Common-Sense Thoughts

Mere Expressions … or Common – Sense Thoughts?

God gives us only what is best for us. In prayers, let us be patient. He surely knows what is best for us. Enjoy God’s peace in His waiting room. The breakthrough in our petitions may just be around the corner, with a big ribbon emblazoned with the sign, “The Best.” 1013

Unless we solve the real estate plunge, credit crunch, and the consumer apathy, the stocks will dive and investments dry up. A vicious cycle! 1014

Hope is what makes us alive - in sickness, under pressure, amidst challenges. Hope goes well with faith. Together, they bring about our miracles. 1008

The world is watching incessantly, whether we like it or not. And the sentiments from its denizens – from the simplest to the most recondite – take many forms. We cannot avoid the pangs of their criticisms, even if we did our best. Still, our best protection lies in doing what is right alone. Hopefully, then, the whispers will have ebbed out. 1023

Budget woes .. budget woes. From the Feds, to Sacramento, to the local levels. We probably need a new paradigm of governance and effective and wise leadership. 1006

We are just passing by. Let us not get attached to that big bank account, the mansions, the expensive cars ...or jewelry. We can't bring them along. We shall not travel light. We shall travel bag-less .. and naked! 1007

We are all here for a purpose. We do not just fill a space. Let us grow in our own niche, stay alive, give life to others, and be a blessing. 1009

Wisdom is knowing and doing God's will. It is not merely a passive understanding, but an active, working knowledge. Otherwise, it is but empty, or at best, an accumulation of facts destined only for oblivion. 1010

Jack Welch, let us here more from you about how this economic woes in the U.S. can be overcome. Also, all you twittering economists out there. 1001

God blesses us so we may bless others. Our lesson – a river that receives waters from others but does not feed other tributaries turn to a muddy cesspool. And we know it stinketh. 1011

We are human, and we all make mistakes. That is an observation, and not an encouragement for us to be experts at erring. 1012

Twit, twit, and most everybody else is peddling something on Twitter.com. What happened to free and uplifting thoughts and ideas or inspirational messages? 1004

Letting banks hold on to stimulus funds for loan modifs and refis is not a solution to the real estate meltdown. It is a catalyst to worsen it. Why don't we create an agency to administer funds for loan modifs. Pay the banks fees to process them, thus preventing funds from being frozen by banks out of their own avarice. 1015

Without vision, people perish the bible says. Vision is putting an image in the mind what we do not see in our eyes. Therefore dream big. Reality is near. 1018

God’s voice is sweet and gentle and soft. His voice beckons and shouts not. Let us be in tune to it, lest the din of those deafening noises of things and toys and treasures around us will drown it out. 1024

We keep exporting jobs and technology know-how for lower wages. Let's create special zones allowing lower, competitive wages inside the U.S. Take out the minimum wage caps for these zones, in cyclical time frames, not permanently. 1016

What is the probability of a monkey randomly typing on a keyboard for a million years ending up with a verbatim transcript of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet? Zilch, for sure, much like a de nada chance for the Big Bang occurring ab nihilo and producing the more infinitely complex yet orderly coordinated universe and life on earth as we know it now. 1003

Okay .... we are not that camera shy. See all our pics on Twitpic.com. That site is great indeed. spread the word .... or laughter ha, ha, ha! 1002

We need not say what or who we are. The world is watching. How we behave in solitude - or in the dark where nobody sees - says what or who we really are. Period. 1020

The Big Bang! Where did the materials that it supposedly exploded come from, and who started the Bang? Ab nihilo, and with no agent to do the work? What happened to the law of cause and effect? Creation surely makes more sense. 1019

Words and expressions. They capture our thoughts vividly and showcase our sentiments. Beware how we let them out, lest we be misunderstood. 1021

Three hundred sixty five days later and it seemed like only yesterday when our daughter Christie delivered Anna Elise on May 21, 2008. She turned ONE this week and we thank You Lord. 1005

I am no Michael Jordan. But life is like a ball. Deflate it, sit on it, dribble it the way you want it to go, throw it with an ineffectual lob, or soar with it in a big dunk! Call it soar with a roar. 1022

Worried about the three U.S. automakers? Wait till China and India produce cars for exports. That will be a tsunami they should have prepared for long ago. 1017