The Importance of Self-Care in Today’s Busy World

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To remember

• today’s fast-paced world = easy to get caught up in hustle & bustle of everyday life.
• constant demands from work, family, + social obligations = no wonder people often neglect their own self-care.
• self-care  = practice of taking deliberate actions to promote physical, mental, + emotional well-being
• = essential for overall health & well-being
• Self-care => reduce stress + prevent burnout + improve our overall quality of life

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Doing more

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Also of interest

1. When You Wonder If Anyone Cares
2. 30 things to start doing for yourself – #6 is vital.
3. No time like the present
4. The Order of Time – by Carlo Rovelli
5. Shortness of time
6. The express train of the speeding time
7. Work and career a major focus of young adulthood
8. Spend time creating new blogs
9. Extra Time
10. If Today Was Your Last Day On Earth?

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Related

1. Self-Care on a Budget
2. Putting Yourself First: Overcoming People-Pleasing Tendencies
3. diary of a lost 21 year old
4. Spirituality and Acceptance: The Key to Finding Inner Peace
5. One Task At A Time
6. Seagull yoga and always wanting to be somewhere else
7. #ThinkPositive2023: Mar 27
8. Stop Cribbing, Start Living: How to Shift Your Mindset and Find Joy in Everyday Life
9. The Art of Slowing Down: Why is it so challenging?
10. Qi Gong
11. Christine tricks herself into more mobility exercises
12. Natural Health. Bristol April 8th
13. Sibling Bonding
14. The Future is Bright
15. To-Do Lists
16. I’ll do it later
17. The Importance of Self-Care in Today’s Busy World
18. Healing
19. Ways To Shift From I Can’t To I Can
20. Be Your Own #1

Raising Me

In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life. With constant demands from work, family, and social obligations, it’s no wonder that people often neglect their own self-care. However, taking care of oneself is crucial for overall health and well-being. In this post, we’ll discuss the importance of self-care and offer tips for incorporating it into your daily routine.

What is Self-Care?

Self-care is the practice of taking deliberate actions to promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being. It involves making choices that prioritize your own health and happiness. Self-care can take many forms, including exercise, healthy eating, sleep, relaxation, and socializing with loved ones.

Why is Self-Care Important?

Self-care is important for a number of reasons. First and foremost, it helps to reduce stress and prevent burnout. When we neglect our own needs, we become more vulnerable to the effects…

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Doing more

Much too often people forget the importance of self-care.

All too often, people spend a lot of energy on the work they have to do to earn a living. In most cases, they even go so far as to sacrifice themselves. And then things can’t help but go wrong. With the visible results in our current society where we encounter so many people with burnouts and end up in sick care.

As cited, we may assume that we can rebound a ball and by taking good care of ourselves we can also take care of those around us.

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To remember

• practising self-care = essential for maintaining physical, mental + emotional health

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Creating Community and Togetherness

To nurture your relationships

That Tiny Eyes Girl

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Also of interest

1. When You Wonder If Anyone Cares
2. 30 things to start doing for yourself – #6 is vital.
3. No time like the present
4. The Order of Time – by Carlo Rovelli
5. Shortness of time
6. The express train of the speeding time
7. Work and career a major focus of young adulthood
8. Spend time creating new blogs
9. Extra Time
10. If Today Was Your Last Day On Earth?

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Related

1. Self-Care on a Budget
2. Putting Yourself First: Overcoming People-Pleasing Tendencies
3. diary of a lost 21 year old
4. Spirituality and Acceptance: The Key to Finding Inner Peace
5. One Task At A Time
6. Seagull yoga and always wanting to be somewhere else
7. #ThinkPositive2023: Mar 27
8. Stop Cribbing, Start Living: How to Shift Your Mindset and Find Joy in Everyday Life
9. The Art of Slowing Down: Why is it so challenging?
10. Qi Gong
11. Christine tricks herself into more mobility exercises
12. Natural Health. Bristol April 8th
13. Sibling Bonding
14. The Future is Bright
15. The Importance of Maternal Mental Health
16. To-Do Lists
17. I’ll do it later
18. The Importance of Self-Care in Today’s Busy World
19. Healing
20. Ways To Shift From I Can’t To I Can
21. Be Your Own #1

My blog full of dreams and thoughts

What do you wish you could do more every day?

Taking time for myself and practicing self-care is essential for maintaining physical, mental, and emotional health. It allows me to recharge and refocus, reducing stress levels and improving my overall well-being. Practicing self-care can take many forms, such as exercise, meditation, spending time in nature, or indulging in my favorite hobbies. By prioritizing self-care, I care for those around me.

