Author: Paul Silcock

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My Heart Won Over My Head Today

The other day I had a conflict between my heart and my head. It turns out that my heart won.

my heart won over my head

This kind of conflict happens when you know something to be true or something seems to be logical, but you want or wish for a different outcome. 

On the outset you would think that isn’t a fair fight at all. Truth and logic should win out every time. In reality, however, it doesn’t always happen.

The truth is that I know the dish of M&M’s on the table over there is not good for me. That’s a fact. But I really feel like tasting that peanut, coated in chocolate, covered in a hard candy shell. 

Guess what won that fight? I downed about seven or eight of them before I could stop myself. 

The truth and feelings fight may never be fair but somehow feelings wins the day way more than we would think. 

It’s like an underdog win. We never expect it to even be close, but sometimes we root for the underdog and we are really happy when it wins.

Yesterday I watched the Super Bowl. I knew some information about the two teams and I knew the odds. 

The favourite team was the Kansas City Chiefs; the underdone was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 

The two quarterbacks were at the center of the ranking. The Chiefs’ quarterback is young, brilliant and makes plays out of nothing, scrambling out of trouble to gain yards. The Buccaneers’ quarterback is old (in terms of football), crafty, wise and has all the experience the young quarterback lacks. 

I had watched the two teams play during the season and I was convinced, like the odds makers, that Kansas City would beat Tampa Bay … but my heart wanted the Buccaneers to win for Tom Brady, their quarterback. 

He’s already won six Super Bowls – one more win and it would put him in a category by himself. He won’t have too many more chances to make it happen. He’s my boy, so my heart was with Tom Brady and the Buccaneers.

As for Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs’ quarterback, he has won one already, and with his whole career ahead of him, he will undoubtedly win more. Both he and his team were so skilled, though, I really didn’t think they could possibly lose. 

When it came down to game time, I didn’t have any doubts. Chiefs would win, even though I wanted the Bucs to pull it off. 

In the end, against the odds, the underdogs won the game. … My heart won over my head. 

And an ironic thing took place in the game. The team that should have won, the team that was picked as the favourite, let their emotions, their feelings, get the better part of them. 

They got into penalty trouble and, though I’m not saying it’s what cost them the game, their emotions or feelings were a detriment to their game. 

As for me, there is no weeping over the fact my heart won over my head. I’m quite happy with the outcome. 

Here’s the thing: Sometimes you will have an agenda before you. You will be on a time constraint. But then you feel that there is someone you need to care for, a call you should make, a kind deed you should do. That’s God nudging you, trying to get you to let your feelings win over your head. Make sure you follow your feelings in those cases. You will be happy you did. 

That’s Life!

Paul

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The Third Time Is Not Always A Charm

They say there is a first time for everything, but I say there is a third time for some things.

the third time is not always a charm

What I’m referring to is the mistakes we make. Sometimes we can learn from our mistakes. There are other times when we just keep repeating the same mistake over and over.

If you do something for the first time that ends in failure, you may not want to try that again.

I know of people who had a car accident when they were first learning to drive. They were afraid of repeating their error so they decided not to ever drive again.

I think mistakes are important for us to learn from. They shouldn’t scare us away. We should use our mistakes to make corrections, to change the formula, to improve the process. 

That is why I keep using my garage every day. I don’t park outside the garage; I drive my car inside. 

The reason I tell you this is because the other day I drove my car into my garage door. 

You might be thinking that anyone can make a mistake, but this is not the first time I’ve done it.

This is the third time I’ve driven into my garage and wrecked something.

There is another saying, “third time’s a charm” … well, not when it comes to garage doors, it’s not. 

The first two times were a little different. I had a bike on top of my car both of those times and so I didn’t really hit my garage door but the frame above the door – one time destroying my bike rack and the other time knocking the side view mirror off my car.

This time it didn’t involve my bike, but the bike rack still gets a starring role in the story.

Usually when I come home from work, I hit the garage door button when I turn the corner onto our street. That way the door is almost up by the time I get to my driveway. 

This particular day last week, Lily was shovelling the driveway when I came home and she had the garage door already up. 

