Should we?

A friend posted this comment in the aspect of if we should reach for all that we can do in this life. Here is what I posted in his comments. 

"men are that they might have joy" ~ I think we should reach for all that we can be, although limit ourselves only if it takes away from the freedom of others. I always remember this talk I heard where the person speaking said that hell would be looking back at our life and knowing that we could have done more for others and more with our own life. Then I think of the parable of the talents, and think that I have been given so much I need to be able to go out there and reach for more and share more, lest what I have be taken from me and given to another. We so often look at that as a parable of what talents we have in our terminology of what a talent is, when it was about money, which could also be time, or ability or capability. You could dunk a basketball on that hoop if you started working towards it, it would not be immediate, but you could do it. It would not be easy, and it would take lots of effort, but I really believe that people can get what they focus on because it has happened way too many times to me for it to be a coincidence. You are right on the thought, of "should we". I do not think God wants us to be unhappy in any extent and as He states He is a good Father that knows how to give good gifts. For us to deny our abilities to reach for what we can in this life is denying Him the gifts that He has for us, and what right do we have to say as in what gifts of His for us are better than the others.

Working.

So I just got done with sitting down with a family and helping them with their finances. I feel good about it, that is why I continue to do it. It felt good to help them save money and set some aside in what we know to be a down market and actually have some growth off of it. Doing this work helps me learn more about myself than about others. I learn a lot about others, believe me, but because of those that I work around, they help me look into myself at the same time, helping me refine myself. Sometimes I feel like the iron in the forge, constantly getting hit and pummeled while the heat is on, but then you get to sit down and use those things that you learn and it is like the moment the iron gets put into the water to cool. I bet that iron feels refreshed and ready to go at it all again after a cool down like that. I realize that I do not think like others, that my mind does not work along the same lines as those around me and that some things that others catch on to fast take me some time to get a grasp of. I realized that it is because I like to imagine all the possibilities of something, and that takes me down a million roads in my mind within a few moments. Then I get excited and then I over inform others, and then no one knows what it is I am talking about because they were going down one road steadily that I already took in my mind along with all the others. I think I need to focus on what the end goal is and not let myself get off that track. 

So there you have it, a glimpse inside the madman's mind. I am my minds architect, and sometimes I wonder at how I did it. It makes me smile and confused at the same time.

First entry

Just thought that I would get some things out into the webosphere, you know, since everyone else is doing it I may as well do it too. 

I have been married for 5 years and this last September we had our first born child. He is such a handful of joy and fun. We named him Ethan, a good hebrew name that stands for "firmness, steadfastness, constancy, strong, impetuous". We really did not know what it was we just liked the name and ran with it. 

As you can see he is a beautiful boy, we love him more than we could have ever imagined.

Beth is a stay at home mom now, has been since right before his birth. She loves it at times and other times it is trying. I could not do it, I love my son more than life itself but I could not do what she does, I am glad I married such a strong woman. 

I have been working 2 full time jobs, one is with an IT firm doing support for hospitals and the other is with a financial firm, running an office and directing a team of agents. Between the two I do not get to see my boy too often but I do it so that in a year or less I can spend all the time I want with him, a sacrifice I am willing to take so that I can give more later. 

Off to another subject. Lately I have been fascinated by some of the things some of the locals here in Phoenix AZ will do to their cars to make them look good or "faster". A friend of mine and I have started to come up with a set of rules for what items added do what to a car, most of them are end up focusing on the horse power output of the car with varying degrees of other factors. We may start a totally different site about it here in the near future. We just laugh at what people will do to their cars to make them look good, or to make them unique. When we get that up I will let you all know.

That is it for now, focus on what you want, not what you don't want and life will give it to you.

Joe