#self-care #be you

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Daddy Matt

Leaving Oz

Going there for the last time,
To Chapel Hill,
It is smaller now than then,
And though I didn’t go in
I saw it as it was
Large and lively
My grandfather,
Daddy Matt,
At the kitchen table
Playing cards, telling stories
Children laughing
And the smell of Granny cooking
Southern Fried Chicken and rice
So nice,
So long, long ago

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Take Notice: Unspoken Rules

Mind of Terry

An unspoken rule is a rule or behavioral constraint imposed on a group but isn’t written down or spoken about.

There are many unspoken rules in our society that we have because they’re mostly  associated with the logical action needed to be taken. Some typical rules that you would be familiar with would be the following.

• Letting people exit an elevator before entering that same elevator.
• Don’t cut people off when they’re in the middle of sentence.
• Always chew with your mouth closed.
• If somebody tells you personal information, don’t go around telling other people unless they asked you to.

What happens when an unspoken rule is broken?

There is two things that would need to happen for this:

1. You weren’t aware of the rule or mistakenly forget.

Somebody may politely explain the rule to you and then expect you to follow it from then on.

OR

2. You…

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Some Conversations Just NEED To Happen

A lot of people have preconceived ideas regarding races and cultures, which more than once cause misunderstandings.

The absurdity in today’s “Woke” culture is that people prefer to exclude certain words and terms and replace them with other words that in turn could be misunderstood in the past, or cause problems in the future.

In Belgium, for example, one can no longer speak of a “negro” or a “black” person, but one has to say now a “white” person when talking about a “Blanke” (someone of the white race) or Caucasian type person (or relating to a racial group having light-coloured skin), who is therefore not white at all and to whom there may not be “black people” opposed to them (?!?). So why is a “White” not racist while “Black” would be racist?

Same for “fat” and “thick” (or in Dutch “dik“)where the English publisher of Roald Dahl’s books has now printed “enormous” (very great in size, extremely large in size or amount, extent) or in Dutch “enorm” (very big, gigantic, huge), while we do imagine something very different with an enormous building or enormous creature than with a shapely or plump person. The chosen word “enormous” or “enorm” is far worse and far more offensive than “fat” or “vol slank”, “full slim” we would say.

Already having some years in this world, we had to change the use of words more than once. Every time they found another word because the one in use had become “offensive”.

In this day and age it is going absurdly far, how some words are abandoned, like we may not say any more Eskimo, igloo, cabane or hut, etc.

Racism is the wrong view of things and people with misjudged word choices.

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To remember

• There are always subjects that people feel aren’t proper or sensitive issues that may cause a war of words or some form of conflict
• one race may feel that whatever they say = offensive to the person of another race.
• unspoken/unwritten rule

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Find also to read:

1. Word banning
2. Absurdity of present “woke” rage: The rewriting of Dahl
3. Why censoring Roald Dahl is a dangerous step
4. What about irreverence and sharp-edged spirit of the original text
5. New term names at London School of Economics
6. Not liked or Hated Questions
7. How far does this “Woke” world wants to go
8. Wokeness wars
9. Why Woke? When Will it Wander Away?

The Sapphire Scripts

Sept. 4 Why do you think it is so difficult for people to talk about race?

There are always subjects that people feel aren’t proper or sensitive issues that may cause a war of words or some form of conflict. Some examples are politics, battles of the sexes, and the ultimate, race. Race has been a topic (without being a topic) for a very long time. It has stood the test of time with some changes happening but different races have a hard time facing this conversation.

I think that people have a hard time talking about race because one race may feel that whatever they say may be offensive to the person of another race. Not being sure of the reaction, people tend to avoid those conversations even when a national issue has been brought to people’s attention like a slap in the face.

I also feel that people…

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how do you respond?

Living Life in a Fish Bowl!

I interact with numerous people throughout any given week.  Sometimes I can go from talking with someone who has just lost a loved one or lost their job to someone who just got married or just got a promotion.  

Romans 12:15 says, “Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.”  Be careful that you don’t get that backwards and rejoice when something bad happens to someone and be sad when they get a blessing.  Jealousy is behind that line of thinking.

“So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature…

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Self versus Perceived Self

Critical Digest Room

For the purpose of introduction, the self is a common concept that is either privately or generally perceived and conceived.

Talking about private or generic perceptions of self, what is the self?

