BP 78 - My Morning Primers (for Monday 2026-03-02)

 

"BE YOU, AND LET PEOPLE FEEL THE WEIGHT OF WHO YOU ARE..."

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Provided below are a few of the meditative sayings I recite each morning to help me "prime the pump" as I launch into Morning Worship:

Dave… Take what’s Mine, and make it yours.

—Jesus

Nobody cares, Dave… so just work harder.

—Unk [adapted]

At best, “correctors (especially, over-zealous, self-righteous ones)” are tolerated. Don’t be a corrector; DEMONSTRATE how things “can or could” be done. Show; don’t correct (or tell). Carry yourself in this way, and you’ll go a lot further in helping others to be and become The People They Say They Want to Be.

— YT [Yankee Tango (aka "Yours Truly")]

Shun any and all meaningless busyness. Do that, and maybe then you’ll find that which makes you come Alive as a person.

—Inspired by themes portrayed in the 1952 Japanese film Ikiru [ikiru means “to live”]

“I can’t afford to hate people. I haven’t got that kind of time.”

—Mr. Watanabe [from the film Ikiru]

If you’re A Lighthouse, stop chasing ships.

—YT

Peace is NOT the absence of pain or grief; neither is it the absence of conflict. Peace (or, at least, a significant element of it) is The Deep and Eternal Knowing that pain and grief don’t have the last word. It’s also The Deep and Eternal Knowing that The Justice of God (that is, Their Divine Order) will ultimately Prevail.

—YT

Don’t compare your beginnings to another person’s middle.

—Lea Ellen [adapted]

Willful sin injures you—spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally.  It also injures your relationships, your glory, and your anointing.

—YT

Focus on making many small incremental improvements. Every time you approach something (even those that you have a mastery of), look for something there to improve by just 1%.

—Unk [adapted]

Be you, Dave; let people feel the weight (that is, the glory) of who you are, and let them deal with it (however they may).

—John Eldredge [adapted]

The oak doesn't envy the speed at which gras grows.

—Dr. Carl Jung

"Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.”

—Malcolm Wallace to his young son, William, in a vision [from Braveheart]

“I never lie. And, yes, I am A Savage.”

—William Wallace [from Braveheart]

We shall not cease from exploration; and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know that place for the first time.

—T.S. Elliot [adapted]

Focus on making many small incremental improvements. Every time you approach something (even those that you have a mastery of), seek to improve by just 1%.

—Unk [adapted]

Give way to nothing; set your heart-mind and face like flint.

—YT [inspired by Is 50:7]

Never offer a hollow greeting of Peace, never turn away from Someone Who Needs Your Love, always speak The Truth from your heart-mind (that is, from The Eden of Your Soul).

—Inspired by themes in The Rule of St. Benedict [adapted]

Be Honest, pick yourself up, move yourself forward, be Honest.

—Inspired by a conversation between one of the brothers at Mepkin Abbey and Paul Wilkes in Paul Wilkes’ book Beyond the Walls: Monastic Wisdom for Everyday Life

Practice; even when you don’t feel like it, for feelings, like the clouds, come and go.
Persevere; even when you’re unsure of yourself, for certainty can be as restless as the wind.
Illusive, untamable.
Practice.
Persevere.
Surrender, stay The Course, and trust God’s Tempering and Tendering Processes.

—YT

Never do for another what he [or she] must do for himself—never. Only do that which has been asked for (and only after prayerful and careful consideration).

—YT

Live and act from a place of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm.

—YT

Be Submitted to Everyone and yet Beholden to No One Except God, and God alone.

—YT

Most of us have two lives: The life we live, and the Life we’re capable of Living.

—Steven Pressfield

Bullies need to know they can be punished, too.

—Jack Reacher

The Rest of those who’ve gone on before us cannot steady the unrest of those who follow.

—Mike Rich [adapted]

What’s going on in your innermost being is worthy of all your Love.

—Rainer Maria Rilke [adapted]

I want to beg you—as much as I can—to be patient toward all that’s unsolved and unresolved in your heart-mind. Try, too, to Love the unanswered (or not fully answered) questions themselves. Don’t seek answers you’re unable, in that very moment, to Live out. The point is to Live out everything. Accordingly, ask only for that which you can Live out now. Live into and Live out the questions now. Perhaps gradually, even without noticing it, you’ll one day Live into the unfolding answer, for that’s usually how answers come to us. Take whatever comes with great trust. Take it upon yourself to hate nothing and to, instead, Love everything that arises. Do your best to welcome everything with an unconditional cheerfulness and friendliness.

—Rainer Maria Rilke [adapted]

All grown-ups were children once—although few of them remember it.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [adapted]

I will not go with death…

—Sengai [on his death bed (adapted)]

To be, or not to be: That is the question.

—William Shakespeare [adapted]

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.

—William Shakespeare [adapted]

If music be the food of love, play on!

—William Shakespeare [adapted]