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All creatures, great and small — You made them all. Other living creatures are a mystery to us, God. Well, actually other humans are a mystery — and come to think of it, I am pretty much a mystery to myself as well.
Now TODAY is the Day I plan of taking First Steps in RESTRUCTURING my life. I like that word as it implies “control” without actually saying it. Control is right down there with Discipline. No wonder my girls didn’t like it either. Somehow the idea of working long and hard when moved by interest or obsession or even duty is appealing. But sitting and filing and categorizing has not yet been RETHOUGHT and RENAMED so as to be compelling.
Does it HAVE to be compelling? Some very important things are just done — matter of factly and without fan fair — they are hardly noticed. Remember FLOSSING? My goodness what resistance and fuss you made about NOT DOING IT. Then when you snuck it in while reading you barely noticed it. OK, Matter Of Factness is one key.
Then there is Sandy’s comment about I CAN DO ONE SITUP! SMALL DOABLE GOALS.
Next there is counting — usually what we measure — we do more of. I need to go get a box of GOLD STARS!
And last (for this morning, anyway) there is RENAMING. Dog training (animal training) used to be about MASTERY! Breaking the horse’s will — pulling on the dogs choke chain. NO WONDER I DIDN’T LIKE THE IDEA OF TRAINING! But now, starting when they were training killer whales, the idea is cooperation! Getting the animal to learn new things with positive reinforcement — and using LRS (Least Reaction Stimula) when there is an undesirable action, to avoid reinforcing that action.
OK! They can train DOGS! I bet we can “train” me! And it had better be a WE, God, or . . . I will be laboring in vain.
Yes, I hear You. YOU have been EAGER AND WILLING FOR YEARS!!!!! OK! Or, rather, THANKS!
Story teller,
A Moment with God 
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