Today’s thought “My heart stands in awe …” (March 12)

Today’s thought

“My heart stands in awe …”

(March 12)

“What shall we do?” was the question.  “the crowds asked” in our reading in Luke 3 today. You may recognise it as the same question the crowds asked Peter on the day of Pentecost, when Peter answered “Repent and be baptised”. But we saw today that John the Baptist gave a different answer to those that were coming to him to be baptised! We read in Luke 3:10-11 of that answer!

John had been giving them a stern message, he had even called them

“You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits in keeping with repentance …” (verses 7,8).

So what answer did they get to their question? Verse 11 says,

“And he answered them, whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise”.

They lived in a world of inequalities, the “haves” and the “have nots”. Most, if not all of us, find it is the same today. How many have only two sets of clothes in this country? One of the most important things Jesus said was, as we will soon read in Luke 12:15,

“be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions”.

Today, getting the latest things on the market, getting more and more possessions is the main aim of people. John spoke as if having two of something was one too many – if there was someone with none! Attitudes were all wrong then, they are even more so today.

We should not let these attitudes influence us – but they do! We are surrounded by those who are Godless and as we complete reading Psalm 119 today we note the words,

“Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes” (verse 155).

There are only two paths, either for him or against him. David further writes,

“I look at the faithless with disgust” (verse 158).

But then the Psalmist becomes very positive,

“my heart stands in awe of your words. I rejoice at your words like one who finds great spoil” (verses 161,162).

Our heart needs to stop – and “stand in awe” and then “rejoice”. But we can only rejoice if we have unreservedly accepted the teaching of his word – then we will experience the wonder of being a child of God, for

“great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble … for all my ways are before you” (verses 165,168).

Sense of scattering which can only be gathered by turning to Allah

Created in the image of the Highest, each of us has the possibility to let Him enter into the weak human heart, so that it can be able to withstand attacks from outside and make the frail human being strong enough to continue on its way closer to the One we need.

Happens to the Heart (Leonard Cohen)

I was always working steady
But I never called it art
I got my shit together
Meeting Christ and reading Marx
It failed, my little fire
But it spread the dying spark
Go tell the young messiah
What happens to the heart
There’s a mist of summer kisses
Where I tried to double-park
The rivalry was vicious
The women were in charge
It was nothing, it was business
But it left an ugly mark
I’ve come here to revisit
What happens to the heart
I was selling holy trinkets
I was dressing kind of sharp
Had a pussy in the kitchen
And a panther in the yard
In the prison of the gifted
I was friendly with the guards
So I never had to witness
What happens to the heart
I should have seen it coming
After all, I knew the chart
Just to look at her was trouble
It was trouble from the start
Sure, we played a stunning couple
But I never liked the part
It ain’t pretty, it ain’t subtle
What happens to the heart
Now the angel’s got a fiddle
The devil’s got a harp
Every soul is like a minnow
Every mind is like a shark
Me, I’ve broken every window
But the house, the house is dark
I care, but very little
What happens to the heart
Then I studied with this beggar
He was filthy, he was scarred
By the claws of many women
He had failed to disregard
No fable here, no lesson
No singing meadowlark
Just a filthy beggar guessing
What happens to the heart
I was always working steady
But I never called it art
It was just some old convention
Like the horse before the cart
I had no trouble betting
On the flood, against the ark
You see, I knew about the ending
What happens to the heart
I was handy with a rifle
My father’s .303
I fought for something final
Not the right to disagree

~ Leonard Cohen

Words reaching the heart

One never knows where words can end up
or
how they can touch a heart somewhere in the world.
As long as the words can come from the heart
they shall be able to reach other hearts
and
would be able to inspire others.

So , because somewhere, someone who needs to read this, is reading this now.
We don’t know who you are, or what brought you to read this,
but thank you for being here.

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Reflecting and Sharing Your Stories

A letter to love

Love one of the most difficult things to understand and to grasp.

Today we bring a poem by a dreamer with some creativity in writing his poem which he placed on his blog Magic nature poem in 2014. There he seems to go in conversation with his heart what makes him feel, makes him heal, though which also plays some tricks on him. {A letter to my heart}

In this life where we are like in a rollercoaster which goes up and down he finds that our lives are changeable.

When life is dark we decide how others see us.
We can show them that we feel mad or we don’t.
We can choose it.
It is the same when life is wonderful.
We can decide whether we show it to others or not. {Life and a rollercoaster}

People represent their lives in a world that blogger wants to show to us. A pity that he does not bring tags to his articles, so that people can find related articles to what he writes on a certain day. But his blog is worth a look at. He shows how we are surrounded by energetic creatures.

