Today is Saturday, September 27, 2008. Things are changing, the weather is different and so are the faces of the people that surround me. I am wondering today what is the difference, is it me that is changing or the simply the world around me.
What is change, Change is awkward -- at first. Change is measured by its impact on all who are connected to it. Change is here to stay.
Change is something that presses us out of our comfort zone. It is destiny-filtered, heart grown, faith built. Change is inequitable; not a respecter of persons. Change is for the better or for the worst, depending on where you view it. Change has an adjustment period which varies on the individual. It is uncomfortable, for changing from one state to the next upsets our control over outcomes. Change has a ripping effect on those who won’t let go. Flex is the key. Even a roller coaster ride can be fun if you know when to lean and create new balance within the change. Change is needed when all the props and practices of the past no longer work. Change is not comforted by the statement ‘just hang in there’ but with the statement ‘you can make it’. We don’t grow in retreat, but through endurance. Change isn’t fixed by crying, worrying, or mental treadmilling. Change is won by victors not victims; and that choice is ours.
Gift
What's the greatest gift you could recieved? I thought about this question today and I can't really put into words what I am feeling.
The greatest gift I could recieve is your friendship back. I give you my heart, mind, body and soul to do as it pleases you.
The greatest gift I could recieved is your love returned, and double folded.
Take your hand and place it in my heart, feel it beat after you. You are the air I breath and reason I rise. Thank you very much.
The greatest gift I could recieve is your friendship back. I give you my heart, mind, body and soul to do as it pleases you.
The greatest gift I could recieved is your love returned, and double folded.
Take your hand and place it in my heart, feel it beat after you. You are the air I breath and reason I rise. Thank you very much.
Thoughts for Today!
Today I received a Daily Devotional in the email. The following is an excerpt taken from that devotion.
Popular speaker Florence Littauer tells of being in a conference in Iowa in which an elderly and sprightly preacher had asked the women in the church to bring their vases. Selecting ten of them, he displayed them on a table on the platform, saying they represented the Ten Commandments. In his sermon, when he got to the first commandment and began preaching about the sin of violating it, he drew a huge mallet from behind the pulpit and suddenly smashed the first vase with all his might. Everyone screamed in surprise. He proceeded to do the same with the remaining nine vases. The women were tremendously upset at the loss of their vases, but no one ever forgot the breaking of the Ten Commandments. It's strange that we're so unaffected now by our society's disregard for the Ten Commandments. It doesn't shock us anymore to hear God's Name taken in vain or to hear a report that someone has cheated on his or her spouse. But we should be shocked, and we should be so aware of God's holiness that we ourselves will walk in daily obedience and faithfulness. Let's look to God in His commandments, listen to what He has to say, and try not to break the vases!
Author: Florence Littauer
When was the last time you got upset or was a offended when you or someone else broke the Ten Commandments?
How do you respond when someone takes the Lord's Name in vain? Do you walk away from conversation that does not glorify God? Its strikes me weird how we can get upset over something, for example the moving of our favorite TV show to a different hour or another channel. But when a God-conscious is removed from our society, we say it better for everybody. After all we don't want to offend our neighbor. What has happen to your God conscious? The next time you break His commandments, stop and repent there on the spot. And stand up for what's right when it comes to society, because if you don't, then everyone around you will think its okay, you really don't have to do that "whole God thing any more."
I am the audience here and I wanted to share, if you can use it please feel free.
Carl
Popular speaker Florence Littauer tells of being in a conference in Iowa in which an elderly and sprightly preacher had asked the women in the church to bring their vases. Selecting ten of them, he displayed them on a table on the platform, saying they represented the Ten Commandments. In his sermon, when he got to the first commandment and began preaching about the sin of violating it, he drew a huge mallet from behind the pulpit and suddenly smashed the first vase with all his might. Everyone screamed in surprise. He proceeded to do the same with the remaining nine vases. The women were tremendously upset at the loss of their vases, but no one ever forgot the breaking of the Ten Commandments. It's strange that we're so unaffected now by our society's disregard for the Ten Commandments. It doesn't shock us anymore to hear God's Name taken in vain or to hear a report that someone has cheated on his or her spouse. But we should be shocked, and we should be so aware of God's holiness that we ourselves will walk in daily obedience and faithfulness. Let's look to God in His commandments, listen to what He has to say, and try not to break the vases!
