Gratefull

I am very grateful for my officers and the members of this lodge who have made sure the light of masonry is tended to. It is not that they tended the flame when I am unable, it is as I am unable I see they have tended it all along.

There may be times we think that we alone feed the fire and keep the flame alive. I am fortunate to see how many others tend the flame of knowledge and keep it alive that I might find my way back home.

My Earth is Flat

My Earth is Flat.

Though I may traverse the sphere
The round planet is not my world
I am not defined by it's dimension

My Earth is Flat

I have not met a person that death will not take.
I have not met a person who is my better
I have not met a person that I am better than.

My Earth is Flat

We meet upon the level
We act upon the plumb
We live upon the Square.

My Earth is Flat

Change

 Nothing will ever change around you. Really you should not expect it to. Things will not change just because you are there or watching. Change requires energy, will, desire. Watching the world stay the same shows none of these. 

If you want to see change you must cause it, waiting for change only works for canyons and glaciers.

beginings

Many years ago I went to Scottish Rite Hospital for Children with my wife and girls. It wasn't my first time there. We went inside the clinic checked in and got an update from other families we had already met and talked about how life was going. We got Popcorn from Volunteers that years later I would learn were George and Kay Skinner. (Even if we didn't have the quarter they always made sure the girls had popcorn)
As the girls examined the Airship to see if anything had changed I went outside for a Smoke. I stood outside the sliding doors and I spotted a small rough pillar of granite with a side walk and small garden around it. I walked over and upon the polished surface at the top of the pillar was a Square and Compasses. I stood there looking at it and reading and finished my smoke.
I went back inside and sat down next to my wife and said "this is a Masonic Hospital"
She said, "Well, yeah. You didn't know that?"
I knew my grandfather and his father and a few more back were Masons but I had no clue what Scottish Rite was until then.
One of the Hardest things we ever did was to leave Scottish Rite Hospital We did it because we changed our lives and wanted to make space for other children who needed the services there more than we did. It was the only Hospital I ever looked forward to going to. they didn't just take care of my daughter they cared for all of us.
That moment lead me to seek out admission to the Masonic Lodge, and I have never looked back with any thing but affection upon the Brothers who took care of my child and my family when I could not.
I asked to be a Mason because of this, in return I was given the tools to make myself a better man and to help others in need. myself a better man and to help others in need.

Master

I have picked myself up and crawled back out of a pit enough times. I have felt alone and neglected and abandoned.

I have railed against the Deity and demanded answers.

I have in my moments of weakness blamed the creator for what I did unto myself.

In time I learned the Master does not need me as an apprentice. What I was learning the Master could already do. I needed what he could teach me.

The Master did not need me as a traveler.. Journeymen are many and only those who listen are worth their salt. I needed his direction.

The Master does not need me to draw a new design,, but he will let me and teach me how to make it better. I need the Masters will.

The Master lets me show my worth, lets me prove my tools, The Master hopes that I might one day join him at his table.

It is not possible that I might become a master with out the Master to teach me.

agree?

Some times we agree to disagree.,

I do this far more often often in business than in friendship or in family.

This is where procedures and base requirements of two organizations just simply do not meet up. We agree it doesn't work we both do our thing required of us and in the end the main thing in question gets done. This agreeing to disagree. we will each do our own thing as long as the main "thing" gets done.

In my friendship and loving relationships I find myself reflecting on the "one thing" in question. I can love my friend , I can love my wife and children, I can love my brothers and sisters even if they don't believe that my "one thing" is real/appropriate/realistic/acceptable.

"Agreeing to disagree" is a business arrangement. Accepting someone will not ever agree with you and deciding to continue caring about them them is friendship and love.

husband

A response to a post about men and women.. from the point of view of a husband the post is below my response

A respectful response..

A Husband treasures his wife and the sacrifice of her family name. It is an outward show of commitment that he shares in by giving his family name to her.

A Husband Strives to provide a home for his wife and family.

A Husband gives up his family to make his own. it is or should be) an absolute issue. His Wife and Children are or should be the focus of his life.

A Husband moves in with you as well. it is not his mothers home to make it is not his fathers to command it is a husband and wife's to make and mold together.

A Husband should treasure and protect his wife in gravitas. She is his chosen mate caring his child. if he is thinking of anything but her comfort and the child's protection then he is not worthy of her.

A Husband's body changes though often not as fast. , A Husband gets fat. No Husband looks at love as a physical proposition.

A Husband is praying from the first time a Braxton hicks is identified to the time His wife clears delivery (most often he has already got to hold his child) That what ever power that created earth will protect his wife and child. (even atheist.)

being a "Husband" is not the same as being male or a Man. being a "Dad" is not the same as being a "Male parent"

Husbands do not forget to cherish their Wives any more than Wives forget to cherish their Husbands and Parents always remember to cherish their Children and Families..

(this is in response to an image post on a friends feed. )

This is the post I had responded to

A lot of men think they doing women a favour by asking for her hand in marriage, but lets think about this : she changes her name, changes her home, leaves her family, moves in with you, builds a home with you, gets pregnant for you, pregnancy change her body, she gets fat, almost gives up in the labour room due to the unbearable pains of child birth, even the kids she delivers bear your name. Till the day she dies everything she does benefits you.So who is really doing who a favour?Dear men appreciate your wife today, it is not easy to be a woman.*Being a woman is priceless *