Hi again. Did you know, that there is one thing, that Einstein didn´t know?
Guess what? Tell me.... Don´t worry, I didn´t know either...
And here are some good thoughts....
If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou
"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."—Sally Koch
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw
"Don't water your weeds."--Harvey Mackay
"There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably."--Federico Fellini
"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."--Samuel Johnson
"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."--Hermann Hesse
In the absence of better evidence, vaccines and antivirals must be viewed as only partial and uncertain defenses against the flu. And they may be mere talismans. By being afraid to do the proper studies now, we may be condemning ourselves to using treatments based on illusion and faith rather than sound science. By Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, The Atlantic, November 2009
There may be a wrong way to do the right thing, but never a right way to do a wrong thing.
"Love is a better master than duty." --Albert Einstein
"May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting."--Mary Carolyn Davies
"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."--Louis E. Boone
"Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work."--William Arthur Ward
It is never too late to be who you might have been.--George Eliot, 1819-1880, English Novelist
"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it."--John Newton
Happiness and love are just a choice away.--Leo Buscaglia
"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved."--Barbara Johnson
"Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely."—Thomas P. Murphy
"Eternity is a long, long time, make sure you spend it in the right location..." MM
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."--Helen Keller
"Life's not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain."--Vivian Greene
"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."--William Penn
"Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty--they merely move it from their faces to their hearts."--Martin Buxbaum
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."--Abraham Lincoln
"In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving."--William Arthur Ward
"I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that; then I realized I was somebody."--Lily Tomlin
"You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."--Norman Vincent Peale
"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."--Corrie Ten Boom
"Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!"--Henri F. Amiel
"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."--Alexander Pope
"You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down."--Charlie Chaplin
Faith is putting your hand out in the dark and finding it held.
Our purpose in Life is to find our gift, perfect it, and give it back to others.
Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts
and we are never ever the same. Flavia Weedn
Sunday 31 January 2010
Saturday 30 January 2010
How was your day? And your evening? I hope as good as possible.
We can´t control the circumstances, but we can control our attitude. I like this saying: (not just because I live near the sea) Life is like a voyage on a sail boat. We get the boat, and then it is up to us, how we take care of it. We cannot control the weather and the "outside" but we can set the sails in a way so that we can get to our destination.
Today I met with L. who is going through a very difficult time in her life. Like so many of us she tried to make a as much as possible "perfect" situation for her children and had a wonderful family life, but when it all fell apart, she just couldn´t see why. I then remembered and told her how when I went through a separation, I also couldn´t see, why something so nice should be destroyed. But then I started meeting several other people in similar situations, who I could understand and help much more and better after having gone through this and having found ways to overcome the obstacles. Some of them even told me: "You understand, I can feel it, you have gone through the same difficulties, and you are still smiling, so it gives me hope, that I can do it, too. "
"God comforts us in our troubles, so that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." (2. Corinthians 1:4) God doesn´t only comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters. There is a meaning and sense in everything, and when we start looking for it and finding it, then every moment can be an adventure... Good night....
We can´t control the circumstances, but we can control our attitude. I like this saying: (not just because I live near the sea) Life is like a voyage on a sail boat. We get the boat, and then it is up to us, how we take care of it. We cannot control the weather and the "outside" but we can set the sails in a way so that we can get to our destination.
Today I met with L. who is going through a very difficult time in her life. Like so many of us she tried to make a as much as possible "perfect" situation for her children and had a wonderful family life, but when it all fell apart, she just couldn´t see why. I then remembered and told her how when I went through a separation, I also couldn´t see, why something so nice should be destroyed. But then I started meeting several other people in similar situations, who I could understand and help much more and better after having gone through this and having found ways to overcome the obstacles. Some of them even told me: "You understand, I can feel it, you have gone through the same difficulties, and you are still smiling, so it gives me hope, that I can do it, too. "
"God comforts us in our troubles, so that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." (2. Corinthians 1:4) God doesn´t only comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters. There is a meaning and sense in everything, and when we start looking for it and finding it, then every moment can be an adventure... Good night....
