If you choose to always find the good in others,
you will end up finding the good in yourself.
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Choose to always find the good in others
Perfect Landing
Tricolor Heron – Merritt Island – November 2017
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Share Your Smile
Peace has to grow in ourself first and then when we have that inner peace we may try to spread it by letting the smile coming on our face, letting our peaceful vibrations fill the air.
Mother Theresa said, “Peace begins with a smile.”
I believe it.
Do you?
Shortly after we
Moved to Montana,
I joined the
Madison Valley
Writers’ Group.
Smiles helped me
Make friends.
Shared writing
Helped us
Get to know
One another better.
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Here is a poem
I wrote back then.
It’s still pertinent
(maybe even more so)
Today… don’t
You agree?
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A Smile
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“If you see someone without a smile,” the old saying goes,
“Give ’em one of yours.” It’ll chase away their woes.
It won’t hurt you a bit and it don’t take no time.
Might even be returned, and won’t cost you a dime.
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If you see someone without a smile, maybe they just need
The kind of cheer you got – to bring ’em up to speed.
You might throw in a handshake, or a “Howdy, how ya be?”
Might be their first friendly…
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Soul Pampering Time
Pamper your soul with a dosage of daily relaxing time only for you and your Inner-self. Feel free to immerse yourself in the silliest activity.
Who cares if it involves stuffing your face with whipped cream or just blankly staring at your cat to the point of making him uncomfortable. Just be free of judgmental guilt and twisted worries.
Facing our existence every day
Every day we are confronted with ourselves again. Every day again we are again confronted not only with ourselves but also with those around us. Everyday we do meet again new challenges, have to affirm again our values.
Attitude / Golden Gun (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This world which challenges us brings us day in day out some new adventures. We can try to tackle them or try to escape those things which we do not want to see. But covering our eyes is not helping us nor getting such things we do not want to see away. Living in this world we should be aware of what is going on in it. We can not stand at the side, not wanting to be involved or just letting everything happen. Those things which we consider wrong demand an action. And we should take action. Though there are several Christians who think we do not need to do any works, because we are saved, we should not let everything pass along like nothing wrong happens. That what is not according to the Law of God, that what cannot be justified demands reaction. We should open our eyes to what happens in the world and should react appropriate.
Having us to react will demand strength and courage. It shall also demand an attitude to be taken. And that attitude should always be in accordance to the attitude our master teacher Jeshua wants his followers to have.
Attitude (EP) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Every day we do have to face our inner self and find the core of our own business, our own being, our own strive, our own goal. Every day again we do have to face how we are wanting to build up our own life and our own future. It is naturally so that in case we do nothing we cannot do something wrong (we think). Not doing anything, letting it all pass, is witnessing of taking an attitude, which is not the right attitude. Rabbi Jeshua and his disciples taught about the essence of taking action and doing things. The master teacher gave several examples how people lost their opportunity to take part of the celebrations, the wedding or the entrance to the Kingdom.
The grace of salvation has been given to the whole mankind, but each individual has to do something with it. When we are willing to receive that marvellous free Gift, we do have to be thankful for it and do something with it. When we just leave in the cupboard, untouched it shall be of no service for us.
It is an Immeasurable Grace bestowed on humanity but lots of people do not see or appreciate the value of it, or take it for granted that now they have received it they do not have to do anything any more. Oh, how are they mistaken.
Each day we are confronted again with many ideas … our mind wandering about. Even a baptised person can have thoughts which are not in accordance with God His Will. Though they may be convinced that they have done away with the old life, that old life simmers slowly and little tinkly lights may be very attractive. More than once in our life bitterness, wrath, and even anger, does want to come along our path. We also can have moments where clamour and evil speaking may be lurking around our own corner. All those things we are asked to put away from us, with all malice. And that requires an action, which is a work to be done.
There are also days that we wake up and feel as if we have a broken heart. Though we may know that the broken heart is the healed heart, that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit, that the repenting soul is the victorious soul. Each time we left our mind wandering in the wrong way we do know we can repent, i.e. take an action, making the effort to see that we were wrong and that we do have to ask for pardon. It demands an action to see what we did wrong (i.e. doing a work) and when we know what we have done wrong we have to repent about it (again doing a work).
Painting “Kampen for tilværelsen” (Struggle for existence”) by Christian Krohg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Often because we ourself do have to endure so much pain we want others also to have pain. Often we also want to have many good things others may have and desires others to have some of our bad things. Such desires are often around us to cause pain. We can have feelings which hurt others or can bring them into distress. Yes, we must be aware that we can get up in the morning with allowing to grow in our mind the
“intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm without legal justification or excuse.”
