forgive and forget

Forgive and forget

To forgive your own self – almost the ultimate miracle of healing

But, how can you pull it off?

The first thing you need is honesty – there is no way to forgive
yourself wthout it.

You also need courage. (Candour = A mind ready to forego Fakery and to
face facts.

Forgiving yourself is love's ultimate daring.

"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"

Forgiving ourselves for one thing at a time.

To confirm your courageous act of

SELF-FORGIVENESS, with a reckless act of love.

What happens when you finally do forgive yourself?

When you forgive yourself, you rewrite your Script.

You set a prisioner free, but you discover that the real prisioner was
yourself.

That you should dare to heal yourself by this simple act is

a signal to the world that Gods love is a power within you.

interesting quotes

Interesting Quotes

"Better put a strong fence around the top of the cliff than an
ambulance down in the valley. Joseph Maligns

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment there are only
consequences."-Robert B. Ingress

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood" - Marie
Curie

False- Evidence- Appearing- Real- From Margie Dec.1995

tit-bits of wise sayings

Tit-bits of wise sayings

All these phases are a combined effort on both our parts
Health does not just happen health is a result of living, thinking,
and doing the right things

look at source -who is promoting it?

Your parents write on the slate of who you are
"For every disease we know God allows a herb to grow"

a man for all seasons

A Man For All Seasons,

A movie based on King Henry the V111 wanting a divorce from his wife Catherine.

The king seeking  support from  Sir Thomas Moore, demands that the clergy denounce the Pope, and to name him the head of the Church of England.

Cromwell frames More, forces him to resign as Chancellor, eventually More is brought to trial, found guilty of treason, and is beheaded.

A movie well worth seeing by all. It was recommended to me by a brother, who I happen to love in Christ, so I borrowed it, and this is what I was able to glean from it's content, and will now like to share what it provoked in me..

There was some interesting dialogue in this man made production, supposedly based on the words of  Sir Thomas More.

Sir Thomas Moore had a strong faith in God, speaking to his friend on the subject of courage, he mentions that God is love right through.

His friend Howard the Duke of Norfolk, was trying to encourage him to give in to the king's request, pointing out to More that he was a lawyer, the son of a lawyer, and that all such of the influential society had given in to the kings' desires, except More, to which More replied

"I will not give in, not my pride, you are a fool, what do you value?  you will go before your maker ill conditioned and you will think that somewhere back along your pedigree….

He told his daughter that" God made the angels to show him splendor, animals for innocence, plants for simplicity. Man he made to serve him with-in the tangles of his mind"

After a corrupt court hearing he was charged with high treason and put in prison.

 Silence gives consent was his  defense.

A dialog with the 7^th commission to inquire into the case by his majesty council, opened with this statement, 

Sir Thomas More have you anything to say ?

After some dialogue and accusations, Howard the Duke of  Norfolk who was also on this committee asked him to sign a document for fellowship, to which More replied "when we die and you are sent to heaven to do your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine would you come with me for fellowship?

The last time he saw his wife and daughter while in prison, they were trying to convince him to give in to the king's request he tried to explain to them the principles of his conviction,   "God knows the thoughts of the heart" 

When a man takes an oath he is holding his own self in his hands like water, and if he opens his fingers then he needn't hope to find himself again.

At his execution, he was allowed a brief statement and said  "I do no harm, I say no harm, I think no harm, I die God's servant" are you sure of this? he was asked and replied "He will not refuse one who is so good"  "I believe that we hold our future in our hands yours and mine.

When Our lord Jesus returns he would find us in a state of disobedience towards him, on many counts one being not living peacefully with each other, not being one with him, like he is one with the Father, and Jesus did ask the question when I return will I find faith?

I must add that Sir Thomas More was Catholic, but we are the CHOSEN children of God.

 

with much love your sister in Christ

 

It may seem absurd to believe that a "primitive" culture in the Himalaya has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our search for a future that works keeps spiraling back to an ancient connection between ourselves and the earth , an interconnectedness that ancient cultures have never abandoned.

 

by Helen Norberg-Hod

 

There is a candle in your heart, ready   to be kindled

There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel It, don't you?      --Rumi

 

Kitchen privileges Mary Higgins Clark

 

I wonder if any adult-parent or teacher-realizes that young people never forgive or forget being humiliated

 

"Write about what you know"

 Take a dramatic situation, something that sticks in your mind, something that happened to you or to someone you know, maybe some-thing you read in the paper that intrigued you.