Thursday 28 January 2010
Let me live ... A good friend came by today. She is six months pregnant and found out about it one month ago! If she had known sooner, she might have done what so many do and did, and so many of them regretted afterwards, especially if you know how early a baby forms, feel, lives and perceives.... This reminded me of a wonderful song
What a song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hB75naWqjk&feature=related
you can select, copy and then paste this link
which has helped many to decide for life and didn´t regret it all that they did.
And if you have a chance to see the movie "Pay It Forward" that is a wonderful movie with a wonderful theme to follow... this could really be a key.... there is hope.
Another thing about life, there are wonderful ways to stay healthy and natural ways to get healed, even from cancer! Look under ´Rudolf Breuss Therapy´, and or Renee Caisse, Essiac Tea, and / or Vitamin B 17, and the Hunza People....
The best is to live as healthy and natural as you can, eat right, sleep right, exercise, be loving, forgiving and thankful.... and don´t worry....
There is another wonderful movie that shows some nice alternatives... "First Do No Harm" with Meryl Streep. Here she introduced a healing diet against Epilepsy in children herself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_8D1hH7mzo&feature=related
and talks more about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP12WsxJR-Y&feature=related
Very Interesting.What do you think?
What a song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hB75naWqjk&feature=related
you can select, copy and then paste this link
which has helped many to decide for life and didn´t regret it all that they did.
And if you have a chance to see the movie "Pay It Forward" that is a wonderful movie with a wonderful theme to follow... this could really be a key.... there is hope.
Another thing about life, there are wonderful ways to stay healthy and natural ways to get healed, even from cancer! Look under ´Rudolf Breuss Therapy´, and or Renee Caisse, Essiac Tea, and / or Vitamin B 17, and the Hunza People....
The best is to live as healthy and natural as you can, eat right, sleep right, exercise, be loving, forgiving and thankful.... and don´t worry....
There is another wonderful movie that shows some nice alternatives... "First Do No Harm" with Meryl Streep. Here she introduced a healing diet against Epilepsy in children herself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_8D1hH7mzo&feature=related
and talks more about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP12WsxJR-Y&feature=related
Very Interesting.What do you think?
A wonderful Love story....
A Beautiful Story - Love
Author: John Powell
“He that loves, knows God, for God is love.” 1. John 4:8
John Powell, a professor at Loyola University in Chicago writes about a student named Tommy in his "Theology of Faith" class:
Some twelve years ago, I stood watching my university students file into the classroom for our first session in the Theology of Faith. That was the day I first saw Tommy. My eyes and my mind both blinked. He was combing his long flaxen hair, which hung six inches below his shoulders.
It was the first time I had ever seen a boy with hair that long. I guess it was just coming into fashion then. I know in my mind that it isn't what's on your head but what's in it that counts; but on that day I was unprepared and my emotions flipped. I immediately filed Tommy under 'S' for strange, very strange.
Tommy turned out to be the "atheist in residence" in my Theology of Faith course. He constantly objected to, smirked at, or whined about the possibility of an unconditionally loving Father/God. We lived with each other in relative peace for one semester, although I admit he was, for me at times, a serious pain in the back pew.
When he came up at the end of the course to turn in his final exam, he asked in a slightly cynical tone, "Do you think I'll ever find God?"
I decided instantly on a little shock therapy. "No!" I said very emphatically.
"Oh," he responded, "I thought that was the product you were pushing."
I let him get five steps from the classroom door, then called out, "Tommy! I don't think you'll ever find Him, but I am absolutely certain that He will find you!"
He shrugged a little and left my class and my life. I felt slightly disappointed at the thought that he had missed my clever line: "He will find you!" At least I thought it was clever.
Later I heard that Tommy had graduated, and I was duly grateful. Then a sad report came. I heard Tommy had terminal cancer. Before I could search him out, he came to see me. When he walked into my office, his body was very badly wasted, and the long hair had all fallen out as a result of chemotherapy, but his eyes were bright, and his voice was firm for the first time, I believe.
"Tommy, I've thought about you so often. I hear you are sick," I blurted out.
"Oh, yes, very sick. I have cancer in both lungs. It's a matter of weeks."
“Can you talk about it, Tom?" I asked.
"Sure, what would you like to know?" he replied.
"What's it like to be only twenty-four and dying?"
"Well, it could be worse."
"Like what?"
