{"id":429,"date":"2020-05-24T21:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T01:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/?p=429"},"modified":"2020-06-12T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T23:16:09","slug":"decisions-world-wide-mission-im-just-sayin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/2020\/05\/24\/decisions-world-wide-mission-im-just-sayin\/","title":{"rendered":"Decisions World Wide Mission &#8211; I&#8217;m Just Sayin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-variant: small-caps;\">&#8220;Decisions&#8221;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-variant: small-caps;\">World Wide Mission <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-variant: small-caps;\">+ <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-variant: small-caps;\">I&#8217;m Just Sayin&#8217; &#8230; .<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">Some of us,<i> sometimes,<\/i> make<b> a &#8216;Decision<\/b>&#8216; in our lives &#8211; and sort of conclude to ourselves that:<b><i> Its &#8216;done&#8217; ..<\/i><\/b>. .<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">We take that decision, put it in a box, put the box in a drawer &#8230; and that&#8217;s it&#8230; we move on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">However, <b>decisions are often not so simple &#8211; not so cut and dried<\/b> &#8211; [at least, for me].<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">After all, <i>how can we [<\/i>anyone<i>] know in the important and practical senses, <\/i>what ramifications follow or will follow from a decision<i> &#8211; until we live with a decision in real life for a while?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">We can&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">Personally, I believe it important for thinking men and women to adapt and readjust their path based on the daily wisdom from life we are blessed to accumulate. I say such ability is not &#8216;wishy-washy&#8217; &#8230; I say it demonstrates [in the characters&#8217; of people] Wisdom; Wisdom they are blessed with along the way in their journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">Often, decisions are small, <b><i>reversible<\/i><\/b>, milestones in a lifelong journey. Sometimes we need to travel a ways after a junction in the road before knowing if we took the correct path.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">Early this year, I &#8216;decided&#8217; to close down my running postings at <span class=\"ImJustSayinChar\">&#8220;I&#8217;m Just Sayin&#8217; &#8230; .&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">I&#8217;d come to a &#8216;Y&#8217; in the road, and I made a decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">I traveled a ways and recognized it was not the best path*.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif';\">*<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif';\">Note me, and I will send a link to an interesting piece from a general conference talk about how\/why the Holy Spirit can, and doe at times, seem to tell us to take the &#8216;wrong&#8217; path &#8211; and yet, for right and good reasons it was the correct path &#8211; for a time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">Allow me to add this:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">In this life, I have concluded that people do, can, and will judge. It matters not if <i>they say they do<\/i> or they don&#8217;t &#8230; and it matters not if they change the words [&#8216;discern&#8217;&#8230; &#8216;judgment&#8217;s, &#8216;evaluate&#8217;, etc, etc. &#8230;] &#8230; People Judge [me\/you] Every Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">A long time ago, I was blessed to understand a piece of wisdom; since then, I have evolved my life, more and more each year &#8211; to reflect outwardly my understanding and acceptance of the truth in that wisdom:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">People are going to judge me &#8211; <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">and people are going to judge me no matter what &#8211; and,<b> <u>more importantly, <\/u><\/b><u>our Father in heaven will judge me<\/u><b> &#8230; so, <\/b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">why not be myself and be judged rightly for who I really am<\/span><b>?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">I weaved that <b>into my thoughts here in &#8220;I&#8217;m Just Sayin&#8217; &#8230; .&#8221;<\/b> <span style=\"color: #c00000;\">One shortcoming by that fact, and of this site,<\/span> (and my archives) is that <b><span style=\"color: #c00000;\">most often &#8211; most days &#8211; looking for something to say &#8211; I was moved daily [as many of us are] by what was presented to me in my daily life-and yours: The Political Fodder of Agendas&#8217; and Hyperboles.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; color: #c00000;\">YUK! YUK!<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">Worse yet,<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\"> &#8211; and, sadly, &#8211; (forgive as I digress) <u>a major percentage of what is &#8216;presented to us in<b> our daily lives&#8217;<\/b><\/u> &#8211; <i>most of us<\/i> &#8211; is [or <b><u>ought to be wholly discounted as]<\/u> <span style=\"color: red;\">politically proffered fodder. Good old American [and Russian, and Chinese, and Korean, and etc] Fodder &#8211; straight from the fodder farms.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">This nonsense drives a major portion of our society &#8230; [how sad for all of us]&#8230; and one result is that shows up here on this site &#8211; AND THAT<b><span style=\"color: blue;\"> skews what is genuinely important to me on fundamental levels and in foundational ways<\/span><\/b> &#8211; because, like you, I am served up this fodder every day in daily life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">I will still work to call stuff &#8211; stuff &#8211; as I see it; and too, I will try not to regurgitate the puke of FNN, CNN, etc. I will warn you though &#8211; I will do it &#8211; because <b>sometimes it needs be said anyway! I need stand and be counted &#8211; even in the fields of fodder.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">I do regret that t<span style=\"color: #c00000;\">hese irrational agendas, the daily hyperbole headlines &#8211; are what millions &#8211; billions &#8211; of good people around the world &#8211; are [having their attentions] focused on each and every day! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">This daily non-sense &#8211; HAS THE ATTENTION OF the PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; color: #c00000;\">&#8220;Sigh<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">&#8220;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">So, I will speak on it from time to time.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; color: blue;\">Please do not allow it to take your precious attention from what is important in this mortal life<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; color: blue;\">[<b>Faith in God, Strong Family, Endowed Freedoms, even Eternal Life<\/b>].<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; color: blue;\">Don&#8217;t be fooled by the noise and flash &#8211; it has no substance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">I invite you to come back often.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-variant: small-caps;\">World Wide Mission<\/span><\/b><sub><span style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">\u2122<\/span><\/sub><b> <\/b><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">+ <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">I&#8217;m Just Sayin&#8217; &#8230; .<\/span><\/span><\/b><sub><span style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">\u2122<\/span><\/sub><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-variant: small-caps;\">a way forward<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">Thanks for stopping by &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">Jerry Lombardo <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Decisions&#8221; World Wide Mission + I&#8217;m Just Sayin&#8217; &#8230; . Some of us, sometimes, make a &#8216;Decision&#8216; in our lives &#8211; and sort of conclude to ourselves that: Its &#8216;done&#8217; &#8230; . We take that decision, put it in a box, put the box in a drawer &#8230; and that&#8217;s it&#8230; we move on. 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