DALANEL

Don’t worry; I still love DALANEL

My lovely readers, you may have noticed I’ve been making some tweaks here at DALANEL. There are other changes on the way. Now, it will appear as if I’m putting DALANEL on the back as I deal with Dante Ball and Dante’s Funny World.

And yes, part of that is true.

However, DALANEL is where all the action is. The reason I launched Dante’s Blog Network was to be able to blog about the things I love, in one place. Blogging the positive, sports, and humor is what I’m about. When I first started DALANEL, that’s what this blog was going to be about. However, a blog clustered with such different content is something I read was bad news. So, I picked the positive blogging as DALANEL’s focus.

DBN is the optional follow all of my writing in one spot type blog. However, the blogs I run are under one common goal: To make me look good.

There will be changes here at DALANEL is only to further create a unified look. I’m not planning on changing the actual layout/theme of the blog. Each blog should have a theme that sort of matches what the blog’s voice is. But, each blog will have a standard. And yes, each blog will be periodically posting about the other blogs. So, for you folks, you’ll see “Follow my other blogs” or some other posts like that every once in a while.

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Wednesday Word: Watch what you eat

This may be my favorite word of all time. It’s also one of the shortest.

 

These are the times where we really need to evaluate ourselves. It was the perfect story. He said all there is to say.

Watch what you eat this week. If we’re so full of junk food…skittles…we lose our appetite for actual nourishment. Sometimes, it shows. Maybe you text while in church. For no reason. You’re just bored…or full. Or, for you football fans; you’re ready to go home to catch the game. You even consider not going to service if it means you could miss the long behind preview shows.

What are our bellies full of?

It’s not a diet either. You can’t just come into church for a few weeks and then go back to what you were eating before. It really is a lifestyle change. If you want a healthy spiritual life, you have to eat the right food all the time.

Wednesday Word can be a healthy snack for your spiritual life; but I can’t say this is something to live on. Go to church. Hear the word. Sing the songs. It’s for your benefit.

Live well.

-DALANEL

Monday Motivation: Fight your addiction

Most of us have that one thing we like or do that, well, would take a lot to stop dealing with. Me? This Windows Phone has been absolutely terrific. And, sadly, I may need a little rehab if I were to lose it.

You might watch a little too much TV. Or perhaps it’s something more serious like drugs or alcohol. Could be sex (can’t help ya there!). Whatever the addiction is, today…this week…from now on: FIGHT IT.

Don’t be a slave to your desires. Be strong! Fight back. “No more!” Tell that thing who’s boss. You’re calling the shots, baby!

In some cases, the things we’re fighting are a part of our lives. And so, we have to be able to manage them. Other things are harmful and need to go ASAP. I’ll leave you to be the judge of that. Be honest with yourself or you’re probably gonna fail.

I’m out.

-DALANEL

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Wednesday Word: Don’t Steal

Yes, it’s one of the ten commandments. Don’t steal. And yet, we as a people, struggle with this. Watch the video:

Good stuff in there. My thoughts:

Stealing is the result of something. In order for us to avoid stealing, we need to understand why we steal. We steal because we want. And, in most cases, this want takes the form of greed. Or lust. Or whatever type of desire.

So, if we can manage those types of emotions, we are less likely to steal. You don’t take the risk of stealing if you really didn’t want it.

Of course, some people steal because they can. They may steal simply because they are that controlled by the devil’s voice. Yes, the devil cannot make you do anything. But, he’s a smooth talker.

So, as the end of the video calls for, let’s give.

-DALANEL

Dante’s Opinion moves to DBN

This is a late decision but, the featured post, Dante’s Opinion, is moving to my newly launched Dante’s Blog Network. As I mentioned before, this is key in my quest to eliminate me from the blog.

Dante’s Opinion wasn’t performing well anyway at DALANEL. And, quite frankly, it doesn’t fit all that well into what I’m trying to do at DALANEL. But, I like making those posts so I’ll still be working on it.

So, just giving you the heads up. I also considered moving Weekly Funnies away but I’m keeping it here. The play will continue to post here as well as it does play a part in telling the story of what inspired DALANEL in the first place.

So yeah, DALANEL will be holding onto Monday Motivation, Wednesday Word, and Good News as the leading posts for the site. Follower Friday should do well too as well as Weekly Funnies.

-DALANEL

Dante’s Blog Network: How this changes DALANEL

I have three blogs. DALANEL, Dante’s Funny World, and Dante Ball. I’ve talked about each one of them here on DALANEL.

For a time, I have told you that DALANEL is my blogging center. This is where my heart resides in the blogging world.

Insert Dante’s Blog Network.

DBN is a blog that acts as a feed for the blogs I previously mentioned. The opening of that feed and blog has a little effect on DALANEL.

Rewind to December.

Remember how I was going to have less and less personal posts and more posts of the mission statement of DALANEL? I hope you do. In And so, the only time I talked about myself is if there was a some great positive ending that could apply to anybody. Other than that, a lot of my life has not been posted.

That changes with DBN.

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