"Well, like being fifty and having no values or ideals; like being fifty and thinking that booze, seducing women, and making money are the real 'biggies' in life."
(I began to look through my mental file cabinet under 'S' where I had filed Tommy as strange. It seems as though everybody I try to reject by classification, God sends back into my life to educate me.)
"But what I really came to see you about," Tom said, "is something you said to me on the last day of class."
(He remembered!)
He continued, "I asked you if you thought I would ever find God, and you said, 'No! ‘which surprised me. Then you said, 'But He will find you.' I thought about that a lot, even though my search for God was hardly intense at that time.
(My clever line... He thought about that a lot!)
"But when the doctors removed a lump from my groin and told me that it was malignant, that's when I got serious about locating God. And when the malignancy spread into my vital organs, I really began banging bloody fists against the bronze doors of heaven, but God did not come out. In fact, nothing happened. Did you ever try something for a long time with great effort and with no success? You get psychologically glutted; fed up with trying. And then you quit.
Well, one day I woke up, and instead of throwing a few more futile appeals over that high brick wall to a God who may or may not be there, I just quit. I decided that I didn't really care about God, about an afterlife, or anything like that. I decided to spend what time I had left doing something more profitable. I thought about you and your class, and I remembered something else you had said: 'The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to go through life and leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you had loved them.'
So, I began with the hardest one, my Dad. He was reading the newspaper when I approached him.
“Dad."
"Yes, what?" he asked without lowering the newspaper
"Dad, I would like to talk with you."
"Well, talk."
"I mean it's really important."
The newspaper came down three slow inches. "What is it?"
"Dad, I love you. I just wanted you to know that."
(Tom smiled at me and said it with obvious satisfaction, as though he felt a warm and secret joy flowing inside of him.)
"The newspaper fluttered to the floor. Then my father did two things I could never remember him ever doing before. He cried and he hugged me.
We talked all night, even though he had to go to work the next morning. It felt so good to be close to my father, to see his tears, to feel his hug, to hear him say that he loved me.
It was easier with my mother and little brother. They cried with me, too, and we hugged each other, and started saying really nice things to each other. We shared the things we had been keeping secret for so many years.
I was only sorry about one thing - that I had waited so long. Here I was, just beginning to open up to all the people I had actually been close to.
Then, one day, I turned around and God was there! He didn't come to me when I pleaded with Him. I guess I was like an animal trainer holding out a hoop; 'C'mon, jump through. C'mon, I'll give You three days, three weeks.' Apparently God does things in His own way and at His own hour. But the important thing is that He was there. He found me. You were right. He found me even after I stopped looking for Him."
"Tommy," I practically gasped, "I think you are saying something very important and much more universal than you realize. To me, at least, you are saying that the surest way to find God is not to make Him a private possession, a problem solver, or an instant consolation in time of need, but rather to open up to love. You know, the Apostle John said that.
He said: 'God is love, and anyone who lives in love is living with God and God is living in him.'
Tom, could I ask you a favor? You know, when I had you in class you were a real pain. But (laughingly) you can make it all up to me now. Would you come into my present Theology of Faith course and tell them what you have just told me? If I told them the same thing it wouldn't be half as effective as if you were to tell them."
"Ooh ... I was ready for you, but I don't know if I'm ready for your class."
"Tom, think about it. If and when you are ready, give me a call."
In a few days, Tom called, said he was ready for the class that he wanted to do that for God and for me. So we scheduled a date, but he never made it. He had another appointment, far more important than the one with me and my class.
Of course, his life was not really ended by his death, only changed. He made the great step from faith into vision. He found a life far more beautiful than the eye of man has ever seen or the ear of man has ever heard, or the mind of man has ever imagined.
Before he died, we talked one last time.
"I'm not going to make it to your class," he said.
"I know, Tom."
"Will you tell them for me? Will you...tell the whole world for me?" "I will, Tom. I'll tell them. I'll do my best."
So, to all of you who have been kind enough to hear this simple statement about love, thank you for listening. And to you, Tommy, somewhere in the sunlit, verdant hills of heaven - I told them, Tommy, as best I could.
If this story means anything to you, please pass it on to a friend or two. It is a true story and is not enhanced for publicity purposes.
