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Friendship increases happiness and reduces misery, by doubling our joys, and sharing our sorrows.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Friendship to share
Helping your child hold onto joy
Children have a natural aptitude for joy; the challenge for parents is to help them retain it, writes Rachel Fairbank in Lifehacker.
If you’d like your child to hold onto joy, it is essential for them to build supportive relationships with people who can offer comfort and perspective during hardship. It’s also important to help them develop their strengths and pursue their interests, even if they aren’t the interests you hoped they’d have.
“Allow your child to be a voice in participating and finding their joy,”
says child psychology expert Maureen Healy. And
“when the tough times hit, it’s important to set an example for your kids of what it looks like to get through them,”
writes Fairbank.
“Be honest about the fact that sometimes life can be really hard and that there’s not always much that you can do about it other than persevere as best you can.”
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DON’T listen to them!!
Allah, Jehovah our God, Who is the Almighty, Who takes away our fear, sorrows and gives us hope in better times, is the One to Whom we look up and praise for all the wonders we might enjoy around us.
There are lots of people who try to get us away from our faith in God. We should be careful not to fall into their trap. The Scriptures warn of such false teachers, deceivers and tricksters who might lead us astray.
They say be ready for the disappointment from any one at any time..
And I say ” Be ready for happiness.. Joy.. Money.. Health… Good company.. ”
That’s what I think of God..
What do you think of God???…
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Joy is the gift of love
Dutch translation / Nederlandse vertaling: Vreugde is het geschenk van de liefde
Joy is the gift of love. Grief is the price of love. Anger protects that which is loved. And when we think we have reached our limit, wonder is the act that returns us to love.
~Valarie Kaur, in See No Stranger
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A Humming Bird in Flight. Let Us Learn!
A tiny creature, barely noticeable,
The size of an insect.
What a rare and precious find, incredible!
If we could but enlarge its beauty, it would reflect
The glory of nature in one swift swoop
As the tiny bird sweeps into our lives with ballet loops.
Ah, the peace, joy, and purity of nature…
It reminds us to look for the little things
That bring so much meaning, depth, and will to nurture
All life upon our planet, all thoughts and feelings in our souls.
We can learn much from this luminous, humming fowl
Who has no troubles, woes, resentment.
Skimming the skies in faithful bliss,
Seeking the nourishment that strengthens the minuscule wings.
Listen closely as you hear the song of endless
Joy, peace, freedom, and contentment.
So let us sing!
–Deborah A. Bowman
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How To Count (Poem)
How to delineate a life lived?
Let us use not temporal posts of days or years
But limn the finer measure
Of love given and received
Of kindness extended with a free hand
Of compassion shown in minute and larger ways
Of laughter shared with those around.
Choose to see joy
And continue to delight in our communal dance.
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Wading
As I stand here among the towers
I look to the ground for the flowers
Pluck the ones that delight your eyes
An offering against all demise
Now my chance to love you is fading
In your ocean of tears I am wading
Feel like I am losing control
Taking it’s toll after toll
My choice of words my way
Make for a better day
Full of love from the beginning
And here I heard your heart ring
That joy that makes your heart leap
Should be held close to keep
That elated feeling of being loved
Not something that is shoved
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Give with joy
”“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.”
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
“The greatest joy comes from giving and serving.
That’s much better than the discomfort and distress of focusing exclusively on yourself and what’s in it for you. ”
ek is bang ek vergeet
22 Maart 2018
Ek neem so baie in en my oë sien prentjies om elke hoek en draai. Vandag plunge ek na ‘n diep plek en ek dink sommer aan alles wat vir my belangrik is.
Ek is bang ek vergeet hierdie ervaring.
Ek moet my hande en my hart oopvou. Alles wat ek sien en beleef moet deur my spoel.
Een van die dae is ek terug in my gewone roetine, maar ek sal nie dieselfde wees nie. Hierdie ervaring word deel van my en verander die buitelyne van my wese.
Ek gaan nie dieselfde wees nie maar tóg presies soos gister. Dit is die lewe.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
The time had come to open her heart to joy, to love, to the unknown, to sadness, to what was, to hope, to what will…
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Change your sorrow in joy!
Coming closer to the end of the year
we best forget all the sad moments of the year
and take some extra time to remember the beautiful moments of the past few months.
Change your sorrow in joy!
Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Verander uw verdriet in vreugde!
One for Sorrow (song) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Welcoming writing that can help to heal, to grow and to learn about ourself
In this world often people have to go to struggles and sometimes have to undergo big chocks to be placed in the reality of this life and to see and take an other crossroads.
For the founder of this lifestyle magazine it took two near death experiences before he at last came to concentrate even more on the more important spiritual matters of life. A parallelisation brought him to have enough time, lying flat on his back, having to be fed, he had enough time to once more in his life examine the Bible, his life, the way and the reasons of life.
Sometimes our whole life, our whole world has to fall apart before we come to change certain things in our life and come to know ourselves even better. Sometimes we also do have to go deep, but come to remember that joy more than once hid herself. How far and hard we do sometimes have to search to find her. {versplinterde drome}
Perhaps you too like Marcus Ampe and Liza Borstlap have to find ways to handle suffering. Though for the founder of this blog, he knew God already a long time and wanted to give the Divine Creator service already from early in his life, he also had to do a job to earn his living. He too had to make the best of his worldly life. Very often he was ‘put to the test’ and had to conquer many difficulties. That way he came to discover a greater desire for God.
Our newly joined writer also knows
Then everything, both good and bad, becomes redemptive. It moves us toward the God we desire.
and advices us
Enter your thirst. Feel your ache, the very worst ache that throbs in your soul. Face how you harm others, your spouse, your children, your friends. And face your disappointment with them. {versplinterde drome}
Life, Love & Pain (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Too often we are becoming blinded by the pains and difficulties we our encountering.