Many premises have been laid on this concept. Some view it as a representation of a person. Others see it as intrinsic features that constitute an individual. For this context, the self is a subjective view of a person and their social, religious and political standings.

Well, that’s by the way.
Let’s come down to private and public perceptions of self: do people see you the way you see yourself?

Self and personality are two concepts that hardly correspond to people’s views.

In consequence, there is usually a floating ego that earns no penny.

Here are the points:

1. You are not always who you think you are. You may think you are dedicated to your students or the…

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Nature’s Song

Roth Poetry

Mountain storm passes through

Pisgah National Forest

Water roars over Looking Glass Falls

Thunder booms… Lighting flashes

Tons of shale hang out over the falls

unfazed by natures fury

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Today’s Carolina Blue sky

embedded on flat rocks

Mountain stream gurgles over

wet stones

polished and shaped

over ten thousand summers and winters

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Native Americans sat on these rocks

drank from this stream

enjoyed the beauty of the falls

long before we arrived…

to claim it!

Photos: Dwight L. Roth

This is a poem I wrote a year or two ago. I reworked it and added to it so I could present it for an upcoming Old Mountain Press Anthology. I got word today that it has been accepted.

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The Necessity of Rest

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To remember

• time physically away = luxury
• sabbath in rhythmic rejuvenation sense = regular rhythms of rest > to make space one day a week
• Our society = a go-go-go society
• we work best when we take the time to rest
• choosing to rest one day a week = don’t keep pace with others who are willing to prioritize work over all else
• life = marathon
• no end > tasks to be done
• we are the ones to protect quality of our rest
• digital world cannibalizes time
• Freedom =/=  absence of restrictions as finding the right ones > those that fit with the realities of our own nature and those of the world

Grace Begets Beauty

“Now I know that the best thing I can offer this world is not my force, but a well-tended spirit, a wise and brave soul.”

Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect

The dust has just settled from some glorious time on a vacation away from my phone. It was the kind of magical family affair out in the forest, miles from town, without cell service. The kind where the windows are perpetually open to let in the mountain breeze, and there was not the same frenetic keeping track of others as we so often have in our perpetually connected society. If someone wanted to go out, they went out – to run, walk, fish, hammock, or otherwise. Or if they wanted to stay in, they read on the porch, played a board game, puttered in the kitchen, or took a nap. There was no checking in, no “where are you’s”, simply …

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Xinhua: 20 years after blatant invasion, U.S. crimes against Iraq still unpunished

On false pretences on March 19, 2003, the United States, along with coalition forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiated a war on Iraq, which would not liberate the people of Iraq, but in many cases would even bring them much more misery.

We cannot deny that many have walked in what the US government wanted everyone to believe, that chemical and nuclear weapons would be readied by Hussein’s government to attack the West.

Hans Blix, chief weapons inspector, was clear that they could complete their job of checking Iraqi compliance with UN resolutions in months, not years. Nevertheless, despite the evidence that Saddam was far less powerful and that the moral basis for war was lacking, British participation in the invasion came about because so many of my parliamentary colleagues had managed to convince themselves that it was justified.

In Great Britain many Labour MPs who voted for war later expressed their resentment.

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To remember

• protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 that began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein.
• invading a sovereign country+ ousting its government
• Much of the country’s infrastructure destroyed during relentless bombings launched by the U.S.-led coalition.
• more than 200,000 civilians were killed and over 9 million others displaced in Iraq
• justice has not been done for Iraq & its people, many of whom are still suffering from pain created by the unjust war.
• Iraq = rich country before the invasion => degenerated into a poor state and + political instability + economic hardship caused by U.S. invasion & its impact => still mired in poverty + chaos
• United States remains the sole superpower => little can be done to bring the American warmongers + criminals to justice

 

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Please find also to read:

1. 31 years ago also facing a world threat
2. History.com: This Day In History (March 19-2003): Invasion of Iraq begins
3. Weekly World Watch 1-7 August: UK and US – Iran, Israel, Elam and Media (Our World) =  Weekly World Watch 1-7 August: UK and US – Iran, Israel, Elam and Media (Some View on the World)