This makes our own self the sick self. The self what needs healing. the healer is always around, but we have to come to him (which demands an action or work). Without coming to the Saviour Jesus Christ we shall be nothing and will have it so much more difficult in our life. he is the Way to God and he is the one who can guide us through difficult times, putting our hands in the hands of his heavenly Father.
Every day we wake up we should know that God is willing to be close to us and that He is really concerned with what is going on in our heart and mind. Be aware, He knows much more than we allow others to see, hear or feel, what we think or want to do. Even when we do not carry out malicious acts against someone, but carry such thoughts in our mind, God knows it.
You ought not to secretly wish that something bad would happen to any person. Rejoicing in some misfortune that befalls someone else is also evidence of malice. And that is something God detests.
The dispensationalist Plymouth Brother Harry A. Ironside
The Canadian-American Bible teacher, preacher, theologian, pastor, and author Harry A. Ironside said every Christian has an obligation to put away all malice.
“If you do not live up to that, you are not living a real Christian life. This is Christianity lived in the power of the Holy Ghost.”
Gospel Light Society writes
You might feel like the malice in your heart is justified because of what someone did or said to you. But, you must rely on the power of the Holy Spirit and bring your feelings under the authority of Christ. You must choose to put on the new man who will not walk in maliciousness, but in a spirit of love and forgiveness toward all. {How Not to Walk, Part 26 (Revive the Family, Revive the Church, Awaken the Nation, O Lord #272)}
Every day we have to face the new life lying in front of us. Having done away with the old life, we should try to do our utmost best to live in accordance to God His Wishes, not following man’s doctrines but following Biblical doctrines.
George Cuff wrote:
There are sins from the former life that simply must be denied,
Things the godless revel in, that a believer must sweep aside.
Immorality of every kind, impurity, lust and greed;
You will be bound to idolatry if scripture you fail to heed.You must also rid yourselves of anger, malice and rage.
Watch your speech carefully. Do not in profanity engage.
You threw off the sinful man who reveled in foul deeds;
The new man is renewed in mind, empowered by Christ indeed. {How Not to Walk, Part 26 (Revive the Family, Revive the Church, Awaken the Nation, O Lord #272)}
Empowered by Christ Jesus we should find every day the fresh living water, empowering to continue in the right way, trying to finish the race, lying in front of us.
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Preceding articles
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What IF you’re only driven by stress?
There can only be hope when there is a will to be and say “I am”
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Additional reading
- Life is like a ten-speed bike.
- Suffering produces perseverance
- Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life
- If we view the whole world through a lens that is bright
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
- Thought for September 8 Weak but standing strong in the ground swell
- 30 things to start doing for yourself – #6 is vital.
- Choices
- Live …
- Luck
- Who are the honest ones?
- Being prudent – zorgvuldig zijn
- Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience
- Not liking your Christians
- If there is bitterness in the heart
- Sow and harvests in the garden of your heart
- Don’t Envy the World
- Blindness in the Christian world
- Blinkered minds
- Never making mistakes because never doing anything
- The Immeasurable Grace bestowed on humanity
- Infinite payment of sin by the son of God
- As Christ’s slaves doing the Will of God in gratitude
- Only I can change my life
- The inspiring divine spark
- If you think you’re too small to be effective
- If we, in our prosperity, neglect religious instruction and authority
- Holiness and expression of worship coming from inside
- A Living Faith #3 Faith put into action
- Grow strong in weakness
- Being aligned with above
- Points to remember of philosophy versus spirituality and religion
- It is a free will choice
- We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace
- Your life the sum total of all your choices
- Believe and speak and act in ways which show we have life in Christ’s name
- Behold, My mother and My brothers!
- Saved through grace not through keeping rituals
- Without God no purpose, no goal, no hope
- God’s will is that all sorts of men should be saved
- A goal is a dream with a plan
- Looking for a primary cause and a goal that can not offer philosophers existing beliefs
- Inculturation today calling for a different attitude
- Coming to the end of the year
- Dynamic goals must always rise out of authentic needs
- Being Religious and Spiritual 7 Transcendence to become one
- Faith antithesis of rationality
- Faith, storms and actions to be taken
- A Living Faith #2 State of your faith
- A Living Faith #10: Our manner of Life #2
- A Living Faith #12 The Love for Jesus
- Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal
- Try driving forward instead of backwards
- Priority to form a loving brotherhood
- Discipleship to look at
- Don’t be the weakest link
- The Big conversation – Antagonists
- Reasons why you may not miss the opportunity to go to a Small Church
- Williamsburg Conference 2015 December 27-31 Joy and Gladness
- We should use the Bible every day
- Religious people and painful absence of spring of living water
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- Instantly Healed, Saved and Baptized
- “Looking For Jesus” – “Dead Works”
- (Part 2) Can A Christian Lose Their Salvation?
