{"id":2625,"date":"2010-06-11T21:52:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T01:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2011-07-21T20:59:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T01:59:46","slug":"people-are-shambolic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/people-are-shambolic\/","title":{"rendered":"People are Shambolic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This sign is kind enough to give us an accurate bio and caution statement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Like this sign, we all have sharp edges, but we seldom advertise as well.<\/p>\n

Here the main fact: People are <\/strong>shambolic<\/strong><\/em>. You are, I am, and anybody else you can of think is too, at least in some<\/em> way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like that “shambolic” is a word. I really do. Words sometimes excite me like a day trip to Atlantic City might enthuse a slots player. When I find a word that’s a good fit, or a new word I’ve never come across, I feel I’m part of a small but effective coup that has just taken back a fortress in Mediocre Illocution Land. I believe that’s somewhere between Middle Earth, Krypton, and the Death Star, but I’m not positive.<\/p>\n

Shambolic basically means<\/strong> something or someone that is emblematic of being in shambles.<\/p>\n

The cold hard truth is that people are either in the middle of being shambolic, just coming out of being shambolic\u2013in the same manner as a person whose ferocious fever has just broken (quite ill, but just a bit better), or worst of all: one can be a person who is headed right for a shambolic state\u2013whether he knows it or not. Actually, I’m sugar-coating it. Each particular circumstance is just half of it, our inherent weaknesses are most are the other half.<\/p>\n

I’m sorry I don’t have better news, but this isn’t sunday morning church… I’m not asking for your tithe, so I have no need to butter you up, or put a little pep rally together. I can just tell it to you straight.<\/p>\n

I’m not afraid to say, I don’t think there is a cure for being shambolic, despite how we seem to seek one.<\/p>\n

Have you ever known, or have been a perfectionist?<\/p>\n

Is this classic denial for a shambolic person? Bingo. Darn, kind of an Atlantic City reference\/call back….um, not bingo, um…I mean, yes indeed! It is. Denial<\/em><\/strong> is what happens when we haven’t figured out what’s really going on fully, or haven’t had the courage to accept it, and move onward\u2013grow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But this bit of new is our reality. We are mortal and flawed. (Now don’t act liked you are shocked, you’ve known it all along…)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Be this as it may\u2013We don’t have to just muddle through. Yet, being realistic helps us to grow personally and spiritually.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are some ideas for struggling through the human condition:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Full awareness\/Humility.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Regularly reminding ourselves of #1 (afore mentioned).<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. Dependence on God (Higher Power, The Great Spirit, The Supreme Being, or whatever word for The Highest One, you prefer that happens to not<\/em><\/strong> be you).<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Prayer. Meditation. Rest. (They’re all closely linked, so I plopped them in #4 together. It’s efficient, okay?)<\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Unaccounted generosity to others.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many more ideas remain.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

What are some others you can think of?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People are shambolic, just like this sign. 5 ideas to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,76],"tags":[3,283,663,963,1396,6538,1737,2204,2799,3053,3112,74,79,3288],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-spirituality","tag-fail","tag-atlantic-city","tag-christian-humor","tag-despair","tag-funny-signs","tag-humor","tag-hurting-people","tag-messy-grace","tag-recovering","tag-shambolic","tag-slots","tag-spiritual-growth","tag-suffering","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}