No matter what happens in life, we should know there are good and bad days in it. Sometimes the bad things that come over us might be our own fault, at other times it would be the fault of others. Not matter whose fault, we have to go through the mud and face the difficulties or less pleasant moments.
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It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. – Vincent Van Gogh The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most […]
15 Strength and Resilience Quotes
Strengths are built-in capacities for certain thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Everyone has these capacities to one degree or another. Your particular pattern of strengths is part of what makes you unique.
When you play from your strengths, you are likely to feel more energetic and perform better than when you are trying to use a capacity that comes less naturally. For example, one person trying to influence a local school board to ban soft drink sales might have the strength to speak up forcefully and clearly at a general meeting (despite the almost-universal fear of public speaking). Another person strong in team-building might feel uncomfortable speaking out in a meeting but could successfully build consensus among parents, nutritionists, and others to weigh the issue and come to a decision.
Leveraging your strengths can help you accomplish many goals. Making your strengths work for you, especially when the task at hand is well-aligned with your personal values, can leave you feeling more competent and connected.
For more on drawing on your strengths and finding the positive meaning in your life, buy Positive Psychology: Harnessing the Power of Happiness, Mindfulness, and Inner Strength, a Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School.
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Highly sensitive beings suffer more
but they also love harder .. dream wilder and experience
deeper horizons and bliss.
When you’re sensitive , you’re alive in every sense
of this word in this wildly beautiful world .
Sensitivity is your strength .
Keep soaking in the light and spreading it to others …
~ Victoria Erickson ~
Artist Credit : Lindy Longhurst
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My heart is never guarded,
screw the ones who think it should be
I ache, love, and feel with such passion,
that’s the strength in me.
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Dare to be more each day!
Sometimes we have to go to the depths of despair to find the core of our being. This has been just such a year for everyone on a global scale. We have to regroup and become the CATALYST!
How do we go on? By believing in each other!
Dwelling on the past, however, has never helped anyone. The future cannot change, redeem, or soften the past. It is what it is, and we all must accept it. Acceptance, though, is not in hiding from the past, but rather in learning from the past. That is how all of us, one at a time, can look to a greater tomorrow. One small act of kindness is the CATALYST!
Everyone was touched by the virus. We have all looked death in the eye and watched strong, remarkable people succumb to its ghastly demise: wives, husbands, lovers…
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“To be happy is to find
strength in forgiveness,
hopes in battles,
security on the stage of fear,
love in disagreements.
It is to thank God every minute
for the miracle of life” .
~ ( Augusto Cury)
Text & image source: Tania Rodrigues Araujo @ The Celestial Sanctum https://www.facebook.com/groups/celestialsanctum/
Words from deep in our heart give us our character and strength and carry us far away in this world and our other world.
Scars won’t keep our hope in the darkness,
instead our words will live
within our poetry,
encouraging us,
strengthening us
each and every day.
Poetry and Image © Copyright 2019, ancient skies
Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities..
‘A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul…’
Proverbs 13:19t
Dear God give me strenght
to accomplish those things you desire from me
A tool to accomplish made by man – De Schoolmeester roerbak aandrijving (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Bedenking over verkrijgen van kracht, moed en vertrouwen
George T. Bye, Eleanor Roosevelt. Westbrook Pegler, Deems Taylor, Quaker Lake, Pawling, New York (home of Lowell Thomas) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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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Running challenge and the City build by the Most High Maker
For mams and dads it is also back to ‘normal’
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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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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“We are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 5:8 RSV)
“For I am already on the point of being sacrificed; the time of my departure has come.” (2 Timothy 4:6 RSV)
“I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how I am constrained until it is accomplished!” (Luke 12:50 RSV)
“and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,” (Job 19:26 RSV)
“15 But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. [Selah] 16 Be not afraid when one becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases.” (Psalms 49:15-16 RSV)
“And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”” (Luke 23:43 RSV)
“Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17:24 RSV)
“And as they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”” (Acts 7:59 RSV)
“Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” (1 Corinthians 5:8 RSV)
“My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.” (Psalms 17:5 RSV)
“24 Thou dost guide me with thy counsel, and afterward thou wilt receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee. 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.” (Psalms 73:24-26 RSV)
“14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night within his temple; and he who sits upon the throne will shelter them with his presence. 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat. 17 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”” (Revelation 7:14-17 RSV)
“And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord henceforth.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”” (Revelation 14:13 RSV)
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Preceding:
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong
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I know I am righteous as a gift of grace through faith in Jesus Christ and what He has done.
