"One Man's Dream"

Let me give all that I can, whenever I can, to all that I can. It is a simple plan for the remaining time here on this good earth. It is a cleansing of one's soul. When I have given all that I can, and loved all I that I can, it completes me.

My dream is for all people on Earth to have faith in a greater power than us. Every little thing around you is from a divine plan. Every storm in life is a lesson to be learned. Every smile and every tear is witnessed. The very moon was placed exactly in the right place in the heavens. One little shift of the moon and the oceans would overtake the land. The sun was placed exactly in the right place. One little shift of the sun and the entire world would be a desert.

Man only thinks he can control life around him. Man controls nothing. What he has tried to control, he has destroyed. I share with you these things that you already know. When we all go to bed at the end of the day no matter who you are, a king, a beggar, a president, a rich man, a poor man, a doctor, a mechanic, a teacher, a preacher, all lay their heads down and sometimes think what is this really all about? Is this all that there is? Is there more?

Yes there is more.......I believe with all of my being that there is more! This life with all it's beauty and also all it's hurting, is only but a step into the gates of forever and ever. So enjoy everything that is given to you, good and bad. And live each day like it is your last here on earth.

And remember to give something back, whenever you can. This is just my dream, what may be yours?

Find your Happiness

Above everything else. . .

Make yourself happy first. . .Words of Wisdom I have been told but to many times I have ignored.My entire life I have worked so hard to make everyone else happy,while during this time I continue to wonder why I myself always end up lost and empty.

I am always to concerned about what everyone else wants or thinks that I never really sit down and ask myself what I want or what I need.I continue to hurt myself and others while trying to please everyone which is why I have realized something needs to change.

I am writing this because there are to many people in my life that I could tell just please understand I am capable of making my own decisions and dealing with whatever the consequence may be positive or negative. This is my life not yours and I will decide what is best for me.

There are different types of people in your life, those who truly care about you and only want to see you succeed and those who want to suppress you and hold you back from greatness.

I unfortunately have many suppressors in my life, the types of friends that do not want what's best for you or what could benefit you but whatever could benefit them and could care less about your well being. It is funny how the ones who suppress are the ones who don't quite seem to have things figured out yet. . and the ones who care are the ones are know what they want in life and would be glad to see anyone else figure it out to.

I want whats best for everyone around me, I just hope my true friends want the same for me.I am going through a phase in my life where I am working so hard to achieve my dreams and work towards my goals, I am looking for happiness and I will do whatever po

ssible to attain that.

"About Faith & Objectivity"

Faith and objectivity will always be at odds. This is because a thing must be verifiable with evidence in and of itself to be objective, at the very least, and while faith can be verified with evidence, it is not in and of itself verifiable by said evidence. That is to say, faith can be backed by evidence, but faith itself implies a gap of evidence that eventually leads to the conclusion one then is able to believe in. Faith is the glue holding something used as evidence to the belief at the end of the connected dots. Faith not only implies belief, but belief as truth, in the face of things that contradict it and show otherwise with equal or more validity. This differs from a belief based on the highest available validity that is subject to learn and admit fault (most importantly admitting fault outside the boundaries of any faith), which is required of objectivity.

While faith can be defined any number of ways, let us not restrict ourselves to any one definition of it, but on the other hand let us not be so semantically open that we allow it to define all of belief, for there is a reason that it differs from other belief based words such as hope. Faith can be based on evidence, it can be based on no evidence at all, and faith can be rational or irrational, faith can be hopeful but not hope itself in that hope does not imply belief, only a wish. One has faith that their evidence, be it the bible, or the Qur'an, or the Talmud, or perhaps the Samhita, is the truth over all the others, this implies that in face of the same basic amount of evidence given by each of the other religions, the person of faith has chosen one absolutely over the others and declares it as truth, absolute truth nonetheless. One has faith that their god died and rose from the dead because a book tells them so. One has faith in 72 virgins awaiting them after death. These are the gaps in evidence that faith accounts for.

Faith is textbook subjectivity. Not only is it an explanative statement for the unknown, be it connecting dots of evidence or not, it is not repeatable or verifiable by any other means than the self through choice. Faith is rooted in the thoughts and interpretations of the self, be they rational and well formed out, even perhaps correct, it matters not for they are by definition interpreted by the self. Ask any person about religion, they will tell you of many gods, each of them, all of them perhaps good well-intentioned people. Ask any Christian about god and they will tell you of many gods, each of them, all of them perhaps good well-intentioned people. There are always idiosyncrasies in belief, most Christians even of particular denominations will pick and choose what they believe in. Now to the opposite side of the spectrum, faith from the fundamentalist, who go by the word presented them, and who lets face it are the more honest of believers and more honest and rational in their faith, because they follow to the letter the evidence they claim to be true. The problem is, be it true or not, still they choose to believe and choose to have faith over any other answer of equal or more validity, and as such they still require faith to declare it as true. The questioning has stopped, belief has set in, and other explanations are nil. Objectivity does not deny critique, nor does it deny complete disproof.

I personally have no need for faith, I use to see it as irrational and had stayed away from it based on such, but after several blogs on the subject I have come to see the many sides of it and am not so nauseated by the thought of it any more. I can see it’s healthy side, faith in oneself, faith in recovering, in persevering, these can be inspirational, beyond just a sense of hope on the matter. All to often though what I see is it’s harmful side, people declaring themselves right and others damned because of ‘x’ difference; such division really. I think it healthy to just keep moving forward and gathering, sharing, welcoming critique. I just want to keep looking for answers, instead of choosing to believe one.