Danger is that we too often let ourselves being carried away from the right track, because of our difficulties and pain.
says Marcus Ampe, whilst our fresh new author would add
When dreams shatter and pain is blinding, we’re prevented from moving ahead in our own light. {versplinterde drome}
she learned
that an awareness of inadequacy is neither a curse to lift nor a disorder to cure. It is a gift to be received, a gift that if properly used can make me powerful and strong and clear and wise. {versplinterde drome}
Our new author at her blog gives much of herself away. So if you would like to know her better, get to read her interesting blog “Heart prints”. At it she shows how she learned a lot in 2002 about the grace and wisdom of God. She learned about herself and saw with her own eyes how terrible things happened to her, but also how those turned later to make it to her advantage.
She also knows that there is an endurance that is too far for her to attain. Like the founder of this blog is aware we often need such battles in our life to end up in situations which make life worth living and give ourself a good reason to be here.
We do have to be kneaded and modelled, by time and many circumstances, having to build patience and endurance, to make life for something, and for not to loss a lot of qualities.
Rampton Parish Church Millennium Banner Displayed alongside the hymn board, it depicts (1) The Glory of the Lord appearing in the Cloud (Exod. 16:10); (2) The Fire of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Acts 2:3); (3) The Tree of Life (Rev. 22:2); (4) Rampton Parish Church; (5) Man tills the soil (Gen. 3:23); (6) God so loved the world (Jn. 3:16); (7) The Tree of Knowledge (Gen. 2:16); (8) The Old and the New Covenant (Song of Songs 2:4); (9) The Advent Candle (Jn. 1:9) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The process of cutting away the ‘dead wood’ or nasty smudges may be a painful process, but by working and trying hard we may come to reach a goal worth looking at.
When we dared to look at the new author her blog to see what she wrote in her diary we found that
It sometimes feels like I’m standing on the shore and see people struggling in the waves.
People that I cared, “shared a life.
I can not help anyone, I do not have the ability.
But I hope that they will be tired of the nonsense and trivialities, that something will happen so they can experience the peace of God. {hardepad – Stukkies uit my dagboek 2002 ~ 2012}
That is also why we welcome her greatly and do hope she, like other authors on this blog, can share their hopes in God and in their fellow man. People coming along here willing to look at our blessings and the good things of life. Seeing themselves as miniscule elements always remembering how pointless a life without God is and how void. Knowing that when we find God and are willing to share His Grace we not only have to be so grateful for the peace here on the shore, in the fields and in the woods.
On this blog, many of the writers with her, have their heart going out to the man who had to endure so much. In the knowledge there is still so much to do, she with us want to bring thoughts, answers, and hopefully some clue of hope.
Where a massive amount of doors slam in my face.
Where roads immediately ends.
Here where all plans go wrong …
Where thoughts and words fail finally … {hardepad – Stukkies uit my dagboek 2002 ~ 2012}
We are happy she is willing to share thoughts of hope and wants to look with us at her, our and others their life and look at options we may have.
With utter despair?
Or with joy for the gift pack coming?
We do hope we all shall enjoy the words shared here and giving us fresh air, opening windows also to other writers, photographers, nice pictures and texts which can enlighten us and inspire us.
We would advice our and her readers to go with her and other presented authors here, looking at it when
All seems possible and feel now.
Today.
To breathe.
Arms open, lifting your head and going to meet the light.
This new author has felt, like many of us, emotional pressure, time constraints, and work-related issues that needed all her focus and attention. She tried to hide the stress and realised that her turmoil was visible.
Everyone could read it on my face. The pressure was so immense that it felt as if I was captured in a boiler, and that the all-consuming fire below me brought the boiler to boiling point.
she writes in “As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul“.
As internal war can rage in ourselves, we can use some voices and reactions form others to get us free from our trapped, irritated self.
Our suitcases are filled with all kinds of dead weight: habits we need to give up, attitudes we’ve long since outgrown, and activities and possessions that no longer serve a reasonable purpose. (Nancy Twigg)
It is nice she now comes to open her suitcases here and is, like some other contributors here, willing to unpack her treasures of ‘findings’, her ‘gemstones’.
Like Mr. Ampe she also had to push the reset button to remind herself of her personal values.
The discord comes when I forget about my own values, and start living out other people’s values. I subconsciously make other people’s priorities my own. For me, the result is stress and misery. {As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul}
We are convinced just by willing to share experiences, by opening up to others, willing to show our weaknesses, but also our strengths, and showing others Who gives us the strength to face this difficult life, that lots of our stress and difficulties may also melt as butter in the sun.
By falling and getting up again we come to see, that no matter what happens in life, always there is a wonderful dream available.
That if pursued will generate an unfamiliar, radically new internal experience. That experience, strange at first, will eventually be recognised as joy. {versplinterde drome}
You will see, sharing the dream is a nice experience, enriching us all and giving hope to more people.
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Find also to read
- ‘n memory…24 Mei 2011
- terloops…
- kronkelpad
- chronicles of an introvert
- As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul
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Additional reading
- The longer you wait
- Determine the drive
- Suffering redemptive because Jesus redeemed us from sin
- Preaching to an unbelieving world
- Even in tough times remembering the blessings
- Your struggles develop your strengths
- We are to be joyful in the midst of our trials
- Be not afraid of those trials which God may see fit to send upon thee
- Faith and trial
- A Living Faith #4 Effort
- A Living Faith #5 Perseverance
- A Living Faith #12 The Love for Jesus
- A “seed” for the blessing of all mankind would come through the family of Abraham
- God should be your hope
- God is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him
- The truth is very plain to see and God can be clearly seen
- The first on the list of the concerns of the saint
- Unconditional love
- Remember there’s a light in the next day
- Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience
- The soul has no rainbow if the eyes have no tears
- A man who cannot forgive others
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
- Love will cure more sins than condemnation
- Frank risks taking
- If your difficulties are longstanding, try kneeling
- Tapping into God’s Strength by Waiting on Him
- Old Man of Prayer
- A treasure which can give me everything I need
- Patience is the ability to count down before blasting off
- Careful what you sow, it might grow
- Be kinder than necessary
- Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness
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Further of interest
- Wisdom Not to Waste Our Trials
- Endurance and Change
- Things I’ve Learned About the Olympics via Facebook and Tumblr
- “Race” Report (It’s long!)
