November 28, 2005

• OK, here's an eye-opener for anyone willing to try it:

  
  

  Take a page of notebook paper, and draw a line down the center, dividing it into two columns.

  
  

  Next, begin to list every crummy circumstance in your life (people, place, thing, lack, obstacle, etc.) down the first column.  Don't like a class, teacher, or sibling?  Write each instance of dissatisfaction on a line.

  
  

  Next, read the list you've written, and make sure that you're not misplacing the dissatisfaction ("I hate my job" vs. "I hate two of the supervisors and 3 of the employees, or "I hate my sibling" vs. I hate when my sibling ________s around me).

  
  

  Finally, in the other column, try to write a "solution" to each dissatisfaction.  By solution, I mean for you to write a "suggestion" for God, for the other person, or for some sort of change, that would satisfy you.

  
  

  When finished, post here how many items (not the items, just the number of them) you found in your dissatisfied list.  I'm hoping we can be honest and not feign satisfaction when we're not.

  
  

  I'll suggest more to do with that list in a couple days. 

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