I could be made righteous because He became sin for me (2 Corinthians 5 v 21).
I was made righteous when I put my faith and trust in Him.
The amazing truth is that at that point of salvation, in my born again spirit, I was actually made as righteous as God Himself (Ephesians 4 v 24).
In the eyes of God I have complete and absolute right standing; in other words, in His eyes I am acceptable and OK.
And so are you if you have put your trust and faith in Jesus Christ.
The standing (or position) that you have before God, righteous or unrighteous, acceptable or unacceptable, OK or not OK, is only dependant upon your relationship with Jesus Christ and nothing else.
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Hope: expect and desire. Without a ‘Desire of fulfilment’ there is no soil for a seed of hope to grow.
When we do want to build up hope we do have to be willing to be, to stand strong.
Therefore we better considered the power of the statement “I am” which we use so many times a day. When we answer the phone or when we are asked if it our us entering the place or when we give others an idea of who we are or how we feel.
You might be surprised what is hidden in those two little words. They also can say a lot to the others, even making them cross, like it happened some two thousand years ago, when the Pharisees asked Jesus if he was that person been spoken of, and he confirmed that he was that man. (Too many Christians today still do not understand the answer nor the question posed that day, and take it because Jesus said “I am” that he is God.) All the people who continue to say “I am” are not all gods and mostly do not think to be a god nor the God. but they have good reason to keep saying “I Am”. Because without ‘to Be’ there is no being, no existence. Jesus existed and therefore he also could say “I am”. He also could confirm he was the person the Pharisees heard speaking about, the one man preaching fervently about his heavenly Father Who would be not only his god but also The God. That was what made the high priests so mad and shouting it was blasphemous. Jesus never did say to them he was God, nor did he say such a thing to the people. He always said he could not do the things he did without his Father in heaven, the God of Abraham, Whose will he wanted to do and not his own will.
First, we have to be, before we can have any hope. Without being there is no hope at all. Thanks to the Creator we can be. Without Him there is no life possible at all. Without the God of gods there is no being no way of saying “I am”.
To many people do forget how these two simple words will determine what kind of life a person lives.
We when we say ourselves “I am” or when we hear others saying “I am” generate an idea of feeling and being. A Christian should be best in being able to say:
“I am blessed.”
Because we are blessed, by the allowance to be in a living condition and by the Grace of God, having become accepted, washed clean by the ransom offer of Christ Jesus. It is in that Jewish man we have found “hope”. In him we should place our hope. He is the one who has presented the world with the most high hope, the possibility of the best possible life on earth, a never ending life in the Kingdom of God. that should be our real Hope.
Knowing that we can live by the Grace of God we should not fear man, but with the fear of God, should also be happy that Jesus reconciled ourselves by his heavenly Father, the Only One God “The I Am Who Is”. He is the Most High Being, the Supreme Being. It was the son of the Elohim who gave his life to the One and Only Who gives life. He is it who can make us weak or strong, slow or fast, stupid or wise. It is Him Who can make us say:
“I am strong”. “I am healthy.”
Or,
“I am slow”. “I am unattractive”. “I am stupid.”
The “I am’s” that are coming out of our mouth will bring either success or failure. Not enough people are aware how the thinking about themselves shall decide how they themselves shall be or become. Unconsciously and for some consciously, all through the day the power of “I am” is at work in our minds. And there is the problem of denial. The will not to see the “I am” in ourselves. Many people also place the “I am” in the wrong phrases or in the wrong context, making life for themselves more difficult.
Too many people are not aware how they themselves can use the “I am” for them selves but also against themselves. Mostly they have no idea how they use the power of “I am” against themselves and how it is affecting their future.
