In sha Allah
One day I will have a new start
One day all my sadness will depart
One day I will have a partener who is So smart
All my worries and interests he will adopt
One day I will achieve all my dreams
And I will have brand new routines
One day I will fly far far away
Until I reach my ultimate peaceful stay
One day I will restore myself
Sohair
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We have one mediator by God. It is Jehovah God His son Jesus who sits next to the Highest. That son of man knows best our troubles and worries and is ready to be our advocate by his heavenly Father.
Jesus is the ideal person to talk for us and to defend us by his heavenly Father so that This divine God as our Father may have pity with us and may help us to overcome our difficulties. Trust in that God of Jesus is the best way to find inner rest.We are promised there will be troubles in this life. But God has given His beloved son to the world to be a mediator between Him and man. Jesus is the way to come to God. When we have found Christ and put our trust in his heavenly Father, Jehovah God, we can trade our yoke for the one Jesus gives, and find rest.
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Christian Response to the Covid-19Â Pandemic
âIn The Midst Of The Stormâ
As near to God as you want Him to be
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- Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #14 Prayer #12 The other name
- Infinite payment of sin by the son of God
- Mediator
- One mediator
- Jesus of Nazareth
- Mediator and advocate
- Building a Spiritual House
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âThe Power of a Word: Carry!â
âThen Jesus said, âCome to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.ââ â Matthew 11:28 (NLT)
As I looked out over my congregation yesterday, I could almost feel the burdens my people were carrying. Some were carrying burdens of grief. Fatherâs Day reminded many of the loss of their fathers or their husbands. Sorrow is multiplied on days like today. Some of you can relate to this. Some were carrying burdens of fear. Theyâre facing medical procedures and tests. Theyâre frightened by an uncertain future, disintegrating relationships, and wayward children. Theyâre scared by what they know and even more afraid of what they donât. Some were carrying burdens for aging parents. Some were carrying burdens for spouses and children battling addiction. Some were carrying burdens of guilt for things that theyâve done and thingsâŠ
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âWe worry about what a child will become tomorrow,
yet we forget that he is someone today.â
â Stacia Tauscher
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Now and then human being have to be reminded that material is just dust. Often it is with less pleasant experiences that we are pushed with our face in the reality of life.
It is good that at such moments of truth people dare to tell others how they feel and what they experience. Such moments of calamity should make us to think about more important things. It should remind us of our Maker and about our reason being here and how we should relate to each other and our environment.
Institute of Mental Health 10, Nov 06 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Some of the experiences we get in a year may be all too much. They can deliver us more worries and stress than our stress bucket can handle. That is the moment that this also will overflow â at which point we can start to experience symptoms of mental ill health. We can use coping strategies to help tap the bucket, and allow stress to flow away in a healthy and manageable way.
However, no matter how hard we try, no matter how good our coping strategies â exercise, medicines, meditation â no matter how much we avoid the things we know are bad for us â sometimes life throws in a brick and makes it impossible to avoid the inevitable splash. {Bricks in the stress bucket}
Living in this world, even with all the luxury around us certain things also for us can get too much, and our usual coping mechanisms then shall cease to be a match for our concerns, that this can lead us to develop emotional / mental health issues. Some might want to use their employees as machines, bu we are human beings not without inner feelings, and life throws things at us that we donât always know how to deal with very well.
Sadly a lot of people may well be experiencing that overspill in the coming months â widespread flooding across the North of the United Kingdom (and in Missouri, red.) has devastated lives, homes, businesses. People are still cleaning up, throwing out years worth of possessions and irreplaceable mementoes, wondering where on earth the money will come from to replace even the more mundane things like microwaves and kettles. {Bricks in the stress bucket}
When bad things happen in a certain region that is often also the time people are coming to know each other in an other, and hopefully in a better way.
The good news is that we have seen the most amazing evidence of the goodness of humanity â people helping eachother to clean up, everyone banding together. Volunteers travelling from near and far, donations pouring in â individuals and organisations and companies are doing a lot to ensure that things are put right as quickly as possible. I have a lot of hope that some minds have been changed, and eyes opened by the sheer generosity and kindness which has been shown by diverse communities from across the country in this little valley. {Bricks in the stress bucket}
Hopefully, that evidence of love and kinship will help people in more than just the practical ways. But in the weeks and months to come, people will start to be impacted by the trauma they have experienced. The exhaustion of the effort they have had to put in to get their homes dry, stay fed, keep themselved and their families safe â it will creep up on people and affect them in ways they may not expect. {Bricks in the stress bucket}
Some may think that such things will soon be forgotten, but they are not. Life has to go on and people will find a way to cope with it, but is shall leave its scars. It is perfectly understandable, and natural, that this will creep up on people and affect them in ways they may not expect.
