{"id":30,"date":"2016-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/ready-fire-aim\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T20:05:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:05:58","slug":"ready-fire-aim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/ready-fire-aim\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready, Fire, Aim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This title came to me in my sleep last night. It seems I\u2019ve heard it before but I don\u2019t know who to credit for it, so I will just try to unpack what I gleaned about it in that state of sleep I call a God-state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ready<\/strong><\/span>
\nLife wants to be fashioned through us. If we are made in the image of God\u2014that which is essentially creative\u2014we are also creative. We need to be prepared for when the force of becoming<\/em> has something to become<\/em>. A writer must have her pen and paper, her laptop or tablet, always available. A painter needs a blank canvas, paints, charcoal, and brushes. A musician needs to have at the ready a keyboard, a guitar, a recording device. An accountant needs his calculator. A mother needs her wits, humor, and patience. These are the possessions your soul requires for your work here in the body. This is a material world, manifesting through materiality.Fire<\/strong><\/span>
\nAn idea comes like a struck match, a spark\u2014an inkling, a color, a note, a title. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!
\n<\/em>Goethe<\/span>
\nLet the fire burn through you and your instruments, the possessions of your soul. Let it brighten your life and the lives around you.
\nKeep walking though there is no place to get to.
\nMove within but don\u2019t move the way fear makes you move.<\/em>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Aim<\/strong><\/span>
\nNow there is light and you can see where you are going. The voice has begun to speak, keep listening; The rhythm is in motion and taking hold of your feet, keep dancing; The palette emerges on the canvas, push those colors. They speak to you of their desire to be. They show you where you are going, keep following. A genius, an idea has taken aim and you are the fire it\u2019s shooting through. Let the creative force use you.<\/p>\n

What of free will? What of Good and evil (what if the idea that wants to come into being is destructive)? What of personal character\u2014what about me? You can choose to allow the good, the beautiful to move through you. You can choose to snuff the bad, the harmful, and the ugly. Don\u2019t move the way fear makes you move.<\/em><\/p>\n

There was a grandfather teaching his grandson. \u201cThere are two wolves who live within me,\u201d he told the boy, \u201cand they are at war with each other. A white wolf moves toward helpfulness, beauty, lovingkindness and light. A dark wolf snarls with sharp teeth, impatience, cruelty, meanness, and death.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich one wins the war,\u201d the grandson asks. \u201cThe one that I feed,\u201d says the grandfather.<\/p>\n

P.S. Two days after I originally posted this I found out there are a few books of this same title. I wasn’t just remembering a dream. There’s a marketing book by Michael Masterson, a novel about Skinheads by Kevin Trigg, The Bill Cook Story: Ready, Fire, Aim<\/em> by Bob Hammel and Ready, Fire, Aim: the Mainfreight Story<\/em> by Keith Davies. I guess it’s an idea shared by several.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 This title came to me in my sleep last night. It seems I\u2019ve heard it before but I don\u2019t know who to credit for it, so I will just try to unpack what I gleaned about it in that state of sleep I call a God-state. Ready Life wants to be fashioned through us. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}