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    Notes of Caring: Life’S Lessons Learned
    Notes of Caring: Life’S Lessons Learned
    Notes of Caring: Life’S Lessons Learned
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    Notes of Caring: Life’S Lessons Learned

    By Jim Williams

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    Notes of Caring offers a collection of thoughts, warnings, encouragements, and reactions to life itself.

    Augustines writings were his reactions to the belief system he came to know and embrace. He did not create it, but simply explained his understanding of it and how it worked itself out in his life. This collection of articles is much the same in being an explanation of ideas as I understand them. It is one persons perspective, and that is all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJul 24, 2013
    ISBN9781490801667
    Notes of Caring: Life’S Lessons Learned
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    Jim Williams

    Jim Williams was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the youngest of six children. The cultural revolution that birthed rock ‘n’ roll was just starting, and he saw it take shape. Older siblings and their friends playing and dancing to these sounds have informed his work. He doesn’t back down from his knowledge of the times, events, and culture he has lived in. In developing a range of creative skills, Jim plays keyboard. A photographer and videographer, his musical and visual expressions have developed alongside his writing skills. Writing, he claims, was in his genes. His mother’s father, journalist John Arthur Arnold, worked at various newspapers in the US and later wrote for Albert Einstein. Jim’s education was primarily in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from East High School and then attended and graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Currently, Jim lives in Memphis with his orange tabby cat, Lucy Ricardo. While not all, but most of his cats have been named after celebrities, Lucy stands as the world’s most well-named orange tabby girl. “She acts just like her namesake,” he says. In his articles and his animals, the prevailing culture and its voice and music make their presence known. Several of his secular articles, written under the penname Lightwriter, appear at Yahoo Voices.com.

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      Notes of Caring - Jim Williams

      Notes of Caring

      Life’s Lessons Learned

      Jim Williams

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      Copyright © 2013 Jim Williams.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4908-0165-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-0166-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013912429

      WestBow Press rev. date: 7/23/2013

      Contents

      ...Walking On…

      Hang In There!

      Steppin out, and just out steppin

      Blessings, Train Stations, and Tea Bags

      Play Reveille!!

      Define Yourself

      Another Fine Mess?

      Do You Love Yourself?

      Who are You?

      The One and Only Original

      A TIME OF REMEMBRANCE

      It’s good for what’s bugging you!

      The Carrot

      Right There Where You Are

      God’s Golden Warriors

      Smart Stuff!

      Life’s Best Tribute

      An Occasional Reminder

      Getting Better All the Time

      Don’t Ski Into a Tree!

      Don’t Miss It!

      It’s not a buffet!

      We’ve been to the moon and back! Now where are we?

      The Forgotten Element

      Patterns, Examples and Legacies

      What’s your Life?

      Gotcha Time!

      Just when you need it most!

      A seed of faith, a shred of hope

      It’s not about elbows!

      It’s all in a night’s work!

      It’s the Working!

      I Stand Amazed!

      Don’t shoo em’, shoot em!

      Who’s your god?

      Good ole Peter Pistol Mouth!

      Its not gonna work!

      It’s the Old Faithful!

      One Empty Trip!

      Are You Two?

      Not Our Way

      There’s Always a Cloud

      Peter’s Knee Jerk Gospel

      The Unmistakable Argument

      Sometimes you feel like Israel

      Insider out, Outsider in!

      The Great American Myth

      Its Not Our Thing

      Between a Rock and a harder place

      Out of Control!

      Always In Control

      It doesn’t hurt to have heroes

      You can do this, but you can’t do that!

      It’s a Standing Arrangement

      Wanna be an airplane?

      How would you handle it?

      Be a Sputnik!

      Can’t Stop the Itch!

      Ya don’t need to go there!

      The best laid plans

      Don’t miss a chance

      The Whole World’s Watching!

      Don’t go too far!

      Watch em fall!

      A Pictorial Penalty

      Yeah, but there’s four of em’

      In Search of Irrational Peace

      Take no prisoners!

      The constant present tense

      Things we need-but don’t know it!

      The Grenade Jumper

      Who are the heroes?

      Places you have to go

      Who’s got who?

      Break down those Walls!

      Isn’t that enough?

      The Impossible Infinite

      A Workable Solution

      Consider the Alternatives

      The Appetite for the Infinite

      It’s easy if you try

      Just leave it alone!

      Walkin on the water

      The trouble with 99.9%

      Everybody needs a Sam!

      The Ultimate Mousetrap

      Three Voracious Drives

      Living in the Eye

      That Little Somethin Extra!

      Changing Directions

      Its Nothin New

      Let’s go to the other side

      He walks through the walls!

      The Only Way to do it!

      Don’t push it Away!

      Everybody watch what’s goin down!

      Why do you say that?

      The Union of Spirits

      Meet Dave in the Cave

      Don’t look at the odds, look at your God!

      Someone to take out the tangles

      Do it Anyway

      Keep a Good Eye!

