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Friday, October 4, 2019

Cause and Effect or Because... and Effectiveness

what are your deepest Woulda-shoulda-s?
If we wallow in those we will never be successful!

Aren't you glad we are encouraged to forget what is behind and strain toward what is ahead?

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
Phil.3:13


Not always what we’d rather but rather that which we should
For what seems pleasing in the moment is not always good
Deception is a master at defending reason’s cause
It decorates disaster with momentary applause

Effect lasts so much longer than the cause that sets its course
Consequence for the action is a firm, far-reaching force
Therefore discernment looks beyond what seems good at first glance
To see what it will lead to, given enough time and chance

Futile to mourn at heaps that hold what none can resurrect
Better to leave behind what none can find, save in effect
Then learn from our mistakes that made us wiser than we were
Aware that what we do is always hinged to something more

The hardiness of habits makes them very hard to break
Then it is good to be astute in choices that we make
For though at first they may seem too minor to make a fuss
Sooner or later they become the best and worst of us

© Janet Martin

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