Legislation Of The Heart takes life head on. Addressing many of America's hot topics including married life, single life, politics, racism, raising children, religion and much much more. William Massenburg gives his unique perspective on many different topics giving great food for thought and fuel for discussion.

Legislation of the Heart

Getting Life RightBy William E. Massenburg Jr.

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Copyright © 2009 William E. Massenburg Jr.
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ISBN: 978-1-4389-6164-4

Contents

Introduction.................................................................ixI Changed My Mind............................................................1How Is Your Sight, How Is Your Vision?.......................................7Depression and Problem Solving...............................................7Being Average Is a Failing Mark..............................................11American Struggling To Be One (History)......................................13A Standard...................................................................17What Is Love?................................................................20Why does it Matter?..........................................................20Connecting Love to You.......................................................26Love Removes Selfishness Dedicated To Love...................................29Blueprints and No Concept....................................................31It is How You Play the Game..................................................31America Unraveling...........................................................38The Original Design..........................................................40The Problem..................................................................42Tolerating Each Other Not Loving Each Other..................................42Heart Disease of America.....................................................46Injustice....................................................................46A Leader's Heart.............................................................48Youth, Media and the Fame god................................................52Women's Liberation...........................................................58Some Idea's that Are Not Lady Like...........................................58An Authentic Heart...........................................................61RACE.........................................................................64Passing On a Diseased Heart..................................................67Race Opinions................................................................70Genarlow Wilson..............................................................75Making It Personal Abandonment...............................................79Reputation vs. Responsibility................................................86She Is Royalty...............................................................90Abortion.....................................................................93"Broken Processor"...........................................................96Young Minds..................................................................96Marriage Broken, but Healing.................................................99The Money Issues In Marriage.................................................101Sex Issues In Marriage.......................................................104Marriage And Compromise......................................................110Being Gay My Christian Perspective...........................................112Gangster Rap Gaining the World In Exchange For Your Soul.....................116Compromised..................................................................120Not Good For Our Witness, Make It Good.......................................120Ashamed and Alone............................................................123Quiet Suffering in the Church................................................123Is Healing Available.........................................................127HIV..........................................................................129We are the Cure..............................................................129Gods The Answers.............................................................136

Chapter One

I Changed My Mind

Getting life right as just a statement may seem like an insurmountable task. For each of us it is a life long task that will not end until the day that we die. It is a cumulative body of work that leads you to the right or wrong ending. Getting life right is as much about the future as it is the present. Getting life right does not mean that you will never make a mistake. It means you will learn from past mistakes and will push to not repeat them. It means looking further than the present and seeing the future in order to make the latter better then the former or the present. This requires a changing of the mind.

Many people are suffering at this very moment because of bad choices. Many have made bad personal decisions in money, relationships, careers, school, and friends that have come back to cause them great pain and suffering. Think about the bad relationship that turned abusive, the decision to buy that thing when you knew it was not a good idea, think about that job you hate that takes up all your day everyday because of the choice not to pursue a dream that burned inside.

Mistakes are something that no one can avoid, but those mistakes do not have to be the end for us. Mistakes leave a question. What do I do now? Many people get stuck at the question and it becomes this unmovable barrier that blocks them from going any further in life.

Why is it that people can make mistakes and know that they are mistakes but they remain paralyzed by that one decision for years? That mistake does not have the power to handcuff your life unless you allow it to. A mistake or a failure is just an opportunity to start over better informed then when you started the first time. Don't let your mistakes and failures be the end of your growth. You just found one more way that did not spell success for you but it put you one more step closer to finding the right way in life for you. If you are stuck behind that mistake you made, change your mind.

Change your mind about how you see your mistake. See it as an effort that did not work out but do not allow it to be the end of your attempts. Could you imagine a quarterback throwing a bad pass and not throwing again, or a basketball player missing on a jump shot and not shooting again? I am a firm believer that your problem does not define who you are but how you handle your problem does. The quicker you are able to get over your mistakes and failures the more successful you will be. Some of the best businessmen in the world from Bill Gates to Donald Trump would need days to tell you about the mountains of bad choices and decisions they made that helped them make the right ones that have catapulted them to the top of there professions.

I never paid much attention to the stories about Michael Jordan and how he was cut as a sophomore from his high school basketball team. Every time I saw him I thought that school must have had some really good players or a really dumb coach. It was not until I read what Michael Jordan had to say about him being cut that I saw the relevance to this section of the book.

In 1984 Michael Jordan was drafted to the Chicago Bulls and finished as one of the NBA's leading scores and Rookie of the year. Just 5 years earlier he was not good enough to make his high school team. Michael said after being cut instead of giving up he used it to push him forward. He practiced harder then ever and Jordan said "Whenever I was working out and got tired and figured I ought to stop, I'd close my eyes and see that list in the locker room without my name on it," Jordan said, "and that usually got me going...