Ask yourself two questions, "suppose? and 'What if? and turn that situation into fiction

HIS was advice that I am still following although I've added one more question: why? There has to be a believable motive for the crime.

If there are five people who might have  committed a murder, only one of them would have been vengeful enough, jealous enough ,psychotic enough to go over the line and take a life the compelling opening paragraph the problem, the secondary but related problem the three downward steps, the climax the denouement. "star thinking about writing your short story he warned 3,500 words + Florence Aadland's book  Portrait of a Patriot

 

WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN'

Have I got a story for you?

Have I got a story for you?     I am not asking, I am telling you… with enthusiasm…           

Have I got a story for you!!!   With an exclamation mark at the end of the sentence.                       

Have any of you seen the movie Schindler’s list?

Do you think it was true story… that it really happened?

A few years ago I attended a function given by Bridges for Peace,

A Christian, organization, in support of the nation of Israel.

The guest speaker was an Israeli diplomat stationed in Washington.

He told us about the story of how the account of what Oskar Schindler did during the last world war came to be written and eventually made into a movie.

He did an excellent job with a certain amount of emotion. You see he was a beneficiary of Schindler’s good deed.

 Both of his parents had survived the holocaust because of Schindler

They were part of the lucky ones to have landed in his factory.

Leopold Pfefferberg, a Polish Jew was one of the fortunate concentration camp inmates who ended up in Oskar Schindler’s factory in Brinnlitz in 1944.

He was one of the 1200 Jews who survived the war because of Schindler.

He promised that he would make him a household word, although he did not know how he would go about it.

He changed his name to Paul Page and immigrated to the States, where he operated a leather goods store in Beverly Hills.

For almost forty years he cornered every writer who came in to his store with…

“Have I got a story for you!”

Don’t forget this is not a question! It is an exclamation, in order to tell them about

Mr. Schindler, a German industrialist, who saved his life and those of 1200 other Jews during the Second World War.

No one was interested until October of 1980 when Australian novelist,

Thomas Kenally walked into his store to have a brief case replaced.

Mr. Kenally fell in love with the story in a way that is quite rare, as he stated.

He armed himself with hundreds of names and traveled to Israel, to check it out.

The book Schindler’s list was published in 1982 and was dedicated to “the memory of Oskar Schindler, and to Leopold Pfefferberg who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written.

He later prompted the making of the movie.

Through a customer, he arranged a meeting with director Steven Spielberg, who agreed to direct it based on the book.

He told him it would take a decade to reach the screen. He wasn’t satisfied and badgered Speilberg with weekly telephone calls telling him to stop playing around with dinosaurs; that he would get an Oscar for Oskar. It got seven Oscars and best movie.

Paul Page had a passion to tell this story for four decades, and did so on every occasion when he got the opportunity.

Here was a man who had tasted life in a concentration camp and knew what the eventual fate was.

His life and that of his wife was saved all because of Schindler and he was so grateful that he had a burning desire to tell it to everyone so that eventually millions would know who had saved him and Twelve hundred others and how he had done it.

Have we got a story to tell!!! ….. I am not asking…. I am stating

Today countless millions of people celebrate the resurrection one of the most important events in history, so unlike Schindler’s children who were saved and lived for another 10, 20, or even 70 years…. then died.

We have the hope of the resurrection and eternal life. Christ is the first fruit and we too will follow. So we should be telling our story with that much more Zeal and enthusiasm.

We are talking about living eternally with a quality of life that we can only try to comprehend.

A life, Without sorrow, Without pain, Without fear. There will be no blind people, or deaf or dumb or lame or handicapped, no Crime, everything we do, say, or think will Glorify God. There will be no more death. God’s purpose for his creation will have been fulfilled…. Every thing on this earth will bring Him Glory.  We will share in His nature.

Have we got a story to!! tell

 Like Paul Page, do we make use of every opportunity we get to boldly proclaim our good story, of how we have been saved and the good news of the Kingdom, which is coming?

And the Glory or Righteousness, which will fill this earth?

Do we feel that we are not equipped? We should leave it up to others who are better able to recall bible passages to reinforce what they are saying?