Author: Florence Littauer
When was the last time you got upset or was a offended when you or someone else broke the Ten Commandments?
How do you respond when someone takes the Lord's Name in vain? Do you walk away from conversation that does not glorify God? Its strikes me weird how we can get upset over something, for example the moving of our favorite TV show to a different hour or another channel. But when a God-conscious is removed from our society, we say it better for everybody. After all we don't want to offend our neighbor. What has happen to your God conscious? The next time you break His commandments, stop and repent there on the spot. And stand up for what's right when it comes to society, because if you don't, then everyone around you will think its okay, you really don't have to do that "whole God thing any more."
I am the audience here and I wanted to share, if you can use it please feel free.
Carl
Got Friends?
Friendship is an in-depth, relaxed relationship! Friends relate.
It is an in-depth relationship combining trust, support, communication, loyalty, understanding, empathy, and intimacy.
These are certainly aspects of life that all of us crave.
Being able to trust and relax with your friend is a big part of friendship.
Remember when you were young and went with a friend to her grandma's for the week-end. It was fun but when you got home, home was wonderful. Your feeling was "I'm home. I can relax now."
That's what a friendship should be.
You go out into the world and do your best. You have your ups and downs, your problems and triumphs, your fun and tribulations. You charm and you perform.
Then you come "home" to a friend. You can relax, put up your feet; you are relieved. If you still have to be charming and/or performing, it's not a relief.
Friendship is a comfy situation like home. You get home, kick off your shoes, relax and sigh, "Ahh, home."
Being able to trust and relax with your best friend is a big part of friendship. Friendships are relationships
But no one can form a friendship until he/she realizes that the basis of being friends is meeting the needs of the other person. One must be a friend to have one.
Never forget that friends relate. Relating is the basis of friendship.
Author Jan Wilson
I believe friendships are important. We all need them throughout life. Its important that we have someone that we can bleed on.
Someone once said that, "no man is an island of himself."
I find myself having a very difficult time maintaining friends, especially with males. This could be something to do with a long distance and difficult relationship with my father.
I grew up with many female friends and even my best friends where females.
Here is my question, who makes the best friend? Does males or females make the best friend? Can a male relate to a male intimately, able to bleed when he needs to? Or can this type of relationship on this level only co-exist with the opposite sex?
Καρλ Γουίλσον
It is an in-depth relationship combining trust, support, communication, loyalty, understanding, empathy, and intimacy.
These are certainly aspects of life that all of us crave.
Being able to trust and relax with your friend is a big part of friendship.
Remember when you were young and went with a friend to her grandma's for the week-end. It was fun but when you got home, home was wonderful. Your feeling was "I'm home. I can relax now."
That's what a friendship should be.
You go out into the world and do your best. You have your ups and downs, your problems and triumphs, your fun and tribulations. You charm and you perform.
Then you come "home" to a friend. You can relax, put up your feet; you are relieved. If you still have to be charming and/or performing, it's not a relief.
Friendship is a comfy situation like home. You get home, kick off your shoes, relax and sigh, "Ahh, home."
Being able to trust and relax with your best friend is a big part of friendship. Friendships are relationships
But no one can form a friendship until he/she realizes that the basis of being friends is meeting the needs of the other person. One must be a friend to have one.
Never forget that friends relate. Relating is the basis of friendship.
Author Jan Wilson
I believe friendships are important. We all need them throughout life. Its important that we have someone that we can bleed on.
Someone once said that, "no man is an island of himself."
I find myself having a very difficult time maintaining friends, especially with males. This could be something to do with a long distance and difficult relationship with my father.
I grew up with many female friends and even my best friends where females.
Here is my question, who makes the best friend? Does males or females make the best friend? Can a male relate to a male intimately, able to bleed when he needs to? Or can this type of relationship on this level only co-exist with the opposite sex?
Καρλ Γουίλσον
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