I Finally Made It!

To any of you that have had an addiction, especially to smoking you will understand how hard it is to quit. Even know what it does to you, coupled with the heart problem that I have had for the past 4 years- I could not quit. When I found out that many men go to the hospital after a Holiday- thus the slang name “holiday heart” for A-Fib I said no more alcohol- and quit- no problem. I tried to quit smoking but those cigars are so darn good. I like to smoke, don’t ask me why but I do. I started taking Chantax a while back- but still smoked. People at work stick their heads in and say “let’s go burn one” so I go. I did get to where the only time I smoked was on the drive to work and home- maybe one while playing golf on Saturday morning or two- and champing on flavored toothpicks in between. All the time thinking how stupid I am for doing it. Also thinking that I was hiding it from my lovely wife- like she don’t have a nose!

It has been over a week now- a very long time. I do not want a cigar, do not have the desire to smoke one would not smoke a Fat Cuban, as good as it would be, if you gave me one.

Two weeks ago if I got a good sniff of a smoker I would probably have run over to the Navy Exchange and gotten me a Swisher Sweet- lit it and sucked in all that tar and nicotine- exhaling in gratitude for the euphoric feeling it gives and wondering where those chest pains were coming from. Then brushing my teeth, washing my hands and face along with smacking gum in a futile attempt to hide it. But not now- no way, nada none- no smokes for me.

Know how I know this to be the truth? It’s a fact! Some dude just came by my office and stepped inside. I could smell him from 10 feet away- this guy must have just left a damn crowded bar where they all were smoking stale ass cigarettes and cigars. He smelled like hell. I wanted to kick his ass out of the office! It was such a relief when he did finally leave…. I can breath, I can breath!

Harry T is smoke free.

I AM LOVE

We seek it here, we seek it there, we look for love everywhere! We expect it to come to us, usually through another person. Every thing we have been taught in life says it is something that happens to us.
All the old Fairy Tales, fables and even movies of today say it is something we 'fall into'.
And yet...and yet real love cannot be acquired, possessed or accumulated.. you cannot own love! It cannot be known when we think it comes from outside ourselves. You know......... I think we are it.

We are love.

Each one of us is a source of love that has forgotten that 'love is what I am'. Say it now "I am love". Don't feel right does it? Why does it not feel right? Because its been so long since we have known and experienced ourselves in a true way. And yet we all know that the deepest trust and the purest love can be known and experienced only when we give it, not take it.
As we give love in own way, we are the ones to feel it first, on the way out.

Falling in love is impossible. It is only infatuation, obsession with an external object that we think fills a void in our lives. As soon as the object or person is remembered when they are not present and when they do not need to be remembered, it is becomes an attachment which, if we keep it we will become addicted to.
Attachment and dependency are not love.

But you already know that...don't you?

This has to be my favorite definition of love and one day.... one darn day I will attain it.

1 Corinthians 13

The Excellence of Love

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails;

WAKE UP AMERICA!

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.."
-- Winston Churchill

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read: Unfortunately, most voters don't know this.
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them; and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."

Thomas Sowell

Just thought I would share that. Wake to hell up America!

Wake up America before it is to late!
They make it so easy for folks to sit on their ass and not work- yet make as much or more than working folk get.
Buying votes.
Hey you intellectuals wake up! What are you going to do with all that education and knowledge when the bum on his front porch drinking Colt 45 is in the same financial shape as you are. But it will never get that far- unless the hard working people of America stand up in this election cycle and kick the socialists out of office the United States of America will cease to exist as a nation.
The middle class will cease to exist- there will be two classes of people. First, the people in Washington, the ruling class. Second- the rest of us.

Sentence 5 above is not far off!

Wake up America!




Harry T.