There probably has a past that is deadly,
and is one son who, if he wanted to, could
easily get things done.
Don’t get in his way, even though he might
not have that much to say.
He is, in his mind, at peace today,
but there may be a violent past in his yesterday.
Still water in the river runs deep,
and there may be nights he doesn’t really sleep.
There may be secret he vowed to himself
to keep, and a reflex action will bring him to his feet.
If you see him walk around the town,
don’t be concerned much about his frown,
for there may be problems keeping him down
and the lines etched in his face are thorns in his crown.
So be just aware by the weight of your stare
when you look at this man with his back to
the corner of the room.
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I looked for a place I
could always call home.
I was tired of running
my life on the road.
I was blind for a time
because I didn’t see
the place I wanted to
go was right in front of me.
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Regreso a casa
Busqué un lugar en el que
siempre podía llamar a casa.
Estaba cansado de correr
mi vida en la carretera.
Yo estaba ciego por un tiempo
porque yo no vi
el lugar que quería
vaya estaba justo en frente de mí.
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