Dewaine Wakeman

"Lifestyles of the Poor and Broke" by Dewaine Wakeman   Thrift – its amazing what you can do. Internet? (We all can do that.) Exercise? (We all can do that too. Who needs a health club membership?) Transportation (We all can do that - several ways) Shelter (We all can find our means I suppose if we are smart about it.) We can have everything a responsible adult can have or a homeless person could enjoy if we are careful, this is still America after all. So who am I? I’m many of you. I’m your neighbor. Won’t you be my neighbor?  I’m really good at getting by. Let’s start with exercise: Bicycle or walk? ( no gasoline or auto insurance needed) Cutting firewood (no fuel bills – fire up the wood stove, campfires work too if you live in the deep south). Entertainment? There’s digital televison, you either get the signal or you won't. Btw it’s crystal clear nowadays should you be lucky enough to

“Fear” by Dewaine Wakeman Unfortunately for many of us, myself included, Fear makes our decisions for us. We wallow in it. We ponder in it, we bring miseries and dysfunctions into our lives by giving fear power over us. I’m reminded of a line from my childhood, a hymn, 'What a friend we have in Jesus': “Oh what peace we often forfeit, oh, what NEEDLESS PAIN we bear.” . i.e., we don't live in the freedom of the fear that seems to grip our lives. The truth is the mind stores the ideas that we focus on. We worry too much about the information we receive, not knowing the source upon which that information is received to us. A curious mystery from the New Testament reveals our problem (which is an issue of life itself) “Don’t let thy right hand, know what thy left hand is up to." There are two entities (negative and positive energy - Devil or God, creation or destruction, as they are sometimes called) It totally makes sense not t

Habits by Dewaine Wakeman New thoughts do not come from old habits. Yet it is habits that lead us to where we need to go. The old sayin’ goes, “wherever you go there you are!” Or as confucius would say, whereever you go, go with all your heart. Or Lao Tzu would say, “The crooked will be made straight.” Our habits can get us into trouble, but over time, good habits, even new habits, are our saving grace. So, What habits do we need to break? Thinking? Worrying? Belief system(s) Activities? Over-all feelings toward others on a daily basis? Self consciousness toward others? Many things get us into trouble – they all come from our thoughts and habits. Napoleon Hill reminds us, “You don’t have to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to be great.” Habits make our world. According to American Pyschologist William James, habits take twenty