So when I hit the button, the door started closing instead of opening. As soon as I saw that, I hit the button again, but that only stopped the door. It didn’t send it back up. 

Meanwhile, I was smiling at Lily as I passed her on the driveway until “BOOM!” … The door was just low enough to catch the top of my bike rack.

I probably would have snuck under the door if the rack had not been there, but the lock on it is jammed and I can’t take it off.  

The accident pushed the bottom panel of the garage door off the track and put a good-sized dent in it. Now the alignment is off and the door doctor says I will have to replace the panel. 

At least we don’t need to replace the whole garage door. 

… And just maybe, after the third time, I’ve learned my lesson.

Here’s the thing: It is good to know that God will forgive you when you sin – even if it’s not the first time you have sinned that way. This doesn’t give you a license to sin, but it does give you hope that your failings can be forgiven even if you haven’t learned from your past mistakes.

That’s Life!

Paul

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Chain Reaction Tangents Are Infuriating

Anyone can be pulled from their focus by a chain reaction. In other words, you can be dragged away from what you are focusing on from an outside source.

chain reaction tangents are infuriating

I have to be careful to keep my focus because it is so easy for me to … oh, look at how the light from the window is casting an image on the pool table. 

… Sorry for that, but I guess you see what I mean. 

It doesn’t take much for my attention to be diverted from what I am working on to something completely different.

I do it to myself all the time. All of us do; some of us do it more than others.

But that is not being pulled from your focus by a chain reaction. 

A chain reaction is when you are focussed on doing something and someone else leads you away from that focus to something completely different. 

This happens all the time, like when you are working on a project and your boss breaks into your office and says, “We have a crisis. I need you to draw up a contract and have it couriered to a client immediately.”

There is nothing much you can do about that, except drop what you are doing and pick up the new assignment. It is necessary, urgent, and a directive from your boss. 

Technically, you could say your boss got you off on a tangent, but that is not what really happened. Your boss changed your direction.

Sometimes, however, you can find yourself on a chain reaction tangent.

That’s when someone other than you interrupts your focus to get you to do something completely unrelated to what you were doing and to what they were doing at the moment. 

… I hope that last sentence didn’t hypnotize anyone.

Let me explain. 

I was on my way to write a blog when Lily sighed and said she needed to get some things out of the spare bedroom.

Maybe it was just a passing comment, but I wondered why she said that and then didn’t remove the items. 

So I asked a question. 

She couldn’t give me an answer. She had to come and see what I was talking about … which somehow elicited another sigh from her as she walked into our bedroom.

She looked at our bathroom door and said, “I need the towel racks taken off this door so I can paint it.” 

“What?” I said. “How did we get here? I was on my way to write a blog and you were in the kitchen talking about some things in the spare bedroom.” 

“Now you want me to take the towel racks off our bathroom door so you can paint it? Where did this come from?” 

Minutes later I had a screwdriver in my hand and I was taking the hardware off the door.

That is what you call a chain reaction tangent. 

… At least it gave me something to blog about.

Here’s the thing: In what ways does God want you to grow closer to Him? Or how has God been nudging you to make a commitment to Him? You can find all kinds of things that will keep you from growing or making a decision to follow Christ. Those chain reaction tangents will take you so far from what God wants you to focus on that it might take months or years to get back. Don’t let a chain reaction tangent take you from what God wants to do in your life.

That’s Life!

Paul

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I’m A Contradiction And I Don’t Care

Most people are going to think that I’m a contradiction to what I’ve said I believe and practice.

I'm a contradiction and I don't care

But before you get your shirt in a knot, I’ll assure you it has nothing to do with my faith.

There are a lot of things these day that are contradictions. For example, there was Biden’s executive order of wearing a mask on all federal premises and then he was seen on federal premises without a mask. 

I’m a contradiction because I recently wrote four blog posts about a plan for losing weight. And now in this post I’m going to tell you something that seems to go directly against all I wrote in those previous posts.

Adults have this problem of not acting out what they say they believe. Parents will even tell their children, “Do as I say, not as I do.” The reason they say that is because what they are telling their children directly contradicts something that they are doing. 