Human beings have so much ignored nature around them that now nature is giving back an answer which is not so pleasant at times. 2015 may have been the warmest year since the measuring but it had its moments of heavy winds and pouring waters.
Storms have mercilessly battered Britain, one after the other over this festive period, bringing with them severe and unrelenting floods. The scale of damage and devastation was unprecedented, but it was not unpredictable. Weâve seen these storms growing with intensity every year. And, whilst a few might naively blame El Niño for this recent bout, we know that climate change is the driving factor. {UK flooding: the new normal in a changed climate}
Throughout the years we have shown our unrespectfulness and neglectfulness to mother nature that now time has come to have it respond to us on not such a friendly way either.
The harsh truth is that even if we cut all emissions today, we canât undo what damage weâve already done. The carbon weâve pumped into the atmosphere will remain there for generations to come and so too will the weather it brings with it. The climate has changed, it continues to change and thereâs no going back. These violent winter storms, and the floods they bring with them, are here to stay. {UK flooding: the new normal in a changed climate}
And that each rainfall will bring unease (indeed we know there is always a risk of the waters rising again â our last disaster brought two floods in one month). So it is vital that people recognise that their emotions, their mental health deserve as much care as their physical health, and that they seek help if they are struggling â in the same way they would seek help if they start to vomit / get toilet trouble that may come as a result of being in contact with the polluted flood waters. {Bricks in the stress bucket}
I think it would be particularly useful for those of us in the community who wish to support our friends and families â who perhaps know people they think might struggle to accept mental health difficulties in themselves and so not seek help when they need it. {Bricks in the stress bucket}
When the rivers retreat from historic and deadly winter flooding, leaving amid the silt a massive cleanup and recovery effort likely to take weeks if not months, people have to find a new way to continue their life.
The level of global change weâre experiencing now presents many interconnected, multi-faceted challenges that have affected and will affect different countries in different ways. It is hard to tell as a layperson what this means, but the experts have long since warned that the most severe effects in the UK would be powerful storms and increased flooding. There has been very little to suggest that the government has taken these warnings seriously, as they still seem to operate on the principle that itâs better to be sorry than safe. But they canât keep living in denial, we are living in a different world. The Earth has warmed by one degree and itâs time we started acting like it. {UK flooding: the new normal in a changed climate}
Going into a new year lets think about all those people who are experiencing the worst things people can endure, war, floods …. and let us hope more people shall be willing to stand ready for them in need and help them to find the good things in life again.
May the good things in your life also be more lightening than your bad experiences of the year and let 2016 be a year of good health and a progression in the good direction.
God bless.
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Posttraumatic stress disorder does not have to be a lifelong disorder. Being exposed to one or more traumatic events, such as sexual assault, warfare, serious injury, or threats of imminent death may result in feelings of intense fear, horror, and powerlessness and for sure can make it that we carry the memories of it and the anxiety with it all our life with us. But it has not to derange us for all our lifetime. The bad experiences which we encountered we can use also for the good, conquering the problems it gave us and helping others with the bad experience we had.
In case we allow the bad experience get deep into us and let it make us depressed, we allow it to conquer us. We should try to make ourselves stronger than the experience, how bad it might be, and stand up against it, showing our teeth or or ‘balls’.
Jehovah God also provided a solution for all the evil in this world and brought salvation for our pains and worries. By the death of His son we are saved. When we accept the sacrificial offer of Jesus Christ, the son of God, we can find solace, but we must know that shall not take away the temptations, the tribulations, the pains, a.o. we shall have to endure whilst in this time system.
It is in God and in His son we must put our hope and look forward to the return of Christ and the coming Kingdom of God.
In the meantime we can trust the Most High He will protect us and never let things test us more than we can bear. But when we are victim of bad events we should let us get down and let evil win. The adversary of God, (Satan) which can be any or every person, shall be able to feel our doubt and try us out. We should stand strong.
It is impossible to be strong every day, or to feel at ease or to be happy all the time. We have to face our ups and downs and be aware we have more strength in us than we ever would think. It is there deep in us, but we ourselves have to dig after it.
And yes at moments we do have to give ourself a break, but having self compassion shall never help. Self-pity is the thing we can miss most. Though it does not mean we can not have days that we just find it okay to lie down, pull the blanket up over our head and say nopeâŠ..”I canât do this right now.” But know that there is tomorrow again a day and than it would be possible perhaps. Just get up and try to do it. You can!
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Some days I find myself agreeing whith those people who think what I have is nothing more than an excuse to be miserable. Maybe my headaches, my joint pain, my halucinations and all the other problems I deal with are simply me wanting to be a victim. I spend entirely too much time second guessing myself, especially when it comes to the depression and anxiety I feel almost constantly. What if I am making it all up? It isnât something I can âproveâ to people who donât think that mental illness is a real medical problem and because of that I sometimes fall into that trap. I feel guilty for going to my many doctorâs appointments even though I know I would not be able to hold onto a job if I didnât, but try explaining that to people whoâs idea of dealing with mental health is âsuck it upâ.- We All Have A Choice (foodforthespiritualsoul.wordpress.com)
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O Jehovah, self-existent One,
please do not breathe out angry condemnation or discipline over me,
even though I deserve it.
