Friday, December 28, 2018

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 137

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It’s not because I’m into nature but I find it extremely funny to watch humans do all they can to race from gray rainy days.  I’m no different!  Those types of days mixed in with the winter months of Carolina have a way of reaching the bones.  The term cold to the bone is very real.  The reason why I find enjoyment from the passing storms is because everything around us will utilize the waters falling from the sky.  The soil accepts the changes while feeding the limbs of a tree.  I take note of the birds taking baths and even my adopted dog Jazzie takes advantage of whatever is out there.  She loves running through the rain, as if to be catching the drops one at a time like professional baseball players.  On this podcast I put a lot of focus on personal storms.  The type we battle in our heads and hearts.  What are we supposed to do when no path leads to a place of warmth and or protection?  Through daily writing I’ve learned to stop trying to battle changes and challenges and learn from them.  The moment you get comfortable with your decisions and choices faith and trust tend to fall off the wagon.  It’s a long way to that horizon we’re chasing.  It gets kind of lonely without trust and faith.  Learning to listen to the waves of negative teaches your footprints to stand sturdier while your arms are forced to help locate balance.  Stop running from the rains of change.  Embrace the exchange. 

Thursday, December 27, 2018

Identifying Your Super Power

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Marvel and DC aren't the only makers of super heroes.  Each of us carry our own super source of energy that reaches beyond the tight circles we keep.  Yep I said it.  We're all super heroes.  Some recognize as well as utilize their inner strength long before others.  When the moment begins to take shape there's no greater adventure.  On this podcast I dive into the subject of how to recognize what your super power is.  It's not going to be huge muscles and flying skills for all.  Nor will you zoom away tucked inside an invisible jet or live inside some really far out cities from the future.  Your super power might be as simple as teaching students how to read.  Locating your super power requires awareness followed by the required discipline to keep yourself strong.  Super powers need attention and too often we try to exchange the ability with other accesses to the heart and soul.  That's when we nose dive in the desert.  We want too much too fast.  Super heroes aren't always the good guys.  Look at how popular The Joker is.  Hate him or not he still has super powers.  That's a choice you get to make.  How do you use what's been available to you since birth? 

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Grow With The Energy You Know

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Here we are again.  Inches from entering a new year.  For many it's always that line in the sand.  This year you're going to be different and proud of the adventure.  Each of us know ten or more people that have jumped on the long and winding road of change only to see how flat the world truly is.  Why not grow with the energy you know?  I've been very public with my artist label.  That means somewhere on that dusty deserted desert floor I had to come face to face with accepting myself for being just plain ole boring me.  On this podcast it gets a little preachy but be open to your own energy and call your source of light whatever you need.  Grasping onto the core of your space already taken doesn't mean you've wasted life.  Maybe you walked away from things before its proper baking time.  Society claims we're supposed to look like, act like and resemble what it paints perfect and in the long run that's where we've wasted a lot of time.  That dreamer in you has emptied its goop into so many other people's visions and getting back to you can't be purchased to Amazon.  Grow with the energy you know.  Stop trying to figure yourself out.  You'll be surprised at how much you know and how to protect that huge field with seeds that have been waiting for the farmer to return.     

Friday, December 21, 2018

Life With All Its Reasons

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Because I'm blessed with opportunity to daily write I get to witness more than a fist full of memories.  I chose in July of 1994 not to pen out the way of other writers by way of keeping a journal or diary.  It was a calling to listen to challenge and change.  To learn from the experience then teach continuation.  On this podcast I go back to 2016 and read from a moment that comes across as being a bread crumb for a future self headed into a new tomorrow not yet unveiled.  While studying the words put on paper something strong hit me.  If what we write, think and bring outward in this moment of now is indeed a tool required for a future self, what happens in the messages and notes we keep when there's silence?  We can't back to talk to those people and shapes we were during those chapters past.  Creative minds know how to reach next week while living on the roots of today.  How does it work?  Openly during this conversation I talk about how the Dalai Lama trusts the journey of continuation and how each moment we are allowed to grow physically teaches our tomorrow.  Mindfully being present in the "Now" invites peace into what's being held by or held down by each of our decisions.  I invite you to dig into your boxes filled with notes, poetry and attempts to write music.  There are messages there for the future self you became.  The questions you keep asking might actually find structure in your today. 