"i adore you"

i love you but i can't afford you

i love you but i can't afford you

but oh my god how i adore you

try as i may i could never floor you

i love you but i can't afford you

in a world so full of strifeyou light up my fucking life

i bone up at the sound of your voice

i love it when you give me no other choice

i love you but i can't afford you

still i could never abhor you

do i talk too much or do i bore you

i love you but i can't afford you

you push me beyond my weakness

like a horse competing in the preakness

i bone up at the sound of your name

but i love to play your youthful game

i love you but i can't afford you

you've done more for me than i for you

every word that i say is true

i love you but i can't afford you

all you got to do is crack that smile

and you've spell-bounded me for a while

i bone up at the touch of your hand

and when our souls touch we understand

i love you but i can't afford you

but oh my god how i adore you

try as i may i could never floor you

i love you but i can't afford you

Learning to be stronger...

Over the years I have come to many realizations about aspects of me and my life. With all the power in my body and mind I set out with the best of intentions to be stronger, put myself first and let go of old grudges. However what is easier said than actually done. In the past month I have changed a few things...both good and bad.

There are somethings that I need to let go and that is what this blog is about. To all my friends: Thank you for being there for me when I have needed you, even though I didn't ask or request it at that time. I know many of you have your own lives to lead...but yet you take the time out to inquire about how mine is going.

I know that I don't always reciprocate the same way, but none the less your friendship doesn't escape my thoughts or appreciation.

To my Body and Mind:I write to say that I can't yo-yo anymore. I am tired of seeing plateaus!! I would like to see the gradual decline of a slope...that I am running down fast. Staying in the 250's for 6 months tested my willpower and my ability to stay sane. Finally climbing out of the 250's into the 240's was a Godsend, but I feel that familiar roller coaster of up and down happening again...I WANT IT TO STOP.

I pray that I can give myself the willpower to move on and take back my life! I NEED to take back my willpower and drive. I want to see 240 on the scale and be able to put on a size 20 and then an 18. I don't want to be FAT anymore..I just want to be comfortable in my own skin.

Learning to let go of small things at first is the greatest challenge any human being can make. This is for me and me alone...I ask my friends to keep on encouraging me and to help me become stronger through either praying for me, giving words of encouragement, or any way they see fit.

Thank you very much and I pray that each of you have a nice day.

"walk the walk"

On the second week of january, 2009, i decided to study a very special character in the old testament, enoch

Around the same time that i decided to do this study on this character, my cousin suffered a stroke and was left a vegetable. she died on january 13, 2009 at 2:30 in the morning. it is said that in such conditions, the last thing to go is our hearing. i was there when she breathed her last and i couldn't help but compare her situation to what a lot of people are going through right now

I found enoch mentioned in genesis chapter 5, verses 17-24:
and jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat enoch:
and jared lived after he begat enoch eight hundred years; and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of jared were nine hundred sixty and two years; and he died.
and enoch lived sixty an five years, and begat me-thuse-lah:
and enoch walked with GOD after he begat me-thuse-lah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

And all the days of enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
and enoch walked with GOD: and he was not: for GOD took him.
taken into context, this was an a brief explanation of enoch's life. he was a descendant of adam, had me-thuse-lah and other children, and then was taken by GOD
what is interesting here is that it was mentioned twice that enoch walked with GOD, with the second mention indicating what had happened because of his walk with GOD

A web-site that i frequently visited mentioned that enoch's walk with GOD probably meant that he was aware of GOD's presence all the time. that must also mean that he made GOD his priority and probably talked to GOD all the time

Also, after adding up the numbers, it shows adam was still alive when enoch was born. adam was probably the first pastor or preacher. and the stories he told of GOD's goodness was probably told and retold to the generations that followed (proof of it was the stories reached moses hundreds of years later. although, GOD would have supplied the missing details.)

So enoch heard first-hand of what the garden was like and he saw the longing that his ancestor had to go back to that garden (revelations show that GOD's children will go back to the new garden of eden, within the walls of the new jerusalem.) he heard of GOD's plans of the coming messiah and must have directed his way of living to GOD's purpose

Aside from the few verses in genesis, i also found enoch mentioned several times in the new testament

The first mention of enoch in the new testament was in luke 3:37:
which was the son of of ma-thusa-lah, which was the son of enoch, which was the son of jared; which was the son of ma-lele-el; which was the son of ca-inan,

Now this was an indication of the genealogy of JESUS. (even some of the present-day jews can recite their genealogy going back to adam) this is a confirmation of what genesis mentioned. what is so great about this is that it was written by luke. luke was a doctor (that's why he became the patron saint of doctors) and he was writing for a theophi-lus, who, apparently, was non-jewish. why do i say that, luke gave extra care in explaining details which means that the person being written to does not have any firsthand knowledge of the jewish way. in a sense, everything had to be examined, such as any good scientist would do

Enoch is also mentioned in hebrews. in this epistle, paul mentions the great names of the old testament and includes enoch in their company. (some of us would want to be included in such a list) but, if you look closely, the book of hebrews mentions moses, abraham, and the rest (including enoch) because he wants to teach faith
hebrews 11:5

By faith enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because GOD had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased GOD.
before enoch was translated, or taken by GOD, enoch pleased GOD. how many of us could say the same thing? oh, we do our own part, our own small way of showing HIM we love HIM. but is it an everyday, every hour, every minute, every second thing that we do, or is it only when it is convenient for us?

hebrews 11:6 says:

But without faith it is impossible to please HIM: for he that cometh to GOD must believe that HE is, and that HE is a rewarder of them that diligently seek HIM.
believing should be an every time thing for those who profess to be CHRISTIANS. not just when we think we should believe.

If the people mentioned by paul in the book of hebrews believed even before JESUS came to the scene, how much more should we believe after JESUS came into our midst? shouldn't we believe and be aware of HIS presence every day, every hour, every minute, every second of our lives?
shouldn't we be like enoch and be faithful to HIM who is our creator?