With thanks, John Powell, Professor Loyola University, Chicago
I verified this story on www.truthorfiction.com ; which stated the following: “This story was written by Father John Powell; a retired professor at Loyola University in Chicago. Father Powell is advanced in years, but TruthOrFiction.com found him and talked with him. The story was fresh in his mind and he confirmed that it is true and happened in the way that he described it.”
“He that loves, knows God, for God is love.” 1. John 4:8
“As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.” - John 15:9
Author: John Powell
“He that loves, knows God, for God is love.” 1. John 4:8
John Powell, a professor at Loyola University in Chicago writes about a student named Tommy in his "Theology of Faith" class:
Some twelve years ago, I stood watching my university students file into the classroom for our first session in the Theology of Faith. That was the day I first saw Tommy. My eyes and my mind both blinked. He was combing his long flaxen hair, which hung six inches below his shoulders.
It was the first time I had ever seen a boy with hair that long. I guess it was just coming into fashion then. I know in my mind that it isn't what's on your head but what's in it that counts; but on that day I was unprepared and my emotions flipped. I immediately filed Tommy under 'S' for strange, very strange.
Tommy turned out to be the "atheist in residence" in my Theology of Faith course. He constantly objected to, smirked at, or whined about the possibility of an unconditionally loving Father/God. We lived with each other in relative peace for one semester, although I admit he was, for me at times, a serious pain in the back pew.
When he came up at the end of the course to turn in his final exam, he asked in a slightly cynical tone, "Do you think I'll ever find God?"
I decided instantly on a little shock therapy. "No!" I said very emphatically.
"Oh," he responded, "I thought that was the product you were pushing."
I let him get five steps from the classroom door, then called out, "Tommy! I don't think you'll ever find Him, but I am absolutely certain that He will find you!"
He shrugged a little and left my class and my life. I felt slightly disappointed at the thought that he had missed my clever line: "He will find you!" At least I thought it was clever.
Later I heard that Tommy had graduated, and I was duly grateful. Then a sad report came. I heard Tommy had terminal cancer. Before I could search him out, he came to see me. When he walked into my office, his body was very badly wasted, and the long hair had all fallen out as a result of chemotherapy, but his eyes were bright, and his voice was firm for the first time, I believe.
"Tommy, I've thought about you so often. I hear you are sick," I blurted out.
"Oh, yes, very sick. I have cancer in both lungs. It's a matter of weeks."
“Can you talk about it, Tom?" I asked.
"Sure, what would you like to know?" he replied.
"What's it like to be only twenty-four and dying?"
"Well, it could be worse."
"Like what?"
"Well, like being fifty and having no values or ideals; like being fifty and thinking that booze, seducing women, and making money are the real 'biggies' in life."
(I began to look through my mental file cabinet under 'S' where I had filed Tommy as strange. It seems as though everybody I try to reject by classification, God sends back into my life to educate me.)
"But what I really came to see you about," Tom said, "is something you said to me on the last day of class."
(He remembered!)
He continued, "I asked you if you thought I would ever find God, and you said, 'No! ‘which surprised me. Then you said, 'But He will find you.' I thought about that a lot, even though my search for God was hardly intense at that time.
(My clever line... He thought about that a lot!)
"But when the doctors removed a lump from my groin and told me that it was malignant, that's when I got serious about locating God. And when the malignancy spread into my vital organs, I really began banging bloody fists against the bronze doors of heaven, but God did not come out. In fact, nothing happened. Did you ever try something for a long time with great effort and with no success? You get psychologically glutted; fed up with trying. And then you quit.
Well, one day I woke up, and instead of throwing a few more futile appeals over that high brick wall to a God who may or may not be there, I just quit. I decided that I didn't really care about God, about an afterlife, or anything like that. I decided to spend what time I had left doing something more profitable. I thought about you and your class, and I remembered something else you had said: 'The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to go through life and leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you had loved them.'
So, I began with the hardest one, my Dad. He was reading the newspaper when I approached him.
“Dad."
"Yes, what?" he asked without lowering the newspaper
"Dad, I would like to talk with you."
"Well, talk."
"I mean it's really important."
The newspaper came down three slow inches. "What is it?"
"Dad, I love you. I just wanted you to know that."