- The Race That Matters
- Nine Days – Day Four
- Both Sides Now
- Training to Climb 8,000 metre peak
- Cho Oyu Summit – Down, but not out!
- Trusting Our Coach in Times of Stretching
- Sunday S.O.A.P. – 21 Aug 2016
- The Excellence of Patience
- More than a Conqueror
- May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same
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powerless
The Beginning
We build our own prisons, and carry them around. We bang our heads against heavy bars, and silently cry out for help. Some manipulative moves force us to our knees and we become immovable objects, trapped in the misery of our circumstance.
I felt like a caged bird. Trapped. Powerless.
What does it mean to be powerless? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the definition of powerless is “without power, strength, or ability; wholly unable to act, influence, etc; helpless, impotent.”
Powerlessness implies a lack of control, yet we hold on to our false power and try to control our hurts. We bury the truth with denial and if that doesn’t pay off, we rationalize. If nothing works, we start the blaming game, losing precious energy, trying to escape our reality. Our lives become unmanageable. Resentments fester and grow like an emotional cancer.
Pity me O LORD, for I am weak. Heal me for my body is sick, and I am upset and disturbed. My mind is filled with apprehension and gloom. (Psalm 6:2-3, TLB)
I felt ashamed.
Problems far too big for me to solve are piled higher than my head. Meanwhile my sins, too many to count, have all caught up with me and I am ashamed to look up. (Psalm 40:12, TLB)
Whatever is covered up will be uncovered, and every secret will be made known. So then, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in broad daylight. (Luke 12:2-3, GNB)
I have no idea where you find yourself today. Perhaps you suffered from physical or emotional abuse; perhaps you had to suffer the consequences of having an alcoholic parent; perhaps you made horrible choices; perhaps you were subjected to verbal abuse or drugs; perhaps you had an abortion, or felt the shame of a teenage pregnancy; perhaps you experienced severe rejection by an absent parent or a painful divorce. The fact is, if you find yourself in a cage today, you need to re-examine your life.
Women lose their lives because they don’t realize that they can do things differently. If you stay in the cage too long, you become accustomed to the bars. Your powerlessness becomes your comfort zone. You wait for some external influence to change your situation. If nothing spectacular happens, you become angry and bitter. Unknowingly, you repeat the old family patterns and before long your children suffer the consequence of your ignorance. We lose respect for ourselves and our confidence disappears. How can we expect other people to respect us if we are deaf to our own inner voice?
The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we’re afraid of what other people would do, or say, or feel, if we were to act as we wanted. (Martha Beck)
The Middle…
I knew I had to let it go.
I had to let my carefully constructed life go.
I had to accept the truth of my situation and start the process of healing.
I had to identify each and every false structure in my life;
carefully examine the premise of each argument.
I had to be honest with myself first.
I needed a baseline from where I could present my case to the Lord.
I had to sacrifice the self-life.
I had to sacrifice the person that I have become while I was left to my own devices.
I had to empty myself.
I had to give God space to come in and begin His healing work.
I had to confess that I felt powerless,
that I needed God’s help.
They cried to the Lord in their troubles, and He rescued them! He led them from the darkness and shadow of death and snapped their chains. (Psalm 146:7, TLB)
He frees the prisoners … He lifts the burdens from those bent down beneath their loads. (Psalm 107:13-14, TLB)
I had to find the courage…
I had to settle in my own skin and stay there.
I had to find peace.
I had to let go of everything that tried to rob me of my peace.
I had to learn how to breathe.
I had to learn the art of slowing down and returning to peace.
I had to learn that tears are not a sign of weakness.
Tears soften and open the heart.
If you just start moving, you will feel better. (Oprah Winfrey)
Real power is usually unspectacular, a simple setting aside of fear that allows love. It changes everything. (Martha Beck)
I had to believe that there is a better world out there.
I had to find the open door.
I had to identify my choices.
I had to change my attitude, no longer thinking of myself as a victim of circumstance.
I had to learn to consider my options.
Every freedom can be taken from man except one: the freedom to choose his attitude of mind in any circumstance. (Victor Frankl)
The doors are wide open – women should have the courage to walk through. (Frene Ginwala)
The End.
I was ready to sacrifice my heart,
To give up my comfort zone.
I released the fear, not because I had the courage, but because I knew I had to DO something.
Nothing made sense, and for the first time in my life I could not trust my dysfunctional thoughts.
In my loneliness I realized that I could no longer serve myself.
My desperation for God overshadowed my fear.
God’s presence in my life annihilated my pride.
He made me aware of His grace.
His mercy.
He made me aware of my true self.
I was still sitting in my cage.
I had a lot of work to do.
I had a magnitude of realities to face.
But something stirred inside;
I felt a freedom that I never experienced before.
When we connect to God, we have access to a never-ending source of power. If you are struggling to let it all go; if you have issues with trust, consider reading the following verses to encourage yourself:
The Lord is my helper and I am not afraid of anything that mere man can do to me. (Hebrews 13:6, TLB)
Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love drives out fear. (1 John 4:18, NCV)
Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to His service and pleasing to Him…let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. (Romans 12:1-2, TEV)
No one can be a slave to two masters; he will hate one and love the other; he will be loyal to one and despise the other. (Matthew 6:24, GNB)
Pride ends in a fall, while humility brings honor. (Proverbs 29:23, TLB)
Don’t be anxious about tomorrow. God will take care of your tomorrow too. Live one day at a time. (Matthew 6:34, TLB)
Whoever clings to his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life shall save it. (Luke 17:33, TLB)
A NEW Beginning…
When we gradually release the burden of our unexpressed grief, we can slowly move out of our past. If you acknowledge the truth of your life story, and you mourn for the little girl on the inside, God gives you the grace to re-parent yourself with gentleness, humour, love and respect. You can leave the cage, and savour it as a beautiful memory. You can even fly past it to thank God for rescuing you. God will open your wings, He will give you life, and you will receive JOY!