I mentioned i was with my cousin, before and when she died. how many of us are living but can't really see, feel, smell, taste and even, talk to GOD? i am sure that there are problems that we all face, but i bet enoch had his problems too. remember, man was trying to populate the world. and even though it doesn't mention how many children enoch begat, i'm sure that sibling rivalry was the same then, as it is now. providing for a large family was also a situation and continuing to walk with GOD meant that he probably asked GOD on every situation. and since he was aware of the HIS presence, he was more in tune to what GOD had to say to him

Ever wondered who it is that we hear with that small voice during decision making time? my guess? it's the HOLY SPIRIT begging us to go towards the light and into the loving arms of GOD

A lot of us are in a coma right now, a spiritual coma with our relationship with GOD. but we can still hear HIS HOLY SPIRIT guiding us. let us not be deaf to that voice and find out, too late, that we had a chance to a whole new life with HIM...

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"Trusting God With Your Relationship"

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you
-Matthew 6:33

If you are searching for the perfect mate package with your name on it, you may be surprised to discover that the Word of God has a lot to say on the subject of dating, courtship, and finding Mr. or Ms. Right. And if you are anxious or in a frenzy or frustrated about being married, you may have already started to look in the wrong places.

You don't want a spouse who isn't God's will for you. What are you looking for? God has a good plan for your life. Tall, dark, and handsome. Blonde, blue eyes, and beautiful. Please hear me on this: stop looking at the outside (the packaging)! Good looks don't come with a warranty for success and happiness!

This is how you're going to find your mate: "Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart" (Psalm 37:4). You have to start by working on your desires. When you delight in God, He's going to make your desires pure. He knows what you need much better than you do.

You have to stop seeking the idea of the person you want as a mate-and seek God. He has the perfect companion for you, and He'll bring that person to you if you will be patient and delight yourself in Him. Whether or not it seems you've waited for a long time, it doesn't take God years and years to get someone to you. He may bring your mate into your life today if you are sufficiently prepared to receive him or her.

When God is in a relationship, you know it. If you're a committed Christian, you'll also know it when God isn't involved. That girl or guy may look fabulous on the outside, but if they're full of vinegar on the inside, any happiness you thought you'd found with this person will quickly subside.

Take an inventory of your relationships. Sort through and relinquish the unhealthy ones that diminish you in any way. Fantasyland already has too many residents. God specifically instructed in His Word that Christians are not to even date unbelievers (2 Corinthians 6:14). Christians have no business going out with someone who is not a believer. If you are, you need to cut that relationship off today!

If you will focus on God and His plan and trust Him to bring your life partner to you in His perfect timing, you'll spend the rest of your lives together being grateful for the fruit of patience and the gift of wisdom.

Related Texts: Psalm 119:63; Proverbs 13:20; 22:24-25; Amos 3:3; Mathew 19:6; 1 Corinthians 7; Hebrews 13:4

A personal view on Christianity, life and humanity.

Christianity By Faith

As a child I grew up in an upper class home, with parents who believed in god. They never talked about religion with us kids and let us make up our own minds about what we wanted to believe in. I suppose that if we had asked them about the creation, about life and death, they would have told us their beliefs. But they never needed to. School took care of that. I went to a protestant school, where we from the age of 6 were taught about Christianity.

We learned the stories in the bible and about this religion on a daily basis. This would have been okay, but no one bothered telling us that this wasn’t history. No one told us this was a belief, a religion. We were taught as if this was truth. As children we believed every word the teachers said. Because they were teachers. For us the bible was just another history book that told us about the past.

The disciples were as real as Neanderthals. Jesus as real as Napoleon. So as a child I was a Christian. Because we were not told that there was someone called Darwin, that what we had learned was belief and not truth, and that the bible was nothing more than a written collection of stories about what people believed in 2000 years ago. No one told us the bible was not a history book. No one told us about a theory called evolution.

I grew up in the Netherlands, but moved to Norway at he age of 10. Completely unaware of the scientific theory of evolution that already was accepted as the truth throughout the world of science, I kept up my belief of an almighty god that had created the world in six days. I started singing in a choir, at a local parish. I loved singing and made many friends there. But the parish taught me all about

Christianity put into practice. Pressure, threats, greed, outing, narrow-mindedness and plane intolerance. I got to the point that Christians made me sick to my stomach, they were so fucking sanctimonious it was sickening. I left. To this day I still despise Christians and even hate them.

After my break with Christianity I searched for other religions that would give me the tolerance and answers I so desperately needed. I found Buddhism. It gave me peace with myself and I was a true believer for three years. But I could not let go of my hate and despise for Christians, and I had a harder and harder time believing in the idea of nirvana. Even Buddhism required some belief, and I had grown to be critical of anything that could not be proven. I left Buddhism as I started my first year of college.

And at my first day of college, in my very first lesson, I came in contact with science. Not religious make-believe, not fantasy. But cold, hard facts. At the age of 16, someone finally told me the truth. They told me about Charles Darwin and about evolution. Lightning struck, and from that moment on I was an atheist. I never looked back.



Religion is comfort, it is based on fear and superiority. Fear of what happens when we die. The idea of humans being superior of all beings on this planet. It gives comfortable answers, and allows us to make up a fantasy of eternal life. That we never will die, never will suffer again and that we all will live forever with family and friends that have died before us. It sounds more like a bedtime story for kids.

Seriously, GROW UP! What the fuck is so scary about dying? We live right now, right here. When my life is over, it is over. Why do you need to live forever? Death is a part of life. Our death gives life to others. If we were meant to live forever, then we would have lived forever. We live, give birth to a next generation and then we die.

And why do you need to feel that you are superior to others? What makes you think that you are better than any other creature on this planet? Because of our intelligence? How intelligent are we really? How do you measure that? By how many species we can extinct?