(Tom smiled at me and said it with obvious satisfaction, as though he felt a warm and secret joy flowing inside of him.)
"The newspaper fluttered to the floor. Then my father did two things I could never remember him ever doing before. He cried and he hugged me.
We talked all night, even though he had to go to work the next morning. It felt so good to be close to my father, to see his tears, to feel his hug, to hear him say that he loved me.
It was easier with my mother and little brother. They cried with me, too, and we hugged each other, and started saying really nice things to each other. We shared the things we had been keeping secret for so many years.
I was only sorry about one thing - that I had waited so long. Here I was, just beginning to open up to all the people I had actually been close to.
Then, one day, I turned around and God was there! He didn't come to me when I pleaded with Him. I guess I was like an animal trainer holding out a hoop; 'C'mon, jump through. C'mon, I'll give You three days, three weeks.' Apparently God does things in His own way and at His own hour. But the important thing is that He was there. He found me. You were right. He found me even after I stopped looking for Him."
"Tommy," I practically gasped, "I think you are saying something very important and much more universal than you realize. To me, at least, you are saying that the surest way to find God is not to make Him a private possession, a problem solver, or an instant consolation in time of need, but rather to open up to love. You know, the Apostle John said that.
He said: 'God is love, and anyone who lives in love is living with God and God is living in him.'
Tom, could I ask you a favor? You know, when I had you in class you were a real pain. But (laughingly) you can make it all up to me now. Would you come into my present Theology of Faith course and tell them what you have just told me? If I told them the same thing it wouldn't be half as effective as if you were to tell them."
"Ooh ... I was ready for you, but I don't know if I'm ready for your class."
"Tom, think about it. If and when you are ready, give me a call."
In a few days, Tom called, said he was ready for the class that he wanted to do that for God and for me. So we scheduled a date, but he never made it. He had another appointment, far more important than the one with me and my class.
Of course, his life was not really ended by his death, only changed. He made the great step from faith into vision. He found a life far more beautiful than the eye of man has ever seen or the ear of man has ever heard, or the mind of man has ever imagined.
Before he died, we talked one last time.
"I'm not going to make it to your class," he said.
"I know, Tom."
"Will you tell them for me? Will you...tell the whole world for me?" "I will, Tom. I'll tell them. I'll do my best."
So, to all of you who have been kind enough to hear this simple statement about love, thank you for listening. And to you, Tommy, somewhere in the sunlit, verdant hills of heaven - I told them, Tommy, as best I could.
If this story means anything to you, please pass it on to a friend or two. It is a true story and is not enhanced for publicity purposes.
With thanks, John Powell, Professor Loyola University, Chicago
I verified this story on www.truthorfiction.com ; which stated the following: “This story was written by Father John Powell; a retired professor at Loyola University in Chicago. Father Powell is advanced in years, but TruthOrFiction.com found him and talked with him. The story was fresh in his mind and he confirmed that it is true and happened in the way that he described it.”
“He that loves, knows God, for God is love.” 1. John 4:8
“As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.” - John 15:9
Wednesday 27 January 2010
At the beginning of this month some friends, a couple from England came to spend a few days here in their holiday house. When they were here I saw them shortly, but thought I go see them later at their house and didn´t take time to stop. They waved and seemed a bit dissappointed.... Well there will be another time I thought. Whe I passed their house they were never in. Later I send them an email, no reply. Yesternight I got a reply from their son: the husband died last Saturday unexpectedly, to me at least!
Wow. If I had known.... I would have taken the time for sure. Why all this hurry....
Can he see and hear me? Where is he now? In the evening I also got an email from a very good friend, she sent me this link, worth watching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MLkdSv-KaQ
and then later this was sent to me:(nothing happens by accident!)and I feel like sharing it with you.... It is never too early, but sometimes too late....
Live A Life That Matters
Author: Unknown
Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.
So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived, at the end.
It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence, but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.
What will matter is not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you.
What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
Choose to live a life that matters.
A note from Sherry … May I also add that the only thing that really matters in the end is who you served.
A note from me... It also matters where you go after this life and where you will spend eternity.
Only one life it will soon be passed. Only what is doen for Christ, for love, will last.
“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” - Galatians 1:10
Wow. If I had known.... I would have taken the time for sure. Why all this hurry....