      Growing through the Good Hurts

      Getting to Jericho

      The 4:6 Fix

      Let Him out!

      Shifting Gears in Midstream

      A Sovereignty of Purpose

      Mustangs and belly buttons

      Between glancing and looking

      Like bumps on the ground

      The Mechanics of Ministry

      ...Walking On…

      As I go through life, I notice the incredible work of grace that it has become. I am acutely aware that a great deal of my actions and reactions in human relations have everything to do with self image. How I think about myself determines:

      1) What I dare to do in facing challenges,

      2) Who I talk to and what I say,

      3) How I think of other people. Thought life, in general

      If someone really takes a liking to me, a poor self-image will limit the esteem I hold him or her in. If I already know them to be esteemed highly publicly, then their high estimation of me lifts my self-esteem. The Bible is talking practical common sense when it says that we ought not to think of ourselves too highly, but so as to have a sound mind. It’s a very core issue, rippling into the rest of our being significantly.

      Tell me what you think, I’m just thinkin out loud.

      Hang In There!

      A little learning is a dangerous thing, it is said. A jury in California was presented with more information than was the general public, and out came a very unpopular verdict. We think we have more information than the public does, because we believe the bad things about ourselves that we may have heard for years. In the face of a bad self-image, our popularity among others is an unpopular thought. God has to work long and hard to turn this around. I am sixty one years old, and have never been able to take teasing well, because I always perceived it negatively. Some fellow missionaries of mine on a trip to Guatemala did not know it, but they were the first ever to make me feel loved by merciless teasing. Ask them what it was all about, but God showed me on that trip, and I finally believed it: Being teased was being loved. It took so many years for me to see myself as lovable.

      It’s still a struggle, but an awesome God has done it. He can do it for you, too. Just hang in there. He who began a good work will complete it!

      Tell me what you think; I’m just thinkin’ out loud.

      Steppin out, and just out steppin

      My mother, a pilot in past years, has a flying buddy in her women’s pilots group who was scared to fly over water, so she just did it. She got out there and flew. My family would be out on the Mississippi River skiing and tanning, and along came Chris in the air flying a few hundred feet over the water. She just addressed her fear and conquered it.

      I remember the mother of the character Velvet Brown in the movie National Velvet. As a younger woman, she swam across the English Channel. She recalled to Velvet that she nearly drowned one time, but she later ended up swimming the sixteen miles to France.

      Sometimes fear is a mirage, stretch of something we think we see, but sometimes a negative self-image, or other fear, tries to make it real for us. Once we dare to go forward, to step out, we keep stepping and find it’s not there. What kind of mirage is keeping you from going after what you really want? Be careful, go slowly, but go! Pretty soon you’ll see that steppin’ out becomes just out steppin’. Try it!

      Tell me what you think; I’m just thinkin’ out loud.

      Blessings, Train Stations, and Tea Bags

      Once upon a time, in Memphis Tennessee, there were two kinds of train stations. One, the Union Station, was a station where the trains approached and departed from and to one direction. Down the street, at the other station, the Grand Central was another arrangement. Some of the tracks came and went from one direction, but others came and went from other directions. One famous train, the City of New Orleans, could approach and depart Memphis just like it did at the depots in small towns, from either direction.

      Blessings are a bit like the two stations. Some just come to you and stop. Other blessings come to you, and, if you let them, go right through. As they pass, though, they take a bit of you with them. They take your smile, tone of voice, etc.

      While I like both kinds of train stations and have no strong preference in that regard, I favor the kind of blessings that go through me.

      Blessings have a resemblance to tea bags, too. Water never goes through a bag with being colored and flavored by the contents of the bag. What comes out of the bag depends on the contents of the bag, and it has reacted to the processes applied to it. It’s sort of like the flavoring and coloring people have in their souls. As a result of the mixture of their attitude, their experiences, and their reactions to those experiences, they act and react in certain ways to opportunities. So does a tea bag when it steeps in hot water. The flavor you taste when you drink the tea is similar in nature to the flavor someone else experiences when you are a blessing to them.

      So, tell me. What kind of tea bag are you? What is going to come out when you let a blessing flow through you?

      Tell me what you think, I’m just thinking out loud!

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      Play Reveille!!

      It is on the occasion of the passing of former U.S. President Richard Nixon that I write. He was more than a person; he was an era, larger than life. I suppose this summation comes from his having had such a major role in national and world history in the latter half of this century. I tend to take some comfort from the presence of such powerful people whose judgment I trust. This applies to leaders on local levels as well as national ones. When a pastor I like leaves town, I am sad and a little fearful that I won’t be as comfy with the next guy in that place. It jars my world to experience such a change.

      Richard Nixon was as large-scale a player as any president could ever be. He showed tremendous insight and fortitude in his dealings with other world leaders. He went to Russia, he went to China. He dared go to those places to try to reason with their leaders. How often I forget that every world leader is just a person. He or she is a very powerful person, but Romans 13:1 says that there is not a ruler on the earth that God did not put there and give power to. Nixon was

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