By how many forests we can cut down? By how much poison we can put into the air, the water and the earth? By how fast we can destroy the balance that enables life on this planet? By how many wars we fight? By how many atom bombs we build? How intelligent are we REALLY? Are we smarter than the predators who kill the sick, old and weak prey, so that only the strongest and healthiest animals give on their strong genes to their offspring?

Are we smarter than the earthworms who contribute to fertilizing and turning the soil all over the planet? Are we smarter than the trees, the plants or even the grass, who their entire life work to clean our air of carbon monoxide and create oxygen? Are we smarter than every creature on this planet?

Smarter than the creatures who live in balance with nature? In balance with the forces that allow them to live? Why do we have to feel that we are better than them? Why is it so hard to understand that we are all equal? To understand that we are all related and share the same planet?

To understand that we all have one thing in common, namely life. We are not only idiots, we are evil. The planet is better off without us. Many species have become extinct during our planets history. But we are the first species to have the ability to eradicate not only our own species, but every living thing on this planet.

We are even intelligent enough to understand this, and still we continue our selfish path to total extinction. That is not just stupid, that is plane evil. We are digging our own grave and stand with one foot in it. But instead of stepping out and filling up the hole, we jump in, and make it even bigger. We make it bigger and cover it so that others will fall too.

There are a few exceptions, some native peoples and tribes live in harmony with nature and everything living around them. Some individuals do too. But their attempts to fill our graves are not enough. A shovel can’t fill up graves fast enough when a million bulldozers dig new graves every second. A helping hand can’t pull a man out of a grave if he doesn’t want to be helped.

There is a big difference between intelligence and wisdom. It is sad to say, but humans have evolved towards intelligent stupidity instead of wisdom. An intelligent and hungry tribe would look at a herd of bison and invent a way of catching them. They would build a trap, or chase them off a cliff.

Then they would have plenty of food for the next months. A wise and hungry tribe would kill the oldest and youngest bulls, the oldest and youngest cows, and let the rest escape. Because they want to eat next year as well. By letting the best cows and bulls survive, they know that there will be calves born to feed them next year.

That this herd will continue existing for years to come, to feed them and their children in the future. A wise man thinks not in term of days or months, he thinks in term of years and generations. He wants his children to have a good life, his great-grandchildren to be proud of the way their great-grandfather took care of their future.

We may be intelligent, but unfortunately wisdom is not humanities strongest attribute.

"Prayers Do Miracles In Unexpected Ways"

Prayer to the Our Mighty Creator

To you God ,My creator & My friend we prayerfully lift up our hearts filled with serene confidence and devotion. Mindful of your unbounded and helpful charity to all levels of society and also of your meekness and humility of heart, we offer our petitions to you. Pour out upon our families the precious gifts of your solicitous and generous intercession; show to the people of every race and every color the paths of unity and of justice; implore from our Father in heaven the coming of his kingdom, so that through mutual benevolence in God men may increase the fruits of grace and merit the rewards of eternal life. Amen.

"About Our Belief ,Our Faith In God"

Dilemma of Contemporary Thinking About God

I can’t see my faith, but I can feel it…
I can feel it because I believe it…
Because I believe, i never give up
Because I don’t give up, miracles happen

In this dilemma, the problem is always the necessity of God in relation to the world. Our basic concepts of who God is comes from the Sacred Scriptures and philosophy. It is because of our ideas that our finite minds begin to ask, ‘Does God really exist or not? If not, we can also ask ourselves, ‘Is God a concern to us or not?’ These questions arise when we will experience sufferings, pains, chaos, miseries, and even the death of others.

In the middle ages, the Christian philosophers and theologians proved the existence of God through the human experiences, that is why we have the five ways of St. Thomas Aquinas. The common denominators were, God was the foundation of all in this world and the cause of everything because he was uncaused. Human beings and all creation depend in the mercy of God in order to exist but God does not depend on man. The classical thinkers view God outside the world. As humans who are finite beings, we must ask God to help us in our daily living in order to survive.

In the modern world and even until now, atheism rises in every part of the globe. From the time of Descartes to the twenty-first century, there are still these unconvinced people about the relationship of God with the world. The rise of poverty, famine, economic downfall, suffering everywhere, and even injustices coax human beings to think about God, whether God concerns them or just merely the product of there minds, about their dreams of someone who can solve their problems in life. As Feuerbach would say, “We are projecting God that we believe in what the best man could be.” The modern philosophers believed that the God was a threat because God was indifferent to human beings and did not pay concern to the human situations. God was not affected by the human activity and so, humans must do their best to act for themselves and for his own good, and thus excludes the idea of God- who is outside in this world. Therefore, the atheist would ask, if God really exists, ‘why are there sufferings?’ Isn’t God a pure act, uncaused, perfect and intelligent being? Therefore, God is not part of the corrupted world.

The two periods of philosophy, from the theist and atheist, there had been ideas of God and His relation in the world. We as Christians believe that ‘God-is-with-us’. In the mystery of the incarnation, God lives among us. From the medieval notion of God who is a pure act, unchanging, and different from this world, the God of Christians now lives as a human being. He became part of this world. In the atheist notion of God who is the product of man’s imaginative idea, God now becomes a reality into the human history.

Yes, we cannot deny the human sufferings and even human corruption but God lives among us in order to lift us to the eternal glory. In the person of Jesus Christ, sent by the Father, with the power of the Holy Spirit, God took the form of man in order to save us from the corporeal world. Every human experience of God is the experience of “presence.” God wills that human persons can experience by means of the Church, which continues the message and mission of Christ into the world, this “presence.” He is part of our history. Therefore, God is outside of this world yet close to us, which means he loves us even if we cannot see anymore his physical body. So the responsibility lies in each one of us because ‘God-is-with-us.’

"Walking by Faith"

"What is Faith?"