Can he see and hear me? Where is he now? In the evening I also got an email from a very good friend, she sent me this link, worth watching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MLkdSv-KaQ
and then later this was sent to me:(nothing happens by accident!)and I feel like sharing it with you.... It is never too early, but sometimes too late....
Live A Life That Matters
Author: Unknown
Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.
So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived, at the end.
It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence, but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.
What will matter is not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you.
What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
Choose to live a life that matters.
A note from Sherry … May I also add that the only thing that really matters in the end is who you served.
A note from me... It also matters where you go after this life and where you will spend eternity.
Only one life it will soon be passed. Only what is doen for Christ, for love, will last.
“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” - Galatians 1:10
Tuesday 26 January 2010
Did you know...
That eating every morning for one month on an empty stomach a bowl of fresh strawberries, without anything added (and then eating nothing until lunch )can heal rheumatism? A friend tried it and it worked, hmmmm yummy! No bad side effects....
One of my favorite stories, This is good....
This Is Good
The story is told of a king in Africa who had a close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life (positive or negative) and remarking, "This is good!"
One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting expedition. The friend would load and prepare the guns for the king. The friend had apparently done something wrong in preparing one of the guns, for after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off.
Examining the situation, the friend remarked as usual, "This is good!"
To which the king replied, "No, this is not good! Are you making fun of me, or what? I am minus a thumb, it hurts and is bleeding like crazy, and you say it is good? To prison you go and then you can see how ‘good’ it is," and proceeded to send his friend to jail.
About a year later, the king was hunting again in an area that he should have known to stay clear of. Cannibals captured him and took him to their village. They tied his hands, stacked some
wood, set up a stake and bound him to the stake.
As they came near to set fire to the wood, they noticed that the king was missing a thumb. Being superstitious, they never ate anyone who was less than whole. “This is a bad Omen, a bad sign, let’s get rid of him quickly!!” they said. So untying the king, they chasedt him away.
As he was happily running home he looked at his hand with the missing thumb, saying “It is good, my friend was right! This is good!”
As he returned home, he was reminded of the event that had taken his thumb and felt remorse for his treatment of his friend. He went immediately to the jail to speak with his friend.
"You were right," he said, "it was good that my thumb was blown off." And he proceeded to tell the friend all that had just happened. "And so, I am very sorry for sending you to jail for so long.
It was bad for me to do this."
"No," his friend replied, "This is good!"
"What do you mean, 'This is good'?
How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?"
"If I had not been in jail, I would have been with you and I have both thumbs…." His friend answered.
So remember, “This is good”! Whatever happens is for your good, for all , ALL things work together for good to them that love God” (Romans 8:28), even if at the moment it seems terrible what happened! So you can “be thankful for everything,” (1 Thessalonians 5:18, Ephesians 5:20 ) because you trust God, that whatever He does, it is for the better, and He doesn’t let anything happen to you, unless it is somehow good for you…. Just wait and look for the good; and you will see ….. This is good!
The story is told of a king in Africa who had a close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life (positive or negative) and remarking, "This is good!"
One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting expedition. The friend would load and prepare the guns for the king. The friend had apparently done something wrong in preparing one of the guns, for after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off.
Examining the situation, the friend remarked as usual, "This is good!"
To which the king replied, "No, this is not good! Are you making fun of me, or what? I am minus a thumb, it hurts and is bleeding like crazy, and you say it is good? To prison you go and then you can see how ‘good’ it is," and proceeded to send his friend to jail.
About a year later, the king was hunting again in an area that he should have known to stay clear of. Cannibals captured him and took him to their village. They tied his hands, stacked some
wood, set up a stake and bound him to the stake.
As they came near to set fire to the wood, they noticed that the king was missing a thumb. Being superstitious, they never ate anyone who was less than whole. “This is a bad Omen, a bad sign, let’s get rid of him quickly!!” they said. So untying the king, they chasedt him away.
As he was happily running home he looked at his hand with the missing thumb, saying “It is good, my friend was right! This is good!”
As he returned home, he was reminded of the event that had taken his thumb and felt remorse for his treatment of his friend. He went immediately to the jail to speak with his friend.