No wonder, by the time kids reach junior or high school, they no longer believe anything their parents say. To teens, their parents are a contradiction. 

We’ve seen in our society where people condemn the violence that took place at the Capital Building, but then defend the violence of the many protests which took place in US cities during the summer.

We are a complete contradiction. 

So be kind to me when I tell you I just bought a deep fryer. 

That’s right, I wrote about how you can lose that weight you desperately want to get rid of and then I bought a deep fryer. 

It’s like I was saying, “Do this, but I’m going to do something contradictory instead.” 

It seems like I’m a contradiction and not just on the surface. You may be thinking “I’d like to see you get out of this one, you phony.”

Though I admit it seems like I’m a contradiction, I really am not. 

You see, the four posts I wrote about losing weight were not tied to a diet. I didn’t encourage anyone to only eat certain foods. In those posts I was advocating a lifestyle. I was saying this is how you can live your life and lose weight. 

One of the things I do each week is have chicken wings. I didn’t stop eating chicken wings in order to lose weight. I am, however, careful not to eat them too often. 

But I enjoy them and I will enjoy my life. 

Recently, the place where I get my wings each Saturday night (and I only have them once a week) has been closed. I’m not sure they will open up again, but if they do, they were going to start selling fish as well. 

Lily is highly allergic to fish, so it was looking like the end of getting wings there any way … best wings in town, by the way.

So I thought I would try to make my own wings. There is no difference in ordering wings from a restaurant once a week or making them myself once a week. 

No contradiction. 

By the way, they were delicious. … Now I’ve just got to perfect my hot sauce recipe. 

Here’s the thing: There are some people who say that the Bible is filled with contradictions. That is as good a reason as any for them not to believe the Bible. But the truth is, if you take a deep and closer look into what the Bible really does say, you will find that the seeming contradictions are not there at all. 

That’s Life!

Paul

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Wires Can Make Anything Look Messy

Wires can really make an area look junky. That’s what our television area was like – a tangled pile of wires.

wires can make anything look messy

Of course we tried to hide them behind a TV stand but, if you looked at the far side of the stand, the octopus of cords was visible, spilling out from behind the unit. 

It just didn’t look good. 

And honestly, it doesn’t take very many cords to make things look messy. 

But that is our burden in the 21st century. So much in our lives runs on electricity. 

Just think, there was a time when there were no cords. The only thing on the table by the wall was a oil lamp or candle stand.

Back then homes never looked like you needed an experienced seaman to come and harpoon the tentacles that were wrapped around the furniture.

… Oh, and how quickly an electrical cord can get tangled. It doesn’t even need another cord to fight with. One cord can tangle itself into knots. 

It’s the price we pay for being able to plug things into the wall and have power, whether that is to light a lamp, or turn on a TV, a computer or other device.

Recently we got a new TV. … Yes, we got it just in time for the Super Bowl party we won’t be having this year. 

Lily and I will really have to whoop it up by ourselves. I think I might even have a chance to win some of the contests I usually have for our guests. Maybe I will go all out this year on prizes and make them bigger and better than ever.

Back to the new TV … 

Our last TV sat on a table/TV stand so all the cables went down and behind that stand. From the front you couldn’t see any cables. 

The new TV, well, that’s a different matter. We wanted to hang it on the wall. 

What a mess; it looked disgusting. 

There is a two and a half foot space between the TV and the table below. On the table is a cable box, a PlayStation and a Wii. Some cables have to go up to the TV and some have to go down to the outlets.  

Basically, there are 10 wires of different kinds and colours that have to go between the table and the TV.

I separated them all nicely and created a pattern of cords in that gap. I kind of thought it looked artsy. 

Lily didn’t find it one bit artistic, so we needed a plan.

I cut two holes in the drywall, one behind the stand and one behind the TV. I ran the cable back and forth through those holes. Power cords, however, are not supposed to go through the wall like that, so I put an outlet behind the TV and connected it to the outlet below. 

My entertainment area now looks like a scene from the 1700’s when nothing was connected – no wires. 