Do we feel that we are not good enough? That we should be living better lives so our words would have that much more force?

Do we feel that we would stick out like a sore thumb in telling people our story in a society which is more or less Godless?

Jesus has warned us about the consequences of NOT Glorifying him.

Luke: 9:26   “Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his father’s--- and of the holy angels.”

The apostle Paul was certainly not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

The one, who zealously persecuted those who had believed on Jesus, when he realized that Jesus, the one whom they had put to death, was the Messiah, did a complete one hundred and eighty degree turn.

Whereas he was putting people to death before, now preached Jesus and his resurrection, knowing that his life was in danger each day for doing so.

In setting the example he declared: Rom. 1:16 : “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believed; to the Jew first and also the Greek.”

How could others have this opportunity unless they were told. And whose responsibility is it to do the telling?

He further states: Rom. 13-15 :  “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord (Jesus) shall be saved.     Then he asks the question…..

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of him they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written, How, beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”

Shouldn’t we want to have beautiful feet?

One of Jesus’ last commands was to go into all the  world  and preach the gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15) It was initially given to the apostles but it is equally applicable, to the best of our ability, to me and to you.

This is seen throughout the pages of scripture.

Take for instance, Job. With all that had happened to him, all the ways in which he was afflicted, all the sorrow he experienced, he never turned his back on God. He continuously proclaimed Him, His existence, and the confidence he had in Him.

His famous words have been sung countless thousands of times in Handel’s Messiah

“I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.”

The woman of Samaria at Jacob’s well, Whom Jesus asked for a drink of water.

She was looking forward to the coming of the Messiah and when she realized that Jesus was he, she left her water pot, went back to the city, and began to tell everyone to come and see him. As a result of her testimony many Samaritans believed. And when others saw and heard Jesus himself many more believed on him.

Because, of what she did. She did not hide it. Jesus saw through her and told her,

her entire past, which was not very pleasant. She was not ashamed.

She was so happy that she had found the messiah and what she knew he would do, that she could not spare a moment to go and share the good news with those who were willing to listen.

From looking at a house you can get an idea about the people who live in it.

It might be well kept. Not run down. Clean. Well painted. The yard might be well kept. Clean. No trash around. Plants or shrubs might be pruned and healthy looking. As you step into the house you can get further indication of what they are like if it is clean and tidy. Not littered. There is further indication from the books lying around. The music been listened to. The television program being view, so from the house, the outward appearance, you can get a feel about the people who dwell in there.

We are exhorted to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly in all wisdom;

Just like a house how people can tell what sort of person lives in it, if Christ is dwelling in us, people should be able to see his personality, his character, in us, and so know what sort of person we are.

The quotation continues: Teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord. (Col. 3:16)

The word of Christ has to dwell in our hearts. The engrafted word, the truth about Christ should be so embedded in us so that we would constantly want to teach and admonish each other… with grace. (In the right spirit) So this telling of our story isn’t to be directed to unbelievers only.

Again we are instructed to consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another: and so much the more as you see the day approaching. (Heb. 10:24-25)

Here again the zeal of this great story, which we have to tell, is to overflow into our midst whereby we will encourage each other all the time. It is a two way street… we have to encourage each other back and forth. It is necessary for our mutual benefit.

The Apostle Peter (1 Peter 3:15) tells us: Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:  What does sanctify mean?  To Glorify to recognize his glorious perfection:  His greatness… His justice… His loving kindness… His patience.

To recognize means, to do so in word and in deed, and treat Him with due awe.

And because he is ever present, he always knows what we are up to this should be a way of life. If He is in our hearts, dwelling in us, like the house we mentioned, others will see Him in us.

Our efforts will be authentic and bear fruit.

It sounds like a big order, but each and every one of us has the ability to do it in his or her own way.

Because of the knowledge we have based on scripture and the understanding which we have of Jesus.

And so we should be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us with meekness and fear.

And even if they don’t ask we should always look for an opportunity to do so.

Jesus, of course is always the perfect example. During his three and a half years of public ministry. He constantly, for long hours each day, without rest, preached the Gospel, the Good News, of the Kingdom of God.

The Kingdom, which would be established on this earth, under his ruler ship when eventually every thing will glorify the almighty God.

When God will be all in all. And His plan for this earth would have been fulfilled.

What a story we have to tell!!