Humans, animals, plants, earth, universe within planets, suns, stars, moons, everything.
We are all parts of something  very big.
Everyone is a part of a very big energy.
We all seem to be seperate
But that is not true.
We are all connected by our energies.
A network consisting of our individual energies.
We fulfill the universe. {Energy #4}

With everything we see around us in our heart there has to be a fire. A fire of well feeling and a fire of love. Without love we are nothing.
It is

… taking and giving
You hurt and make us happy
You are everything and nothing
What are you?

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Dear love

What would a life be without you?

You are taking and giving
You hurt and make us happy
You are everything and nothing
What are you?

You are invisible
Makes people believe to be invincable

You are this feeling
Shows us, you make us healing

Somehow you are playing with us
You know we have to deal with you
Because what would a life be without you?
For me and for you
No choice
We need you

Having people in our hearts
Because of you
It makes us believing
It gives us strength
We are never lonely because of you
You take our hands and speaks out loud of our hearts
We have to listen to you
Sometimes you hurt, sometimes you make a dream come true

Love, you are special, you make us special and makes the ones special we love.

In love my thoughtful me talking…

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Why are we killing?

Ngobesing Romanus dreams to inspire humanity. According to himself as the CEO of Radio Evangelium Bamenda and member of the Adivsory Board of African Dream, he does it with a passion. He believes his works have positively impacted millions of people around the world. So lets hope he can inspire others to bring out the best in themselves and realize their dreams.

For him

The world is in trouble;

How shall we come out of it?

I fear for the world;

Unless something is done.

How do you see it?

and he wonders what we do.

We see wicked acts
Everyday in the world;
Innocent people suffer and die;
People’s hearts are full of evil;
This evil is expressed in evil acts;
Many do to others as they like none
To do to them;
What do we do to make the world
An excellent place for all?
My proposal:
Every day avoid evil and do good;
Call on others in one way or other
To do good and avoid evil.
Do you have some ideas,
Of what we can do,
To make the world an excellent place?
Why not share?
{What do we do?}

Like us and other Bloggers for peace, he knows the challenges and is only setting the ball rolling;

lighting the candle; hopeful that candle by candle the whole world shall one day be filled by light.

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Preceding articles:

Reflections on the Great War #1 100 years on

Reflections on the Great War #2

Too Young To Fight?

Remembrance isn’t only about those who fought, but also those who refused

In Flanders Fields II – a new poem in response to the original

Lessons of the Somme

The Somme (1916) Working Class Holocaust

July 4, 1916 – Battle of the Somme greeted with ‘the greatest enthusiasm’

Gwalia military cemetery

Truth

A poem for #Somme100 

Remembering the Somme 100 years on

The War to end all wars

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Additional reading

1. All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting… George Orwell
2. Parade’s End and Saint Flora Castle
3. 1914 – 2014 preparations
4. 11 November, a day to remember #1 Until Industrialisation
5. 11 November, a day to remember #2 From the Industrialisation
6. Mons 2014 remembering the Great War
7. Liège 2014 remembering the Great War
8. August 4, 1914 to be remembered
9. Honouring hundreds of thousands of victims of the brutal Somme battle
10. Ulster Tower ceremony for the Irish at the Somme battle
11. Aftermath
12. Juncker warns for possible new war

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Further reading

1. Why Do People Kill People?
2. Playing God
3. Blood Red
4. Understanding. The Killing of Society
5. Sad Sunday.
6. Someone Kills
7. Japan man arrested for killing father with chopstick
8. We are better than this
9. Killing of British MP Jo Cox: What we know so far
10. England grieves killed administrator, EU submission crusade suspended
11. Massacre
12. Gaffney: Jihad in Orlando
13. Within Seconds.
14. Orlando
15. Thoughts On Orlando
16. President Obama On Orlando Mass Shooting: ‘This Was An Attack On All Of Us’
17. a tragedy in Orlando
18. The Orlando shooter was employed by a British security firm, and its shares are tanking
19. This is Love
20. A Letter to the People Using the Orlando Shooting to Promote Bigotry: You Will Never Win
21. Tragedy in America
22. Understanding Why
23. ‘I Miss My Old Life’: Christian Fleeing ISIS attack narrates ordeal
24. Thousands in Okinawa Demand U.S. Military Leave Japan After Killing
25. When You Think You’re Having A Bad Day Then You Watch The News
26. An Extremist View on Gun Control Policy.
27. Impunity
28. Qawwal Amjad Sabri shot dead in Karachi
29. A cricket lover, sufi singer Amjad Sabri shot dead
30. While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, June 23 edition
31. British MP murder suspect to be tried in November
32. The American Left and Terror
33. petition: India’s ‘Lust for Killing’ Wildlife Needs to Stop
34. Population Control: The Fetus, Fuck the Fetus!
35. What Makes This Okay?
36. Skydda Sierra Leones hundar mot brutal avlivning
37. The Summer of ’76
38. Scotus Abortion Clinic Ruling
39. 100 Degrees (Chicago)
40. Morality, pragmatism and killing
41. Justice for Shark Killed for Photo Opportunity
42. Tigers

