Hello Ladies,
Today I hope you will listen often enough to sing along, and check out the Playlist and get a continuous play to keep you company while you go about your responsibilities at home.
On the SE Samonte playlist, they put up scriptures at the end of each song, so the pause is longer to wait until the next song, but just be patient.
Listening to these songs would also be a good beginning for my future talks on refinement. The words in these hymns cannot fail to refine.
4 comments:
Such a beautiful a cappella hymn. I look forward to hearing how you will relate it to refinement. God bless you, Mrs Sherman.
Thanks Lydia!
Dear Lydia, these are not my words but I wanted to understand if this was really one of my problems... SO I looked up cynical. Oh boy can I relate. thanks for pointing this out.
THESE ARE NOT MY WORDS BUT ARE FROM... https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/compassion-matters/201212/is-cynicism-ruining-your-life
"...there's always someone or something in our lives that can make us cynical. Like an ill-fitting sweater, cynicism can be easy to slip into, yet difficult to shake off.
But what are the risks of indulging in cynical attitudes? A 2009 study of more than 97,000 women showed that optimistic women had lower rates of coronary heart disease, cancer-related deaths, and mortality. Conversely, women with the most pessimistic and cynical personalities, had higher rates of these diseases and death.
Cynicism is part of a defensive posture we take to protect ourselves. It's typically triggered when we feel hurt by or angry at something, and instead of dealing with those emotions directly, we allow them to fester and skew our outlook. When we grow cynical toward one thing in our lives, we may slowly start to turn on everything.
When we get cynical, we are often indulging in self-righteous attitudes and forming expectations that people should behave a certain way. For example, my friend had thoughts like, "I never would have made him wait; he is so inconsiderate" or " I guess he really doesn't care if we get pictures of us with his family. I care more than he does about us all being together."
Because cynical and suspicious attitudes create a negative filter through which we observe our surroundings, when we are in this state, we tend to miss out on joys in life. We indulge in an "us versus them" mentality that pins us against a certain person or group. It is easy to distort people and create a caricature of their flaws.
ritical attitudes we're exposed to early in life, whether directed at us or at others, can shape the way we see people when we grow up. Events that leave us feeling vulnerable, hurt or angry will often trigger these old, defended, often cynical, reactions. As adults, it is our responsibility to separate these attitudes from our own and to differentiate from destructive early influences, so we don't hurt those closest to us.
This negativity can be contagious, bringing down those around us. It will lead us to alienate others, acting in a hostile manner, or to become self-protective and isolated. Ultimately, it is always in our own self-interest to be open and vulnerable rather than to be nasty or write people off. The only person we can control is ourselves. When we get cynical, we are the ones who suffer.'
Thank you Lydia for bringing out this point.
Check out my post where I mention the ancient philosopher Cynic, who spread his beliefs, now called Cynicism https://homeliving.blogspot.com/2011/12/abundant-living-for-homemaker.html?m=1. And look up Cynic and see what he and his followers did.
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