Faith in God and His Word is the most Powerful Force on the face of the earth. Christians cannot operate in today's society without Faith. You can't even be Saved or Born Again without Faith. The Scriptures tell us that without Faith we cannot please God. Faith is when we look to God and trust Him and His Word regardless of what we see in the natural. We cannot operate as the world operates because we are living in a much Higher Realm.

The Bible gives us a definition if Faith in Hebrews 11:1-3, "Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through Faith by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear".

If you read verse one in the Amplified, you find, "Now Faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, Being The Proof of Things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact is not revealed to the senses]".

Faith is when you believe God even when your circumstances tell you otherwise. We cannot be moved by what we read in the magazines and see on the Television. If you turn on the evening news, all you hear about is how bad things are. It's easy to get that doubt and unbelief in your spirit if your Faith is not strong. Sure the economy is bad, but we don't live in this worlds system. We walk and live in God's System. We choose to believe the Word rather than the world. It has got to where I have had to stop watching the news altogether. We are Blessed, we are Healed, and God will meet All of our needs according to His Riches in Glory. Remember that we Walk by Faith, not by sight. (See II Corinthians 5:7)

How do we increase our Faith? "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God" (Romans 10:17). Our Faith increases when we get into the Word and start Believing and Saying what God has said about us. The more Word that we have in us the Powerful our Faith is.

When you start feeling signs of sickness in your body, your Faith will rise up and you will Say, "Sickness, Leave in Jesus Name. The Scriptures tell me that by His stripes I Was Healed." (See Isaiah 53:5) We are not denying that sickness is there, we are simply refusing to allow it to stay. That's what Faith is. It's calling those things that be not as though they were.

If we are going to start Walking in greater Faith, we are going to have to start Talking Correctly. You ask, "Pastor, what are you saying"? I'm simply saying that we are going to have to stop saying the problem and begin to start Speaking the Word. What does the Word say about us? We are Blessed!

We are Blessed going in and we are Blessed going out! We are Healed, Delivered, Prosperous, and Highly Favored! We are Over Comers, Victors and not Victims. We are Children of the Most High! God is preparing to take us to a much High Level in our Faith. Believe it, Receive it, and Now begin to Walk in it!

In God We Trust

GOD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH , I TRUST ONLY YOU

Need not be perfect, just that it is profoundly human, who has feelings and a good heart. Who knows how to share joys and sorrows, knowing silence and talk, but mostly listening. Like that of poetry, music, the sun and the moon, you feel a great love for life, who can keep a secret.

Your friend must guess the day sad and respect them, must have an ideal and the desire to integrate into the world because it comprises the vast emptiness of the lonely, it must taste of the simplicity of children, feeling that took the penalty and lost something dear Be underestimated Quixote without Sancho.

Get a friend to walk, enjoy nature, deleitare with music, reading, feeling a human being. Get a friend to be able to count on what was of the beautiful and sad during the day, tastes, the anxieties and joys. A friend who can converse in simple things, dew, rain, stars and the memories of childhood and above all things intimate.

Find a friend who is not afraid to tell a fault and when I do, knows how to do it. Get a friend to tell you that it is worth living, a friend who believes in you. Get a friend to be aware that these are still alive. But above all, Get a friend to ride the hand of God.

A veces nos suceden situaciones en la vida que no podemos ni sabemos como afrontarlas, sin embargo, siempre existe una salida y generalmente se hace con ayuda profesional y espiritual. Escribo este mail pues creo que con mi poca experiencia puede llegarle a parejas que estan a punto de casarse o recientemente casados o quien sabe, parejas en crisis.

Mi relación con mi pareja comenzó hace años atrás. Hace mas de 10 años comenzamos a salir, sin embargo, nada serio. Al pasar del tiempo llegamos a establecer una relación de novios serios que resultó en matrimonio consensuado. Sin embargo, nuestro matrimonio no duró ni la cuarta parte de nuestra vida juntos como amigos ni como pareja.

Con esta crisis y con el tiempo he comprendido, que el matrimonio:

es escoger a una persona de corazón y hacer que funcione
no es solo estar casados, sino "querer" estar casados,
es tener una casa de dos (casa-dos), con esto me refiero a la entrada de una terceca persona a la relación
es luchar por los mismos proyectos
es comprender que existen situaciones del diario vivir que te van alejando de la pareja pero que siempre puede haber un punto de reencuentro
es reenamorarse cada mes y ver las cosas que los unieron el día de su boda es de entender que si las cosas van mal, alguno de los dos puede llegar a caer en la tentación, sin embargo, puede fortalecer la unión de la pareja
es tolerar, no aguantar
es agradecer por lo que tienes,
es querer cuidar a esa persona para toda la vida
es respetar y aprender a decir "no" para no caer en la tentación
es una promesa ante Dios y un proyecto de vida con sus altas y bajas
A pesar de las charlas prematrimoniales, nunca llegamos a saber qué es el matrimonio hasta que lo vivimos. Y la verdad es que el matrimonio es una rutina diaria, que es la causal de las separaciones, de las infidelidades y del desamor. Sin embargo, toda rutina se puede atacar de raíz, siempre y cuando los dos esten dispuestos a cambiar las cosas una vez la monotonía ha llegado.

He escuchado y hablado con personas que tienen el mismo problema de una separacion, y me sorprende cómo el matrimonio se ha deteriorado de una forma inexplicable. Existen matrimonios hoy día donde la esposa tiene un amante y donde ese amante tiene a una esposa que ya sabe y que no hace nada para separarse ni para recuperar su matrimonio. Existen matrimonios donde el esposo tiene toda una familia por fuera pero no deja a su esposa. Existen matrimonios donde el esposo "se enamora" de otra mujer y lleva dicha relación hasta acabar con su matrimonio o simplemente sigue con las dos. Existen matrimonios que son separados por una infidelidad y que dos años después se vuelven a unir de una manera más fuerte todavía. Existen matrominios que en la primera crisis o problema, dejan todo así y listo, cada uno por su lado. Existen matrimonios donde el esposo es infiel pero al pasar del tiempo se da cuanta que lo que vale la pena es su vida de casado y la que está en casa esperandolo. Pues si existen personas, y me refiero a hombres y mujeres, allá fuera que no les interesa destruir un matrimonio y que su mejor excusa es decir "ese matrimonio ya estaba acabado antes que yo llegara"......

