Manners maketh man. Good or Bad!

Welcome. You are wonderful and you are loved!



First this morning my brothers and sisters, for you, a photo of yesterdays painting. Which firstly was painted for you(God of course is included when I write You.)  and apart from me of course, you are the first to see.

                                                   Not hiding but playing with the shadows.

                                                                    It all boils down to love without end.

For those of you who understand the board game monopoly then it wont be hard to get what I am saying. Others of you can look it up on the Internet, or just try to make out what I am saying. I grew up with four brothers and three sisters, but it was mainly just us four boys who would play. We would play to win. In this last year or two my sons have taken to occasionally playing the game. Their gran likes to play strictly by the rules and we respect that, as this is the way she was brought up. Now, one thing for sure in the rules is that if another player lands on your square and you don't notice, then the next player throws. It is too late to then claim rent. Now my boys - and I am sure that they only get this in part from me and mostly is there own look on things - will not only purposefully not notice if another player who has a lot less than them lands on their property. 
If they land on someones property and that person is losing, the rent say coming to £32 they will give a £50 and say, "Keep the change."

 In the `real` world whenever I see them doing good and wanting to help others, I think `Good job, keep the change.` Meaning also the change from not having to be like all around them, especially when some are losing their heads trying to get ahead.  Oh yes they also have fun in trying to be well mannered. This is another thing which they have to teach me on those rare occasions that I lose it with other drivers.


The precept of courtesy

Finally be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous (1 Peter 3.8)

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
Samual Johnson, on the behaviour of British Colonists in America.

For courteous some substitute the word humble; the difference may not be considered as great, for pride is a quality that obstruct courtesy. 
  That precept of courtesy is by no means unworthy of the gravity and dignity of an apolitical mandate, may be gathered from the pernicious effects which all must have observed to have arisen from harsh strictness and sour virtue: such as refuses to mingle in harmless gaiety, or give countenance to innocent amusements, or which transacts the petty business of the day with a gloomy ferociousness that clouds existence. Goodness of this character, is more formidable than lovely; it may drive away vice from its presence, but will never persuade it to stay to be amended; it may teach, it may remonstrate, but the hearer will seek for more mild instruction. To those, therefore, by whose conversation the heathens were to be drawn away from error and wickedness; it is the Apostle`s precept, that they be courteous, that they accommodate themselves, as far as innocence allows, to the will of others; that they should practice all the established modes of civility, seize all occasions of cultivating kindness, and live with the rest of the world in an amicable reciprocation of cursory civility, that Christianity might not be accused of making men less chearful as companions, less sociable as neighbours, or less useful as friends.
                                                                       SAMUEL JOHNSON

 I believe the above is a great bit of writing and one could believe it written by someone contemporary and not born over three hundred years ago and whom was shocked by the behaviour of the early American colonists.  

This is all I have to share with you for today, except of course Know that you are loved so much and pass it on.
 You are wonderful. 
Your brother Peter G Kimble