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Related

1. Jeremy Corbyn MP – 20 years on from Iraq, we must strive to build a more peaceful world
2. Iraq war’s essential outcome was to demonstrate US and UK weakness for all to see
3. I spearheaded invasion of Iraq – we only had 20% chance of survival but when we arrived something bizarre happened
4. I can say British soldiers did not die in vain as we mark twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War, says Head of the Army
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10. 20 Years Ago Today, the Bush Administration Launched the Iraq War: Juan Cole: “I Have a Bad Feeling About This”
11. War Made Easy
12. From The Archives: The Iraq War
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14. West Virginia Veterans reflect on 20-year anniversary of Iraq War
15. Feehery: The Ides of March remind us to take risks for liberty
16. Twenty years already?
17. The Iraq War didn’t kill liberal internationalism, just our ability to debate it
18. The Iraq War 20 Years On – What Have We Learnt? 
19. McCarthy signals support for Iraq war authorizations repeal
20. Criminals at Large: The Iraq War Twenty Years On – » The Australian Independent Media Network
21. IRAQ 20 YEARS: Sam Husseini — The Lies, and Lies About the Lies, About the Invasion
22. The Invasion of Iraq Wasn’t a “Mistake.” It Was a Crime.
23. How I Became Anti-War, Part 4
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Levant's Agora

Editor: Li Jiayao.

During the more than eight-year war and ensuing years of violence after the 2011 U.S. pullout, more than 200,000 civilians were killed and over 9 million others displaced in Iraq. Much of the country’s infrastructure was also destroyed during the relentless bombings launched by the U.S.-led coalition.

People hold anti-war banners and wave Iraqi flags during a protest in Baghdad, Iraq, on May 24, 2019. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood)

Though 20 years have passed since the United States launched a blatant invasion into the sovereign state of Iraq, justice has not been done for Iraq and its people, many of whom are still suffering from the pain created by the unjust war.

During the more than eight-year war and ensuing years of violence after the 2011 U.S. pullout, more than 200,000 civilians were killed and over 9 million others displaced in Iraq. Much of the country’s infrastructure was also…

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Dig a Little Deeper

Before we know it, we are so much further along in life, married and our children out of the house, while we may have changed so much, yet some have remained the same, looking back on those many years that have flown by so much.

Roth Poetry

When the honeymoon is over, and things have settled down

And the exhale that follows leaves you fully unwound

Dig a little deeper… create another round.

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She’s pregnant with one and then there are two

And there’s no sleep at night and more work to do

Dig a little deeper… do your share too.

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There are diapers to change and babies to feed

No time for you, life spins at warp speed

Dig a little deeper… let her know she’s the one you need.

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When the kids have grown, and activities never stop

Enjoy those moments, help them come out on top

Dig a little deeper… cheer them on, enjoy their shouts.

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When the empty nest is now your own

And all of your sweet children have long since flown

Dig a little deeper… as life moves on.

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Time to rediscover who you are now

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The Sounds of Peace

Roth Poetry

Soft notes roll off strings

Music passed from old to young

Teaching sounds of peace

Brings joy to all of our hearts

Crossing all boarders with love

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Photo: Dwight L. Roth

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The Old Man of the Mountain

Roth Poetry

The Old Man of the Mountain

“You must see it,” Robert told Jen. “It’s breathtakingly beautiful sitting five thousand feet above sea level. The rock formation looks just like an old man in repose. That is why they call it Grandfather Mountain.”

The more he talked, the more excited she became. “And there is a mile-high swinging bridge stretching from the gift shop to the foot of the climb. It is made of metal and anchored with thick steel cables keeping it from swinging too much on windy days.”

As they drove along, Jen’s mind floated in and out trying to visualize what he was telling her. Winding their way up the narrow road, they arrived at the gift shop. The view was spectacular.

As they sat atop the “Old Man’s” head, Jen turned to Robert and said,“In space in time I sit, thousands of feet above the…

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On our Mistakes, sometimes we feel hopeless, and lonely

To remember

• The  burden of being Human, is to be moral, and distinguish good, from wrong, or even evil.

• asking for forgiveness = most beautiful thing for a heavy heart.

Kone, Krusos, Kronos

Loneliness is an

Essential friend

On our way

To bravery.

Ibn Arabi

I got to confess I had committed many mistakes through my life, a few very costly, and what is worst, the most grave with no remedy!

As we age, we slowly, or suddenly we realize, this fact, and grieve us, what to do?

When you do not even have the chance to ask for forgiveness, or do nothing to repair them, your heart grows heavy with pain, and despair, and we only have a tool in repentance, and prayer if you are a believer, those who are not, I wonder what they do? What their hearts tell them to do, and how can they lift the heavy weight of guilt from their hearts, I guess despair, pain, and tears and regret are common to our Human condition, and also our burden.