En conclusión, el matrimonio no es fácil, y no estoy diciendo que los problemas o infidelidades de uno u otro cónyuge lo aplauda, sin embargo, a veces eso es lo que presiona un botón de CUIDADO para la pareja. Si se aman de verdad se puede superar siempre y cuando exista el arrepentimiento real. Si uno de los dos no ama, entonces no hay nada que hablar y es irreparable el dolor y la herida. Recién casados: El enamoramiento se va en menos de un año, pero está en tí buscarlo y conquistar a tu pareja una y otra vez, aunque a veces no te nazca hacerlo; los resultados pueden ser muy positivos.

Cásate con alguien que comparta contigo la mayoría de las cosas que haces (no todo), pues durante el largo camino de un matrimonio, lo que queda es una vida de compartir con esa persona de la cual te enamoraste. Busca también lo que al otro le apasiona. Si es ver deportes, acompañalo, si es bailar, bailen, si es sexo, tengan sexo, si es ver TV, vean TV, si es leer, leen los dos, si es beber, beban juntos, si es ir a misa, vayan a misa juntos, si es caminar, vayan y caminen. Y si piensas que te casaste con la persona equivocada, evita esos pensamientos y encuentra un punto de conexión con tu pareja. En mi caso, yo me casé con la persona indicada, pues el termómetro de compartir estaba a su máximo nivel, sin embargo, por alguna u otra razón ésta persona cambió. Ya sea porque consiguió a alguien más donde ahorita se siente a gusto o porque simplemente en nuestra primera crisis, desistió y se alejo. Creo en el perdón de las personas, creo en que cada vez podemos ser mejores personas, quizás al principio por exigencia de nuestra pareja, pero luego lo hacemos por nosotros mismos. Creo en una segunda oportunidad siempre y cuando valga la pena y exista un arrepentimiento.

Para terminar solo les hago saber que el matrimonio es y será como lo formamos en los primeros años, y que la rutina llega y hay que combatirla y que no hay nada seguro en esta vida por más que lo prometamos ante Dios, pues nunca me imagine pasar por esto, pero son pruebas que nos pone Dios y no podemos hacer mas nada, sólo que afrontarla. Quizás yo fallé ! pero mi pareja falló más en no enfrentar una realidad tan cruel como la rutina. Por eso, si te casaste amando y enamorado, reenamora a tu pareja cada mes, aunque a principio no veas un cambio, ella o él cambiará si de verdad te ama. Busca los detalles por muy cursis que se vean, no dejen de compartir y diganse lo que les molesta sin tener miedo de la reacción del otro. Si la situacion es insostenible solo les puedo decir..que ma~ana es otro dia y que el Sol brillara otra vez...

... There are days that are blue and calm,
with the waters warm, delicious.
... Other days are cloudy, with big storms,
but when you think the ocean is going to devour
comes a new day full of sunshine and warmth.

... Sail in the midst of this ocean.
We lanchitas small, but great.
Each boat has its helm.
In this ... you take the helm today of your life.
You know, by the grace of God,
the direction you want to follow.
You know that to reach your goal you have to go through
All-as-big storms of all types:
passion, depression, moral, economic.

However, you have the wheel in your hands.
As any sailor, you should know to handle the rudder.

In their material,
when we have
a tremendous headache,
We produce sadness, depression, etc..
Our boat starts tilted
by a simple pain.
We take a medicine and straighten out the boat.

We again feel the health standard
which leads to balanced in the physical.
Every day we have to go to rule the rudder;
we must take decisions, decisions,
to straighten out our lives.

In the moral order,
we face friendships that we drag things
not suitable for different types:
talks that harm our mind,
negative ideas for our living.
We have to take the helm of our ship
and not allow ourselves to deviate from the moral and spiritual balance.

You'll have to make decisions.
Take them with the assurance that nothing
you apart from your path, your goal.

Make mistakes and then come
our depression and our aggressiveness.

When you find people in your life aggressive
and that only the negative views of others,
discúlpalas, forgive in advance.
They are people who have failed to take the helm of his life.
We carry them alone, without guide, without goal,
relying only on themselves, on their forces.

But you took the helm of your ship and return it to God
so that you have the assurance that always comes
a safe harbor.

Happiness depends on you, only you
to make such a total surrender of your life to God,
to make your Savior and your Lord so that you have eternal life
Espiritu Santo and guide you in every step of your life, your guide to the helm.
So, live intensely the present moment.
Concentra your whole being into what you do
and fear not the future.

The lighthouse of God cares for you and protect you always!

Faith Is Our Light

A Faithful Heart

God measures your success not just by results but by the Faithfulness of your Spirit.

The worries of this life, the temptation of wealth, and many other evil desires keep the teaching from growing and producing fruit in their lives.

Would you consider someone highly successful who was conceived out of wedlock?
Who was born into a poor family? Who lost his father at an early age? Who was looked down on because of his race? Who was a simple manual laborer? Who was from a small town that was barely a dot on the map? who was scorned by the religious and political leaders of his day? Who was arrested and imprisoned? Who was executed as a criminal?

Jesus, from an obscure country and city at the edge of the greatest kingdom in the world of its day, was all those things--and yet He changed the world.

Jesus set aside all the trappings of worldly success in order to bring glory to His Heavenly Father (John 10:17).