Know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (John 8:32)
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. (Isaiah 43:18)
No, dear brothers, I am still not all I should be but I am bringing all my energies to bear in this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead. (Philippians 3:13, TLB)
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We are People who need to love!
“We are People who need to love,
because Love is the soul’s life,
Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.”
~ Sufi Saying
( Hafiz )
Photo & text credit: Rumi Page https://www.facebook.com/mevlana/
…rejoice, for your soul is alive!
Portrait Eleonora Duse (1858–1924) by Franz von Lenbach (1836-1904) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never…
The Message of Nature by Eleonora Duse
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“If the sight of the blue skies fill you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand,
rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
~ Eleonora Duse
~ Image by Alexander Kotenko
Text & photo source: “The Garden of Pensiveness” https://www.facebook.com/The-Garden-Of-Pensiveness-367268523352486/?fref=photo
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Witnessing because we love
Yesterday we saw how Jesus spoke about God His second commandment and how Jesus ordered us to keep to a Royal Law.
In the readings of this week we can find an other work than the brotherly love we have to do. Though that work should be part of brotherly love. Out of love to others we should go out into the world and proclaim the Good News. Witnessing to others is a way of showing our love to them, because we want them also to be saved.
God’s abundance is for the furthering of His will here on earth. God wants all people to know Him and to worship Him. We, when we are thankful for what God provided for us, will love to serve our God and shall do our best to be workers in the name of Jesus, following his orders to preach.
The Lord Jesus stripped himself of everything save love, that he might more readily meet each human soul on its own level. Jesus emptied himself, humbled himself, only wanted to do the will of God, his heavenly Father and asked us also to put our own selfish will aside. That will demand some work. Like Jesus became obedient unto death, even the death at the stake, for our sakes, we should offer our selves, working hard to bring others also into the knowledge of God.
Jesus was set on proclaiming the Gospel so that even the dying thief might enter Paradise, and that not one prodigal in all the human family should think that he had sunk too low or gone so far as to be excluded from the hope of salvation.
One of the duties of friendship is just to lend an ear to others and our second duty is to try to give them right answers. Those answers are given by God in His Book of books, the Bible, which we should carry in our heart. To keep it only for ourself is selfish. We should share it with others around us.
The first followers of Christ Jesus were very well aware of their responsibility. They also knew it was God Who had given Jesus authority and also given them responsibility of serving His church by proclaiming the word of God in its fullness. Paul wrote.
Colossians 1:21-29 The Scriptures 1998+ (21) And you, who once were estranged and enemies in the mind by wicked works, but now He has completely restored to favour (22) in the body of His flesh through death, to present you set-apart, and blameless, and unreprovable before Him, (23) if indeed you continue in the belief, founded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the expectation of the Good News which you heard, which was proclaimed to every creature under the heaven, of which I, Sha’ul, became a servant, (24) who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in Messiah’s afflictions, for the sake of His Body, which is the assembly, (25) of which I became a servant according to the administration of Elohim which was given to me for you, to fill the word of Elohim, (26) the secret which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His set-apart ones, (27) to whom Elohim desired to make known what are the riches of the esteem of this secret among the gentiles: which is Messiah in you,1 the expectancy of esteem, Footnote: 1See Messiah in you in the Explanatory Notes. (28) whom we announce, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, in order to present every man perfect in Messiah יהושע {Jehsua}, (29) for which I also labour, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.
Even when the mystery may have been hid from ages and from generations, now for us it should be clear, having been made manifest to the Elohim His saints. When having received the blessings of the offering of Jeshua we, out of thankfulness should be pleased that we got to know what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the non believers. Having Christ in us we do have the hope of glory and should be so overtaken by joy that we shout it out and call others to become partakers of the same joy.
It is that Messiah, given to us, without us having to do something for it, that now our turn has come to do something in return. The Grace is given for free, but now we have to act when we have come into the faith and want to make the faith alive. It is the Messiah whom we should preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus, whereunto the apostles also laboured, striving according to his working, which works in believers of Christ mightily.
The message kept secret for centuries and generations past has been revealed to God’s people. And the secret “Christ in you is the hope of glory!’” should be sounding all over the earth.
Our task is to get this hope of glory with Christ in us. Having his presence and power in our life, because it is the only way we will ever become all that God has created us to be. That is the great secret that is now made known to all! And this is why we we have to do the work of faith proclaiming Jesus, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully grown, mature and complete in Christ. It is to this end we like the apostle Paul have to labour, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in the followers of Christ.
Like it was the great Life Lesson Philemon learned from Paul, and how it has made all the difference for him in everything he did, we too should be inspired by Jesus’ teachings and by the power of God’s Spirit should inspire others as well.
We were made for a purpose; one that will never be realized apart from our Lord Jesus Christ. Once Christ puts his presence and power into our lives – then we can do whatever Christ can do through us if we are opening ourselves to him! Paul’s timeless words should become our very own, so that we too can say
‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!’
This is our hope of glory!
In Christ – the defeated become victorious; the weak become strong; the poor become rich! In Christ – the lame are made to leap and dance; the blind are made to see; the enslaved are set free and rejoice!
In Christ – the lowly are raised up; the brokenhearted are healed; sinners are forgiven, and backsliders are restored! In Christ –dreamers are envisioned; builders are empowered; and all are strengthened with might in their inner man!
To become in Christ we should give ourselves to him, which demands works.
To bring others to Christ also demands works. Though we do have to show others others that Christ is the Way.