To have a conscience it’s good, but…

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Reflections from an old man about his past

To remember

• when you reach old age, you reflect on your past

• life caught in full, work, marriage, children

• children following pattern

• did not make an effort to spent more time, to enjoy them, and to know them better

• we are all interconnected, specially family members

Kone, Krusos, Kronos

“It’s said that with Age comes Wisdom, but maybe it’s because regret, as we reflect on our mistakes.”

B.A.

Trough the years,  specially when you reach old age, you reflect on your past. And if we are sincere, we will admit that we  not did  just a few mistakes, but many, and therefore the way we acquired wisdom.

Of lately, I have giving a lot of thought to my now many years gone parents, and realized I could had being a much better son than I was.

I left home at the early age of seventeen, to do what a  lot of young people do, to go and study, somewhere away from home, sure I returned for some years on vacation times, but just for a few brief days, and then life caught in full with me, work, marriage, children supporting a family, on a far away city, with less…

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life

Living Life in a Fish Bowl!

Because I have seen God:

bring beauty out of ashes

fill my heart with peace in the midst of intense situations

pour His grace into my life enabling me to move forward

fill the broken pieces of my heart with His unending love

and turn the bleakest situations around for good

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I will praise Him!

I will serve Him!

I trust Him!

He amazes me!

Life is an adventure and because of God, I am clothed in strength and dignity.  I can smile at the future! (Proverbs 31:25)

When you look at your life, what do you find?

Comment  if you want to chat about how you too can experience the peace, joy, love and hope that Jesus offers.   Best decision I ever made!

Jesus tells us,  “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”  John…

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but as for me

When we hear about God’s rules for mankind, we have to decide which way we want to go, following the rules of men or following the godly rules provide to us by the Word of God in the Holy Scriptures.

In that Book of books, the Bible, we are given the tools, ready at hand, for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity, giving us the way out of the boundaries or chains of this world.

Isa 19:19-21 BSB 1.1 In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the center of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD near her border. (20) It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them. (21) The LORD will make Himself known to Egypt, and on that day Egypt will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and fulfill them.

We have to make our choice known to God, here, before it is too late. It is now, when we are alive that we should choose. We should give all our trust in His Hands, making Him to lead!

Are you willing to follow?

We have the sent on from God giving us an example and having prepared the way to God.

Isa 42:6 BSB 1.1 the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

Rom 15:8 BSB 1.1 For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of Godtruth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

Joh 8:12 BSB 1.1 Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

Act 3:26 BSB 1.1 When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.

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Preceding

rules?

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Related

1. waiting
2. no thanks, i’ll pass
3. God’s timing
4. make it special
5. get up and get dressed

Living Life in a Fish Bowl!

“But as for me…”

This is a phrase that is repeated often in the Bible. It is my battle cry.

 

In a world where sin abounds – what we do matters. We are all broken – just in different ways. Being broken isn’t the end. What we do with our brokenness is the point.

 

We can allow our brokenness to turn into judgment, self-righteousness, bitterness… Or we can turn to God and allow Him to mend our brokenness with His peace, joy, love… We can choose to let God shine through our brokenness.

 

But as for me – I need You, God

But as for me – You are my provider

But as for me – I will not fear

But as for me – You are my strength

But as for me – I trust You

But as for me – You are my shield

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rules?

People have to deal with many rules. The majority shall not ignore the traffic rules and shall be willing to adhere to many rules made by man. But for the most important rules for life, not many are interested in getting to know them, withstand keeping to them.

It is very important that those who say they believe in God and believe in Christ remember that the first commandment of the Divine Creator is that we should only have One God.

1Co 8:4 BSB 1.1 So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Deu 4:35 BSB 1.1 You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

Deu 4:39 BSB 1.1 Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

Deu 10:17 BSB 1.1 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.

1Ki 8:60 BSB 1.1 so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God. There is no other!

The commandments that God gave should be a lamp for us in our life.

Pro 6:23 BSB 1.1 For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

Psa 119:105 BSB 1.1 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

In life we all have to make our own choice about which rules we want to follow. The Most High God has given the world His Word with its regulations and laws or commandments. They can be used as a guide and shall make it possible to go for living an abundant, fruitful life. The Elohim Hashem Jehovah wants to lead us down a path of peace, strength, joy, and victory. He has our best interests in mind. He is for us.

Psa 118:6 BSB 1.1 The LORD is on my side; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Joh 16:13 BSB 1.1 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

We may not forget that only the regulations, commandments or law of Jehovah is perfect.