Here’s the thing: I don’t think many of us would want to live back at the time of some of the great saints of the past, even though life seemed simpler then. Though the world we live in is messy, that should not stop us from becoming present-day saints, and working on cleaning up our messes and living godly lives. Seek more of what Jesus wants for you and you’ll be satisfied.

That’s Life!

Paul

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To Be Wanted Is A Really Good Feeling

Everyone has a desire to be wanted; it makes us feel loved. And it doesn’t take much for us to feel appreciated or loved or even wanted. A simply gesture will do. 

To be wanted is a really good feeling

When I was growing up, when all our friends lined up and two captains picked teams, as long as we were not the last one picked, we felt wanted. 

If we were picked first, second or third, we had an even greater bond with our captain. He wanted us; we were important to his team.

There was even a sense that he liked us.

Every dad or mom knows that feeling when their child sees them after a time away and runs into their arms screaming, “Daddy!” or “Mommy!” 

Even if that time away has only been an eight hour work day, or even an hour long shopping trip, in that situation, as they wrap their little arms tightly around your neck and yell their excitement to see you, about a quarter of an inch from your ear, you know, you feel it, you love the feeling of being wanted, being loved. 

In a work environment, when you get called in to be told you are getting a promotion or given more responsibility, or just a pat on the back because of the work you are doing, you feel wanted, like you are important to your company and to your boss.

Dogs are great at making us feel wanted. They follow you around; they just want to be with you. They are glad to see you when you come home. They stay close to your side. They invite you to play with them. 

They make you feel wanted, loved. 

So the other day, I had this weird and funny thing happen. I entered the garage and got into my car to go to work. I turned it on, backed it out of the garage and stopped to record my mileage for the previous day. 

Then I hit the garage door button, put my car in reverse and backed onto the street.

I looked back at the garage door to make sure it was closing and, just as I went to put the car in drive, I noticed something. 

The garage door was inches from being closed but there was a basketball rolling slowly down the driveway towards my car. 

I laughed, but my first thought was, “Look, that basketball doesn’t want me to leave. It’s like it’s saying, ‘Wait for me; let me come too.’”

In the weirdest way I felt wanted by that basketball. I laughed as I hit the garage door button again and got out of my car. 

I scooped up my basketball in my hands and gave it a few loving bounces as I walked back up the driveway. Then I took a couple of shots at the hoop – just to be playful – and put the ball back in the garage. 

I couldn’t get the smile off my face. 

Can you be wanted by an inanimate object?

Here’s the thing: God created this world, and the fact that you are alive is a sign that you are wanted. Even if you don’t feel wanted by anyone else, you are wanted by God. In fact, God wants you so badly that He sent His Son, Jesus, to come after us. He did that by going to the cross to pay for our sins. That’s how much you are wanted by God. … So how are you going to respond to being wanted?

That’s Life!

Paul

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Prerequisites Get Us To What We Really Want

Prerequisites are often necessary, but usually unwanted.

prerequisites get us to what we really want

The whole premise of a prerequisite is that you can’t do what you want to do until you do something else. 

When you were in school you had prerequisite classes that needed to be taken so that you could take a course that would get you to graduation. 

… Oh, and didn’t it bug you when the prerequisite wasn’t offered that semester. So you had to further delay taking the course you really needed or wanted to take? 

Well, prerequisites are not just found in school, and the ones found in life are also not that enjoyable.

A prerequisite keeps you from getting to what you really want. It’s like a roadblock that stands in the way of you enjoying something you are looking forward to.

In life a prerequisite can be anything that forces you to do something you don’t really want to do or take the time to do, in order to get to that thing you really want to do. 

For example, suppose you were really looking forward to going on a vacation. It’s the day you are leaving; you are packed and ready to go. 

But you can’t just leave; you still have a meeting you have to attend. You also know this meeting will generate some work for you and some of that work will have to be completed before you take off on your vacation. 

That is a life prerequisite.

You don’t want to go to the meeting and you don’t want to have to do any more work. Your head is already on vacation, but you are stuck. 

Your mother used to pull the prerequisite card on you when you were a kid: “Johnny, you can’t go out to play until you clean your room.”

Prerequisites never come at a good time; they are always in the way.