Please be merciful for I am weak and vulnerable.
- Thick or thin, the battle within. (meaningfulmeanderingsofsuz.wordpress.com)
We hear a lot about thick vs. thin skin and it is even somewhat of a mantra in many households. Â Parents tell their kids they better get it or life will be just so much harder to survive. Â Companies tell their employees to not be so sensitive about rejection or what anyone else says. Thin skinned people seem to be perceived as weak and too fragile to deal with real life. And then thereâs sensitivity training for those who have built the proverbial thick skin they were chastised for not having in the first place and then expect everyone else to have the same rhino-esque qualities.- Persistent symptoms following concussion may be posttraumatic stress disorder (medicalxpress.com)
Concussion accounts for more than 90 percent of all TBIs, although little is known about prognosis for the injury. The symptoms cited as potentially being part of PCS fall into three areas: cognitive, somatic and emotional. But the interpretation of symptoms after MTBI should also take into account that injuries are often sustained during psychologically distressing events which can lead to PTSD.The authors conducted a study of injured patients at an emergency department in a hospital in France to examine whether persistent symptoms three months after a head injury were specific to concussion or may be better described as part of PTSD. The study included 534 patients with head injury and 827 control patients with nonhead injuries.
Three months after the injury, 21.2 percent of head-injured and 16.3 percent of nonhead-injured patients met the diagnosis of PCS; 8.8 percent of head-injured patients met the criteria for PTSD compared with 2.2 percent of control patients.
- Why Me?! (christiboronow.wordpress.com)
I could not count how many times Iâve asked this questionâŠwhether it be because something awesome just happened and Iâm stunned that it happened to me. Or because Iâm going through some ridiculous trial and am at a loss of strength and will to keep fighting. This evening I asked, âwhy me, GodâŠwhy?â
Not because my life is going according to my plan, but because it seems like my whole world is falling apart. The last several months have been a constant trial and if Iâm completely honest, I am at my absolute end. I have no strength to keep fighting, my body is exhausted, I just had an emergency surgery, my grandma is in her last few miles of life fighting cancer, and I have hit a massive brick wall. I sit here typing this post as my stomach flips out in pain and all I want to do is sleep.- Write to the Point with Angie Brashear (5020genesis.wordpress.com)
As a nonbeliever for the majority of my life, I enjoyed reading speculative fiction and it was the The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis which ultimately opened my eyes to Christ. My prayer is that my stories will do the same for others. I also hope believers will enjoy the Christian undertones of my work.- The End? (wifeafterdeath.com)
After Mark survived His sudden and savage illness in 2008, He had one goal: never to let it define Him. He took the pills, checked in for INR tests, trundled down to Oxford for His annual review. He reluctantly acceded to these things because a man with a stethoscope and big glasses told Him He had to.A less optimistic person may have allowed the regime to take over their lives. But not my husband. It spurred Him on to achieve and conquer. In fact, most of the time Heâd have you believe it never happened. (Except in those rare, dark moments of reality which seeped in unseen and made us both sob at the cruelty of it all.)
Woke up at around 4amâish, from a nightmare. A nightmare about severe abuse no-one should ever even know about, let alone endure, feel such pain and suffering.
To re-experience this kind of abuse, always seems so deeply cruel. Wasnât it enough that I had to suffer at that time, do I have to keep enduring it over and over? Seems like I do. Because I am.
It feels like I am being punished, âgetting what I deserveâ, as I was told in the past. Repeatedly.
I do try really hard to be as positive as I can, but days like today are so hard. Already tired, waking up with major anxiety from the nightmare, is not the best way to start your day.
On days like today, I wonder if I will ever be free of PTSD? Free of nightmares? Free of re-experiencing severe sexual abuse, I never deserved andâŠ
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I am convinced that in case we try to bend all our negative thoughts into the direction of good thoughts we can manage better. Very important to avoid stress situations simply is avoiding those people who could bring us into such a situation. We best avoid negative influences and associate better more with people who can contribute positiveness in our life.
Eliminative Materialism (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We should be careful not to be taken in, by not be focusing on the distribution of material power because that are the matters which can bring us down. Materialism in the end always will kill the person. Always being aware that no way we ever shall get a good working system or any political system that can solve everything. For that we shall have to wait until the return of Christ, when the Kingdom of God shall at last become a full reality. Before that the reality of a perfect world is an illusion. The reality that surrounds us is not in itself a product of the objective forces but one of our shared perceptions, ideas, social values and understanding. We would be fooling ourselves if we believed the state and the inter-state systems, would not be artificial constructs, meaning that they are constructed by humans, and they can be changed and developed in new ways in extreme cases leading to anarchy and a huge security dilemma.