We do have to open our ears so that others can open their hearts. We then should try to show them the answers God provides. Like David did not brood on his problems in solitary bitterness we with those around us should bring them before God.
We ourselves must not be ‘puffed up’ because of the way our careful reading of God’s word has led us to increasingly comprehend the ‘big picture’ of the meaning of life and the spirit of genuine love for God that must be part of this.
Let us be like the scribe who knew that there is only one God; and there is none other but He and to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength. To love God demands action or work. But when we do love we first of all have to love His creations as well because when we do not love our neighbour as ourself, we do not show appreciation for the creation of God, because each person is a created being, allowed to live here on earth by God.
Mark 12:26-33 The Scriptures 1998+ (26) “And concerning the dead, that they rise – have you not read in the book of Mosheh, at the bush, how Elohim spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the Elohim of Aḇraham, and the Elohim of Yitsḥaq, and the Elohim of Yaʽaqoḇ’? (27) “He is not the Elohim of the dead, but Elohim of the living. You, then, go greatly astray.” (28) And one of the scribes coming near, hearing them reasoning together, knowing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “Which is the first command of all?” (29) And יהושע {Jeshua} answered him, “The first of all the commands is, ‘Hear, O Yisra’ĕl, יהוה {Jehovah} our Elohim, יהוה {Jehovah} is one. (30) ‘And you shall love יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first command. (31) “And the second, like it, is this, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other command greater than these.” (32) And the scribe said to Him, “Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one Elohim, and there is no other besides Him. (33) “And to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the being, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbour as oneself, is more than all the burnt offerings and offerings.”
We should clearly understand what is being said here. There is only One True God the Elohim Hashem יהוה {Jehovah} and this we should believe and practice with all our heart, offering our love for God to others.
Do we feel as thankful as we should for the wondrous blessing of being spiritual children of God – in this godless world? Let us make sure that we do – and then – how soon will we see and experience – for ever – “the salvation of God”.
Paul challenges us when he looks at the call of Christ to go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. He expresses this responsibility in the bluntest terms,
1 Corinthians 9:16 The Scriptures 1998+ (16) For if I bring the Good News, it is no boasting for me, for necessity is laid on me, and it is woe to me if I do not bring the Good News!
Youngsters listening to a preacher
Let us not overlook that it is for necessity is laid on us as well. ‘A necessity’, etc.: i.e. having no choice. The compelling force was twofold, love of god and love of Christ plus fear of being held responsible for the loss of souls. Woe: calamity, in this case, eternal death. So explicit and solemn was Christ’s commission that Paul could not retain his favour if he refused to obey it. 1 Corinthians 9:17 shows how this impending woe, and the necessity it laid on Paul, make the mere fact of his preaching no ground of exultation. For if we do this of our own will, we shall have a reward. But if not of our own will, we will have a stewardship entrusted to us.
1 Corinthians 9:17 The Scriptures 1998+ (17) For if I do this voluntarily I have a reward, but if not voluntarily, I am entrusted with a management.
Stewardship “stresses obligation, responsibility, and faithfulness of the servant to his master in carrying out the entrusted task” (Rienecker and Rogers, p. 415). In other places such as Luke 16:2-4 this same term is used to describe the management of property.
We have to do the preaching or witnessing as a matter of duty, because God has entrusted us with this task. And this is something too many Christians forget or do not want to see.
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Preceding
Your position about materialistic desires having conquered the world
When believing in God’s existence and His son, possessing a divine legislation
Looking for a shepherd for the sheep and goats
A Royal Rule given to followers of Christ
First man’s task still counting today
He who knows himself, is kind to others
January 27, 417, Pope Innocent I condemning Pelagius about Faith and Works
Letter to the Romans, chapter 3
Letter to the Romans, chapter 4
Additional comments to the 3rd Letter to the Romans
Additional comments to the Letter to the Romans 4
Comments to James remarks, about Faith and works
Which is worse–works without faith, or faith without works?
Crisis man needed in this world
Preaching Christ Is Not Enough
Beautiful feet of those who announce the good news
A Christian has to have eyes and ears and a tongue to use in good ways
Daring to speak in multicultural environment
Perishable non theologians daring to go out to preach
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Additional reading
- A god who gave his people commandments and laws he knew they never could keep to it
- Bible in the first place #2/3
- Hope by faith and free gift
- Salvation, trust and action in Jesus #3 as a Christian
- The Right One to follow and to worship
- Illuminating our minds and watching out
- Those who love Jesus
- Follower of Jesus part of a cult or a Christian
- Paulus to Philemon
- Bringing Good News into the world
- Proclaiming shalom, bringing good news of good things, announcing salvation
- First Century of Christianity
- Looking on what is going on and not being of it
- Let us make sure we are not stiff-necked
- Priest, scribes and others with authority
- Breathing to teach
- Witnessing
- How should we preach?
- Showing by the scriptures that …
- Necessary to be known all over the earth
- Church sent into the world
- How do I know if I’m called to ministry?
- Not all ability to preach
- A Synod to speak freely and to listen without reservations
- Preachers should know and continue the task Jesus has given his followers
- Necessity of a revelation of creation 10 Instructions for insight and wisdom
- Risen With Him
- Looking for True Spirituality 7 Preaching of the Good News
- Missionary action paradigm for all endeavours of the church
- Engaging the culture without losing the gospel
- Counting sands and stars
- The Big Conversation
- The Big Conversation – Christadelphians in the United Kingdom
- The Big conversation – Antagonists
- What Should I Preach ?