"You were right," he said, "it was good that my thumb was blown off." And he proceeded to tell the friend all that had just happened. "And so, I am very sorry for sending you to jail for so long.
It was bad for me to do this."
"No," his friend replied, "This is good!"
"What do you mean, 'This is good'?
How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?"
"If I had not been in jail, I would have been with you and I have both thumbs…." His friend answered.
So remember, “This is good”! Whatever happens is for your good, for all , ALL things work together for good to them that love God” (Romans 8:28), even if at the moment it seems terrible what happened! So you can “be thankful for everything,” (1 Thessalonians 5:18, Ephesians 5:20 ) because you trust God, that whatever He does, it is for the better, and He doesn’t let anything happen to you, unless it is somehow good for you…. Just wait and look for the good; and you will see ….. This is good!
Some very good news someone sent to me....
Our dear friend, Dr James has treated over 70 deaf people in Kolkat and Visak, India & they all got their hearing back. The Lord is doing miracles!!!!!!!!!!
Note: Dr. James is a Korean holistic/herbalist/acupuncturist Dr. who has a gift of healing for the deaf. He told us someone asked if he could help a deaf person & he said, ‘I don’t know, I’ll try’. The Lord showed him where to insert the needles. They were healed, and that was the beginning of his healing ministry. He volunteers his time and pays his own way to heal the deaf in poor countries so that he can tell them about Jesus. Christina met him and has been ministering to him and went to India with him where they are presently working with the missionaries in India who have been doing a deaf ministry there.
Prayer request: Dr James started having breathing problems & has developed a bad cough after being in a very poor island off of Bangladesh for a week called Sunderbans because of the pollution, etc. They had floods a while back and its in terrible condition. He is really sick with infected gums from his run down condition and I am worried about him. Pls pray for him, thanks.
A 71 year old Dr., (father of an Bible study member) a top heart surgeon here has not been working for 10 yrs because of hearing loss. He got his hearing back after the treatment tonight. Everyone except the 71 yr. old man were born deaf. People are coming from other cities in India now to get treated. It is absolutely MIRACULOUS and everyone is so happy!! There are parents here who keep thanking us over and over and hugging us - its amazing! Please pray for our strength, sleep and that the Lord continues to heal the deaf here.
Note: Dr. James is a Korean holistic/herbalist/acupuncturist Dr. who has a gift of healing for the deaf. He told us someone asked if he could help a deaf person & he said, ‘I don’t know, I’ll try’. The Lord showed him where to insert the needles. They were healed, and that was the beginning of his healing ministry. He volunteers his time and pays his own way to heal the deaf in poor countries so that he can tell them about Jesus. Christina met him and has been ministering to him and went to India with him where they are presently working with the missionaries in India who have been doing a deaf ministry there.
Prayer request: Dr James started having breathing problems & has developed a bad cough after being in a very poor island off of Bangladesh for a week called Sunderbans because of the pollution, etc. They had floods a while back and its in terrible condition. He is really sick with infected gums from his run down condition and I am worried about him. Pls pray for him, thanks.
A 71 year old Dr., (father of an Bible study member) a top heart surgeon here has not been working for 10 yrs because of hearing loss. He got his hearing back after the treatment tonight. Everyone except the 71 yr. old man were born deaf. People are coming from other cities in India now to get treated. It is absolutely MIRACULOUS and everyone is so happy!! There are parents here who keep thanking us over and over and hugging us - its amazing! Please pray for our strength, sleep and that the Lord continues to heal the deaf here.
This is good, one of my very favorite stories
This is good, one of my very favorite stories
This Is Good
The story is told of a king in Africa who had a close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life (positive or negative) and remarking, "This is good!"
One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting expedition. The friend would load and prepare the guns for the king. The friend had apparently done something wrong in preparing one of the guns, for after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off.
Examining the situation, the friend remarked as usual, "This is good!"
To which the king replied, "No, this is not good! Are you making fun of me, or what? I am minus a thumb, it hurts and is bleeding like crazy, and you say it is good? To prison you go and then you can see how ‘good’ it is," and proceeded to send his friend to jail.
About a year later, the king was hunting again in an area that he should have known to stay clear of. Cannibals captured him and took him to their village. They tied his hands, stacked some
wood, set up a stake and bound him to the stake.
