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

 



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

(To read more, well, just keep reading!)

















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:

Nobody cares, Dave… so just work harder.
—Unk

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. Carry yourself in this way, and you’ll go a lot farther in helping others to be and become The People They Say They Want to Be.
— YT [Yankee Tango (aka Yours Truly)]

Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.
—Lea Ellen

Be you, Dave; let people feel the weight [see definition in Glossary] 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

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 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

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 place of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm.
—YT

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

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