- How to Choose a Bible for Preaching
- Positive Preaching Day 2015
- Soviet Witnesses
- Using the name Jehovah but not a witness of that name
- Why we do not have our worship-services in a church building
- Why we do not keep to a Sabbath or a Sunday or Lord’s Day #5 Not law binding
- Sunday 7 September service: Imitate prophets and Paul
- Begin by carrying away small stones to remove a mountain
- Signs of the Last Days
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- John Newton on the Practical Effects of Faith
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- Time for a Great Poem (evangelism)
- Don’t just give up, give out! #Lent
- Faith’s Checkbook: A Constant Witness
- Simon Peter
- When We Struggle
- February 8th-Love your neighbor as yourself. And, our unruly society has about as much difficulty with that as did His chosen people back then. Yet, as His children, we are required to be different.
- Leading Souls to Christ, Part 6 (Onward Christian Soldiers #116)
- Are You Sitting?
- We Are The Body!
- Equipping the Saints (Part 2)
- Life Expectations
- Rude Witnessing
- Feb 4 – That’s What Friends Are For
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- Friendship Born By God
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- Is being a humanitarian enough to convey the full love of Christ?
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- 2016- A year to teach the masses about our Lord!
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Summer-Time Senryu
This is a senryu (similar to a haiku, but a haiku doesn’t mention any people while a senryu does) about the Summertime that I wrote.
Haiku of Basho (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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I open the blinds
And the sun shines in my face
While I smile with joy
I wander outside
While basking in the glory
of the summer-time
Birds fly above me
Chirping a glorious song
Looking for some food
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Where I live, it is the summertime and it is very nice so I decided to write this senryu to give you an idea of how nice it is.
Alex Skerratt
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Summer Oh Summer
Look outside your window
The sun is calling you to come out and play
The pool tempting you to jump in
The air warning you that if you don’t go out you’ll regret it
Summer oh summer oh summer
Look outside your window
The sun in the sky, filling you with glee
Joyfulness of breathing in open air
The warmth making you feel like you want to run and be wild
Summer oh summer oh summer
Look outside your window
Doesn’t the hotness make you want to do something?
Doesn’t the heat make you want to jump in that pool?
Doesn’t summer make you want to have a blast, be wild, be happy?
Summer oh summer oh summer
Bianca Mckay
This Summer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Awards, prizes, Peace and Working together
On the 25th of April 2013 I wrote, on my personal pages, the page Bloggers for Peace. Over there on Marcus’s Space I wondered if it would still be possible to get several people come together to share like-minded thoughts of love and peace. Nearly a year later I must admit I am a little bit disappointed with the meagre result. On the 29th of March 2014 there were only 4 likes and not one real response or reaction, though there were 9 Pingbacks.
Linking to peacebloggers
Give Peace a chance by promoting it and by sharing your positive thoughts.
I myself did some search and placed links to several other “Bloggers For Peace”, but they never gave me a personal sign or contacted me further to really take further action. Perhaps because I placed it on my personal blog, nobody dared to join. So, I do try at this place. Perhaps a Club does not frighten them off and would give more people confidence enough they may say what they want and write when they want. Those who want to join the guest writers shall be able to publish when they want and how much they want, so they should not be so afraid of restrictions.
Awards givers and receivers
I do find it strange that I can find a lot of American blogs where they throw with all sorts of Awards and Prizes, and do seem to appreciate others writings on peace, spiritual and religious living. But I do never see them getting together and taking action with others or really sharing articles. To me it more often looks like an adventure of getting free advertisements for certain websites or blogs (the initiator of the award). Mostly they say to feel free to accept the Such or such Award, like the Inner Peace Award and to add it on your blog, asking you to keep to just one or two rules. The one to pass the award on demanding to share some kind words with that person, is not a bad rule and can help to spread some nice words, which this world for sure can use more. Some present other rules where we can question what it has to do with peace or happiness. We can see that by a lot of such awards the interest is more placed to the persons themselves, having them to tell about themselves, what they like to eat, read and watch on television or in the cinema. Not really about the project or telling more about their action how to bring peace to others and how to contribute so that people could live better together.
Altogether it looks like the maker of the award can receive more readers to his blog by all the links back to his or her blog.
We are not so much interested in awards, but we would love to see many more people coming together and sharing their ideas, bringing understanding joy and peace to people from all over the world. This is the magnificent element of the new technology of internet.Everywhere in the world people can read and get to know people from everywhere in the world.
Big mess, noice and information overload
When we look at the world we may find one big mess. For many uncertainties about the future increase every year or even every month.
Our world has, to some degree, got used to living with uncertainties about the future – so much so nearly all plan for the present, for this year and maybe next, especially if they have children. There may be a lot of problems in the families and in the world, but every where may be living people who can shed some light in the darkness. When you would put all those little candles, those little light-bulbs together, you would find a major light attracting more people.
Internet offers a lot of noisy and spectacular things and tries to lure people into many adventures looking at certain things and buying lots of things. Insistent invitations to look at a picture, video, or the latest trend lots of people come to live in a sub-real world stuffing themselves with the junk food of audible and visual ‘noise’ and ‘information’.
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No longer are there pockets of peace in the places we frequent. Medical waiting rooms, once havens of quiet where the only sound might be the pages of a magazine turning, now have blaring televisions, sometimes competing with music from an overhead sound system. Even the relative silence of libraries is interrupted by clicking keyboards. Places of worship, too, have become stimulating, noisy spaces in their congregations’ quest to become relevant. And, when was the last time you saw a sign that said, “Quiet. Hospital Zone”? {The need for quiet}
Instilling moments of silence and reflection
We would like to find more souls who do not mind sharing ideas with each other and getting others to know such blogs where time is taken to look into the soul of man, and to look at wonders of the world. Nature has so much to offer, and so many people are gifted to bring the beauty of nature closer to the heart. It would be lovely if we could have such persons who would not mind to bring their talents together on a place like this one, and enable those interested to go from here to the many proposed interesting sites.