We all should work on coming to understand how the world evolves and what for influence we as human beings have on nature. when you look how we treat nature it more seems that we are very good at destroying it instead of living in symbioses with it.
At the moment how people are making a mess of the world they are also putting stress on the whole community, using everything and every one to get as much material gain as they can. Not many people are really interested in the spiritual site of life. Most people are also not interested to come to know or to come to an understanding of the universe and the world around us.
All the things that happened in the past can never be undone. This can be hard to swallow and it can bring much sadness to us. But it has no use to linger on such bad events, sad happenings and to keep facing depressing thoughts. the world must go on, and we with it.
Instead of having people to succeed to push us in a hole, getting us not believing in ourselves any more, we better try to understand why such people became so envious, jealous, and so frustrated that they like to bully others. They would like to kill all initiative others would take, because that would put them in the shadow. Often such people looking to get all the power would not mind putting all those on their path, standing in their way,to not only put them in the shadow, but to get them in the dark, not having to play any significant role any more. it is all a matter of control. And when we lose control we might come into a phase of stress and they think they also would come in a phase of no power any more.
Sharing control and sharing tasks has not to mean you would or the other would loose control. Together more can be managed than on your own. Often when people start feeling their loosing control they do come in afraid to loose their position in the comfort zone. Some may take on the defence mode and try to suppress the other, others may come in the discomfort zone and feeling stress. at first the one feeling the pressure at work might thing he or she could solve the problem with working harder, giving himself or herself more for the job, but many of such hard-working and optimistically minded individuals have lost their jobs and have come so depressed, taken over by the stress or worries.
We best take care we do not get in a position were we could start dwelling on the negative spiral to nowhere. It leads to nihilism. We too can avoid that others get in a stress situation and loose their optimism. By encouraging others to focus on the positives is an act of ‘brotherly love‘. It also shows a faith in other individuals as well as a faith in what is around you or in the organization you are working for.
Captain Edward Rickenbacker, America’s premier “Ace” officially credited with 22 enemy planes and the proud wearer of the French War Cross as he appeared upon his arrival on board the Adriatic. Underwood and Underwood., ca. 1919Â (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We all should remember what World War I ace and aviation entrepreneur, Eddie Rickenbacker said:
âThink positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.â That is an attitude worth maintaining and nurturing especially when times are so severe.
A big problem today is that most people are so focused on the materialism they do not see that there are more important matters and they think somebody else can destroy them. Several people consider atheism as being more useful for the development of life forces and the worldly satisfaction of the larger masses of mankind. {âMaterialism Destroys the Eternal Spirit.â Articles by and on Berdyaev, Returning to Berdyaev at the Return to Materialism}
The triumph of the bourgeois spirit led Berdyaev to declare that history was a story of failure. Berdyaev lamented that the will to power and affluence had triumphed over the will to holiness and genius.â (Peter Maurin: Prophet in the Twentieth Century, Paulist Press, l98l.) {Nicholas Berdyaev, Prophet for the Catholic Worker Movement Materialism Destroys the Eternal Spirit}
This world is taken over by materialism, idolatries of power, lust and comfort. Normally you would think all the luxury would bring much satisfaction to the people, but by comparing what others have and what they do not have the jealousy took them down in a spiral of envy and bring them in a stress situation. Lots of people have created their own god. They do not understand that the for them useful and practically effective god of capitalism cannot be the True God. When you look at their god or gods you might come to see that it is no problem at all to unmask their new and popular gods. We can see that many adore the money and have put away The Only One God of religious revelations far away. For them That God can not be seen nor felt and therefore has no value for them. You could ask them: whenever did you try to look for Him and tried to see Him?
We have become surrounded by technique and many are totally taken by it and also have become very dependant on it. Their relationship with all that technical stuff however did not help to bring them into closer communion with their inner life and soul of nature. they might think it brought them closer together, and has created them having more ‘friends’ on the social networks. But they do not see that many of them are ‘virtual friends’ and have not a real social connection at all. We even see that more people become more isolated in their environment of Linked-in and Facebook relatives. They might have many so called ‘friends’ in their circles but they are very lonely … on their own. They, in their isolation, also seem to loose track of their own possibilities.
The machine sets its stamp upon the human spirit and all its manifestations. Thus civilization has neither a natural nor a spiritual, but a mechanical foundation. It represents par excellence the triumph of technique over both the spirit and organism.
The machine and technique are the product of the mental development and discoveries of culture; but they sap its organic foundations and kill its spirit. {Nicholas Berdyaev, Prophet for the Catholic Worker Movement Materialism Destroys the Eternal Spirit}
With all the focus on material goods not much interest can be found for culture. those working in the cultural field may be tampered and losing positivism as well. They have to find a way to earn their living and are persuaded to greater concessions. Many artists having lost the artistic soul, becoming part of the mainstream ‘civilization’ where spiritual matters are discounted and where quantity has displaced quality.
