Thanks to the Widow's Son

If Widow's Son happens to read this I would like to say it is an honor to have my blog on your page, I am honored that you thought highly enough of my blog to include it on your page. I think that blogs such as ours will cause a continuance of brotherly love and will extend it farther than our local lodges could ever accomplish. Blogs are truly an amazing thing and it allows brethren from all over the nation to discuss topics involving Freemasonry (since there is no United Grand Lodge of the States of America). With that previous statement i would like to add that I am not an advocate of one such lodge unless all Grand Lodges can agree to set up such a lodge by a majority vote. The reason I say this is because the laws and constitution are made up by the Past Masters from all the lodges across our states and it is we (the members) who make up the Grand Lodges. Therefore it is the will of the members of what happens in Grand Lodge, with occasional tyrannical actions by some Grand Lodge Officers. But at all times the power of the grand lodge is in the hands of the members, and if we want change we can always make it happen. Once again thank you Widow's Son for having faith in a young mason such as myself.

Free-thinker

Freemasonry and it's modern issues

United we stand divided we fall.

Thats really all i need to say here.

We as brethren could do so much more if we all worked hard to make our Fraternity work. But too many brethren are too prideful to say ok we have a problem here so let us break away and start something new, and leave all our other brethren behind to fend for themselves. Thats the same reason there are so many Churches here in the south. So many people get discouraged and go off and start something new without ever really fighting to change the way that things are. People get so upset with politics, politics will always exist because man naturally longs for power in whatever he is involved in.

Life's been good to me so far...

Life, even though it hasn't been easy at all throughout my time here, it has definitely been good. I have had my high times and my low times, but through them all i have always found a moral to the story. I have always learned from my problems in life and I've always tried to not let them slow me down. I currently decided to leave the Bar industry at which I've done well for myself. I thought hey its either get a new job doing some simple task for eight hours a day, or become more and more disillusioned with the world as a whole, and more and more unhappy while making fairly decent money. I was pretty much selling my soul to the devil as some would say. I was drinking and hanging out with crazy people who were doing crazy things, that definitely is not the life for me. I would rather spend my nights at home blogging, reading my books, and cuddling up to my girlfriend. Life's been good to me, it has taught me to learn from my bad times, appreciate the good and never forget any. What good is a lesson if you don't remember it and what good are the good times if you don't cherish them. In all things balance. Count your blessings. Just a few things I've heard throughout my life. And in the end I want to look back and still be able to say life was good. So i must take certain steps to keep my chin up, if that means severing a few ties with some "so-called" friends so what! There's so many other things in life to cherish, like my brethren who will always be there when i need a shoulder or some kind words of council and comfort. A friend and brother of mine recently said "we won't ever say do this or that" but only "i think it would be a good idea to..". I want the wisdom of Soloman, a man who could have asked God for anything and he asked for wisdom. He made it into one of the most cherished books of all time. I want the wisdom of Solomon. Ang God has been putting my life together perfectly that i may one day attain it. I recently particpated in the Masonic Burial Rites of a brother who i had known since i was eight years old. He was a good man, and during the eulogy his son got up and said "i didnt know what i would say when i got up here but i know now that i dont have to say anything good or bad about my father everyone knew he was a good man by the way he acted" then his sister (the daughter of the deceased pretty much said "i had something to say but my brother said what i was going to say already". When i die and someone close is reading my eulogy i want them to say something like that. I dont want people to remember me as a ruffian or anything other than a good man. That is what i desire from my life, that i may live on after death on earth, through stories of my humanity and goodness. Until tommorrow im signing off....

Looking for a new job

Well I'm looking for a new job, away from the bar business, I have been managing a pub for a while now and it's time for a change of pace. I have become desensitized to some of the evils of the world and I don't even recognizing them as evil anymore. I am constantly around non-virtuous living and constantly am waging war within myself to be virtuous. It shouldn't be that hard to live righteously. I'm looking for a more simpe job, one where I can complete daily tasks, go home, and leave my work at home, without the constant drama, and not have to feel bad for people who are going in the entirely wrong direction with their lives. And people who i've known for years and have recently started drinking heavily and are ruining their lives. It's horrible and i have to see it everyday. I'm always around it, and its depressing and overall it's just a yucky place to work. Not yucky in a physical way, which it occasionally is when someone pukes on the floor, but mostly spiritually and emotionally yucky. Noone there cares about anything other than themselves and their own gratification and that upsets me. When there is such diverse world out there and you are constantly around a small niche of people, self serving hedonists in this case, it gives you a skewed perspective of the world and reality. In reality the entire world is not like that, in reality there a ton of good people who are worried about this world and the trouble that it is in. It has definately been nice working in a laid back happy go lucky atmosphere, but that is just the business' outer apperarance, its inner working are those of pain, suffering, depression, anger, and hate. Everyone is just trying to get away from something and not facing up to their problems. Self satisfaction is all they care about. But life is the best it has ever been right now, i will be leaving my job soon and i'm not worried about a thing, i am actually quite confident, because I am skilled, i have grown over the years and i am a capable adult, unlike many people in society today. Who are just too bogged down with meaningless obsessions to carry on normal lives and accomplish even the most simple tasks. Well excuse my grammar, this was somewhere between a soapbox and an internet vent. but oh well life is good!