In the Bible the answers are given. It tells us clearly how we are to be ‘in-breath’ with the “I Am”, the most High God. all being created in the image of God, having received life from God “The I Am”, should be willing to have The Elohim living through their “I am”. According to the Holy Scriptures The “I Am Who Is” (The Elohim Hashem Jehovah) is always there for His Creation. He is always looking for us, and as such our “I am” is also always looking for us.
Each individual has given the breath of God, i.e. life, because otherwise he would not be living. This breath of life, i.e. the soul, is our being our possibility to say “I am”. Without life we shall not be able to say “I am”. When death, you also shall not be able any more to say “I was”. Others shall be able to say that ‘you were’, but once the light of life has gone out, it its finished with the being, the “I am” shall not sound any more.
Therefore, as written in the Holy Scriptures, it is in the “Now,” that we have to make it. It is when we live and can say “I am” that we can be and that we can do things. Jesus gave several parables as examples of what happens when we do not follow the good direction as the “I am” and do not make work of being the right “I am”.
The “I am” expresses a hope, or it should do. When you go through the day saying,
“I am blessed,”
blessings come looking for you. The same way when you say
“you are blessed”
you give the expression of the I am who wants to bring over the other blessings by your loving-kindness for that person.
In case you want to build up hope in your life you first have to believe in yourself and secondly have to believe in the Most High “I Am” to get you there where He wants you to be and to succeed. but you have to be willing to give yourself in the hands of the “I am” to get the feeling of growth in assurance you can do something. as such you, yourself have to believe in yourself and have to dare to say
“I can”
And continuing to think you shall be able to reach your goal and as such to be able to say:
“I am talented.”
Only when you are willing to go for the hope in succeeding you shall be able to succeed and to become talented.
Let blessings and talent come looking for you. Let health come to you and come to say
“I am feeling fine”, “I am healthy,” “I am strong.”
You might be surprised how much the “I am” can do wonders in yourself. How good feelings, good health and strength shall come on your way. Are you willing to surrender to your own self? To surrender to the “I am” in you?
Not to be ‘be good’ or ‘do better’ but to surrender to the amazing person I am and what I might create with a deep appreciation of all that is abundant in me. {Hope}
Your “I am” has to start tracking you down, by your invitation into your life.
Get up in the morning and invite good things into your life. Declare
“I am blessed. I am strong. I am talented. I am disciplined. I am focused. I am prosperous.”
And always make sure God’s truth follows “I am”!
Are you able to say:
I feel complete with who and where ‘I am’.
What is your answer when asked: Is it you, Pete, John, Mary, Sonia, Vicky, or ‘so and so’? “Are you him or her”?
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What is your answer when asked: “Are you feeling all right?”
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Are you believing in the power of perspective and positive outlook?
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Are you willing to choose to live into today with hope in your heart?
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Are you able to honour all aspects of your being and let go of any judgement and attachment that might divide you or leave you feeling broken.
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Are you willing to be whole in all your imperfection and brilliance.
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What would be you you answer when asked “Are you a Christian”?
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Do the give your answer in big capitals, to this question:
Are you a believer in the Son of God, and willing to follow this Jewish man who gave hope for a better future? Are you a follower of Christ Jesus, the son of God, accepting he really did die for the sins of the whole world, and who now has been made higher than the angels, though he was lower before, in the knowledge that God is was and always shall be the Most High?
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* Note: If you could not answer every-time with “I am”, than you have a problem and should reconsider your way of thinking and should go to examine your self and your believes. If you could answer all questions with “I am” than we want to invite you to continue your way with us, helping others to find their “I am”.
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“And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:” (Eze. 11:19)
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Often we do not want to give ourselves nor others enough time to grow up and to become that what we should really become, or what our destination is. Many dare not to be who they really are and put on a mask for the others instead being themselves and having more self-esteem.
Good to dare to thread the unknown, to gather strength to go into the depths of the valleys and to try out things, whatever others say to discourage. The one who goes his way ardent enough believing in himself will come somewhere where he shall not have to be ashamed for what he accomplished.