The assertion of the will to âlife,â power, organization and earthly happiness, brings about mankindâs spiritual decline; for the higher spiritual life is based upon asceticism and resignation. Such are the tragedy and fate of historical destinies. {Nicholas Berdyaev, Prophet for the Catholic Worker Movement Materialism Destroys the Eternal Spirit}
Vyacheslav Ivanov, Lev Kobilinskij-Ellis, Nikolai Berdyaev (standing) and Andrei Bely (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I do not think like that civilization as opposed to culture, which is given up to the contemplation of eternity, tends to be futurist. I do agree that machinery and technique are chiefly responsible for the speeding up of life, but that some might have lost the reason why we could make advantage of such tools. and its exclusive aspiration towards the future. the technique should have helped our society to come more at ease and to be less stressful. Many let the machine take over and concentrated more on the material gain it could bring instead of making use or advantage of the time it could make free for them to do other things.
Organic life is slower, less impetuous, and more concerned with essentials, while civilized life is superficial and accidental; for it puts the means and instruments of life before the ends whose significance is lost. The consciousness of civilized men is concentrated exclusively upon the means and technique of life considered as the only reality, while its aims are regarded as illusory. {Nicholas Berdyaev, Prophet for the Catholic Worker Movement Materialism Destroys the Eternal Spirit}
may think that spiritual culture is unreal, but for me culture is fundamental for a healthy community. Culture is is not a mere instrument of technique, it is the gear transmission of society. It is the sociological controller and instigator for a good relation between end and means. Culture is also the mirror for man to put everything in perspective and the golden thread in history. Today we may see the loss of any sense of purpose in human life, culture and religion.
All historical tendencies which have striven to create harmony, to overcome the dark premise, to subdue the turbulence of freedom and supersede it by compelled and necesary good, are concerned only with the secondary signs of the unique and primal mystery of divine freedom. {Nicholas Berdyaev, Prophet for the Catholic Worker Movement Materialism Destroys the Eternal Spirit}
We as human beings should remember we are only a very tiny element in the universe. We would love to believe that everything turns around us, but we are thoroughly mistaken.
21st Century Materialism (Photo credit: tomislavmedak)
I do agree with that humankind has a solution in front of them, which was already given to them early from the start. And that it is this fundamental moral contradiction we are facing today that invalidates the doctrine of progress, turning it into a religion of death instead of resurrection and eternal life.
There is no valid ground for degrading those generations whose lot has been cast among pain and imperfection beneath that whose pre-eminence has been ordained in blessedness and joy. No future perfection can expiate the sufferings of past generations. Such a sacrifice of all human destinies to the messianic consummation of the favoured race can only revolt manâs moral and religious conscience. A religion of progress based on this apotheosis of a future fortunate generation is without compassion for either present or past; it addresses itself with infinite optimism to the future, with infinite pessimism to the past. It is profoundly hostile to the Christian expectation of resurrection for all mankind, for all the dead, fathers and forefathers. This Christian idea rests on the hope of an end to historical tragedy and contradiction valid for all human generations, and of resurrection in eternal life for all who have ever lived. {Nicholas Berdyaev, Prophet for the Catholic Worker Movement Materialism Destroys the Eternal Spirit}
Our habit of breaking up time into the past, present and future does not entitle us to endow the last with more reality than the first. From the standpoint of the present, the future is no richer in reality than the past, and our efforts should be with reference, not to the future, but to that eternal present of which both future and past are one. {Nicholas Berdyaev, Prophet for the Catholic Worker Movement Materialism Destroys the Eternal Spirit}
More people in this world should make the choice on what they really want to focus. Too much we have forgotten the importance of the choices we have to make and on the direction we have to focus our eyes and mind. We should all be convinced how much we ourselves can regulate our own life and how much depends on the focus on what we want is directly proportional to what we can achieve.
To many of us are more concerned to prove ourselves for man, instead of proving ourselves for the Higher Being. How many of us are not willing to change themselves, just for the sake of wining someoneâs approval.
Geetika Garg, who is trying to know more about everything around her, writes on her blog:
You donât have to prove yourself worthwhile by doing what others wish; itâs certainly not your job. Be confident for who you are, for who you had been all those years, stand strong for all the decisions that you have made and have faith in yourself. Â You are enough for your ow. {You Matter}
Too many people have forgotten to be their own self and to dare to speak out for themselves. A lot of people who would have loved to have more affinity for the spiritual have been pressed against the wall by the materialists. they put their own inner soul aside, thinking they would be less than the other. they looked for ways outside themselves to prove themselves by doing what others wished them to do. they should know that is not the right way and is neither to help them nor the ones they are hoping to please.