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Life After Euphoria


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A fellow Broadcaster said to me, "The average person is given only three chances in their lifetime to experience euphoria."  He had just accepted a new job on the West coast and didn't want to be sitting around in the South wondering if turning down the position would've kept him from one of the three mind blowing moments.  I remembering thinking about the number of creative and talented people who stop challenging themselves to gain access into their higher level of delivery.  We've accepted the path to reach only so far, shrug our shoulders then take on a new career.  On this podcast I put focus on having faith versus just being lazy or careless.  During those younger years the very moment someone denied us access to the potential of a euphoric moment we'd knock them on their butt and shout, "I will succeed!"  What happens to that steam?  Is it like a riverbed that loses its source of flow and eventually just becomes a piece of land?  I still remember looking at that Broadcasting friend and replying, "What is the requirement to know that you're physically experiencing euphoria?  What if it's nothing more than a baby step that just happened to gift you with a volume of expression?"  Our greatest moments aren't a big bang theory.  You're legacy moment might not have anything to do with a career.  All that time spent chasing the horizon.  Grip faith by the nap of the neck and make it serve you.  Knowing you have faith is one thing.  Watching it in action is pretty euphoric.  Make it a go to tool in 2019 and watch your journey through success reach new levels of interesting play.     

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Grateful Versus Being Grateful

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Kind of an odd title.  It paints the picture of there being something separating the two.  Reaching beyond the surface of action and reaction the title is based on how people say they're grateful without truly showcasing their gratefulness.  Being grateful is more than a word.  It requires participation with why you are in a moment of gratefulness.  Sammy Sosa from the Chicago Cubs would touch his heart twice then point to the sky.  On this podcast I talk about why I fell out of truly believing that he was being grateful of the catch out in right field or hard rocking home run.  I paid to watch him make the move.  I didn't want to see it once.  I needed to watch him several times during a game.  He did again and again.  That's when I opened my own heart and wondered how people digested my way of being grateful.  Are you grateful or being grateful? 

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 136

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Trees are my weak spot.  The importance of those limbs, trunks and roots keeps me firmly attached to the importance of their place of shape shifting.  This year the Fall colors were pretty amazing.  While sitting under a huge tree I couldn't help but wonder if a tree can see how incredibly beautiful it is with the rest of the forest.  Trees don't have mirrors.  Humans do and we love to overuse their ability.  Rather than being comfortable with the atmosphere of "Now" the goal is to endlessly embrace newer ways to exchange our changes.  When we do that aren't we letting go of multiple pieces of our personality?  Seriously!  Who would we be if we had left that wrinkle in our face?  Where would we be if we hadn't shaved off that excess collection of junk in our hips, stomach and upper regions?  This isn't a podcast bashing the beauty makers.  Far from it.  I'd just like to know where the real person went before man was hired to reconstruct?  I'd never purchase a Picasso only to put cheap acrylic paint from Michaels art supply store on it.  The personality of the painting changes.  So do we.  Because I'm a daily writer I get the opportunity to read from the pages dating twenty five years.  Peeling off those layers totally changed my personality.  What happens to the outside if the inside has never been touched?  Learning to connect with each piece of the missing puzzle teaches the soul to be present in the "Now."  Mindfully lets grow in 2019.

Monday, December 17, 2018

Clear Your Heart

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Throughout life we are told a billion times to open our hearts.  With an open heart there's opportunity and or a great reason to keep dreaming.  Picture that open heart as being an open door leading straight into your living room.  It's a sweltering day in the south and every bug that was once on the outside is now taking up room on the flat screen and the uncovered three layered chocolate cake.  Opening your heart no longer feels like a quality place.  Learning how to clear your heart is the better choice.  We are hording life and all that it delivers only to have aching feet, arms, backs and minds.  Opening our hearts allows all things to move through you.  Those bugs and demons have every right to stay because you didn't hang a sign that said "Only the good times are allowed in."  Learning to live a cleared heart lifestyle is a daily choice.  Rather than trying to fill your heart.  Concentrate on maintaining a clean heart.  At the drop of a hat all things can change.  An open heart has too much to hold while the clear heart accepts the challenge of rediscovery. 

