Thursday Coffee Talk

Good Thursday morning everyone!  I am up WAY too early.  2:30 and I need to be asleep!  HAHA!  How did you sleep?  I will probably go back to sleep, but I had a thought on my mind so I want to post it. 

Our challenge today is to know that you are known by the company you keep.   Think about this, "you are known by the company you keep".  How are you known?  What company do you keep?  Are you keeping good company or bad company?  Good friends?  Right friends?  The morals of this world are getting worse every day and if people would learn to keep the right friends and be persons of integrity, this world could turn it's self around.  We need to realize that who we hang with (as my youth say) makes us who we are.  Who are you today?  Who are you keeping?  Are you the keeper or the keeping?  Know who you are known as today.  Someone once said, show me the friends you keep and I will show you what you are.  What a powerful challenge for today, but I know we can know who we are known as today and rethink things! 

So, who's up?  What cha sipping on this morning?  Me?  This early, I am enjoying a little bit of 2% milk.  I am going to try to get back to sleep.  Allison has school this a.m.  I will have coffee in a couple of hours and I KNOW it will be some great coffee too! 

Ya'll have a wonderful Thursday as you realize who you are known as today!!

I should probably get to bed.... I'm working on it too.

The company I keep is very representative of me. I never joined a crowd that crossed my morals, ethics, beliefs, etc. I stand up for what I believe to be right in my heart and have since I was young. So right now.. my friends are great people. The kind of people that help without reserve and love without judgment. Some of those are now my OH friends too.. I love them all so much.

Have a good night/morning!

Elena

Randall~I think this is something that we often times forget to think about.  It is so important what type of people we surround ourselves with because that can determine the type of environment we live in and I have found through experience can lead to being oppressed.  For about 6 years I surrounded myself with people who encouraged and supported my mental health symptoms, meaning that they did not question my mental instability and in fact encouraged it as a gift and pushed me into thinkgs like shamanism and tribal religons and anything but Christianity. They also had me convinced that my family was trying to hurt me or hold me back when ever they tried to get in touch with me or get me help.  It was not until I broke free from those people that I was able to see how truely messed up I was and how much my family really and truely loved me and were trying to help me.  I spent 2007 surrounding myself mostly with family, and then this year I have added all of you wonderful people here and have just recently added a new church.  The change in my life is like night and day quite literally because for so long it was darker than the night and now even in the difficult times I can still see the sun shining in my life.  Right now I am eating some Kashi vanilla oatmeal, but may head down for some coffee in an hour or when my mom gets here.  I hope you were able to go back to sleep this morning! 

Randy,

This is a good post.......I've been thinking of this very thing lately........In the past I took anyone that wanted to be a friend to me.........I didn't have self confidence or respect.......

Now, I have met so many wonderful people on OH..........

I have a question though, and I was going to post it, but think I will PM it to you instead......

Kelly

Reading my mind again aren't you?!  lol

Today I keep the company of that I helped to mold... Today I get to spend the day with my wonderful daughter  :)

Much like Nicole, I have spent too many years surrounded by the wrong people.  I'm working my way out of that nutshell and breaking free to find out who *I* am - not what I'm being told I am.

Thanks!!

*hugs*

Good Afternoon Randall!

Finally I am finding a moment to post.

This is a terrific challenge!  I have totally changed who I hang around with and who my friends are. Don't get me wrong, I still have many old friends. I just got rid of the ones that bring me down and just aren't good for me.
I only want to be around caring and supportive people that is why I have all of you!!
I am especially blessed to have you and Lucy in my life....thank you for that.

Have a blessed day.

Love and Hugs, connie d