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.
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One for Sorrow (song) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s poem comes from “an old Texan punk” who is “trying to make it in this sea of madness” and as an infinitesimal point may sometimes come to a point of explosion. {Singularity} With the knowledge that this universe is a part of him, voice of a pulsar, burning across the empty spaces, he looks at the past, whilst he might feel the mourning sing, vibrations in the dawn, o’er the graying mountains, blue faces have now gone. {Morning of Mourning}
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Preceding: Nailed to our chairs, never to forget
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Additional reading
For more than Three thousand people fifteen years ago this world came to an end
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- Thoughts on This Day
- September 11
- When everything stood still
- 9/11 – One of the darkest, terrible times for America
- The Day America Was Attacked/Special Tribute to 9/11 by Budweiser Clydesdale’s
- 9/11 by Le Mailoa
- 9/11 by
- 15 Years
- Survival
- 9/11 health crisis: death toll from illness nears number killed on day of attacks
- Of 9/11, Sully, and Hope
- 9/11 – 15Years Later
- The 15th Anniversary of 9/11 – We Continue to Remember
- 9/11: Fifteen Years at War
- In Rememberance Of
- Remembering September 11, 2001 – The Jumpers
- This year, it’s different…
- Sing ‘N Celebrate, Sept. 11th at 5-6pm
- A Prayer for 9-11
- Changed Forever
- Remember and Never Forget…
- Where Were You?
- In Memoriam
- The day before September 12th
- The path not chosen after 9/11
- Facebook’s trending topics algorithm puts hoax story about 9/11 at top
- The “self-righteous American” Facebook posts have got to stop
- A Call To Action On Solemn Anniversary Of 9/11
- 9/11 Blog Hop
- 9/11: 15 Years Later
- 15th anniversary of 9/11: How al-Qaeda’s attacks have changed the world
- 4. i never forget.
- DPF / Szymborska
- Somber Tributes Held Nationwide, Locally To Mark 9/11 Anniversary
- Hillary Clinton Left The 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony Early After Feeling ‘Overheated’
- Moving 9/11 Tribute Set To The Sounds Of Silence by Disturbed #NeverForget
- The enduring traumas of September 11
- Where I was on 9/11
- It’s 9/11
- Tuesday Morning
- Hace 15 años que sucedió el ataque terrorista en Nueva York.
- The refugee crisis, rising terrorism and seeking reconciliation wisdom
World’s twin bastions
wounded phoenixes
ridden by shadows
plummet on evil wind
casting thunder into cloudless sky
a quaking of steel roots
and iron limbs
downtown sandstorm in the boroughs
the taste of dust
and ashes in my mouth
Pulverulent colossi groaning from
the bloody hands of undead men,
tainting a loving belief
seek with daggers of speed
to murder those pictures
of an ideal
The hymn of great sorrows
mirrored in every home
victims and heroes all
lay down that eve in burial shroud
the taste of tears and ashes
in our mouthes
And where
do good men seek
a reason for atrocity bound
innocence claimed for naught
but the taste of dust
and ashes
fires burned at the peaks
broken angels falling to earth
and all who bore witness
could do naught but weep
for what was undone
a kingdom forever changed
by the taste of dust
and…
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“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Gustav Jung
“We usually look outside of ourselves for heroes and teachers.
It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the role model they seek.
The wholeness they are looking for may be trapped within themselves by beliefs, attitudes, and self-doubt.
But our wholeness exists in us now.
Trapped though it may be, it can be called upon for guidance, direction, and most fundamentally, comfort. It can be remembered.
Eventually we may come to live by it.”
– Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom 10th Anniversary
Dr Austin Ejaife, [an Olorogun, the ‘Ugo’ of Agbon Kingdom] asks where we look for answers, direction, and meaning in our lives.
These Dreams (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Who has not high aspirations becoming somebody very important or well known? When we grow up we are first of all confronted with the female so close to us, because we where inside her for nine months, that we have a special, sometimes very sacred relationship with her. Mostly all infants look up at their mother.
Next in line comes the father who often is pushed from his throne by the teacher. How many children do not go in dispute with their father, because the teacher told so and so? From toddler going into our teens we loose innocence and start comparing those adults more and more.