He even warns His followers that loving Him may result in persecusion (Matthew 10:17), loss of family,and even death (Luke 21:16)

But He also assures us that there is no greater reward than doing the will of the Father in heaven (Matthew 16:27).If you are discourage with some of the results of your lablor, remember that God spells success differently than the rest of the world.

He spells it F-A-I-T-H-F-U-L-N-E-S-S.There's nothing wrong with experiencing the kind of success that the world recognizes. Paul says, "In all the work you are doing, work the best you can"(Collossians:323). That will lead to accomplishments.But if the choice before you is the applause of the people whom you call as FRIENDS, than the applause of heaven, and your loveones, only one reward is worth pursuing.

I personally tried to please everybody in everyway. I am not trying to do what is only good for me and my spirit, but what is good for most people I've met in real life and through the net.

To share something greatly changed them to be a better person is what matter most eventhough to some people look at it negatively.

Don't worry if happens... someone in your life despised, and accusing you for doing something you never did. **** That will test how strong your love, trust, and faithfulness. Working harder to prove your innocence is an indications of authenticity as person.

Don't work too hard if all your motives may results pain, sadness, and regrets, that will disbanned from your loveones. PROMISES:

God will...

...make great those who serve willingly...bless those who work hard for the welfare of his family,friends, and the needy....bless those who commit their work to him. ....NEVER BLESS THOSE WHO LOVE AND WORKED HARD FOR ANYONE'S MOTIVES TO HARM SOMEONE.

[ He even warns His followers that loving Him may result in persecusion (Matthew 10:17), loss of family,and even death (Luke 21:16)]


FRIENDS WE NEVER KNOW, BELIEVE ME, WHEN WE HAVE SUCCEEDED BEST.

Life Is Always Half Full & Half Empty

First Things First

Only one thing is important. Mary has chosen the better thing, and it will never be taken away from her. (Luke 10:42)

In the famous parable of the lost son (Luke 15:11-32), a young man rejects his father's teaching and authority. Demands his inheritance, and heads for a distant land where he squanders his financial and moral wealth. The loving father never gives up on this prodigal, and when his young son does come to his senses and ashamedly returns home, he welcomes him with open arms.

He honors him with a feast, and party, a special cloak, and a golden ring. The older brother, who was faithfully stood by his father's side this whole time, is enraged that the prodigal should receive such a welcome. The father sadly reminds this older son that you dont't have to work in a pig sty like his younger brother did to have a piggy attitude. Both sons learn about forgiveness and reconciliation from the love of their father.

In our passage, (blog: Having Mary in Matha's...) we discover that Martha much like the older brother, holds deep resentment toward a younger sibling. No, Mary is not IMMORAL and REBELLIOUS, but SHE certainly doesn't have Martha's SENSE of RESPONSIBILITY. She leaves the dishes and chores to her sister so that she can sit at Jesus' feet. WOULDN'T YOU FEEL A LITTLE RESENTFUL, TOO?

Jesus' answer to Martha's demand that HE tell MARY to get busy: "Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things. Only one thing is important. MARY has chosen the better things, and it will never be taken away from her"

Is Jesus' point that we not care for our responsibilities? Of course not. But He does remind us that the heart of our faith, our reason for living, is to LOVE and WORSHIP GOD. Nothing else comes first.

When your loveones help or gives advices to friends especially male friend, it doesn't mean she/he is unfaithful or doing immoral acts that will makes us ashamed and feel doing revenge against YOUR will... and Gods' will.

NEVER USED OTHER PEOPLE TO GET SYMPHATY AND ALLOW THEM TO HURT YOUR LOVEONES ON YOUR BEHALF...YOU DONT HAVE TO SHOW THAT YOU'RE THE BEST AND HONEST PERSON ON EARTH. SURE...GOD KNOWS THAT YOU ARE.

Remember that nobody is perfect.

FAITH.....

If you truly and honestly trust, love, and care for your love ones...whatever happens FIRST THINGS FIRST ...hurting or revenge is not a solution for reconciliation. Besides this people you're using are just like a VIRUS designed to corrupt all the programs and hardworked files that made you suffered from hunger, restless, and sleepless nights just to PROTECT them and stored in Your HEART safely as your documents...FOREVER.

The saddest part, even how much you tried hard to retrieve those corrupted files and documents...will a super anti-virus 100% guaranteed to helps you restored those lovedwork documents? I HOPE THEY CAN.

Put this in mind...Just like human BRAIN and HEART...Once damaged there can no possible way to restore it.

PROMISES: God will provide your needs, give your heart's desires. Take on your burdens.And bring you delight in him.

FRIENDS THE STATEMENTS ABOVE ARE NOT TAKEN FROM ANY ARTICLES OR BLOGS IN ANY WEBSITEs. Its purely coming from my HEART.

Thank you so much for reading my blogs...and being a friend. God bless us all!

Dream To Live

Dream To Live Because Dreams Is Our Road To Success ...

What actually is a dream? Is it important? Do they have impact on one's life? What would be a life without dreams?

Dreams are nothing but one's expectations, innovations and also believed to be the means in which we communicate with the Almighty. Life without dreams is same as a body without the soul. Dreams play a vital role in one's life. You ask me how?

1. Dreams as expectations:

Consider a small boy of 7 yrs, he dreams to become the first in the class. So, he works very hard and excels and proves to be the first in the class. If haden't he dreamt, would he achieve, would he gather courage and strength to continue his work to become the best.

2. Dream as innovation:

If there wasn't dream, we'd be still in the stone-age!!! Everything we use today, was some day, in the past one's innovation which had occured through his dream.

3. Dream to communicate with Almighty:

All of us are sent to earth with a purpose. Almighty, comes in dreams and guides us. If we've forgotten something or deviate from the Almighty, then He comes and puts you back on track.

