Easier in theory rather than practice -- Clinical depression has been my lot since shortly after 1976 -- but, hey, I try
Thank You Susan.
I have experience with this because my brother had a more volatile form and I a more passive one.
Try as I may, he still liked his mud pit better.
But, that is one form of the longsuffering of Love.
I'm not looking for brownie points here but the hereafter.
Peace and a clear conscious is a beautiful thing
I did my best to Love him out of his dilemma, and now he is with the hereafters.
The eldest is still with us, and is strictly materialistic.
Funny how strictly materialistic peoples absolutely hate and cannot understand those who look for spiritual things in life.
If you put spiritual things first, then the material seems to take care of itself.
Very odd and counter-intuitive.
But, Charity can be quite painful at times.
-- Burt B.