Looking at those grown ups we at first admire them a lot, for what they can and for what they say. They bring us to dream about who we ourselves could become, … like them …
Dr Austin Ejaife wonders
Do we look outside–dreaming with hopes and aspirations of things to come, things that may or may not someday be in the future? Or do we turn our gaze inward–towards our own heart–to find our true beauty and awaken our power, our potential, our true ability.
Though the world may turn around us in our eyes often we do not believe enough in ourselves. For us it does not seem to be possible that everything that could ever be possible… already lies inside of us. The writer of Finding Your Clarity Of Purpose may find that our true beauty, our power, our potential, our true ability, is patiently awaiting us to look there and discover it, to recognize it, and to use it, but for many people this shall stay a long undiscovered path.
Because many people not knowing that everything is in themselves, they miss out on a lot of things and are not able to find true fulfilment and happiness. We also should know and come to understand that real full happiness with no problems and sorrows at all, does not exist. There is no such thing as a world without sorrow. Like every rose has its thorns our life is full of thorns but also hopefully full of flowers with nice smells. Problem with many people is that they are so much focussing on the dark side of their life that they do not see the sun-rays nor the vibrant colours.
Ejaife writes
Do not let your vision be clouded with dreams or ideas that some outside force can bring you fulfillment in life… it cannot and will not; only you have the ability to unlock your purpose and potential. Clarity of vision comes to us when we look within our hearts and see ourselves for who we are, who we have been, and who we can be, and then trust ourselves fully and completely.
Why are so many afraid of their inner “I“? why are so many afraid to become confronted with the “I am” they are?
We should be not afraid to grow up and to try to become ourself, daring to look into our own heart to find clarity of purpose and meaning.
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Preceding articles
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Other articles of interest
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Some people complain that Europeans do not show such a solidarity, like now for Brussels and Paris, when something happens in places like Ankara. They often forget that the other places are very far away from the beds of those Europeans who now felt the terror close to their own home.
It would be nice if people would show more solidarity with the innocent victims at other places, but the big problem is that every day something gruesome happens somewhere in the world and we can’t stay off work every day to go on the streets to show our sorrow for them.
But what we all can do every day is to show our fellow man that we are here for him or her and that we appreciate him or her for what or how he or she is.
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To remember
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Preceding articles:
Human tragedy need to be addressed at source
Remain lovingly = No path for softies
Solidarité: The Paris Attack and the Refugee Crisis
Refugees At The Border- A Blessing Or Burden?
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God’s care will carry you, then you can carry others.>
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry near Montreal, Canada (May 1942)
Antoine de Saint Exupéry was a passionate searcher. He was passionate about life, about spirituality, the depth of mystery. But, for a long time, for him too the skies remained silent. Notwithstanding all his sustained trials, his prayers were not heard. Until one day he discovered that the biggest mercy of prayer consists in – not being heard.
Prayer itself is mercy.
Every human being sooner or later is confronted with sorrow, suffering, saying goodbye, and come across questions that are not answered or are confronted with problems that cannot be solved. We try everything, but nothing succeeds, nothing works, nothing moves – not through willpower, not through sustained prayer. Sooner or later we ask ourselves: why?
We want an answer.
Interior Museum of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Tarfaya (Morocco) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A sign. In this way in spite of ourselves, we imagine what is good for us. We create an image that we need to be helped and how and when this should happen. It is exactly at this point that de Saint Exupéry discovered that the answer to his prayer did not coincide with the images he had in mind. He realised that the answer to his prayer exceeds the image created by us. It does not allow to be steered, or the use of words and is only to be understood by the heart. From a heart that exists through… trust.
Only belief that trusts completely can accept the holy ground of ‘not understanding’.
When we touch the bottom of intense doubt with our problems – and yet trust – true belief surges. Something becomes visible and tangible which we would otherwise never see, feel or experience.
Then we may discover with surprise, with an inner certitude that does not need a rational explanation, that -in essence- we are inspired.
And stronger : right through the agony of doubt, paradoxally enough, we find inner peace.