I’m bugged by one right now. 

I’m editing a video for a friend. I’ve been working on it for some time and I’d like to finish it. 

But lately I’ve noticed that my computer is running a little sluggish. There is no way I can edit video when just switching between a word processor and an excel sheet slows everything down.

I realized I don’t have much room left on my hard drive. So, in order to be able to edit my video, I need to free up some space on my hard drive.

That’s my prerequisite. 

I don’t want to take the time. I just want to get at what I want to do. But I’m stuck trying to find hidden files on my computer that I can obliterate.

I wish there was a program that would just do it all for me, that all I would need to do as a prerequisite is press the enter button.

Here’s the thing: There is a prerequisite to get into heaven and it is to have faith in Jesus Christ. That sounds easy, but placing your faith in Christ means it will impact your whole life, your thinking and your actions. So many people just want to do what they want and not deal with that prerequisite … so they never do deal with it. Like in every other area of life, you have to bend your will to the prerequisite or you will never get what you really want. Don’t keep putting it off. 

That’s Life!

Paul

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Think Like You Used To Think

I believe many people don’t think like they used to think. 

Think like you used to think

That might seem like a ridiculous thing to write. Of course, many people – probably all people – don’t think the way they used to think. We change our minds about things all the time. 

I’m not talking about a change of mind, thinking one way and then changing to think about the same thing differently. We can all hear new facts, or a different opinion, and change what we think. 

What I’m talking about is changing our thinking process, how we process information that comes into our minds. 

That seems to have changed for many people.

As a child, you may have woken up in the middle of the night and believed you were seeing a dragon by your desk. 

It looked real; you were frightened. You were just about ready to scream for help. But instead turned on your nightlight and discovered the dragon was actually a sock that had been flung over the back of a chair. 

The light and shadows from the moon, that pierced through the tiny opening in your curtains, caused your mind to interpret the shadow of that sock as a monster by your desk. 

When you shed a different light on the area, you could see that your original thinking was faulty, so you changed your mind. 

… And your heart rate. 

These days many people will not try to see the dark dragon in any other light than what is presented to them. Their minds will not change; they only see what is presented before them, without questioning the light that is creating the image. 

A recent example of this is comes from a company that I have been a patron of for many years. In fact, I have been a proponent of their products to others. 

The company is Apple. 

Recently they made a statement that they would prevent an app from their store from being downloaded to or accessed by devices they make. 

That’s a pretty bold move. 

The threat of doing this comes with a condition: they will shut down the Parler app from the Apple app store unless Parler sensors their subscribers. 

… Not all the subscribers, just those subscribers who don’t think like Apple or promote their ideology. 

When I heard this, the first image that came to my mind was the image of a commercial they had made years ago when their company was starting up.

The theme of the commercial was “Think Different”. The images of the commercial were based on the book “1984” by George Orwell. 

The commercial was making the point to break from thinking like the masses, like all the others and think for yourself. Apple was setting itself apart from all the other computer companies and saying to think about computers in a new way. 

Now it seems they have changed how they think. Now they want you to think just like them, like the masses. 

Apple doesn’t think differently any more.

Here’s the thing: Should we think like the masses? The pressure is on to think that way. But to think like we used to think, make sure your mind gets to see another perspective. Let the Bible be that perspective. Read it, understand the message, apply it, and keep yourself from just going along with the thinking of the masses. 

That’s Life!

Paul

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Packed Up For Another Year

Well, its that time of year that everything gets packed up again.

packed up for another year

It started yesterday in our home, three days after the new year. 

There have been years when the packing didn’t start until a week into the year, but there are other factors at play this time. The bottom line is if Christmas doesn’t get packed up now, it will be weeks before there is an opportunity to get at it again.

I have to admit that I’m not the main packer in our home. My wife, Lily, takes the lead and the bulk of the job. I’m just there for a little grunt work and some moral support – and I’m a little light on the moral support, to be truthful.

We don’t have tons of storage in our house, so the fact that Lily has skill and lots of experience in packing is a good thing. 

I’ve helped move a lot of people in my day and people have very different ideas of packing. 