Friday, December 14, 2018

Somebody Has To Ask The Questions

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I'm blessed with the opportunity to speak to many large groups of people.  From my point of view I see a lot of arms crossed, people checking their smart phones and or nodding off in the center of a thought.  Activating those in attendance requires participation.  Engaging them with the type of leadership that needs their input.  That's why the majority of my purpose is to have a plan.  I play a game in the beginning called Three Questions.  On this podcast I talk about how such openness physically creates a connection.  We are taught by so many leaders in business to just show up and not say anything because they're in control and it's your job to pull off what they've planned.  Almost like a preacher who dumped 40 minutes of thought into your heart but never allows you to ask questions at the end.  I'm not embarrassed to tell those who attend my lectures that you've only got my experience for a few moments.  Once I'm out that door don't call me with questions.  Ask your questions in this moment so we can grow together.  The quietest people, those that hide behind the strength of others begin to release their fears and find enough open space to include their questions in the conversation.  Somebody has to ask the questions.  By way of experience we learn.  We grow.  We teach.  We learn again and again.   

Thursday, December 13, 2018

We Broke Free Of The Circle

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Being connected to animals isn't something I recently picked up.  The entire walk has been a collection of well focused conversations with a part of the universe that many choose not to study and or listen to.  I take Animal Speak seriously.  As crazy as it may seem, the language of the animal kingdom is what humans pushed themselves away from.  The human ego knew it had the ability to be greater so it's choice was to lead its own life and style.  Wait!  How could an out in the public Christian say things about animals talking?  Does Dr. Doolittle know of such insanity?  On this podcast I talk about how God uses animals to reach those areas of our divided paths.  He quickly captures our attention but we choose not to step toward understanding why a particular animal has appeared in the moment.  Mainly because most people don't understand nor will they look beyond their nearest touch as to what each animal represents on the path.  Animal Speak is a brilliant step toward becoming part of the atmosphere of a daily universe.  Trusting it's arrival teaches your mind body and soul to participate with the present.  To learn from the messages of the spirit guides and keepers.  It's not just animals talking to the hell bent ways of the human ego.  National Geographic's Explorer series just aired a brilliant story on how trees endlessly speak.  The studies they unveiled will wake up your heart and allow you to grow in open fields of change and challenge.  Native American spirituality teaches us that the greatest storytellers on the planet are in fact trees and rocks.  But how often do you remove both of them from the presence of our living places?  The questions to your answers are in front of you.  Take the time to listen to those commanded to speak.  Or continue listening to the voices in your head that keep calling you a loser and everything else not so positive. 

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

You Moving Forward


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The physical act of moving forward requires challenge as well as change.  Raise your hand if such a subject inspires the depth of your personality.  Great books of wisdom, motivation and inspiration always seem to be picked up when the next step is fed by personal desperation.  I'll never forget where my life was before bumping into the pages that make up The Artist Way from Julia Cameron.  I was in Santa Barbara, California wandering around my creative space asking God for any direction available.  I needed something other than taking up too much space.  No book has been so open to creative minds than The Artist Way.  She helps all people understand their avenues of expression without weighing down your spirit to want to move forward.  For many, the month of December is a very difficult time because in a matter of days it's going to be a new year.  Who wants to kick off a new set of numbers feeling like a loser?  On this podcast we explore your right to be in control of now.  Your past has already been written and yet we spend more time in it then what actually took place.  I learned in the 1990's that for every five years you're married it takes two years to heal.  Wouldn't the same be true about your job or a friendship that's gone crazy?  I'm not a visionary but I do spend a lot of time preparing and predicting what's being shaped by the future.  That's still not a place of control.  It's gambling.  A guessing game.  The prime spot to open your heart to be let down again and again.  Mindfully we are in the present but do you appreciate your present place of now?  To maintain a path of personal growth requires the energy of where you are now.  As out of control as it may feel you have complete control of how you feel, think, speak and react to.  It's a choice.  A difficult discussion with the self inside but only if you've allowed that inner you to be heard.  Lift your foot off that past and allow it to be seen only in the now.  Grow with your present place by simply saying, "Clear your heart.  Clear your mind."  When the voices of doubt try to crank up the volume keep saying, "Clear your heart.  Clear your mind."  Yoga Nidra teaches each of us to be present by separating ourselves from the grooves of the record we keep playing over and over.  The only way to remove the groove is to clear your heart and clear your mind.  It's you moving forward. 