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To remember:
- be awake to your fears
- gather your strength
- develop from so many life lessons lived
- move ahead with courage
- trust
- with clarity of purpose and calmness of heart, right action will lead you where you want to go.
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I choose to be awake to my fears, in all their varied forms…fear of not being enough, fear of going too deep, fear of letting go or getting lost, fear of being amazing, fear of the unknown magic of my dreams coming true. From this place of awareness, I choose to gather my strength, developed from so many life lessons lived, and move ahead with courage, trusting that with clarity of purpose and calmness of heart, right action will lead me where I want to go.
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Learning that you have cancer can be a difficult experience. After a person is diagnosed with cancer, he or she may feel anxious, afraid or overwhelmed and wonder how he or she can cope during the days ahead.
first of all you should know that cancer is not any more such a live threatening disease as half a century ago. When you are diagnosed with cancer main point is at first to obtain as much basic, useful information as possible about your cancer diagnosis. Consider bringing a family member or friend with you to your first few doctor appointments. Write down your questions and concerns beforehand and bring them with you. You should not be afraid to talk about it but also to question certain things.
Each person should be aware that the cancer of the one person is not the same as the cancer of the other. As such the first question to been asked should be: “What kind of cancer do I have?” followed by: “Where is the cancer and has it spread?”
On our mind is naturally if that cancer we have can be treated and “What is the chance that my cancer can be cured?”
Next you should be open to see and follow what other tests or procedures you may need. You have to come to see your treatment options and how the treatment will benefit you.
When a person knows what he or she can expect during treatment, he or she can feel more at ease. The best way to conquer cancer is not to haver ‘cancer thoughts’ or negative thoughts in mind. It is so important not to be a ‘kankeraar’ (‘canceror’), i.e. a grouser, grumbler or whiner. To be a bellyacher will not bring any solution. All cankerous thoughts should be put away first.
Those who are always grousing or moaning about something should make the best effort to change their attitude and to come to tackling the world in a better way.
If they can not do that on their own,it is not bad to look at others who had to face that disease and see how they managed to cope or fight against the cancer.
We all can learn from those who are facing such a threatening disease. They had to undergo side effects of the treatment, and it shall not be different for us. So knowing how they could cope with those annoying side effects it may help us.
We should always remember we should always call the doctor as soon as possible and not be afraid to ask him many questions, such as: “What can I do to prevent my cancer from recurring?”, “How likely are my children or other family members to get cancer?”
As with any “whopper” of a disease it is important to maintain honest, two-way communication with your loved ones, doctors and others after your cancer diagnosis. You may feel particularly isolated if people try to protect you from bad news or if you try to put up a strong front. If you and others express your emotions honestly, you can all gain strength from each other.
Members of cancer support groups may be particularly helpful in the areas about reactions on the treatment. Getting advice on the drugs (causing hair loss), advice from image experts about clothing, makeup, wigs and hairpieces may help you feel more comfortable and attractive. Insurance often helps pay for wigs, prostheses and other adaptive devices. and can provide tips that have helped them and others.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is always important, but when our body shows a weakness it is even more important. We for sure should not be afraid to go out the house, hiding ourselves, being afraid for what they might think of us. Taking some outdoors exercise can improve your energy level. Eating a healthy diet consisting of a variety of foods and getting adequate rest may help you manage the stress and fatigue of the cancer and its treatment. Exercise and participating in enjoyable activities also may help. Recent data suggest that people who maintain some physical exercise during treatment not only cope better, but may also live longer.
Taking more care of yourself and your willingness to talk with others and share ideas, not thinking you our the only one who knows and feels what it is, will help you to gain more confidence to go into a new stadium in life, where you can win the battle, when you trust yourself and those around you.
“Together we can do more” is for sure very important too.
Good luck.
