Random Building Thoughts - 2020-11-12

 

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For Further Light:  

https://buildinghiram.blogspot.com/2016/06/a-brother-asks-why-allegory.html

 

 

For Further Light:
https://buildinghiram.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-brother-asks-wheres-goat.html

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 -------------- TEASER ---------------

 

 

Chapter XIII - The First Freemason

 

Found here: http://www.coach.net/TCU.htm

 -------------- DIRECTION ---------------

For Further Light:
https://buildinghiram.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-brother-asks-masonry-vs-freemasonry.html

 

 -------------- INSIGHT ---------------

  -------------- THOUGHT FOR THE DAY ---------------      

“Guilt is the most useless of all erroneous behaviors. It is by far the greatest waste of emotional energy.

Why?

Because, by definition, you are feeling immobilized in the present over something that has already taken place, and no amount of guilt can ever change history.”
--Dr. Wayne Dyer

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This is where the good Dr. (God rest his soul) and I part ways.

Guilt was never about changing history. It was always about helping us recognize when we are called to change our ways into the future if we are to honor what we know to be past wrongful behavior.

Guilt is an emotion that tells us that we have transgressed a value we hold dear which was a past action that requires present amends and it keeps us focused upon that past action's correction. This means it is a message to us sent bu us in the form of a specific pattern in our energy and that makes it very useful when we use it to make corrections.

Guilt doesn't immobilize anyone. If anything, it tells us that we must mobilize our energy and direct that energy toward corrective behavior.

There is a down side to guilt though. When a guilt trip is put upon us, we are being coerced by someone else's values to suffer unnecessarily for a transgression that someone else believes is important and we take that on as our own OR the other person is holding us to account for an action that they will never allow us to make amends for. In either case, these are toxic situations that require use to examine what we truly value in that relationship, because it is truly no longer about the transgression. It is about the leverage we give to the other person. Either way, it's no longer about the guilt itself, but how the guilt can be used to make us suffer rather than make amends. 

Once recognized for what a guilt trip actually is, we must be the ones who change regardless of resistance. The manipulators want things to continue unchanged for they have the advantage if all things remain the same. 

It's our refusal to change that keeps us stuck!

-- Coach Nagy

 

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Random Building Thoughts - 2020-11-11

 

 ------------- HUMOR  ----------------

 

 ------------- MASONIC EDUCATION ---------------- 

 

 

 ------------- WELL? ---------------- 

 

 -------------- HONORING ---------------

 

 -------------- GL AL MEMORIES ---------------

 

Final set up at the Grand Lodge of Alabama in 2019. 

 If you were in the hood, you stopped by and said "hello"!"

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  -------------- FURTHER LIGHT TEASE ---------------

Chapter XIII - The First Freemason

 Available at http://www.coach.net/TCU.htm

 -------------- LOGIC --------------- 

 (Hat tip to Bro. Ronny Aasterud!)

 -------------- BOOK REVIEW --------------- 

 Latest Book Review!

 https://buildinghiram.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-light-in-garden-book-review-by.html

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The Light in the Garden – A book review by Jason Johnson

 

The Light in the Garden is what I would call, “transformative!” If you have ever struggled with the reconciliation of Biblical passages with your gut feelings, especially regarding the story of Adam and Eve, Sacrifice and Salvation, you owe it to yourself to read this book from cover to cover.

Rev. Nagy presents his points and observations with strong attention to references and masterfully documents his sources. This process should give the reader a firm assurance that the text is not only carefully thought out but backed with substantial evidence.

The best part is that the research was done with a pure spirit of curiosity, and sans a desired outcome. In other words, Rev. Nagy would have written his findings regardless of their outcome and with the heart of a teacher.

I can honestly and emphatically say that reading this book has transformed the way I now approach life and, frankly, the afterlife.

Read this book! Then take a subjective audit of your current situation and your past, especially those times when things didn’t work the way you expected them to.

From there, always, always “Own it!” 

(For Further Light: http://www.coach.net/TLG.htm)

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 Thank You Jason,

 I'm delighted you enjoyed it.

 "Own It!"

 Rev. John

 

Random Building Thoughts - 2020-11-10

 ------------- COACH'S CHALLENGE  ----------------

The Lodge wants candidates to know more
about the recognition, inter-visitation, regularity,
irregularity and clandestine aspects of the Craft. 

 You are tasked with the following:

1) Put together a glossary of terms such that each is defined and explained in relation to each other..

2) Put together a chart showing how they all interconnect with each other.

3) Create a Venn diagram showing how the all relate toward each other.

 ------------- INSPIRATION ----------------

 Appreciate and Celebrate Your Near Field For Your Horizon Shall Always Be Distant 

  ------------- LEADERSHIP ----------------

 ------------- INSIGHT ----------------

 Contrary to what many Brothers Believe,
there are some Petitioners who merely want to Experience the Rituals
and be Associated with the Fraternity thereafter.

 ------------- THOUGHT-PROVOKING ----------------

There's Rarely Abundance Wrought
Without Equitable Risk & Investment

 ------------- RITUAL THOUGHT ----------------

What part of being Bound
by a Strong Cord of a Moral Obligation
don't you Understand?

  ------------- HOLIDAY ----------------

 

 STAY CALM
and
THANK A VETERAN

 ------------- REALITY ----------------

 Some lift the Veil. Some Trip on It. Some have it Yanked out from Under Them. And some, through no personal fault, Unceremoniously Slip on It like a banana peel.

  ------------- WISH LIST ----------------

 

Wouldn't it be truly awesome if someone took the time to write and publish some books that showed the Transformative Teachings of Masonry in Practical and Understandable forms? 

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 http://www.coach.net/BuildingBuilders.htm

 ------------- TARGETED GOALS ----------------

Meetings should never be
so designed or implemented in any way
as to destroy what little interest remains
in those who attend them.

  ------------- YUP! ----------------

 For Further Light:
Differences! 

  ------------- DO THE WORK ----------------

 To Study any Theological or Philosophical text Properly,
you must first study the Seven Liberal Arts & Sciences.
If you do not know why, you should find out.

  ------------- THOUGHT PROVOKING ----------------

  For Further Light:

Widow's Son

 ------------- HUMOR ----------------

FILED UNDER: 

It's not what you say,
it's how you say it.

   ------------- SHAMELESS PLUG ----------------

  

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