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 135

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While sitting in a forest these words became the path of the writing, "An atmosphere of constant change makes no room for a guarantee."  We only assume the forest floor sits in its present shape not just today but all days until it rains.  Our personal lives are no different.  We are trained to think that change is the only way to process progress.  Therefore we create change to motivate all that may become a greater day of victory.  On this podcast I talk about how many chances each of us take daily.  We accept third to fifteenth best.  The proof is in the way we shop.  Look at how many successful outlet malls there are.  It's not perfectly made clothing.  We prefer to pay a cheaper price for a mismatch.  I'm extremely guilty of eating at restaurants that have a 91 and lower rating.  My heart believes this place of business probably had a bad day during the inspection and they need a little help from the community to keep them moving forward.  I'm willing to become ill during their moment of attempting to grow forward.  You may not do this while seeking food for your hunger but when it comes to your job or a person your heart thinks it loves, we are always willing to accept the lower rating.  Breaking that habit has its pain with the potential of no gain.  I've known friends who wanted only one thing in a person or they'd never marry.  Once the vows were shared, that perfect attempt didn't truly come with a guaranteed payoff.  This isn't about accepting bad business or people but rather being aware of who we are in the present.  The average person spends more time in the past then the past actually existed.  Another chunk of travelers are geared up and hiking the trails of a future that may never get here.  Being available in the present doesn't make life 100% happily ever after but it allows your decisions to be more focused on how it will be received when tomorrow arrives. 

Friday, December 7, 2018

Mark Blake



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This fall marks the golden anniversary of Led Zeppelin, the band most closely associated with notorious rock manager Peter Grant. Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond-The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager> is the first solo treatment of the "fifth member" of the band.
Mark Blake, who has written biographies of Pink Floyd and Queen, first laid eyes on Grant watching The Song Remains the Same in a London cinema in 1982. He first met him a decade later and years after that began to learn the lesser known stories from Grant's son, Warren.
With the full cooperation of Grant's estate, Blake gained access to private correspondence, business contracts, artifacts, and photographs. "Nothing about Grant was quite how it seemed," writes Blake. "He was a master at allowing the mythology, the gossip, and the rumors to spread-to keep the 'real' Peter Grant under wraps."
Full of new insights into Grant's early life, new details about the formation of and his relationship with Led Zeppelin, an unrevealed plot by Jamaican gangsters to kidnap the band members' children, letters from police regarding threats made against the band by American Satanists, as well as Grant's seclusion late in life after the dissolution of the band and his recovery from substance abuse, Bring It On Homereveals a man who, after the extraordinary highs and lows of a career in music management, found both peace and happiness in a more ordinary life.

Oliver Luck

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The XFL will reimagine football for the 21st century when it kicks off in early 2020.
In a major press event at Metlife Stadium on Wednesday, December 5, XFL Commissioner and CEO Oliver Luck will announce the inaugural eight markets new XFL teams will call home in season-one.
On December 6, Luck – a former NFL and NCAA executive, quarterback for the Houston Oilers, and father of Indianapolis Colts star quarterback Andrew Luck – can discuss the new XFL, the eight cities and venues that were selected as team homes, and what fans can expect from the exciting new league.

Football is America’s favorite sport boasting over 85 million fans but the traditional season is just too short. To fill that void, Vince McMahon, XFL Founder and Chairman, announced the new league which he is building with the same commitment that launched the WWE into a global media and sports entertainment powerhouse.

