Relationships

Crazy…..

What do you think when you hear the word crazy? Well, I often think that this word is used irresponsibly causing labels to be placed on people who do not deserve them.

I have come to terms that there are four kinds of crazy:

1) Conditional Crazy – meaning you have a condition and you require medication to manage the condition. No shame in that – do what you need to do to be well.

2) Wild and Out Crazy – chilling with friends, being funny or silly. Okay, that’s cool.

3) Horror Movie Crazy – okay this is the kind of crazy where you are just out killin to be killin folks and straight up causing fright and horror for no good or apparent reason. Medication cannot help this, the trauma caused to others is your medication, except for instead of Penicillin it is more like cocaine, LSD, and crack all combined together. This is just demented and straight from the pits of hell crazy.

4) Circumstantial Crazy – now this I know about! Yes, me!!!! Circumstantial crazy is when you are in a situation that alters the way that you normally act. This is usually a highly stressful, unfulfilling, unresolved environment or relationship that damages a person over time. By the time the person starts to exhibit attitudes or dispositions, they have already tolerated well over their fill of “bull poopers”.

Have you ever watched those videos of people who have the office meltdowns? Well I would safely guess that 99% of those are circumstantial crazies. Perfectly normal folk, who just broke temporarily, sad but true.

So the next time you noticed something that is different from you, before you slap the crazy label on a person, take the time to see where they are coming from, and if you can’t do that….them leave them alone or get out of their way. 🙂

Helen

From December 21, 2013
While traveling this week I visited an abuse shelter for women and children. I woke up this morning thinking of those little faces, I can’t get them out of my mind. A 5 year with post traumatic stress disorder makes me sick to my stomach. This little guy saw one too many hits, heard one too many put downs or commands or orders. There were many people dropping off toys and clothes for the shelter, but none of those things can fix what was allowed to break and what is really broken….

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DjgEBXVZPuk8%26feature%3Dshare&a=dnFR86k-TypZ5a6wgCcUVA

You can stand in someone else’s shoes, but you will never wear them like the person that they were meant for. Find your own path, walk out your own destiny…anything short of that, is a life that has been cheated.

Helen

I never wanted perfect, I just wanted you……..Helen

Too light, too dark, too mean, too nice, too quiet, too talkative, don’t have this, should of had that, too fat, too flat, too pretty, not pretty enough, too broke, just broke, too “saved” (is that possible?), still missing “the mark”, too much of this, but not enough of that…..gotta stay below the radar and fly above the storm clouds all at the same time yet stay relevant to the Call and purpose for my life…..at the end of the day I just want to see Jesus …sighs

You know…I have loved this song for a long time. Through the years, its’ meaning has become so much richer in my heart. One day I want this song to play at my wedding, but I just don’t want it to play….I want it to be real in my heart and I want it to be a real expression of the love that my husband will have in his heart toward me. I can’t imagine saying, “I Do”, with feelings any less than what is written in this song, I mean come on, this is worth waiting for, but I pray that God give me the wisdom to know when I am presented before such gift……

Helen

Country singer, Dan Seals, sang a song titled, Everything that Glitters is Not Gold. Funny how the shiny things catch the eye and for a moment you think that you really have something special and the things that really mattered and were true are tossed to the side ….and for what…something so superficial but yet feeds the eye of pride and the fickleness of desires. Oh but time……time is the best teacher of the foolish decisions that one has made. Time is the best teacher of what is lost, never to be gained again. Time wears off the “shiny”, the “glitter” that first catches the eyes and it shows that everything that glitters is not gold….it had no value at all but to rob you of what was really true to you.

It is okay to “keep it moving”, just make sure that you are moving in the right direction.

Peace, Helen

I really think that a great deal of the problems great and small, would be solved or never happen if people would just “other foot it” – you know put the shoe on the other foot and think….now would I want someone to do that me or someone I love…..just pondering.