Self-Interest
Hedge your bets: to protect yourself against loss by supporting more than one possible result or both sides in a competition. I have hedged my bets in many a grocery store and I presume you have behaved similarly? You know how it works. You eye up two lanes of people and ride the middle, hoping to snag the fastest moving line and win the race, by saving time when you get to the front of one of the lines faster than say, that guy/gal next to you that didn't have your selection savvy. It is a little game many of us play to beat the odds, to have them swing in our favour and when it works, we have a Cheshire cat sort of satisfaction; and when it doesn't, and we lose because our cashiers cash register has run out of tape, then we recognize that life feels like a game of chance, and outcomes are not always predictable and certainly not, controllable.
Separate Planes
I have heard of couples travelling to the same destination in separate planes. This is a huge form of bet hedging, and it is a pessimistic gamblers mentality. The truth of the matter is this: bad things happen all of the time and all of the time there is the possibility that a bad thing or two, might happen to...You? Yes, yes, it will happen to you, the problem is, you don't know what "it" is, isn't that so dear reader?
The delusion
If this low grade like fever has you hedging bets in your life, it has a grip on you and you are living from superstition, another form of fever that causes delusions of grandeur, a misconception that you have control over circumstance and that somehow, you can beat the system. You cannot. You will get hurt. People you love will get hurt. You will die. People you love will die. You have no say in expiry dates, yours or anyone else's but then again, you already know this too, otherwise there would be no need for hedging those bets, would there?
Trust in the Lord, not your own understanding
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths (Proverbs 3:5-6)
Hedge your bets: to protect yourself against loss by supporting more than one possible result or both sides in a competition. I have hedged my bets in many a grocery store and I presume you have behaved similarly? You know how it works. You eye up two lanes of people and ride the middle, hoping to snag the fastest moving line and win the race, by saving time when you get to the front of one of the lines faster than say, that guy/gal next to you that didn't have your selection savvy. It is a little game many of us play to beat the odds, to have them swing in our favour and when it works, we have a Cheshire cat sort of satisfaction; and when it doesn't, and we lose because our cashiers cash register has run out of tape, then we recognize that life feels like a game of chance, and outcomes are not always predictable and certainly not, controllable.
Separate Planes
I have heard of couples travelling to the same destination in separate planes. This is a huge form of bet hedging, and it is a pessimistic gamblers mentality. The truth of the matter is this: bad things happen all of the time and all of the time there is the possibility that a bad thing or two, might happen to...You? Yes, yes, it will happen to you, the problem is, you don't know what "it" is, isn't that so dear reader?
The delusion
If this low grade like fever has you hedging bets in your life, it has a grip on you and you are living from superstition, another form of fever that causes delusions of grandeur, a misconception that you have control over circumstance and that somehow, you can beat the system. You cannot. You will get hurt. People you love will get hurt. You will die. People you love will die. You have no say in expiry dates, yours or anyone else's but then again, you already know this too, otherwise there would be no need for hedging those bets, would there?Trust in the Lord, not your own understanding
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths (Proverbs 3:5-6)
You and I are subject to the laws of nature. You and I are also subject to the freedom of will of other human beings, some of which choose cruelty and hatred as their antisocial destructive calling cards. Then there are those that surround us that pick up the pieces, human parts, broken hearts, lives shattered and glued back together again over time.
Love is never random or circumstantial. Perhaps this is what we learn when we find ourselves in the situations we most fear?
Trust Gambled Away
Trust has been misplaced, gambled away, and there have been substantial losses dear one. Who do you turn to when your dreams turn into nightmares? Where, pray tell, do you place your healing hope? You need not hedge your bets ever again.
Trust Gambled Away
Trust has been misplaced, gambled away, and there have been substantial losses dear one. Who do you turn to when your dreams turn into nightmares? Where, pray tell, do you place your healing hope? You need not hedge your bets ever again.
In God we Trust: I believe this is written on a whole lot of money, the kind that gets dropped at casinos throughout the world
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