Not an easy decision to make

Too many people forget in what for a difficult situation a female person may be placed when she has to choose what to do with what is growing inside her body.

Previously, before the moment the where confronted with something coming in them, they perhaps had to undergo already a lot of suffering which caused them to close their heart,

for the fear that they live in, and for all of things that they are missing out on because their hearts are hurting so much that they cannot accept the love that they are offered. {Though the words were not written about this subject, we have taken the liberty to use this beautiful phrase from the nice writing: The Sound of a Breaking Heart}

Human fetus at eight weeks. According to Catholics, the debates on abortion make the human embryo and fetus signs of contradiction (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The person involved in a tragedy may well realise that the answer to her questions about the horrific slaughter of innocent people is linked to hardened hearts, but she does not want to harden her heart, because it is hurt. In herself her heart is crying, crying out loud; But not many do seem to understand her crying.

She feels the reality that

the ones who need love most are the ones who ask for it in the least loving ways, {The Sound of a Breaking Heart}

But love is often broken by heartless people, who do not mind to show their ‘higher power’.

Having been hurt ones or even more than one time, now she would get her feelings hurt a lot. And it is not that she would know better and know that while some people still aren’t aware of the love that they are capable of, she does know that we should all be capable of loving to great measures. But then why does not show the world that comprehension and love?

Though she might understand that every human heart is prone to corruption – her own included, she does not understand why so many point a finger at her, wishing to condemn her to hell.

Have those who criticise the made decision having thought what they themselves would do if they were raped or would be a victim of incest, or would be confronted with congenital malformation of the foetus?

It is so easy to condemn but so the more difficult to understand.

44years old gravid female with previous 6 children, was diagnosed with carcinoma in situ of cervix (early stage cancer of womb). So total removal of uterus( woomb) considered with fetus in situ, for long life of the female. So abortion was inevitable for future health of the lady. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Do those who are against abortion also think about certain cases where other matters have to be taken in account? Do they know about the many critical situations there exist for women like Ana and Aurora, two Costa Rican women who were carrying foetuses that would not survive, but which doctors did not allow them to abort.

In late 2006, a medical exam when Ana was six weeks pregnant showed that the foetus suffered from encephalocele, a malformation of the brain and skull incompatible with life outside the womb.

Ana, 26 years old at the time, requested a therapeutic abortion, arguing that carrying to term a fetus that could not survive was causing her psychological problems like depression. But the medical authorities and the Supreme Court did not authorise an abortion. In the end, her daughter was born dead after seven hours of labour.

The Collective for the Right to Decide and the Washington-based Center for Reproductive Rights brought Ana’s case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), as well as that of Aurora, who was also denied the right to a therapeutic abortion.

Her case is similar to Ana’s. In 2012, it was discovered that her fetus had an abdominal wall defect, a kind of birth defect that allows the stomach, intestines, or other organs to protrude through an opening that forms on the abdomen. Her son, whose legs had never developed, and who had severe scoliosis, died shortly after birth. {Costa Rican Women Try to Pull Legal Therapeutic Abortion Out of Limbo}

In public hospitals in Costa Rica, like the Rafael Ángel Calderón hospital in San José, there is no protocol regulating legal therapeutic abortion, for doctors to follow. As a result, physicians restrict the practice to a minimum, leaving women without their right to terminate a pregnancy when their health is at risk. Credit: Diego Arguedas Ortiz/IPS

The world has to be aware that there are different sorts of abortions. Though none would be preferable, sometimes animal man has to use their brains and has to understand that the Creator has given them brains and medical specialists to help them in their life. Everywhere in the world  women should have access to medical help and in case the medics do find that a choice has to be made to safe the mother they should be able to propose a legal abortion. In such instances there may be no lack of clear medical guidelines outlining when and how a legal abortion can be conducted.

It urged the Costa Rican state to draw up clear medical guidelines, to “widely disseminate them among health professionals and the public at large,” and to consider reviewing other circumstances under which abortion could be permitted, such as rape or incest.