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Additional helpful literature:
- Our way of life
- Pain and Suffering is inevitable but Misery is optional
- The blessing of a broken leg
- Partakers of the sufferings
- Foreword to Suffering
- Suffering (Cd art)
- Suffering – through the apparent silence of God
- Suffering continues
- Suffering leading to joy
- Seems no future in suffering
- Learning from suffering
- Reacting to Disasters
- Dying or not
- Words from God about suffering
- Self inflicted misery #1 The root by man
- Self inflicted misery #7 Good news to our suffering
- Self inflicted misery #9 Subject to worldly things
- Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #3 Right to Human dignity
- Science, belief, denial and visibility 2
- Faith and trial
- Fragments from the Book of Job #1: chapters 1-12
- Fragments from the Book of Job #2: chapters 12-20
- Fragments from the Book of Job #3: chapters 21-26
- Fragments from the Book of Job #4: chapters 27-31
- Fragments from the Book of Job #5: chapters 32-37
- Fragments from the Book of Job #6: chapters 38-42
- Fragments from the Book of Job #7 Epilogue
- Bad things no punishment from God
- Profitable disasters
- Facing disaster fatigue
- Salvation, trust and action in Jesus #1 Suffering covered by Peace Offering
- Miracles in our time of suffering
- Offer in our suffering
- Patient waiting (Cd art)
- Character is built
- Suffering produces perseverance
- Moving mountains
- Rejoice even though bound to grieve
- Suffering redemptive because Jesus redeemed us from sin
- Surprised by joy
- Surprised by time in joys & sufferings
- Destination of the earth
- Expiatory sacrifice
- Crucifixion for suffering
- From pain to purpose
- Old age
- Temptation and its conquest
- Pain and Suffering is inevitable but Misery is optional
- Light within
- To be chained by love for another one
- When the wind blows hard on a tree
- Your struggles develop your strengths
- The inspiring divine spark
- Disappointed with God
- Not sure there exist a God
- God’s Comfort
- Only one God
- Some one or something to fear #6 Faith in the Most High
- Commit your self to the trustworthy creator
- Getting out of the dark corners of this world
- God should be your hope
- Our relationship with God, Jesus and eachother
- Nuturing a close relationship with God
- Give your worries to God
- Let us recognise how great God is
- God is the strength of my heart
- God Helper and Deliverer
- God is positive
- God’s design in the creation of the world
- God’s instruction about joy and suffering
- God’s promises
- God His measure not our measure
- God’s non answer
- God’s promises to us in our suffering
- Gods hope and our hope
- God’s salvation (Cd art)
- You God hold the future
- Hope (Cd art)
- Hope for the future
- Importuning for suffering hearts
- Incomplete without the mind of God
- Is God hiding His face when He is seemingly silent
- Jehovah my strenght
- Kingdom of God what will it be like
- God His reward
- Chrystalised harmonious thinking
- Epitome of the one faith
- Life with God
- Meaning of life
- Some important differences
- True hope
- Working of the hope (Cd art)
- A love not exempting us from trials
- Songs in the night Worship God only
- Gospel = Good tidings, good news, a good message
- That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us
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“Our mission is to celebrate all of the survivors, and afford them an opportunity to reconnect with their caregivers,” said Louise Baca, administrator of the Kennedy Cancer Center. “This day is all about them.”The day included food, live entertainment, a dunk tank and children’s activities. Survivors Day doubles as a walk that raises money for the cancer center’s assistance program, which provides financial help for cancer patients and their families. To date, the program has given out about $30,000 in assistance.”Their insurance is okay for treatment,” Baca said. “Our fund is for everything else. If because of treatment, they’re having financial difficulties, we’ll pay rent, food or transportation costs.”- Breast Cancer Authority Bestseller List Book Review & Giveaway “The Holistic Approach to Breast Cancer” (breastcanceryogablog.com)
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While the use of CAM is often deemed controversial, as an individual suffering from a life debilitating disease it is always important to be aware of the alternative treatments that are not offered by doctors.
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So my mother calls me tonight and let me just say this right off ** I’m paraphrasing the conversation for the purposes of brevity, in case she contacts you and claims I posted this “out of context” **
So we were talking about a neighbor of hers who is going through cancer treatment and the prognosis isn’t good. She says, so many people are going to die of cancer and they are never going to find a cure.
I interrupted her and told her about the newly released studies showing a 90%+ success rate in curing certain types of cancer with stem cell treatments. She says she hasn’t seen it and continues with …..”that’s why I never give to the susan g. komen foundation or any other cancer research group…..they are just a billion dollar black hole of tax evasion”
I was a bit taken off my guard. This was…
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We should try to make our house a dwelling place, a mikdash for God.
