Simply my Thoughts By: Dean Butler
EVEN IN A BARREN LIFELESS DESERT, WE FIND BREATHTAKING BEAUTY. HOW IS IT THAT WE CAN NOT SEE THE SAME IN OUR FELLOW MAN? SO MANY ARE SO OBSESSED WITH OUTER BEAUTY THAT THEY CAN NOT SEE THE BEAUTY WITHIN. HOW CAN THOSE THAT ARE TORMENTED IN ANY WAY FEEL LOVED AND ACCEPTED BY SOCIETY […]
I saw today that a friend was pretty angry. This friend was angry because it seems they are always helping people but when they need help themselves no one is around, they have excuses as to why they can not help or just boldly lie about it. Out of anger, this friend has decided not […]
I am sure many of you have heard this saying, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”. I am sure most know who said it and why. With that in mind I would like to ask you, are you perfect? Have you not ever made a mistake? Do you put all that […]
Nearly every day of our lives there will be something we find ourselves not very happy with. Perhaps something as simple as your order was wrong after leaving the drive-through of one of the many fast-food restaurants. We grow angrier by the minute, complaining to the manager about the careless employees they have working for […]
It is the season of the Olympians‘. Every channel on television is advertising the events or using them in some way in a commercial to promote their products. While watching one I couldn’t help but think. There is an unthinkable amount of money that goes into sporting events, the athletes, the sponsors, television commercials, did […]
Sounds simple enough. Of course, everyone knows the best way to solve a problem is to do it yourself. Sometimes however whose problem it is becomes questionable. Well, that’s not so hard to figure out either if you think about it. Who is the problem a problem to or for? Answer that and you know […]
These words I hear every night in my sleep, are the last words I ever heard my dad say. So many good people have told me that I am helping my dad even to this day. The word help is such a huge word, it is such a powerful word, yet it remains one of […]
I wish so much I could go back in time.So that I could simply change my mind.I know about everything I said before.But I don’t like it this way anymore.The dreams I thought finally came true.Lied to me …… when it came to you.Take me back to my yesteryear’s.As I wipe away these wasted tears.I […]
So often today’s generation in various brackets of age refuses to read a newspaper, watch the news on television, or listen to it on the radio. They do not want to know what is going on outside their own home or circle of friends and family believing it has no effect directly on them or […]
It seems no matter how hard one tries to have a positive outlook on everything in life there is always someone there totally opposite. When you see a bright sunshiny day they see a dark cloud in the distance and are certain it will bring rain. When you are excited about a new job they […]