The international pressure has grown. Costa Rican Judge Elizabeth Odio, recently named to the San José-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights, said in a Jun. 20 interview with the local newspaper La Nación that “it is obvious that therapeutic abortion, which already exists in our legislation, should be enforced.”

“There are doctors who believe therapeutic abortion is a crime, and they put women’s lives at risk,” said Odio. {Costa Rican Women Try to Pull Legal Therapeutic Abortion Out of Limbo}

Who wants to put the woman her life at risk for trying to bring something in the light of the day which has no life chances?

The one who was raped may cry out in the dark. The one who was tortured and pressed to do something which she hated, who is going to understand and help her? In this world there are so many women who need to find a place where they can find a listening ear, a helping hand and yes sometimes people who help her to take away the spots of ‘contagion’.

For many it may be oh so easy, oh so logic, but is it really?

– a crying woman

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Preceding articles:

Whoopi Goldberg commandments and abortion

My Choice (by Jezabel Jonson)

The Real ‘Choice’

“They Told Me What I Wanted To Hear” – Real Abortion Stories

The Things We Carry, by Penny

Hillary Clinton Says Religious Beliefs About Abortion Have to be Changed

Freedom and amendments, firearms and abortions

If the baby is part of the woman’s body…

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Additional reading:

1. Suffering redemptive because Jesus redeemed us from sin
2. Let us not forget it was God who chose us
3. We love because he first loved us
4. A philosophical error which rejects the body as part of the human person
5. Inner feeling, morality and Inter-connection with creation
6. Roman Catholic Church in the United States of America at war
7. 2014 Human Rights
8. American Senate ignoring many voices and tears of their own people
9. About lions and babies
10. Westboro Baptist Church and Catholic Truth against Nelson Mandela
11. Always a choice
12. The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around
13. We all are changed into the same image from glory to glory
14. God loving people justified
15. A love not exempting us from trials
16. Cognizance at the doorstep or at the internet socket
17. Establish your hearts blameless in holiness
18. Purify my heart
19. Sow and harvests in the garden of your heart
20. Come, walk with me and find rest for your soul
21. I can’t believe that … (4) God’s word would be so violent
22. Are Christadelphians so Old Fashioned?

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Further readings:

1. Seeing Miracles In The Fog
2. a fictional story about the effects of abortion committed years ago: Nancy’s Abrotion
3. Video Facebook: I am Not your nut rag
4. The Road to Matrimony… A Preamble!
5. Ohio Man Gets Life Terms For CSA
6. Letter I Won’t Send
7. The Lasting Effects Of Child Abuse
8. 19 year old girl from wood be kidnapers and winds up getting in to her life a little too deep
9. 14 Children Of Divorce On How It’s Affected Their Views On Love & Relationships
10. Unexpected Triggers
11. The Church – Trigger Warning- Poetry on Incest
12. College Rule #22
13. What Did Trauma Do To You?
14. Lose My Everything
15. I pledge allegiance to the secret!
16. How to heal after childhood sexual abuse
17. Struggles
18. Purity Ring…
19. Pure Hatred
20. Ready to remember?
21. Severe trauma silenced victim
22. A Survivor Talks to Incest Offenders (And Others)
23. How Many Incest Offenders Do You Think You Know
24. What Incest Has Caused in My Adulthood
25. Focus on: Rape – What is Rape?
26. I Don’t Think About Them
27. Father rapes 11 year old daughter and impregnates neighbour’s daughter
28. I should be happy
29. Love Leaps
30. Beauty and the beast
31. ~Because you are Special~ Innocence Lost!
32. Guys This Was So Scary!
33. Raping innocence
34. What we can learn from sexual sin of Bible heroes (podcast)
35. thirteen
36. Published today – Indecent exposure
37. The Rape of Sweden
38. Rape: we are all at risk
39. Rape, Period
40. Review: Asking For It by Louise O’Neill
41. Stop Burning Rape Survivors at the Stake
42. Newly Married Woman #Gang #Raped by 6 Men in Assam
43. Cries from India
44. ‘Calculated, depraved, evil,’ HIV positive Harrisburg man charged with rape of 6-year-old
45. 4 Forgotten Cases Of Satanic Rape And Murder That Turned Out To Be ‘Satanic Panic’
46. It Does Not End There…
47. How to Date a Rape Survivor – Latest Article for Vice Broadly
48. A Mother’s Son: Breaking the Cycle of Racial-Sexual Violence.
49. Judge upholds conviction for Owen Labrie in prep school rape case
50. To My Niece On Her Birthday
51. Rearview Mirror
52. White Male Bibliobloggers and “rape threats as a matter of course”
53. Controversy over Rape Advice?
54. So bloody angry…
55. KS Eshwarappa, My Sweet Summer Child
56. Was it rape? Does it matter?
57. Thanks a Lot, Mr. Cosby: The Huxtable Legacy and the Black American Identity Crisis
58. Laura Bates talks feminism
59. Consent: it’s this simple.
60. Debunking the Mythologies of Rape
61. The depth of misery
62. Innocence Lost (Caution: Mature Content)
63. India shamed by sexual violence
64. One in seven females experience serious physical or sexual violence at university.
65. What Do Women Want?