- A New Life of Righteousness
- saved to serve
- Breathe in, out!
- How Vulnerability Can Bring Us Beyond Ourselves
- The Power of a Grateful Heart – Weakness Gratitude
- Afraid Of The Unknown
- No Retreat, No Surrender!
- Excerpt from a novel
- FFfAW: Promises
- 100 Days of Happiness and 90 Days of Kicking Fear in the Face ….
- No Complain November
- The Sandbox Writing Challenge #50 — No fair peeking!
- Week 6: Opinions-Opinions-…oh No!
- He Tries
- If At First You Don’t Succeed
- What Fills Your Personal Lamp? Personal Gratitude Challenge-day 2
- “Start the daily practice of not letting the little things bother you! If the little things ruin you, what’s going to happen when the big things come along? Start practicing now for your big challenges in life.”
- Skirting the hard stuff
- Message from the Universe: Becoming the person you’ve dreamed about!
- A Night To Dismember
- Remembering to Pause
- First Things First…
- Easy
- Quote Notes
- Are you okay?
- True Power
- Bad Reaction
- Good Grief!
- Are You Ready?: Part 3
- When God gives up
- Daily Verse
- Sin Makes You Sick
- A Change In Perspective
- We Are Dust
- Daily Bread – Draw Nigh
- Daily bible passage – 11/3/16
- A Warning of God Concerning the Ungodly
- Ezekiel 28-30; John 10
- My hope is in the Lord
- Christ’s Blood Shed for All Men
- I cry for you
- For God So Loved The world…
- Come to Me
- How Not to Walk, Part 26 (Revive the Family, Revive the Church, Awaken the Nation, O Lord #272)
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Deeper Call
Mountain road in fall. In background larch trees and the snowy peaks of Mont Blanc – Courmayer, Val d’Aosta, Italy, Europe.
Highways might get you to your destination sooner, but you will get to see more scenery if you travel on a winding road.
Todays guest-writer finds that
Each of us is injured by the hard things in life. Some of us have less serious wounds, while others have very severe ones. In a way, the degree of trauma and injury doesn’t matter because the process of learning new truths to replace lies, forgiving and healing is the same.
With Life helps she hopes to bring a blog with heart; a place where people find inspiration, encouragement, new ideas or just a good laugh, whilst on her Healing for hearts she brings A Journey to wholeness, in the hope to share a journey from survivor to success, from victim to victor, from brokenness to wholeness.
With such writings perhaps seeds may be sown to bring blessings tomorrow.
I will reach higher;
If I happen to fall,
I will get up,
Dust myself off
And try again.
I will look farther;
If I don’t see at all,
I will grow still,
Quietly wait,
Carefully attend.
I will hope stronger;
Obey the deeper call
Of my own heart;
The soft voice of
My inward friend.
Thoughts and reflections taking only a few minutes
How many minutes a day do we not spend on useless things? How many minutes a day are we willing to spend to ourselves and how many minutes are we willing to spend to our Creator?
Many years ago Carl Jung said already
Hand-colored photograph of Carl Jung in USA, published in 1910. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” {Carl Jung}
Today many people are afraid to look into their own heart. Though we should do that more often. Looking at ourselves we also should reflect how we behave in this universe and how we want to relate to others.
Hermann Hesse said
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat any time.” {Hermann Hesse}
Not enough people do take time to retreat and to take some time to look at things, wondering how everything is going good or bad and why certain things evolve a certain way.
The master teacher rabbi Jeshua reminded people how they had to look at life and how also king Solomon was aware that we always had to live as if it is the last day of our life. Every act of our life should be done as though it were our last.
We should
Early picture of Ernest Hemingway with his family. Included in the photograph are Marcelline, Sunny, C. E. Hemingway, Grace Hemingway, Ursula, and Ernest standing at the far right. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really taste your food when you eat, and when you sleep, really sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will dead soon enough.” {Ernest Hemingway}
and
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We only have this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.” {Sir Francis Bacon}
Therefore let us take every moment of the day to make the best out of it.
“You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” {Eckhart Tolle}
“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they bloom like flowers.” {Thich Nhat Hanh}
Helping each other is also made possible by sharing ideas, thoughts of ourselves and others. On “Our World” you may find regularly some thoughts to carry you away or to let your reason or meditate.
From 2016 June 14 some “thoughts“, “meditations” and/or “reflections” shall be published under the tag “reflection text“. With pleasure we recommend you to have regularly a look at those texts.
As such you may find articles like:
- Don’t let anyone move you off the foundation of your faith
- Light within
- Keep positive
- A cheerful heart filled of hope good medicine
- Love envieth not
- Invitation to all who believe
and many others
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Echo
Some might think God is blind or are deaf to His calling and to His answers, often because they prefer keeping stuck with human dogmatic teachings, like the trinity, or because they still do not want to give themselves in the Hands of the Divine Maker.