– BZN Movement Without a Name – Proverb of the month
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One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.
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“It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to subtract.”Filed under Being and Feeling, Movement Without a Name, Spiritual affairs
Everyday again we should remember that some 2000 years ago a man was willing to do that what his Father in heaven wanted to be done, and offered himself as a lamb to wash the world of the gravity of sin by his blood.
Still every day we may have to face many struggles, pain, sorrow and many minor and big problems. Often we may see things around us which can annoy us, sometimes people may work on our nerves, but then we see that Light of the Lamb of God that showed us the way to treat others and to step over our boundaries of limitations.
Though living in this world we have decided not to be part ‘of this world’. From our inner soul the light of Christ Jesus, who died for us, is able to transpose us and to bring us to greater waters where we can swim forwards to to ‘isle of rescue’.
In the land prepared by Christ we are to be the example for others, so that they could see how we can be united in peace and show each-other brotherly love. We do have to show those around us that we are not the ones to judge. But we are the ones who are willing to forgive and to reach out our hand of loving-kindness and helpfulness, so that we with many can go together on the way to the opened gate of the Kingdom of God.
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Find additional reading:
- Poetry of Peace
- Your struggles develop your strengths
- Pain and Suffering is inevitable but Misery is optional
- From pain to purpose
- Compassion and Discipline
- Man’s plans prevailed by God’s purpose
- A Great Gift commemorated
- An unblemished and spotless lamb foreknown
- Servant of his Father
- The Seed Of The Woman Bruised
- The day Jesus died
- The Song of The Lamb #1 Visions, symbols and suggested meanings
- The Song of The Lamb #2 Sevens
- Kingdom Visions of a Man, Throne and Great crowd
- Kingdom Visions of Rainbowed angel, Lamb in Mount Zion
- Kingdom Visions of God’s judgements and Marriage of the Lamb
- 14 Nisan a day to remember #3 Before the Passover-feast
- Ransom for all
- In the death of Christ, the son of God, is glorification
- Ember and light the ransomed of Jehovah
- The Song of The Lamb #5 Revelation 5
- The Song of The Lamb #7 Revelation 15
- The Song of The Lamb #8 Revelation 15 Lessons for us today
- God’s Comfort
- Promise of a Comforter
- Give your tears to God
- Everything that is done in the world is done by hope
- Change
- Growth in character
- Breathing to teach
- Prayer has comforted us in sorrow
- A Living Faith #7 Prayer
- A New Jerusalem
- Judge not according to appearance
- Belonging to or being judged by
- Vengeance
- Forgiveness
- Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #15 Exposition before the Creator
- Doest thou well to be Angry?
- Forgiveness always possible
- A man who cannot forgive others
- He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass
- Love is like playing the piano
- Forgiveness is a blessing for the one who forgives
- The Greatest of These is Love
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Related articles
- Forgive? You’re Kidding Me, Right? (inspirationalchristiansfortoday.com)
The concept of forgiveness can be a hard thing to digest. If someone wronged us, granting forgiveness can feel almost as if we’ve been hit twice. The first time when we were so generously issued the wrong-doing; the second when we struggled to set-aside our ill-feelings and extended the gift of forgiveness. After all, he/she may have deserved anything but a gift.- A new identity (poetryjoy.com)
God already sees us as perfected, beautiful and whole in Christ. The hard part is seeing, accepting and believing it for ourselves.- Un-forgiveness is the means by which we securely bind ourselves to that which we hate most. (lisconnect.wordpress.com)
Free yourself, ask God for a forgiving heart.- How to Overcome a Bitter Spirit (familyencouragement.wordpress.com)
There are devastating consequences in the personal life and relationships of a bitter person. The Bible speaks about the development of bitterness in Ephesians 4:31 and the following verse deals with it’s consequences and solution.
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God tells us we are to be “forgiving one another”. This is the key to dealing with being resentful over past hurts. Our bitterness and disappointment in people can only be resolved through forgiveness. Period. A bitter person refuses to forgive the offender.- Forgiveness (po11ycheck.wordpress.com) Reposted from Courageous Christian FatherForgiveness it can be easier said then done. Do you easily forgive others when they do wrong to you? Have you ever had anyone not forgive you and you wished they did? What does it mean to forgive?