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In our life we start learning to understand signals from others and learn to give meaning to words and actions.
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Are you right down in the dumps? Stop digging!

Are you right down in the dumps? Stop digging!

Every one of us is confronted with painful events:  unexpected job loss, a friend who betrays you, a partner that cheats on you, someone close who commits suicide. It can shake us up considerably and force us to stand still.

To dig is good
Preferably with people whom you trust and who love you. To stand still with them and to get down to the bottom and confront the pain can be healing and enriching. Because at the bottom of the pit lie all the answers you can only find there. Often they are hidden treasures that determine how – and how quickly- you get out of the dumps.

But what if the dumps are your place of residence ?
There are people who never recover from a tragedy and remain a shadow of who they were the rest of their lives. They live in the dumps. There they dig endlessly, because one way or another it protects them from the pain of life.
On the other hand there are people who – however deep they are in trouble – they find a way out. They emerge stronger, fuller, richer. They experience that…

There is no darkness without light!

Lev Isaakovitsj Sjestov / Lev Isaakovich Shestov at a young age

There are questions that remain unanswered. There is injustice that gives us a feeling of desolation. There is pain we cannot be reconciled with. In the middle of all of this the philosopher Lev Sjestov wants to impress on us ‘that he who is lost in eternity and to himself – and is in the mercy of immeasurable despair – is capable of paying attention to the ultimate reality’.
 
And this miracle happens within us. It points without doubt and irrevocably to our heart. That is where it happens. From the heart we can raise from any dump, any grave or death because life does not let go of us, light does not give up on us, because right across everything… we are carried through.

We wish you to meet people you can draw on.

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Dutch original by Bond zonder Naam: Zit je in de put? Stop dan met graven!

Please do find additional reading:

1. Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair
2. If there is bitterness in the heart
3. Walking through the valley of the shadow of death
4. Hope begins in the dark
5. Some one or something to fear #6 Faith in the Most High
6. Getting fate in your change to positiveness
7. Let us not forget it was God who chose us
8. Man’s plans prevailed by God’s purpose
9. God doesn’t call the qualified
10. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #17 Sorts of prayers
11. Sow and harvests in the garden of your heart
12. A good idea to halt all activity for one hour some day
13. We should use the Bible every day
14. Rest thy delight on Jehovah
15. Being thankful
16. 20 Best Gratitude Quotes
17. All I want is peace!!!
18. A cheerful heart filled of hope good medicine
19. Open your heart
20. Keep your heart on the right path
21. The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around
22. Picking Stones

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  When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on.” – Sheila Cassidy
• God in your life (linmeyercatholiccommunity.wordpress.com)
  “I cannot simply live with an idea of God, because when grief and pain enter, they tend to remove any ideas that we hold as true. But when we have God in His fullness, we are not left in a room alone with grief and pain; because God is in there with us, sharing in our sufferings and showing us that He is not just the God who conquered death, He is the God who lives life with us.
• Healing The Heart (ireport.cnn.com)
  In this moment I declare and surrender all pain of the past to the transformative, transfigurative Power of God. For I know that All that I experience to be trusted as God’s mystery of awakening me further. I take full responsibility for every experience in my life, especially the painful ones – knowing that Divine Perfection has called my soul to awaken through each experience – both the painful experiences and the easy experiences. I acknowledge the great gifts that have come from the pain: Wisdom, Courage, Strength, greater Compassion, the ability to help others, and a release from illusion. I embrace even more fully each of these for myself, right now in this moment. And I remain open in trusting surrender to further awakening God always has for me.

Love the Whole Person

Love goes there where the tornado wind is not able to enter. It is where the heart sees the light in the darkness. It is the preparedness to bear all burdens together with the other and to make the heavy weights oh so light.

Tania Marie

Always see people in their wholeness – not in the illusions of their temporary stories ❤

This provides them the opportunity to choose to return to themselves and emerge from the darkness, as you hold the light and space at the other end of the bridge for them to cross into.

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