Envy

 When I see the success of decent honest people, I salute them.  I pray for their health and all good things.

There are always those who have a negative opposite attitude.  They are lazy.

Instead of working and earning whatever the goal, they would rather steal.  It's an abysmal substitute.  

Obviously the fallen and their ilk are rife with this.  Delusional.

Success is very subjective.  Individual, local, national, world are just the surface.  

Whatever the goals of success, it is the proliferation of the Light that counts.

Decent?  Honest?  Yes.  Truth above all.

Be grateful.  Strive for success and Freedom.

Our destiny awaits.

24....

 Another fave series.  Spoken of before.

Hard justice and very grey areas.  Watch it yourself and see.

There is truth in the fiction.  I'll let you find it.

When it was running, 24 seemed to appeal to both libs and conservatives.

Is there a tendency to fight?  Yes but that's where the comparison ends.

Are you fighting to preserve Freedom or tyranny?  Justice or injustice?

You see what you want to perhaps.  Or you have a clear grasp of what you fight for.

War is hell.  It's messy.  Yet, we try not to be like the enemy.

That is both simple and rough.  

We fight an enemy who wants to control.  We seek Liberty.  We value people to be themselves and we get together to affirm this.

We can be brutal but we help heal.

Vigilance never goes away.

So it's beyond 24.

Right There

 Thriller is one of my favorite paranormal/horror shows.

I watched one the other day called Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper.  Very imaginative re Jack, who he was and why he did what he did.

It's a modern day story.  A scholar has researched and made a diagram of Jack and similar crimes for a century.  He claims Jack is still alive and does the crimes as blood sacrifice to live.

The cops are reluctantly convinced and try to trap Jack.  He eludes them.

This continues til Jack murders the scholar to cover his tracks.

Turns out, he was right there all the time as the police therapist!

It's a twisted version of friends close and enemies closer.

If they hadn't been blinded by Jack's role, there were clues as to who he was; certain predilections/behaviors.

That got me to thinking how our enemies do indeed hide amongst us.  It's not that there are 'commies under every bed'.  It's the mere tactic to be moles, which btw is a common intel tactic.

Don't be paranoid.  Simply be guarded re info.  That includes personal and plans.  Don't feed the bad guys.  

It's not a matter of loyalty oaths.  It is concern that friends are friends

What we can do is resolve to be right there ie, to work to restore the Republic.

Truth will out!

7

 Not the Magnificent Seven, though the original is great.

It's about greed and injustice.  

Over the years, imagine being cheated out of several inheritances.

Naivety and youth had something to do with it at first.  Then reticence and helplessness set in.  

He kidded himself that he had taken the high road, that his morals were better than the thieves.  That's all well and good, but it does nothing inre justice.  They don't care, like our enemies scorn us because they think they can get away with their theft.

The thieves/grifters are cowardly and weak.  They prey only when others don't fight back.

All 7 should have been contested.  Gone now.

However the diamonds can be returned still.  Not literally perhaps, but by a different avenue.

Prayer, planning and standing up for oneself can overcome.

Perseverance and determination without revealing plans can work.  

There is some Sun Tzu involved.

That's the limit of revelation.

Spirit and truth as long as they are action and not just words, will whittle/whack the perps down to size.

Guard well and watch 6 for 7.

Success on one's own terms is the best revenge.

Justice.

Groups

 All groups have Bertha Better'n'yous.  They share a delusion that they are exclusive.

Truth simply speaks for itself.  There is no forcing an issue.

What we must remember is we are all in this together.

Like the story says about all are equal but some are more equal than others.

No.  We are free and we choose.  

A group is made of individuals who aim in a common direction.

Lockstep is poison.  Common belief is health.

Insecurity hides behind something which becomes vague.

Belief and knowledge coalesce.

E Pluribus Unum.  

Characters...

 Father's Day looms.  

We are sorry/mourn that there are bad dads.

But here, we celebrate Fathers.  Great ones.  Positive role models.  I know 2.

My Dad and my Brother From Another Mother have great content of character.

They worked hard, raised responsible kids, helped others and inspired those who carry on.  

They could be earthy and eloquent.  They had the ability to communicate with practically anyone.

One was well off and the other working class.  

Leaders in the best sense who learned from others and cared for them.  They gathered advice and experience, then made decisive decisions.  

In all times including down, I remember them and I will not let them down.

I will carry on.

The People...

 There are levels in life.

People manage, supervise, have duties that demand attention.  

Yet, it still boils down to content of character.

My GreatGrandma always said 'it's who you are, not what you are'.  It's a truism shared by many.  But it's profound for each.

People respond in many ways to others.

In certain groups, I was a supervisor, pastor, therapist etal.  

I was not above them.  I was with them.

One of the best pastors I knew was like that.  He related and though he led them, he was one of them.

The worst kind is the authoritarian.  Above and not below.

It might be a desire to be a leader with answers or at least ability to counsel.

Or it's preening superiorism.  Up there not down here.

Among the people, I had great positive response.  People trusted me and wanted me to help.

They sought to lift me up.

I sought to be on their sides.

I helped by inspiring people to help themselves, to inspire potential.

No wonder the neopharissees wanted me gone.

The org should serve the people, not the people the org.