We are often so afraid of what would happen if we let ourselves go, giving our inner self into the hands of the One Who we cannot see. Also we are so much afraid of facing ourself, having to be confronted with our mirror image. Who likes the naughty bits of himself? Who wants to be confronted with that which is not so good about himself?
We often want to criticise others but do not like to receive criticism ourselves, and to criticise ourselves is even more difficult.
When we dare to look through the clouds and fog we shall see the light that can bring us further on the path of a richer life. Behind all darkness is the God of light and clarity. Lets look for Him Who gives life.
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Find also:
- Once upon a nape’s Ghost-ship
- A Start for looking at the unseen and the treasure to look forward to
- All about love, not needing disasters
- Dealing with the silence of God
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Sinking lies or rising truth…Visual Echo, Mirror
I breathe on it and my life spread a foggy spell enough to blur all harshness and sharp definitions. Do I exist without reflection, thoughts and images are one in the mercury cloud?
Others see me like that?
Weapon of deceit, fear, mirrors can hide you better than an invisibility cloak. But you know.
Gateway, witness, charm, spell, light and darkness, whether whole or broken it is who you are for the others, it is who you are in the present it gives back what it receives.
I don’t see your reflection now I only see you. The mirror turned into water or sky, your hand approaches the water wall.
Crossing is accessible.
O, little voice within…
♡ O, little voice within….
Guide me on….
We shall both
grow stronger
if I but listen….♡
~ Ellis Felker ~
image: tumblr photography
Text & photo source: “Soul Healing Mystic’s Light” https://www.facebook.com/Soul-Healing-Mystics-Light-1437542323150756/?fref=photo
‘I try to keep my hate in check. If you can’t hate, you can’t love.’
The author of this article thinks religion has robbed us of freedom to think and listen to our inner selves, but true Christianity demands just that. The Divine Creator requests us to place ourselves in the whole universe and to go deeper in our inner being. God demands us to come to know our own “I” and to make it not a “selfish I” but to come to an acceptable relationship with those around us.
The author also ask us to imagine a life where equality existed and institutions crumbled, which “is what keeps him pushing along”.
Those who read and come to know the Bible shall not be “misguided souls who choose to work in prisons” but the opposite shall become liberated beings who are no slave any more of this world. For them they shall know that no human being can do them something very bad. Even when they would take the life or the person this would not be the worst thing, because once death all suffering shall be ended and life gone, the person having done the killing not having accomplished much more and not been liberated himself of the agonies which are bothering his mind. The opposite he (the murderer) shall have some extra worries or bad dreams “en plus”.
To the Inside-Outside Alliance group of people who claim to be trying to support the struggles of those inside (or formerly inside) Durham County jail, and their families and friends, we would advice to revise their idea about religion and ask them not to take away the dreams of a better life which really can come true when a person does find the right religion.
By pushing all religion into the corner and to consider it evil is taking away the right of the prisoner to have a hold or guidance to become a better person or for the one who is imprisoned unlawfully to see the good his imprisonment may bring to his other inmates. Because even imprisoned we can do good to others and should be doing good to others. Even when we may be literally chained we do not have to be spiritually chained and even when they would put us in an isolation cell we can be very free when we are willing to make ourselves strong enough so that the other his limitations on us do not obstruct our self-development and our own being.
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To remember
The theory of will power
cause of demoralization in prisons: All transgressions of accepted moral standards = to lack of a strong will
majority of inmates of prisons = people who did not have sufficient strength to resist the temptations surrounding them or to control a passion which momentarily carried them away.
In prisons = monasteries = everything done to kill a man’s will => no choice between one of two acts ==> whole life regulated + ordered in advance => to swim with the current, to obey under pain of severe punishment.
will power disappears
prison = done everything to kill inner strength > make him docile tool in hands of those who control him
penal system based on the deprivation of individual liberty
sound of chains + steel banging all the time = enough to test the strongest will = will break you
all we can do = give advice to people +live a moral life.
Misguided hate can hurt
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Preceding articles
Remain lovingly = No path for softies
Crying is good for inner self!!
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Kropotkin wrote a lot on the wrongs of prisons. These two paragraphs hit the nail on the head for me. Sadly I feel these effects.
The theory of will power
“There is another important cause of demoralization in prisons. All transgressions of accepted moral standards may be ascribed to lack of a strong will. the majority of inmates of prisons are people who did not have sufficient strength to resist the temptations surrounding them or to control a passion which momentarily carried them away. In prisons as in monasteries, everything is done to kill a man’s will.
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