Dealing in percentages.....

 It's Sunday and theology time....I was reading the newspaper this morning and I read a column  by Joe Scarborough entitled :  "My fix for what ails the GOP".  It intrigued me so I read on and he said that President Reagan lived by the belief, "just because I'm your friend 80 percent of the time doesn't make me your enemy 20% of the time."  And that will preach, brothers and sisters!

What does it say to me?   I'm so guilty of this!  We make exhorbitant demands on those around us and jump off the bandwagon in a minute's notice when we think that someone has failed us.   I spend so much time thinking about who has failed me and how that I forget how I have failed them in the process.   We don't owe people 100% loyalty at all times;   those people have lives to lead and places to go and see that have no connection to us.   And they make decisions based on who they see and need "to fix" the most!

So about that enemies' camp  -- why don't I think about deactivating throwing people in there to die permanently in my mental processes!   Some of those people don't even know or care that I have thrown them into my personal Guantanamo
and they are now on life support systems and being force-fed through the nose.  They are out living their lives, doing their thing, and I am letting it eat on me in a non-productive mental manner.  Jane, take the 80% or even the 40% and forget about figuring out what is going on in the 20%.  They are living their lives---nothing to do with you. 

They may be living in their own personal prison  --one you know nothing about!