Because time flies and we do not have much time it would be marvellous if we could have some people who present us with their selection of interesting material. Yes you perhaps could call it a “Readers Digest” of contemporary times. If you have qualities you would not mind sharing with us, why hesitate, and not join us? You may find here a place where you can place articles which could not find a place on your personal blog or which ad to or even may direct to your blog(s) and blogs you feel could be of interest to others. By presenting your selection you can help others to save time searching, but also wasting time reading less interesting blogs. Because of our limited time short presentations, reblogs of interesting articles will be more than welcome by many readers which can be build up, because there can be found several authors at one place.
Month of Peace
Image of the Oslo Business for Peace Award (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In a few days time we are facing the month of April as “Peace Month”. Perhaps lots of activity shall take place in the press and in your neighbourhood. Perhaps more people also would like to look fro more information or would like to do something against all the controversy and fighting which is going on in this world. Serious teen problems like bullying, violence, drugs, depression, and suicide shall be able to find some more attention. and this would be some subjects we would love to see spoken off on this site. But what also could be interesting is to hear personal experiences how people could cope in live and how they think they could make their live and that of others better.
Looking at the world and reaching to the world
Whilst my lifestyle magazine “Stepping Toes” is more concerned about the way we are spiritually living and looking at it all, from a more religious point of view, here at “From Guest-writers” all subjects can receive a place, seen from non-religious as well as from religious points of view. Most interesting can be also to find some writers, who would not mind to bring up political issues and show us different ways how a society could work, to become a better place to live for every body.
We would like to offer young and older writers the opportunity to reach more readers. The writers themselves shall also be able to ‘earn more’ from writers of every colour, ethnicity, religious faith, sexual orientation, political viewpoint, and country of residence or origin. The public finding more writers in one place, willing also to direct them to still more other writers, by presenting links and reblogs to interesting articles can enrich us all.
Speaker and audience
Here the writer may be the guest-speaker and the audience at the same time. As such he or she will have the responsibility to engage the audience (internetters from all over the world) and triggering the debate, discussions and conversations, this in a world where there is a lot of competition in a (virtual) world where it is not easy to engage the head and heart of the audience which has a short attention span.
By sharing each others work we also want to world to show that there is more unity in the universe than many think.
Our common goal will be to show that by increased focus on each of core areas of expertise we shall be able to give a broad spectrum to our public, and shall be able more successfully bring over our message of understanding and peace.
Getting our of comfort-zone
In order to collaborate, many of us will have to get out of our comfort-zones. Those of us working in the non-profit sector have to learn to operate effectively along side each other so we aren’t trying to “do it all”. We do have to trust that others can do that what they are best in. Each having an other speciality or an other main interest is best to concentrate on the subjects they are good at or which are not yet been tackled or spoken off. We need to focus deeply on our core capabilities and trust others to fill the gaps. But naturally there have to be others willing to come to full those gaps. Therefore we would like to ask all who come along this site and who read this article, to think about joining us and helping everybody to create a way to reach more people with our message for making a better world for all around us.
Better than giving awards and prizes we let others know those sites which could be of interest and do take actively part in spreading good news, up-building words, uplifting stories and designs or pictures, showing the world the beauty which is to find if we want looking for it and seeing it.
Caring people
All those who join us should be people who want to care or who have the right spirit to look and find the “unlimited loving kindness of others”. It should be people who carry the “caritas” in them, the philanthropy and charity, to help others and reduce inequity and suffering while in process becoming caring individuals.
I am convinced, though we may not know the persons individually, with our writings we can reach them and have something to bring to them which can relieve them. In the articles we can point out roots of problems and show solutions to problems. Seeing and recognising the problems in the world, lying them in the “open”, we do have no other choice than to act and react, to relieve the pain of our neighbours. Looking at giving chiefly through the lens of amount of money is inappropriate and belittles the efforts of those who are giving far more of themselves.
Giving is about helping humankind and becoming better people in ourselves; It is a willingness to know your own position and to be aware of the position of others. You shall always find people who are better off and also whoo are worse off. there also would always people you like more than the other. It even can well be there are persons you hate. there are many people in this world who loose a lot of energy hating someone. We would love to bend that energy in the positive sense. We do believe that the more you start to care for that person the more each of you will be growing to each other respecting for what you are.Showing love not hateShowing to the world that we care, this will in the end bring some changes. Every little change will be worth the effort. Whether or not they will react, if they are going to say something to you, and whether they actually feel something towards you.
Hate takes to much time out of your life. It destroys your relationships and makes you a person you don’t want to be. {Hate is for the Weak}
We would like to bring the message to the general public:
Why hate someone and show them that you care more than you say? Why put in all that time and energy for someone you don’t want apart of your life? {Hate is for the Weak}
We want as many people as possible to become part of our world. We would love to see a rainbow-nation, where many ideas may find their appreciation and may construct something nicely.
Nothing is wrong to have an own opinion and being passionate about it. We do hope more people shall be coming out of their shell, to be wanting to become more determined to come out on top and show people they have the right to be where they are or stand in their life.
Jukebox of positiveness
Saswata Mitra tries to bring a box full of shimmer, being fresh, imaginative and alluring, like a jukebox, their perhaps you may ask and get, but also here we would like to offer such a sort of jukebox. We do believe the best medicine is the positive thought. We would love to find more writers and photographers or plastic artists who can share their positive ideas and beautiful pictures to inspire others.
The blog “The Mystic Sandbox ” initiated by Saswata and Navneet, revolves around crisp and precise about stuff that you will be able to relate. We too would like to find writers who manage to offer enough material to which many could relate and get inspired from.
We do not mind presenting people here who may have notions that are contradictory to mainstream conjecture. We do not have to go along with the majority in life. We also could try to convince others they are not so strange or mad to have other ideas than the mainstream. We would like to show others they might have confidence in the way they are thinking and the way they want to go, though it is not how the majority wants them to go.