I’ve arrived at people’s houses to help them move and their place looks like everything is still in its place. They think they are ready to go, while I wonder if they have ever heard of boxes. Please pack your stuff in boxes before I get there!

Our son pulled that once. Though, to be fair, he’d never moved before. Lily asked him if he was pretty much packed up. He assured her that his apartment was all ready to load into the van. 

I liked hearing those words. But when we arrived, you would have thought he was just getting settled into the place. 

Well, he knows now what getting packed up is all about and for his last move he was ready.

But Lily is a master packer. The proof was in our move from Edmonton to Kingston. She had about 100 uniformed boxes, just the perfect size for carrying. Light ones could be stacked and carried. Heavier boxes were not too heavy for one person. 

The day we moved into our Kingston home, she stood in the doorway as our helpers brought the boxes in. She looked at the number she had marked on the box, looked at her master sheet and directed them to the exact room where the box was to go. 

Packing up Christmas is no different in our house. Some of those same boxes she used 25 years ago are still the off-season home for decorations, ornaments and trimmings.

It’s a lot of work. I couldn’t do it like she does, but it has to get done now. She is running out to time. 

Our daughter and son-in-law are moving to a new place in less than two weeks and guess what? Lily has been hired to help them get packed up for their move. 

I haven’t seen the contract yet, but I’m sure the payment will be time spent with Karlie and Matt. 

Here’s the thing: What state are your affairs in right now? If your time was up, are you packed and ready to go? Would you have everything in your life in order, ready to meet God? Or would there be a mess that still needs to be cleaned up? It will be too late at that point. Be sure that your life is in order now, so that you are ready when the time comes.

That’s Life!

Paul

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Why Your Sleep May Be Interrupted

Since the new year I have not slept that well, and now I know why.

why your sleep may be interrupted

You would think that with a new year everything restarts, that at midnight on January 1 we hit the reset button … unless you stayed up into the new year and, in that case, the reset happened when your head hit the pillow.

And that is the very culprit of my poor start to 2021 – my pillow.

Pillows are an important part of your sleep technology, according to Sleep Country. But since they are in the business of selling you mattresses and pillows, maybe we should take that idea with a grain of salt.

Yet my pillow is driving me nuts. 

When it’s on the bed, before I climb in, it looks so good, fluffy, lying there inviting me to lay my head down on it. 

But as soon as my head presses into the pillow, it collapses into nothing. 

It’s like in the old cartoons when they were trying to catch a lion. They would dig a hole and then cover it to look like it was just the jungle floor. 

The unsuspecting lion would come along in all his glory and walk confidently over the spot. The covering would collapse and he would fall into the pit. 

When I put my head on my pillow, it’s like my head falls ten stories to the mattress below. At least it is a mattress down there and not a cement floor.

So I’ve been crunching up my pillow to give it some substance. Then, of course, as soon as I move, that soft bolder I’ve created loses its shape and bang, down to the mattress my head falls again. 

As a result, my neck has been a little sore during the night. It’s also causing problems with cutting off circulation to my arms. 

It can be frightening to be half asleep and realize you can’t feel your left arm. And when you fling that half dead arm from under your chest you have to lie still to wait until all those pins and needles leave your appendage before you can move again to a more comfortable position. 

That’s why my condition is serious and it is also causing me to dream more. 

At the beginning of a new year it is good to dream, to dream of what you want to accomplish in the new year, dream about projects you want to start, or things you want to stop. 

But the dreams I’ve been having are disjointed, wild and they don’t make sense. They do nothing but make me restless and cause me to wake up feeling unrested after my night’s sleep.

I’m only a couple of days into the new year and already I’m wondering when this year will be over … and I’m not even thinking about all the COVID issues that are still ahead of us. 

So I’ve made a plan, and I’ve already executed it. This morning I stole a pillow from our spare bedroom. 

We will see if I sleep better tonight. 

Here’s the thing: In the beginning of a new year, we can feel restless for a number of reasons. One way to deal with that restlessness is to take time to seek God and come up with some goals for the year ahead. Consider what God might want to start or stop. You might find you sleep better too. 

That’s Life!

Paul

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