Delivering authentic, high energy football for the whole family, the XFL will offer fast-paced games with fewer play stoppages and simpler rules. The XFL will also embrace the latest on and off-field technology, providing live game coverage, content and real-time engagement across multiple platforms, giving fans greater access than ever before.

A Choice Of Change

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I rarely meet anyone who truly loves the idea of change.  I once had a radio station GM tell me, "If you can't learn to accept change there's the door."  Change is everyday.  With it comes plenty of challenges.  On this podcast the focus is put on the multiple directions that each of us are moving.  How can there be harmony if you're going that way, I'm going this way and everybody else has located their personal paths of choice?  Decisions are made that don't always agree with the mass appeal.  Through change we're able to accept the environment but it doesn't always guarantee the bigger and better payoff.  I share a story about losing three things very close to me and how it put me in a place of battle.  So I assumed.  Thirteen years later the message carried forward was actually a day of victory.  Each of us are given reason to love.  Not all things deserve to have what we graciously generate.  When that invisible machine quits churning out the emotion the next step is to become empty.  Change becomes the game.  Challenge it's best friend.  The identity of self evolves and no matter where you walk the elements of the atmosphere have spiraled into a spiderweb of worry, doubt, fear, shame and guilt.  Five completely different directions and all you wanted to do was locate an avenue of positive.  The power is in the choice.  Activate the choice.  Learn from the change.  Teach the challenge.  Embrace the presence of now.  Learning to live a life style of mindfulness is a growing period of love, trust, faith and forgiveness.  Four different directions that lead to harmony.   

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Just Show Up

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This past Sunday my wife and I were studying the good word via the church's presentation on YouTube.  I'm an extremely dedicated note taker.  My body hunched over the computer screen to make sure I hear every thought delivered then processed.  I'm sure it looks like one of those old time radio listeners that gathered the family around the sound maker and listened to Amos And Andy and other adventures that drew pictures on the inside of the imagination.  When the storytelling is over I put away my notes and go about the day.  My wife thought I was doing it prematurely, "Hey the Pastor isn't done yet!"  I had to point out that the man on the screen was no longer the leader of the church.  It was someone under him bringing on the alter call.  Her reaction, "Why does everyone in that church have to look like the Pastor?"  This isn't just a situation for my church.  The mold for the church goer in 2018 is to do all you can to wear the tightest pants, strangest shirt, coolist haircut and do all you can to grow hair on your face.  I grew up in an atmosphere of being in church.  During those younger years none of us did anything to look like the other.  Our identity as an individual was the best place to grow.  I grasp the idea of feeling like we belong and we're accepted.  I have to ask by whom?  God or the church?  On this podcast I put my ugly mug on the crusty old microphone and share normal and below normal thoughts that say nothing more than, "Be yourself.  Baggy pants and worn out shoes are ok.  More importantly having an empty gas tank makes you one of us." 

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

The Arrival Of Now

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I enter this recording studio each day at 5:30 AM.  Not because I'm on a headhunt for worms but rather I'm willing with my way to step inside what is to become this day.  Through each wall I touch I'm allowed to trust, have faith and develop hope.  Which feels more like an invisible game than the actuality of reality.  The words that I speak were written over two years ago.  What did he know that I don't realize today?  The chores of being a daily writer is knowing that what finds a presence in your present isn't always meant for the now.  On this podcast the goal is to put focus on light and darkness.  Courageously I do ask about the arrival of no sun.  What if it were 24/7?  They experience it on the edges of the planet but the rest of us expect the rays of light to inspire, influence and warm what's been darkened by the presence of night.  The funniest thing about life is the placement of the sun.  It can be in the center of the sky and all too many times the passerby looks as if to be lost in a moment of darkness.  How do you teach a wandering mind to reach beyond that chapter?  I write.  That doesn't make it right.  Life isn't about generating enough space to create a legacy.  We're supposed to be teaching our experiences so that what we've been through can be recognized when there isn't sunlight.  Somewhere along the way decision makers forgot that part of the journey.  I can see why.  Who wants to teach the person that may replace them?  The most interesting part about that statement has nothing to do with the atmosphere of self.  Every business connects with people we'll never meet.  When you elect not to teach you've decided to stop reaching for the customers that keep your doors open.   

