{"id":872,"date":"2010-01-25T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=872"},"modified":"2010-01-25T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:57:00","slug":"practicing-what-i-preach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Practicing What I Preach&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I just read my blog about loving the ones that are hard to love.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">My dad called my mom &nbsp;and was going on about his loneliness. &nbsp;He wants to live with each of his children a month. &nbsp;YIKES! &nbsp;My mom said, &nbsp;&#8220;call and ask them.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">His reply was, &#8220;I thought you could ask.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">My mom said no. &nbsp;(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Good for her<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">!)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">He was at my brother&#8217;s &nbsp;over Christmas almost a month and chose not to call me at all.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I left that ball in his court. &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">How I struggle with this! &nbsp;He made his bed and sleeping in it is not pleasant. &nbsp;I feel bad for his loneliness. Yet no matter what, his life is all a creation of his own choices.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Sucks, eh? &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I think of that often, especially being at Sanj&#8217;s office, I see two kinds of people. &nbsp;There are the seniors that choose happy and life. &nbsp;Then there are those that choice to be miserable. &nbsp;I want so bad to be a happy person&#8230; my whole life. &nbsp;Getting old sucks. &nbsp;But really, it doesn&#8217;t have too. &nbsp;If you choose to live and make each day count&#8230; you can find happiness along the way.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Back to my dad&#8230; I called Sanj and said that my dad wants to come for a month.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">There was silence on the other end. &nbsp;lol<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Have I told you I love this man?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Sanj replied, &#8220;maybe a week.&#8221; &nbsp;lol<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A month would be a long time too&#8230; for all of us.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A week would be stressful&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I know my dad wouldn&#8217;t stay a month anyway.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">So&#8230; I am pray and about (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">and pray please God, don&#8217;t let him call<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">), I have decided that <\/span><b><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">if<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> he calls&#8230; I&#8217;ll extend the invite.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I wonder in this kind of situtation what Jesus would do?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Oye. &nbsp;I wonder what it would be like to live a boring life?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I guess being kind to the odd, weird and annoying is a category my dad falls into. &nbsp;Talk about practicing what I preach.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; 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