Thursday, November 18, 2010

Jason Upton - When You Were A Child [Live]

Oh Lord, help us to be more like little children. That little child that we once knew with a pure heart to love everyone and worship you.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

"Please Understand Me"

Here is an excerpt from the very beginning of the book "Please Understand Me" by David Keirsey that I just love…
If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.
Or if my beliefs are different from yours,  at least pause before you set out to correct them.
Or if my  emotion  seems  less  or more  intense  than  yours,  given  the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do.
Or  if I  act,  or fail  to  act,  in  the  manner of your design  for  action, please let me be.
I do not,  for the moment at least,  ask you to understand me.  That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.
If you will allow me any of my own wants,  or emotions,  or beliefs,  or actions,  then you open yourself to the possibility that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong,  and might finally  appear as right-for me.  To put up with me is the first step to understanding me.
Not that you embrace my ways as  right for you,  but that you are no longer  irritated or disappointed  with  me for  my  seeming waywardness.
And one day, perhaps,  in trying to understand me, you might come to prize my differences,  and,  far from  seeking to  change me,  might preserve and even cherish those differences.
I may be your spouse,  your parent,  your offspring,  your friend,  your colleague. But whatever our relation,  this I know: You and I are fundamentally different and both of us have to march to our own drummer.