Saswata wrote:
“In life, we come across many challenges. Some of them make us who we are while some tell us what we should be. Sometimes it is the opposite. There will be struggle, there will be bad days. Days which would never seem to end. Days which would go on and on, which would keep hurting us till the end. Many of us actually most would give up but the people who wont will be the ones to face the brighter side of the day. The night is darkest before dawn but how can we forget the rainbow after the rain? We understand to love, to give, to endure, to find pleasure, to please but what we do not understand is ourselves during all of this. Life can lie to us and no one will stop it, it can play all sorts of games with us without us even knowing because there is no one controlling it. But whatever happens in life happens for good. Good of all in it..” {Sorry For The Long Absence and What’s Been Going On In My Life!}
We would love to let others see that we all can learn from our own bad experiences and turn them into something good. By sharing each-others experiences we would like to show the love for our neighbours and allow them to have a peep in our own bad and good experiences so they might learn from them as well.
Internet enabling us to bring over a message of peace
Let us all always remember:
“Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
-Martin Luther King
and that: when we do not speak, we also give a voice or “speak”, and enable that good, but also bad things, can happen.
Therefore I do hope many will be willing to join and give a voice to spread nicer messages than all the violence we hear every day on the wireless. We also do hope some will like to share some nicer pictures than the awful images we every day get to see on the screens of television and computer.
A small word or many words
We invite everybody who would love to spread a thought of love and peace to join us. Even when they only would contribute once a year, with having twelve writers this would give once a month a thought bringing some positiveness to others. It might be telling about something positive that happened somewhere in the world. Not focussing on all the bad things that happen in this world but giving once attention to something positive, the media may forget or put it somewhere forgotten in a small corner of the so ‘maniest’ page. We sould love to find some facts, but also would appreciate some fiction as well, that can make us dream or look at the world in a positive way. We would love to see stories that may have a human connection. A real life story. Please remember no story is big or small. Every story matters.
Every one may come forward to share their stories or pictures. they may do it by acting or reacting on something what is published here or they may offer their services as a co-author. It is a free choice. We also offer a platform where people are invited to share ideas and to talk their heart out.
In case they would prefer to stay anonymous they are also welcome to send in material and we will publish it not disclosing their identity.
In the hope to find many people who would like to come along here to read and to share,
I do thank all those who came along and took some time to linger on this site, and do hope to see them coming back again.
Looking forward to find more people from all over the world willing to share their contributions and letting us know other interesting websites, writers and artists,
Yours sincerely,
Marcus Ampe
You too may join a movement the world needs.
We are having a “membership drive” so-to-speak, and we would really love you participation.
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Interesting reading:
- Inner Peace Award
- In A World of Balance There Is Peace and Justice
- Absolute truths and simple truths.
- February Post For Peace
- Poignant Imagine
- Peace Takes You
- Bloggers for Christ and Bloggers for Peace
- Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate
- Martin Luther King Jr. – Biographical
- The need for quiet
- The habit of being quiet
- Project Inspiration is Key: What Inspires Me
- Learning in Peace-Time?
- Migrants to the West #7 Religions
- Why I Am Praying for Putin–and Obama
- Disunity in Christ (Part 1)
- Disunity in Christ (Part 2)
- One Unholy Divided Church
- Friday Fruit (03/21/14)
- Nelson Mandela – By Their Strange Fruit
- In Mandela’s Own Words – By Their Strange Fruit
- Mandela the ‘Terrorist’ (Part 1) – By Their Strange Fruit
- Mandela the ‘Terrorist’ (Part 2) – By Their Strange Fruit
- Microaggressions – By Their Strange Fruit
- When discouraged facing opposition
- Several quotes about peace.
- Not to speak is to speak
- Be still and listen
- No More Awards Please
- Peace Action
- All I want is peace!!!
- Monthly Peace Challenge – We Are Family
- Monthly Peace Challenge: Peace Child
- Peace Child – A Bloggers for Peace post
- Pax Nation & Peace Child #B4Peace
- March B4Peace Post–A Peaceful Resolution
- Perspective
- Members of the ecclesia uniting and seeking God’s help in tribulation
- Unity a Sign of Spiritual Maturity
- Am I Crazy?
- I’m Confused About My Spiritual Beliefs.
- Looking for True Spirituality 1 Intro
- Looking for True Spirituality 2 Not restricted to an elite
- Looking for True Spirituality 8 Measuring Up
- How Does One Measure True Spiritual Satisfaction?
- Determine the drive
- Bringing Good News into the world
- Testify of the things heard
- Trying to get the youth inspired
- Still, Small Voice
- In spite of insight
- Knowing where to go to
- Do No-Thing: The Power of Self Love.
- Crazy Messy Love: [Insert Faith Here.]
- Legacy of peace
- Its Never to Late
- I Was to write about love
- Peace Prevails
- Being At Peace!
- Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness
Some Fellow February B4Peace posts:
- (everydaygurus.com) – The man behind the idea. Monthly Peace Challenge: Mad Men Plus another post
- (farawayinthesunshine.wordpress.com) – February post for Peace – help
- (professionsforpeace.com) – Happy Birthday to a Warrior for Peace
- (professionsforpeace.com) – loving february
- (fecthis.wordpress.com) – Please Empower A Compassionate Earth
- (ejjudge.wordpress.com) – Kindness — a Bloggers for Peace post
- (kmhubersblog.com) – I’ll take the unknown
- (taochildseye.wordpress.com) – Weekly Photo Challenge – Love
- (300dayjourney.wordpress.com) – Monthly Peace in a Poem
- (gloriousmettle.wordpress.com) – A Peaceful Goodbye
- (delusion247.wordpress.com) – The Secret to happiness
- (taochild.wordpress.com) – A true friend
- (heartflow2013.wordpress.com) – Living Love; Day 9 – Daring
- (picturesinlivingcolor.wordpress.com) – The Peace Garden
- (leazengage.wordpress.com) – one more person promoting peace
- (spiritualworldtravelerblog.com) – Peace & Love Are Eternal
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>>> This club of writers was initiated by Marcus Ampe founder of the Lifestyle magazine Stepping Toes. <<<
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