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 134

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Trusting the physical act of collaboration.  Being a radio guy.  It's always been a tough journey to share the reins of expectation with a partnership of presentation.  I knew in my early days that I wasn't going to be a morning show host that features three to five others.  Not that I'm stuck on myself or feel I'm greater than.  I have a fear of being the lead actor who has to accept the responsibility of failure with each moment of victory.  In my heart the best way to be in control of each meandering situation is to make it your own.  The moment you start adding puzzle pieces to the corners of choice something ends up being misplaced.  I have a difficult time with the avenues of trusting others to show up on time and in the mood to give 200%.  Therefore I sit in the shadows of the daily performance being Paul McCartney and not the Beatles.  On this podcast I go a completely different way when explaining the physical act of collaborating.  Preachers versus Radio.  Both are called to serve people.  Both use separate languages.  More than often those behind the pulpit stay free of the speaker junkie because the term media in 2018 is a dangerous tightrope.  Collaborating with another creative soul means a lot of behind the scenes planning before the performance.  Being who you are without the microphone is almost never the shape who you are while on the microphone.  I classify myself as being an extremely boring person with a vision to succeed.  I can't do that without a connection to a passerby.  My path and or choice was to grow within the circle of Broadcasting and yet the soul was determined to serve by way of the pulpit.  That's not the calling I was commanded to process.  Take the knowledge of those in the church and make it a language for the street.  Do it in a way that can be digested inside 15 to 30 seconds.  I need those preachers and teachers.  They know how to turn a book of poetry into lessons of growing.  By way of collaboration and or an act of Sunday morning play by play it seems like a plan that could work.  It doesn't.  Interpretation of the word is the line in the sand.  Not a negative.  This is only a view of what it's like on this side of the microphone hearing God's command while being just another face in the stands.     

Monday, December 3, 2018

The Mirrored Image Of Who


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Being part of the service world is a difficult place to digest the process of upper management with their way of determining what's acceptable in the world of attitude, "We're only paying $7.25 an hour and have learned to expect that nothing will ever be perfect."  By choice, I'm a very positive person.  Until the paths of chance put me face to face with someone allowed to carry their negative energy forward.  Hey!  They make $7.25 an hour.  Boss man on campus says, "Accept the reality."  On this podcast I dive into the subject with a deeper purpose to help uncover who, what, where, why and when?  The mirrored image of what's projected beyond the bathroom or rear view mirror isn't always the person we think we are.  I'm not afraid to talk about how religious people always seems so happy and filled with spirit upon our arrival within the four walls of preaching.  Show me who you are when the bills are due and the kids won't take out the trash.  How can anyone be grateful in a world that expects perfection at a very low cost and or price?  I once had an OM that sharply told me, "I'm not interested in solutions.  Fix the problem before you take the time to speak to me."  Can you imagine using that statement while looking at your tired eyes in the mirror?  Fix the problem before you take the time to speak to me.  But wait!  I make $7.25 an hour!  So many paths of disconnection and yet each dried river is to be met with expectation.  For most of us our shoulders hurt from shrugging off a bad performance.  I laugh out loud while having dinner with a decision maker that complains about how the wait staff at a restaurant can't seem to get their act together.  The wrong food is brought to the table.  The water glass is empty.  The bill is wrong.  Yeah!  Welcome to the vision of how your business is also run.  Those outside your next decision see things your company has elected to ignore.  Leaders that can't pay a better wage and accept poor performance should walk into every day expecting nothing more than below average.  If any employee has a difficult time filling their gas tank, those that hired them should be wearing the same face of shame.  Bad service isn't the person.  They've been trained to accept poor wages as part of the process.  In two hours they'll be working at their fifth part time job.  God is no different.  Who, what, what, where, when and how are you receiving and do you arrive with the attitude of not needing a solution, you attempted to fix the problem before arriving in his place of grace?