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Christ casted our sins into the sea of forgetfulness. Our sins were cast as far as the East is from the West. Our sins to be remembered no more. So where is the sea of forgetfulness? Well, it is a place that I wouldn’t want to know where it is. Because all is forgotten there. How far exactly is the East from the West? Well just think the Earth is round so, you can keep going and going. Just the same, God’s forgiveness keeps going and is everlasting. If God can forgive our sins, shouldn’t we? See Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13- Bible Verses to Comfort – It Hurts Me to Forgive – Forgiveness (darrellcreswell.wordpress.com)
When we have been wronged by someone, a barrier is formed in our hearts. We put up a wall to the offense that hinders us from forgetting, letting go, and moving on.
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Jesus said we should forgive unconditionally. In contrast, humans put conditions on forgiveness.- The first to apologize is the bravest, the first to forgive is the strongest, the first to forget is the happiest. (pastormikesays.wordpress.com)
Actually, forgiveness is not only about others, but also about our own spiritual growth. Love and forgiveness cannot be separated. If we choose to live out the love of God as the purpose of our life, then forgiving is an option that cannot be avoided.- Forgive Us Our Sins…… (coarpk.wordpress.com)
Some sins are more easily forgiven than others. We can forgive a lie, depending on how big it is. We can forgive a false word, as long as it’s not said against us. We can forgive a little anger, as long as we weren’t embarrassed by it. But what happens when the sin that we’re called to forgive is more significant. What if someone steals from us? Breaks into our house? Hits our car? What happens if someone takes the life of someone we love? How do we forgive them?- Does the Bible say that you should forgive someone who does not repent? (winteryknight.wordpress.com)
“It is a common human assumption that the violator of the rights of others must ask for forgiveness before the wronged party can be expected to accept the apology and grant forgiveness…But Jesus here asks the person wronged to forgive the one responsible for the wrongdoing when when there is no confession of guilt… There is a voice from the cross that echoes across history to all saying ‘Father forgive them for they know not what they do.’ Neither Pilate nor the high priest nor the centurion offered any apology to Jesus, yet he prayed for divine forgiveness…(p.125)”
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I think it is a helpful tool for people to insist on seeing some sort of repentance and restitution from someone who wrongs you before you trust them again. If they are not even sorry for what they’ve done, and they refuse to explain why what they did is wrong, then they can’t be forgiven, and you can’t trust them again.
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When I raise that with the unconditional forgiveness crowd, they want to insist that there is a difference, that the word “forgive” means different things. I’m not convinced.- pure and light (madelineranda.wordpress.com)
I let the enemy convince me my sins are trivial and he lulls me into complacency. he whispers that I’m fine and dandy, that we all live in darkness together and that is a-okay. But this morning as light flooded through my window, over a warm cup of coffee, my lonely and impure heart was brought a beautiful reminder speaking to both lies.
Sunlight slits open the dark clouds,
Crushing down my sins and bondage alike.
With Him we too were crucified that day –
Not as mere slaves or rebels but as Sons.
Forgiveness like a Balm to to my bruises,
My heart and soul now rejuvenated –
Speak – “Let the inner voice choose –
Forgiveness over vengeance !”
Harsh neighbors unite,
Arch rivals dialogue,
Nations come together –
As citizens of Humankind.
Judge Not ,nor be judged.
Condemn Not,nor be condemned,
But forgive and be Forgiven,
For Love is the only Balm for my pains.
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Originally posted on God does not believe in atheists:
The new Atheists quote Sigmund Freud, that God is a ‘wish fulfillment; a fictional father figure projected in the sky of our imagination and created by our desire for security.’ On this view, Heaven is an imaginary projection of our extinction and death. And religion is…
Originally posted on Panoptic Discourse:
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Originally posted on Brit In Jerusalem:
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Originally posted on Ell's Daily Inspirations:
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In de eerste eeuw van onze huidige westerse jaartelling rees de vraag wat te doen met de heidenen die de leer van de Nazareense leermeester Jeshua wilden volgen en deel uitmaken van de geloofsgemeenschap die rond dat personage was gevormd. Uiteindelijk kwamen die goyim of niet-Joden deel uitmaken van één en hetzelfde geestelijk lichaam, het Lichaam van Christus.
