The Bruzd

06/07/2023

Examples of Type II Kindness “Hey Buddy…I’m sorry to point it out but your zipper is down. I know that’s awkward but I figured better me than your blind date. Or even worse, discovering it yourself at the end of the night.” Another quick example for those who’ve seen it - consider the end fate of “Old Yeller.” And the supreme example of type 2 kindness, God the Father subjecting Christ to the weight of the sins of the world....

06/06/2023

My friend D. shared a metaphor how we sometimes enable and encourage the overzealously kind.

There are those individuals who would walk an old lady across the street even when that old lady never wanted to cross the street in the first place.

Time, Responsibility, Courage, and Sacrifice. The presence of these traits elevates a benevolent act into something of far more value. They give an act towards another person meaningful FUNCTIONALITY as it serves that individual’s mental, physical and spiritual well-being. Because Kindness, genuin...

04/19/2023

Imagine being engaged in wheat and tare warfare where the wheat represents kindness. What tactics might an enemy use to most effectively corrupt fields of kindness.
Taking this approach, you can almost imagine the devil brainstorming the ideal counter to kindness. As if he asked himself, “If kindness was wheat…what would be its tare?”
With the high aim to achieve, if possible, of convincing mankind to invert the virtue, so that, over time, the tare takes on the title of kindness and the wheat is termed the counterfeit.

Imagine being engaged in wheat and tare warfare where the wheat represents kindness. What tactics might the enemy use to most effectively corrupt fields of kindness. Taking this approach, you can a…

04/11/2023

Seems there is an abundance of “kindness confusion” around. This is an effort to PROTECT kindness as a virtue. Because by her nature, kindness cannot protect herself. She is defenseless. It falls upon other virtues to protect her. Courage, Truth, Common Sense must stand their guard so that Kindness may choose to reveal herself at the most opportune moments, and save herself that she might be made manifest in her most mature and impactful form - CHARITY.

It is to games of imitation of which the enemy finds us most vulnerable. And no more so than in the realm of words. For this reason I find it no coincidence that in scripture a seed is often used m…

04/11/2023

It is to games of imitation of which the enemy finds us most vulnerable. And no more so than in the realm of words. For this reason I find it no coincidence that in scripture a seed is often used metaphorically to represent the word....

It is to games of imitation of which the enemy finds us most vulnerable. And no more so than in the realm of words. For this reason I find it no coincidence that in scripture a seed is often used m…

03/16/2023

Piece of Crap Day Picture

For anyone having another one of those emotionally numb, piece of crap days.

02/17/2023

So that God may very well have pulled us all aside before mortality and said something to the effect of, “You have no idea what a pain in the butt it is going to be to get you from Point A to Point B. But despite the pain…I’ve got a whole village of your brothers and sisters who have volunteered to sacrifice their innocence so that they can blow off the frustration that is required to help CHANGE you. SO…you’d best figure out how to forgive…and do it fast!!!! On earth, such a pep talk makes sense. Because the Atonement, a principle already built into this plan, is God operating forgiveness. And for a person to intimately understand how that process works, how the process cleanses one from their mistakes, an individual would have to understand PSYCHOLOGICALLY how forgiveness works, knowing how to actively operate it and apply it to one who had wronged them. Such first hand knowledge would be required for an individual to actively believe that forgiveness could factually be applied to them. Otherwise, an individual whose conception could not account for the power of forgiveness, if that individual was informed that they themselves had been forgiven through the atonement, in that persons mind they’d process such information in the following manner: “Forgiven???…I can’t and don’t believe in such rubbish.” To a person who can’t forgive…to them the concept of forgiveness is impossible. To them, there is no psychological power strong enough to change the past....their past.

So that God may very well have pulled us all aside before mortality and said something to the effect of, “You have no idea what a pain in the butt it is going to be to get you from Point A to Point…

02/09/2023

The word, WHY, in question form, is a request for purpose or meaning. Which is interesting because WHY questions often become apparent during times of significant strife. And they continue until the protagonist of the tale has fully undergone a change of character. Take note, that this phenomenon of WHY’s occurring in combination with a subject's change of character occurs not just in fictional lore, BUT ALSO IN REAL LIFE.

The word, WHY, in question form, is a request for purpose or meaning. Which is interesting because WHY questions often become apparent during times of significant strife. And they continue until th…

02/02/2023

Christ is what we hope to someday be like, at least more than we are at this moment. He is the Christian archetype. His experiences, knowledge and spirit are what we hope to replicate in our own lives. And through the art and intricacy of symbolism, His acts have become indicators by which we recognize people who are like Him. Likewise, the appearance of similar acts in our own lives are how we confirm that we, individually, are on the path He intends for us.

Christ is what we hope to someday be like, at least more than we are at this moment. He is the Christian archetype. His experiences, knowledge and spirit are what we hope to replicate in our own li…

12/09/2022

Bonus Content for Episode 13
Audrey Baggaley shares a talk she presented in May 2022 to a church audience. She wisely divines purpose from what God HAS and HAS NOT blessed her with.

Audrey Baggaley delivers a talk to a church audience. In it she relates her struggles with depression and anxiety. She wisely divines purpose from what God HAS and HAS NOT needed her to experience.