Dreams play a vital role in one's life. Its in our hands not to let go off our dreams but make them in our reality. That's where the beauty of the game lies. If dreams are not realised, then their purpose is not served. Hence dream and not just that, make them your reality.

Think!!!Deside!!!Share!!!

Enligthen your self and enligthen others

"You Can Be Blind But Faith Will Lead You"

Hold On,In Your Faith...

Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

From the very time the sunlight touch your face;
The angels brought to you gods gift of beauty and grace.
And within you tiny hands was placed an enchanted key;
The key to the heart of your true love, who turned out to be me.
Your were raised in a rough area, yet you continued to be a pearl;
Tested by man after man until your real love could enter your world. Never did you give up, the quest remained fresh in your mind;
Your search for the man that would love you and treat you so kind.
Now that we together our to hearts have become one;
I will be your moon and truly are my glistening sun.

From the first day the moon light grace his kind soul;
It was apparent to the world that this man would be a sight to behold.

A protector, a provider, strong, gentle and kind;
Seeking out the one who held the key to his heart, soul, and mind.
Never was he tarnished by those who treated him bad;
Raised to be a good man by his mother, he never had a dad.
With love in his heart so pure, God's will finally came to be;
He discovered the sunlight, that held the moon's heart key.
And now they have united, there is nothing anyone one can say;
The world has finally united the night with the day.
Nasir (Flex Writer)

What if we could choose our own destiny? What if we knew what lies behind every decision we make? Would we be satisfied with our destinations?

"Belief Is Not Based On Religion But By Faith In God"

Being a Christian does not mean going to church.
You don’t go to church because someone want you to do so

You don’t go to church because u wanna please someone in order to get a favour.
But Christianity is a thing of the mind, it is from the heart and it requires personal decision.

You are a Christian because you wanna do so, because you wanna serve God.

You are a Christian because you believe in Him and in the power of his might, to deliver you, to protect you and to give hope and purpose in life to live.

You are Christian cos you believe in the power of His resurrection, in His ability and power to save you.

So you are not a Christian by your attendance in church activities
You are not a Christian because you were given a Christian name by your parent.
You are not a Christian because somebody want you to.

But being a Christian is different bull game.

What Is God's Plan for You?

Reflections on God's purpose in their lives.

What's God's purpose for my life? It's a question most of us have wrestled with at some time or another.- usually when we are facing a major transition in our lives.In the Fox Faith DVD release "Moondance Alexander", misfit teen Moondance begins to find purpose in her life when she befriends a horse named Checkers and his rough-around-the-edges owner, Dante.

As Moondance begins to work with Checkers daily, Moondance begins to wonder if she and the Pinto have what it takes to actually compete in a prestigious equestrian event and win against all odds.Beliefnet asked our readers to describe a time when they tried to discern God's plan for their lives. Some readers believe God has shown them very clearly the direction for their lives, while others believe God doesn't always speak directly or control the paths our lives take.

Charting a New Direction

When I was in seminary I had a professor propose that among God's traits is omni-competence, that is the ability to deal with what is happening in spite of plans. I prefer that over knowing there is some pre-destined course (this may be why I also don't use a gps thing). I believe thoroughly that God trusts us to set out on our own and is with us as we make bad and good choices. Conversion happens when our path and God's converge, and we head off in a new, untried direction.The greatest quest is one where you set out not knowing for what you look, where you will go to find it, or who might help or hinder you along the way. Open mind, open heart, open possibiities is the way to go.

Listening to A Still, Small Voice

My real spiritual journey started in 1998 and hasn't stopped yet on this journey I call life. I remember feeling lost and broken and then I had this strange encounter with [these] words:

"You are not a broken winged sparrow, but an Eagle ready to soar."I love to think it was divine intervention that spoke out to me that night, since then I have been one to turn inward and reflect and to self love myself enough to continue this journey on my path of enlightment...I find myself growing spiritually each day, and never doubt it.

A Spiritual Voyage

In 1996, while on a sailboat trip across the Pacific, I began picking up the strangest feelings - feelings I had no way of understanding. Then we reached Fiji. From the onset of sailing along the shoreline, and throughout what ended up being an extended stay there, bizarre, what some would call paranormal experiences, literally blew me away. I came home thinking I was ready for a mental hospital and the white coats were coming. Fortunately, I finally confided in a friend who told me I'd had a spiritual awakening.

Where Growth Comes From

I find it hard to believe that God has a detailed plan for our lives. It seems to me that "God has a plan for my life" gives us an excuse for failure and someone to blame when life gets out of control.I believe that there is so much more beauty than ugly in our world and any number of life choices will bring us joy and growth. I believe that growth comes from exploring many possibilities and joy comes from making the best of those possibilities. So often our choices are NOT between "two evils" but rather between "two wonderful blessings."

Still Waiting...

Today my mind is clear and I feel great. I have trusted God and obeyed Him and I have not been disappointed. I have always felt that God has something GREAT for me to do while on this earth. Over the years, I have searched for what this great task might be. It wasn't time for me to know, yet.

I still do not know exactly what this great task is, but God spoke to me a couple of months ago. He was very clear telling me that if I obeyed him and made a specific change in my life, he would reveal my great purpose. I am at peace, awaiting his call.

Answering A (Complicated) Call

I am approaching one year since I officially made my United Methodist Conference aware that I am wanting to travel down the road of discernment and candidacy toward becoming an ordained pastor.A year ago, it was very easy to put this at the top of my list and go wherever God leads me. However, almost 7 months ago God sent a beautiful woman into my life who I had know in high school. She and I have been dating since then and I have come to love her and her three children.

There are so many complications: attending seminary while raising a family and fostering a new marriage, the itinerant nature of how Methodist pastors are placed in churches, the financial implications of attending seminary, and the list goes on.I am very torn right now. I feel called to the ministry and to marriage and family life. I know that thousands of people have done this before me; but I haven't done it myself.