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You Can’t Control The Wind But You Can Adjust Your Sail

Sailing is both peaceful and adventurous. Imagine being on a sailing boat working the sails for quiet, controlled movement or for exciting speed as you skim across the water. You can learn to work with the wind and apply it to your advantage. Anyone who tries to sail his boat willfully, contrary to the conditions of the wind gets nowhere.

A well lived life also draws on experience and we continue to learn as long as we live. Our male role models told us that masculinity meant conquering our surroundings and many of us instinctively saw competition and confrontation as a matter of personal honour. We believed that, as men, our self esteem was tied to subduing any obstacle before us. But these were a boys idea about what a man is like.

As we grow wiser and genuinely stronger we set our sails to work with the wind. We can neither stop the wind nor make it blow.

Today I will watch the winds in my life and work with them to live better.

(Reading taken from stepping stones daily meditations for men published by Hazelden meditations)

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Viktor Frankl

Originally posted at: http://www.theresstillhope.org

Viktor Frankl was a Jewish psychiatrist who was taken to one of the death camps in Nazi Germany. All of his family and friends were gassed and murdered. He writes in his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, about one day when he stood in front of the Gestapo, stark naked. They had taken away the prisoners’ clothes and even Frankl’s wedding ring. As he stood there with nothing at all, he suddenly realized there was one thing the Nazis could not take away from him: his choice in how he would respond. 

Life is ten percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond. Jesus offers this memorable promise to those who have been beaten, battered, and belittled: “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:10).

Recovery Step: If you are an addict, you are likely a survivor of abuse, trauma, and isolation. But you are a survivor. That means God will actually use your past if you let him.

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The Full Armor of God

Originally posted at: https://zachuramblog.com/2022/07/19/the-full-armor-of-god/

This poem is about putting on the full armor of God, as delineated in Ephesians 6:10-18.

Tis the Devil I fight today
I will battle him without delay

Not by my own might
By God’s power that serpent will seek flight

I can do nothing by my power
But all can be done as Christ’s soldier

Don the helmet of salvation to discern spiritual manipulation
You won’t be in a spiritual depression

We put on the full armor of the Lord
And wield the Word of God, the Spirit’s Sword

The breastplate of Christ’s righteousness
Preserves us from Satan’s deadliness

With the belt of truth
We resist Satanic deception forsooth

The shield of faith protects us from doubt
With it, unbelief we shall rout

Our feet will be covered by the Gospel of peace
Even in troubled times we can find solace

And so we have on the full armor of God
Our victory is assured

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Terry Crews Went on 90-day Sex Fast to Battle Porn Addiction

Terry Crews and his wife had a “90-day sex fast” to battle his pornography addiction. The 53-year-old actor – who has been open about his struggles in the past – revealed he and his wife Rebecca tackled the issues together and it made him feel like he was “12 years old again”.

He told ‘Entertainment Tonight’: “We did it together. Rebecca was right there and she actually regrouped with me.

“I went on a 90-day sex fast [with] her. And people were like, ‘Whoa, that’s crazy!’ But let me tell you something – what was so beautiful about that, was it took me to a time when I was 12 years old and I liked a girl and I didn’t know anything about sex.

The ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ actor explained how he was nine years old when he was first “exposed to pornography”, and he kept his addiction a secret for two decades of marriage, admitting it “actually led to some infidelity”.

Although he resigned himself to never tell Rebecca whom he married in 1989 – he added: “But my wife knew something was wrong because we kept getting farther and farther apart. And when she addressed me and finally put the question to me, ‘What is it that I don’t know about you, Terry Crews?