Na de doodslag op Evel (Abel) was Qayin (Kaïn) bang voor de gevolgen hiervan, waarop de Elohim hem geruststelde dat indien iemand hem zou doden deze zevenvoudig gestraft zou worden.
De negende en laatste dag van Soekot is het Simchat Thora (ook: Simhat Torah). Op Simchat Thora is de jaarlijkse lezing van de gehele Thora compleet en zijn wij op het punt gekomen om de jaarcyclus weer aan te vangen met dankbaarheid en vreugde voor het van God gekregen Woord en Regelgeving.
Als mens kennen wij voor alles een begin en einde. Ook in de Heilige Geschriften staat er geschreven over verschillende tijden waarbij een waarschuwing wordt gegeven voor de zwaarste en moeilijkste periode van de eindtijd, wanneer er een eind gaat komen aan de menselijke heerschappij, die onder invloed is van de boze.
De Goddelijke Schepper wandelt samen met Zijn creaties en op moeilijke ogenblikken voor de mens is Hij bereid deze verder te dragen en in veiligheid te brengen.
Het leven is een gebeurtenis van constant leren. Het vergt een openheid en bereidwilligheid om te willen zien. De Bore heeft een Metgezel voor de mens voorzien die mee de woorden draagt van Hem die hem gezonden heeft, en die leven kunnen geven.
Als men op een grote reis wil gaan zal men eerst die reis voorbereiden en daarvoor de beste gids zoeken, maar het kan ook zijn dat men het aangenamer zal vinden om medereizigers en een goed gezelschap voor onder weg zal waarderen. Samen kan men namelijk veel meer verwezenlijken en elkaar aanmoedigen de juiste wegen te blijven bewandelen met goede moed.
The Bible never had the intention to be a day-to day factual record of historical events. Biblical archaeology as a historical discipline can contribute to our understanding of Bible history, though we may find lots of people who do not want to make use of those new scientific and archaeological findings and keep claiming that their English King James Bible is the only true and right bible in the world, as if God would only have privileged the English speaking people to come to know His Word..
When looking at how many times scientists and politicians changed of opinion about certain matters or on their thoughts how everything works and how the world has been or should be constructed, we can see that they would better have listened more to the advice given in the book of books, the Bible.
The Elohim wants people to have a willingness to hear His Word Which He offers as a schooling-tool enabling all people to get insight and wisdom. Most of the time people did not want to listen to His word and preferred to follow their own fantasies or what they thought would be scientific right. As such we got creationists, flat earth believers, and many others, who after science brought some proves still did not want to believe it.
The Bible show us The Being Who makes us able to be a being. The collection of 66 books focus on That Most High Being without Whom no being or existence is possible. The Words of God are there to mould or form each creature of God. By allowing that Word of God to form us we can become reconstituted or ‘made anew’ by the Former God.
In the first three parts of the Bible (Torah or Law, Prophets and first or Hebrew Writings) the focus is on showing Who is behind everything and What is His Name and Plan or purpose with the universe and mankind. The last three parts (the 2nd or Messianic writings) present with the writings of the apostles (gospels and Acts of the apostles), letters from the apostles and the Revelation of John, the solution God has for mankind and shows the way to God and to the Kingdom of God.
In today’s era in which archaeology is proving to be one of the Bible’s best supporting witnesses, we can see that less people are being interested in historical facts and figures and even less interested in the bible and its figures. The work done to get the bible to as many cultures as possible is magnificent and bible translations throughout the ages have proven to be very close to older manuscripts which are even found many years after the edition of such Bible translation. throughout all the years God took care that His True Word came to the people all the time.
a rock cairn marks a path for people a humble stack of rocks it is a thing of beauty a cause of hope like certain people we encounter it both takes us further and leads us home Ek wonder altyd wie het die eerste klip neergesit? En wie het besluit om ‘n tweede en derde […]
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