May I quote the lady who believes whatever we are seeking is seeking us too, and has hopes that the day the two will meet, it will be complete, perfect as it is meant to be!
Be confident for who you are, for who you had been all those years, stand strong for all the decisions that you have made and have faith in yourself.  You are enough for your own self; you are capable of achieving what all you desire and you require absolutely none to tell you how worthy you are. Instead of focusing on what critics have to say why not concentrate on those who praise you. Those people are the ones with all positivism and happiness. We often tend to forget that they exist and keep believing on all bad about us. They are the people who matter. Let go of rest. Donât let your ears used to of those cruel words that inhibit your growth, that steal a part of you and things that change your entire being. {You Matter}
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Originally posted on EttingerWriting.com:
By David Ettinger A Fruitful DiscussionI recently had a nice discussion with a blogging friend regarding the Bible version I use. This fruitful dialogue led to this post, which wonât analyze the many English versions of the Bible, but serve merely as my commentary on the issue. This is one…
âThe Bible is indeed the greatest book ever written. It has shaped the cultures of the world in countless ways, and it contains the words of everlasting life. But for so many today, it is largely opaque, indecipherable â at best a puzzling text from a prescientific age.â Bishop Robert Barron, The Word on […]
We admit that the Bible is not easy for everyone to follow. But usually, this is because the person does not believe in himself enough and is too much weighed down by entrenched human doctrines or dogmas that obscure the Biblical text.
The inability of Christians to grasp the meaning and message of both Genesis and Revelation create a great divide in America. Christians struggle with both the beginning and culmination of the Scriptures â the Alpha and the Omega as they might be called. Both Genesis and Revelation bring a lot of baggage with them to […]
Turkey has positioned itself with great care to be the go-between with Russia and Ukraine – and this seems to be paying off. On Thursday afternoon, President Vladimir Putin rang the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and told him what Russia’s precise demands were for a peace deal with Ukraine. The Russian demands fall into […]
I was very surprised to read that one of my teachers thought: “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I died tonight?”‘ But soon I came to see and understand it was in the positive sense, a thought of some years ago, Dame Monica Mason, recalling her role as the Chosen Maiden in Kenneth MacMillan’s The Rite […]
The Republican Party under Trump had really a problem with promoting several right wing groups. On MSNBC Saturday April 30, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison gave to know that the Republican Party is a “hot mess” built on “fear” and “fraud”. Harrison’s comments came during a discussion with MSNBC host Tiffany Cross, who asked […]
Als ik op een van mijn websites een artikel plaats wordt dat automatisch op sociale media doorgegeven, zoals Twitter en op Facebook Pagina’s. Volgens sommigen is het belangrijk dat men de publicaties aanpast aan de tijden dat ze het meest zouden gelezen worden. Annemiek Nederpel van Frank Watching schrijft Een belangrijk onderdeel van je social […]
Zij die werkzaam zijn in de culturele sector behoren al eeuwen tot de minst beschermde mensen. Toen ik in de sector begon te werken was er zelfs geen pensioenvoorziening en moesten wij daar zelf voor instaan. Dit deden velen van ons dan ook door goed te sparen, levensverzekeringen aan te gaan, kasbons en aandelen te […]
De Standaard bracht heel slecht nieuws uit voor de CD&V, de Christen Democratische Volkspartij, die klaarblijkelijk de interesse van het volk verloren heeft. Vroeger was de CVP de grootste politieke partij in BelgiĂ«. Voor jaren kon die Christelijke Volkspartij rekenen op vaste kiezers, die alsmaar ouder werden en vervolgens ook stierven, zodat het aantal stemmers […]
Originally posted on George Knight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaeqaqNyDFA Onder coördinatie van de Amerikaanse regering zenden meer dan 30 landen militair materiaal naar OekraĂŻne. Vooral aan artillerie, tanks, langeafstandsraketwerpers en luchtverdediging heeft het OekraĂŻense leger gebrek om passend te kunnen reageren op de Russische invasie. Russen vertrouwen op hun artillerie en raketten waarmee ze OekraĂŻne op afstand bestoken.…
Zelensky heeft toch een vreemde uitspraak gedaan om zijn land te vergelijken met een âgroot IsraĂ«lâ. Of kijkt hij vooruit naar een profetische Bijbelse voorspelling? Dinsdag 5 april maakte de OekraĂŻense president Volodymyr Zelensky de meest expliciete identificatie van zijn bevochten land met de staat IsraĂ«l, waarbij hij op de IsraĂ«lische staatstelevisie aangaf dat zelfs […]
Asking God to provide courage, strength and patience and to be a good example to others whilst waiting for Jesus’ return.
From the genus of tall perennial plants in the family Asteraceae we look at things that pollute our earth.