As they came near to set fire to the wood, they noticed that the king was missing a thumb. Being superstitious, they never ate anyone who was less than whole. “This is a bad Omen, a bad sign, let’s get rid of him quickly!!” they said. So untying the king, they chasedt him away.
As he was happily running home he looked at his hand with the missing thumb, saying “It is good, my friend was right! This is good!”
As he returned home, he was reminded of the event that had taken his thumb and felt remorse for his treatment of his friend. He went immediately to the jail to speak with his friend.
"You were right," he said, "it was good that my thumb was blown off." And he proceeded to tell the friend all that had just happened. "And so, I am very sorry for sending you to jail for so long.
It was bad for me to do this."
"No," his friend replied, "This is good!"
"What do you mean, 'This is good'?
How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?"
"If I had not been in jail, I would have been with you and I have both thumbs…." His friend answered.
So remember, “This is good”! Whatever happens is for your good, for all ,
ALL things work together for good to them that love God” (Romans 8:28),
even if at the moment it seems terrible what happened! So you can
“be thankful for everything,” (1 Thessalonians 5:18, Ephesians 5:20 )
because you trust God, that whatever He does, it is for the better,
and He doesn’t let anything happen to you, unless it is somehow good for you….
Just wait and look for the good; and you will see ...
This is good!
This Is Good
The story is told of a king in Africa who had a close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life (positive or negative) and remarking, "This is good!"
One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting expedition. The friend would load and prepare the guns for the king. The friend had apparently done something wrong in preparing one of the guns, for after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off.
Examining the situation, the friend remarked as usual, "This is good!"
To which the king replied, "No, this is not good! Are you making fun of me, or what? I am minus a thumb, it hurts and is bleeding like crazy, and you say it is good? To prison you go and then you can see how ‘good’ it is," and proceeded to send his friend to jail.
About a year later, the king was hunting again in an area that he should have known to stay clear of. Cannibals captured him and took him to their village. They tied his hands, stacked some
wood, set up a stake and bound him to the stake.
As they came near to set fire to the wood, they noticed that the king was missing a thumb. Being superstitious, they never ate anyone who was less than whole. “This is a bad Omen, a bad sign, let’s get rid of him quickly!!” they said. So untying the king, they chasedt him away.
As he was happily running home he looked at his hand with the missing thumb, saying “It is good, my friend was right! This is good!”
As he returned home, he was reminded of the event that had taken his thumb and felt remorse for his treatment of his friend. He went immediately to the jail to speak with his friend.
"You were right," he said, "it was good that my thumb was blown off." And he proceeded to tell the friend all that had just happened. "And so, I am very sorry for sending you to jail for so long.
It was bad for me to do this."
"No," his friend replied, "This is good!"
"What do you mean, 'This is good'?
How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?"
"If I had not been in jail, I would have been with you and I have both thumbs…." His friend answered.
So remember, “This is good”! Whatever happens is for your good, for all ,
ALL things work together for good to them that love God” (Romans 8:28),
even if at the moment it seems terrible what happened! So you can
“be thankful for everything,” (1 Thessalonians 5:18, Ephesians 5:20 )
because you trust God, that whatever He does, it is for the better,
and He doesn’t let anything happen to you, unless it is somehow good for you….
Just wait and look for the good; and you will see ...
This is good!
"Thirst is the greatest proof that there must be water....."
Doesn´t that give you hope?
There are many wonderful words, stories, songs, pictures etc. that can give us hope and strength and courage. I will try to share as many as possible here, things that have comfortet me, made me laugh, given insight etc., so please come for more, if you like.....
Here are just a few....
Doesn´t that give you hope?
There are many wonderful words, stories, songs, pictures etc. that can give us hope and strength and courage. I will try to share as many as possible here, things that have comfortet me, made me laugh, given insight etc., so please come for more, if you like.....
Here are just a few....
"Consult not your fears, but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do."
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears the beat of a different drummer. Let him step
to the music he hears, however measured or far away." Thoreau
"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."--Barbara De Angelis
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."--Peter Marshal
"Nothing is produced, no progress is made, by being against or criticizing something. Progress, including personal success, results from being for something and doing something about it."--Ben Miller
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