{"id":373,"date":"2005-06-11T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/?p=373"},"modified":"2005-06-11T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-11T20:48:00","slug":"373","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2005\/06\/11\/373\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hello.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So today at work was alright.&nbsp; It was pretty busy up until about noon.. at that point it got really quiet.&nbsp; They VTO&#8217;d a few people.. not me.&nbsp; But I didn&#8217;t care because I only had an hour left anyway.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I walked in from work and I saw my brother &#8211; or at least the back of his head.&nbsp; First time I&#8217;ve seen him in days.&nbsp; Yeah he wants to move out.. pretty badly.&nbsp; Mostly isn&#8217;t at home at all.. feels he needs a break from us.&nbsp; (us being the family)&nbsp; We don&#8217;t know what the heck is going on in his life &#8211; and he likes it that way.&nbsp; He didn&#8217;t get the job promotion that he wanted.&nbsp; His friend did &#8211; and now is his boss.&nbsp; He didn&#8217;t bother to tell his family about it &#8211; instead we heard about it when his boss (friend) called us.&nbsp; He told us that Michael doesn&#8217;t perform well.. because he is always fighting with his brother (apparently that&#8217;s me.)&nbsp; I think Michael paints a far cry from the truth to Anyone who will listen.&nbsp; And he can do that.. he is a great Salesman.&nbsp; He could trick people to sell their soul for a bottle of wine&#8230; and make them think they were making the biggest and best investment ever.&nbsp; Ah well.. that&#8217;s just his ways isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>My dad spoke to him a few nights about as to how to use his money (because he can&#8217;t seem to save any money, always blowing it on things like. 150 dollars on a phone card&#8230;) and his boss said he and my dad had a &#8216;blow up&#8217;.&nbsp; Yep.. I never knew things like that were a blowup.&nbsp; What a jerk.&nbsp; What nerve does his &#8216;friend&#8217; have calling here and telling us to not make Michael mad so he can perform better at work.&nbsp; Oh Heaven forbid he be mad.. or upset.&nbsp; You know what?&nbsp; He doesn&#8217;t want to be&nbsp;a part of our family.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know.. maybe we smell?&nbsp; maybe were just not good to him.. he doesn&#8217;t accept our love.. and he doesn&#8217;t want any part of it.&nbsp; So what are we supposed to do?&nbsp; We let him be.. let him do things his way.. and mostly on his terms&#8230; within reason that is.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is.. Michael was telling his Boss.. his friend that we wanted him and his boss&nbsp;to go to church.&nbsp; Not only&nbsp;Michael &#8211; oh now, but now we want&nbsp;but his friend going too.&nbsp; Oi&#8230;&nbsp; Up until last week my brother was upholding a deal that he made with my parents when he moved in almost a year ago.&nbsp; That was &#8211; he can move in but he has gotta go to church with us.&nbsp; He &#8216;hates&#8217; going.&nbsp; So my parents said he didn&#8217;t have to go anymore.&nbsp; It was brought up in a conversation with his friend about how we wanted him to go too.. (of course Michael told him his)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Ah well.&nbsp; he wants to move out.&nbsp; Maybe its better if he moves out soon.&nbsp; Its tiring having to deal with it all the time.&nbsp; If he could for once care about his family and the state of the relationship with us&nbsp;more than he does about his friends that would be nice.&nbsp; Why do I say that?&nbsp; His boss&#8230; said that he was depressed about the possibility of moving.&nbsp; Yeah really?&nbsp; He has a funny way of showing it.&nbsp; As far as spending the money?&nbsp; His boss said that he just spends his money when he is depressed.. he said he was like him.&nbsp; Good.&nbsp; great \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So my brother shall move out.&nbsp; Hopefully not to go and burn bridges like so many other times before.&nbsp; Hopefully one day he will want a relationship with his family, and embrace us and the relationship that he COULD be having but DOESN&#8217;T WANT.&nbsp; How the heck do you paint yourself to be the &#8216;black sheep&#8217; in the family.. if you are the one holding the paint and the brush.. then when&nbsp;as a family we&nbsp;go to wash away the paint&nbsp;&#8211; he&nbsp;starts running away while everyone else is trying to Love&nbsp;him as&nbsp;he is?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care.&nbsp; Anyone can read this.&nbsp; What do I have to hide?&nbsp; Nothing.&nbsp; It bugs me.. Big time.&nbsp; And it bugs me more that the look on his face is so Freaking Glazed over all the time..&nbsp; it bugs the crap outa me!&nbsp; I&#8217;m not sayin any more about it.&nbsp; Its done.&nbsp; Its over.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m done.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not going to rant any more&#8230; but I needed to say what I said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Matthew 15:10-20<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><sup>10<\/sup>Jesus called the crowd to him and said, &#8220;Listen and understand. <sup id=\"en-NIV-23645\">11<\/sup>What goes into a man&#8217;s mouth does not make him &#8216;unclean,&#8217; but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him &#8216;unclean.&#8217; &#8221; <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sup id=\"en-NIV-23646\">12<\/sup>Then the disciples came to him and asked, &#8220;Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sup id=\"en-NIV-23647\">13<\/sup>He replied, &#8220;Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. <sup id=\"en-NIV-23648\">14<\/sup>Leave them; they are blind guides.<sup>[<a title=\"See footnote e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.org\/passage\/?search=matthew%2015:1-20;&amp;version=31;#fen-NIV-23648e\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">e<\/a>]<\/sup> If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sup id=\"en-NIV-23649\">15<\/sup>Peter said, &#8220;Explain the parable to us.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sup id=\"en-NIV-23650\">16<\/sup>&#8220;Are you still so dull?&#8221; Jesus asked them. <sup id=\"en-NIV-23651\">17<\/sup>&#8220;Don&#8217;t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? <sup id=\"en-NIV-23652\">18<\/sup>But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man &#8216;unclean.&#8217; <sup id=\"en-NIV-23653\">19<\/sup>For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. <sup id=\"en-NIV-23654\">20<\/sup>These are what make a man &#8216;unclean&#8217;; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him &#8216;unclean.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Pray for me.. that I can somehow find more paitence&#8230; without letting my tounge slip while speaking to him&#8230; maybe silence is the key.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>God Bless.&nbsp; goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hello. So today at work was alright.&nbsp; It was pretty busy up until about noon.. at that point it got really quiet.&nbsp; They VTO&#8217;d a few people.. not me.&nbsp; But I didn&#8217;t care because I only had an hour left anyway. I walked in from work and I saw my brother &#8211; or at least&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":94,"url":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2003\/12\/27\/94\/","url_meta":{"origin":373,"position":0},"title":"Hey everyoneFirst line of business...\u2026","author":"me@jshox.com","date":"December 27, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey everyoneFirst line of business... 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