It is possible that World War 3 is dated as beginning on February 24th 2022 â the day Russia invaded Ukraine.
Originally posted on The Curious Mag:
What is climate change and isnât it a natural process? The âclimate crisisâ refers to global climate change that is happening too rapidly for the world to adapt. Climate Change means rising average temperatures which cause extreme weather events, shifting wildlife populations and habitats, rising sea levels, and a…
As the Guardianâs new âclimate bombsâ series shows, there are 195 gigantic oil and gas projects underway around the world that would each result in at least one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over their lifetimes, in total equivalent to around 18 years of current global emissions.
Bro. Greg Wiechert, News Correspondent The report from many of our sisters is that the Womenâs Retreat, held April 22-24, 2022, was a wonderful, uplifting weekend. Forty-seven women from as far as Florida and Illinois gathered at Lakeside-Marblehead, Ohio, for in-person fellowship, study, and worship. They stayed in six lovely homes in the tiny […]
The Great Lakes Christadelphian Bible School (GLCBS) is excitedly looking forward to their first in-person Bible school in three years! GLCBS will be held, God willing, July 2-9, 2022, and registration can be found at http://www.glcbs.org. GLCBS has been a helpful Bible school since 1968 and is one of the better values for families. GLCBS […]
Brampton Ontario ecclesia is still meeting online zoom each week, as they don’t yet have access to their rented facility. Anyone can join their weekly zoom services by going to http://www.readthebible.com and contacting them. Would love to have you! The Brampton Ontario ecclesia enjoyed the Toronto Fraternal Fathering on zoom this Easter, being encouraged by […]
After the effects of the Corona pandemic, we had the consequences of the war in Ukraine, and the monkeypox virus came to haunt the world. All these mishaps made people react strangely and led families to the need to watch what to do and what to spend money on. In the previous months, believers were […]
by: John Pople I believe this universe has been intentionally designed: a rational belief consistent with my scientific education and underpinning my reasoned faith. The statistical impossibility of the heavens demands this, and, necessarily therefore, they declare the existence of a highly skilled designer. Most importantly of all, I hold this conclusion not in spite […]
Na de gevolgen van de Corona pandemie kregen wij de gevolgen van de oorlog in OekraĂŻne en kwam het apenpokkenvirus de wereld beroeren. Al die onhebbelijkheden deden mensen vreemd reageren en brachten gezinnen tot de noodzaak om goed uit te kijken wat te doen en aan wat geld te besteden. De voorgaande maanden werden gelovigen […]
(With thanks to Brother Peter Mason) Pride is a deadly thing and it shows itself in subtle ways. A certain blind man sat on the Jericho Road begging, when one day he heard the noise of excited crowds and asked what it was all about. Jesus of Nazareth passed by, but the blind man wouldnât […]
We live in a world where friendship is often defined by our friends and followers on social networking sites. We often interact with others by posting holiday snaps and updates about our childrenâs accomplishments as well as sharing recipes and videos. But while these things can help us stay connected on some level, they are […]
The Times, May 2, 2022 Event Russian state television has issued a chilling warning that Moscow could wipe out Britain with a nuclear tsunami in retaliation for supporting Ukraine. In his Sunday evening primetime show, the Channel One anchor Dmitry Kiselyov said a strike by Russiaâs Poseidon nuclear underwater drone could turn Britain into a […]
Wat of wie willen wij navolgen?
God verblijft in de hemel maar is ook overal op de wereld, maar niet verdoken in kerken geplaatste tabernakels.
Sommigen nemen aan dat Gods Koninkrijk geen wereldomvattend Vrederijk is maar eerder een geestelijke toestand in het hart van de vromen zou zijn. Voor hetzelfde woord vindt men zowel de vertaling âkoninkrijkâ als âkoningschapâ waarbij het Koninkrijk door zijn omvangrijkheid overal te merken zal zijn en terugslaat op het Vrederijk van Christus Jezus.
Uit de spreukachtige gezegden die Jezus gebruikt tijdens zijn bergrede blijkt hoe de ene uitspraak slechts Ă©Ă©n kant van een zaak belicht terwijl een andere betrekking heeft op een ander aspect hiervan.
In Jezus tijd was mondelinge overlevering heel belangrijk. Daarom gebruikte Jezus als leerkracht spreekvormen die het makkelijker maakten om het gezegde te onthouden, zoals bijvoorbeeld een spreukachtige taal.
Met meesterlijke verhalen weet de Nazarener leermeester mensen te boeien.
** Please look further after the advert for MagellanTV, to find Part 1: 1947. – Pt 6 goes about the Life of Jesus, the Son of God.
The Copper Scroll. Found in a cave near the Dead Sea, the Copper Scroll describes a vast treasureâhidden in locations throughout the Judean wilderness. Some think the scroll served as a map to the treasure from the Jerusalem Temple.