The Times, March 21, 2024 Event Binyamin Netanyahu has told senior US Republicans that Israel “won’t stop” its planned Rafah offensive, even if it lacks American support. The Israeli prime minister spoke to senators at a lunch in Washington via videolink, after earlier admitting “disagreements” with President Biden over the potential military operation in the […]
Daily Telegraph, February 23, 2024 Event A Hezbollah “military compound” in Lebanon has been hit by an Israeli strike amid ongoing cross-border fire as tensions intensify in the Middle East. Hezbollah claimed that two paramedics affiliated with the group and one of their fighters were killed in a “direct” attack on a civil defence centre […]
From older news, which should not have been missed: The Telegraph, January 29, 2024 Event Are we on the brink of a third world war? In the age of “peak apocalypse”, it is easy to laugh off such a question. After all, we already find ourselves on permanent pandemic-watch, are besieged daily by predictions of ecological […]
Israel World News, January 21, 2024 Event Israel is giving Hezbollah ten more days to move away from its border and then its military will significantly escalate its reactions to the terrorists’ rain of rockets on northern Israel, The Washington Post reported Friday. Although the end-of-January deadline isn’t absolute, according to officials cited by the paper, the Israelis […]
Israel News, January 16, 2024 Event In an ominous sign of an expanding regional war, Jordan has been seen moving its army closer to the border with Israel. Israeli towns along the Jordanian border have reported gunfire towards their communities from the Jordanian soldiers. With the Hamas war raging and the potential for Israel’s North becoming […]
Bij de Parasja Nitsawiem 5782 kijken wij uit naar een sjana tova oemetoeka voor ons allen.
Dit jaar zijn er nog 2 sjabbatot tot Soekot en is er voor elke sjabbat een parasja en de sjabbat voorafgaande aan Rosj Hasjana lezen wij nu de de parasja Nitsawiem.
Verwonderlijk kreeg ik vandaag het bericht van WordPress dat ik tegen een jubileum mag aankijken. Gefeliciteerd met je jubileum bij WordPress.com! Je hebt je 5 jaar geleden geregistreerd op WordPress.com.Bedankt voor het gebruiken van onze service! Ga zo door met bloggen. Wat zijn die vijf jaren voorbij gevlogen. Voordat mijn pen al mijn gedachten kon […]
Kijkend naar de geschiedenis van het Joodse Volk in Oekraïne staan zij nu weer op het punt dat er vele doden onder hen kunnen vallen.
Met Rosj Hasjana denken wij aan de wondere scheppingsdaad van de Allerhoogste. Spijtig genoeg moeten wij toegeven dat de mensheid van die schepping een janboel heeft gemaakt.
What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world? In Christendom there are lots of denominations but oh such a few, keep really to the biblical teachings. A lot of churches claim they are the only right church. In case they would follow all the teachings of Christ Jesus, […]
The apostle Paul wrote about the dispersion, the dispersed House of Israel. They had been “without covenant“, but Paul was sent out to recover them. So they were “grafted in again“ (Romans 11/23). Or, Grafted back in“. If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been […]
Rob Mac wonders when the door to door will return? He wrote this a while back, and went sharing it again. Many Jehovah’s Witnesses hate the door to door ministry, although they won’t readily admit it. Many Jehovah’s Witnesses have developed ‘creative’ ways of counting their time doing this work, and many strategies for avoiding actually […]
Constantine wanted unity in his realm, and his call in 325 C.E. for a council of his bishops at Nicaea, located in the Eastern, Greek-speaking domain of his empire, across the Bosporus from the new city of Constantinople was in a certain way his goal to achieve some agreement by which many could live. Constantine […]
Superstition, misunderstanding and hatred caused the Christians trouble for many generations, and governmental repression they had to suffer occasionally, as a result of popular disturbances. No systematic effort was made by the imperial authorities to put an end to the movement until the reign of the Roman emperor (249–251) who fought the Gothic invasion of […]
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