Psa 19:7 BSB 1.1 The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

Psa 119:96-106 BSB 1.1 I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit. (97) Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation. (98) Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me. (99) I have more insight than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation. (100) I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts. (101) I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word. (102) I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me. (103) How sweet are Your words to my tastethan honey in my mouth! (104) I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way. (105) Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (106) I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

Deu 6:6-9 BSB 1.1 These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. (7) And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (8) Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. (9) Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

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Preceding

Freedom and amendments, firearms and abortions

To Colour Or Not To Colour?

Letter to a Non-Christian Nation

Adar 6, Matan Torah remembering the giving of Torah

When believing in God’s existence and His son, possessing a divine legislation

Who Am I That I Could Hinder God?

Sacred Rhythms – Longing for a deep, fundamental change in your life with God

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Additional reading

1. Colour-blindness and road code
2. Cognizance at the doorstep or at the internet socket
3. Cleanliness and worrying or not about purity
4. Today’s thought “Clothing yourselves with the right attitude” (May 16)
5. Today’s thought “… with all your heart” (May 09)
6. Lost senses or a clear focus on the one at the stake
7. Concerning a most important Law and dead men being alive again
8. Recognising Jehovah’s sovereignty
9. Revolt against the Authority of the Bible
10. Bible in the first place #1/3
11. Bible in the first place #2/3
12. Moshe Rabbenu and Torat Moshe
13. Expectations for kashrut to meet individual and contemporary norms
14. Need of a sovereign decision about sovereign decisions by sovereign member states
15. Reasons why Christianity is declining rapidly in America
16. American Christianity no longer resembles its Founder
17. Christians are increasingly mixing and matching their faith in unexpected ways
18. Matthew 23:23-24 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: Woe 4: A Disregard for Justice and Mercy
19. If we, in our prosperity, neglect religious instruction and authority
20. Mental Enslavement and Sins Syndrome (MESS)

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Related

1. A boy with dirty hands
2. Life Lessons
3. Laws Don’t Fix Things
4. Human Rules!!!
5. Merely Human Rules….
6. Isaiah 29:13 Worship By Human Rules
7. “Human” Rules
8. Rules for being human + WTF Should I Do In Life?!
9. rule follower / rule breaker?
10. Use the Whole Road
11. Following merely human rules is not the truth
12. New effort needed to restore civilian rule, transition to democracy — Global Issues
13. Saudi Arabia imposes strict restrictions during Ramzan month: Loudspeakers prohibited, worshippers ordered to do Iftar inside mosques and more
14. 10 Rules I Live By When It Comes to Time
15. Ten Rules for being Human
16. Rules to Being Human
17. Youtube: the rules limiting the use of relaxed profanity
18. The Condemnation of Legalism
19. Just Regular Conversation
20. Matthew 15:8-9 Honoring God In Word Only
21. Matthew 15:9 Worthless Worship
22. Looking Good Isn’t the Same as Living for Good
23. Free In Deed, Part 1
24. Jesus Christ, my freedom from human rules
25. Disconnected In Heaven?

Living Life in a Fish Bowl!

Some people think rules don’t apply to them. I am sure you have met some of those people. However, it will catch up with them sooner or later. Truth is God sees. God knows. You can’t get away with it when it comes to God.

Jesus tells us:

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,” John 14:15-16

A Helper – the Holy Spirit — this is such a relief. We don’t have to do it on our own. The Holy Spirit is with us – helping us.

This also takes away our excuse that we just can’t help it, or that’s just the way we are. No, we are able to change because the Holy Spirit helps us to change and to grow. We are over-comers! We are victorious!

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Experiences in life helped me grow the most

When we are young often we think we know a lot.

We would love it if we could know everything, but we must be aware that such a thing is impossible. Therefore, let us be humble and realise that we are limited in and with our spiritual knowledge.

Find also: Do I believe in destiny

Learner's Room

An Insult

It was the time when I was in highschool , I used to think myself relatively smart in the academics but one day a teacher asked me a question which I didn’t knew the answer of and left me speech less then the teacher said you are not a know it all person so accept that then I really felt humiliated when this happened but then I accepted the truth and this is what kept me open to new possibilities and knowledge so I am so thankful today that this happened

What experiences in life helped you grow the most?

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Tones of love!

Purplerays

♡ Ļ Ơ Ɣ Ɛ ♡

♡ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature

and embroidered by imagination….♡

~ Voltaire ~

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Text source: “Soul Healing Mystics’ Light” https://www.facebook.com/Soul-Healing-Mystics-Light-1437542323150756/?fref=photo

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