Archives are always a treasure trove, but they often remain a closed Pandora’s box for interested parties. Due to COVID-19, the BadĂš Museum gallery in Berkeley, California, is closed until further notice. The virtual exhibition Unsilencing the Archives: The Laborers of the Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations (1926â1935) has been recently launched online by the BadĂš Museum […]
The European Union has come face to face with the harsh reality of Putin’s plans and must now prevent a third world war from becoming a harsher reality.
De Europese Unie is met haar neus op de harde realiteit van Poetins plannen gebotst en moet nu zien te vermijden dat een derde wereldoorlog een hardere realiteit wordt.
The Anti-Semitism Worldwide Report 2021 and the Anti-Defamation League report about anti-Semitism show the rise of hate against Jews.
The British four-part television drama Ridley Road which premiered on BBC One on 3 October 2021 can now also be seen on PBS. The mini-series Ridley Road is set in the East End of London in the early 1960s and follows the story of a Jewish woman who infiltrates the ranks of the neo-Nazis, posing […]
Originally posted on SRQ Jew:
We humans live with one foot firmly in the physical world, and yet we have an inexplicable urge to dip a toe in the spiritual world. However strong or tentative that impulse may be, we all have our moments when we long to transcend our physical being and soar. Where…
Originally posted on Chemiotics II:
Neurologists are inherently interested in  psychosis, not least because too much dopamine in the form of L-DOPA can trigger it.  I’ve always found it remarkable that dopamine blocking agents (phenothiazines, and most antipsychotics) can attack psychotic thought itself.  This is much more impressive to me than the ability of other…
In Corona time many people got time to think about which way to go with their faith. Now more people feel the need to go back to the shul after all the lockdowns.
Forbes, April 28, 2022 Event Quite a few billionaires born in Russia have taken advantage of the âLaw of Return,â otherwise known as âAliyah,â which grants automatic entry and passports to any Jew, or anyone who can prove they have at least one Jewish grandparent. According to Forbesâ research, more than 40% of the 111 Russian-born billionaires […]
The feeling that their own nation is sacred and should be protected against outside forces makes people choose right-wing politicians who promise them an ideal flourishing prosperous nation
Tel Aviv Univ. echoing recent ADL study on antisemitism in the US, find worldwide increase in Jew-hatred over the past year.
Iran controls the trouble in and around Israel. It literally activates and ferments violence when it wants to. Hamas & Hezbollah donât do anything without their paymasters say so.
Israel has been forced to vote against Russia in recent weeks, which caused Russian anger. They are pointing to Israelâs own conflict. In other words â keep out of our war or your own war might begin.
Does one need proof to come to a certain belief? We can look at the signs in nature and find out what happened to certain people in the past, such as Noah and Paul. With the Book of Books, Allah has provided the world with His Interpretative Word.
Heeft men bewijzen nodig om tot een bepaald geloof te komen? Wij kunnen naar de tekenen in de natuur kijken en nagaan wat er in het verleden met bepaalde mensen, zoals Noach en Paulus is gebeurd. Met het Boek der boeken heeft Allah de wereld van Zijn Alzeggend Woord voorzien.
When we speak about “Faith” (iman) we look at acceptance of the Belief in the existence and oneness of God (Allah).and the existence of the Book of books of which God is the author, existing of five main parts, the Torah (revealed to Moses),,the Psalms (revealed to David).and the Writings of Kings and prophets as well as the Gospel (revealed to Jesus) with the writings of his apostles,
Wanneer wij over “Geloof” (iman) spreken, zien wij op de aanvaarding van het Geloof in het bestaan en de eenheid van God (Allah) en het bestaan van het Boek der boeken waarvan God de auteur is, bestaande uit vijf hoofdstukken, de Torah (geopenbaard aan Mozes), de Psalmen (geopenbaard aan David) en de Geschriften van Koningen en Profeten, alsmede het Evangelie (geopenbaard aan Jezus) met de geschriften van zijn apostelen,
One may wonder in which or what kind of god people want to believe. It is striking that many people like to have a certain form of mystery around their deity and therefore do not choose the God Who pours clear wine and sends very reliable Words to earth.
die stil man (5 jaar terug) dit is my stapmaat en ons oefen vir die Camino as ons ses-uur op ‘n Saterdag-oggend begin stap dan loop hy voor en vinnig sy vuiste gebal van al die spanning genade, sĂȘ almal hierdie man praat nie ‘n woord nie, hoe hou jy dit? dan sĂȘ ek nee, […]
Ek kry die boksie as my afskeidsgeskenk, binne-in drie vouchers vir drie kunsklasse. Ek weet dadelik wat ek wil verf en wag geduldig vir tyd om oop te val. Ek bel Svetlana en bespreek drie oggend-sessies, in een week. I’ve been waiting for your call, sĂȘ sy. Can you paint? the world will tell you […]
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