Sunday, 15. June 2008, 02:41:56
Loving father
Today is June 15, 2008, to All Father's on this blog community "Happy Father's Day"...
This dad, this earthly earthly father... looking back I find more pointers toward God in him than I realized. He was not complex, he was never remote. He was never too busy to listen to us. And though he sometimes got mad and yelled and was stern and we thought him unfair, we found out he wasn't. He was quick to forgive and he never held a grudge.
He loved us, was concerned about us, and was proud of us. He never let any of us down, not once... What more can anyone ask of a father? And if this is the nature of a good earthly father, why shouldn't the father of us all be just as easy to know and to trust?
Today, as I watched my children playing, an overwhelming sence of love rushed through my being. I knew in my heart that, without question, I would give my life to any one of them. My heart flooded with peace as I realized that my Heavenly Father loved me in that same way.
Friday, 13. June 2008, 06:55:07
priorities, Life, lesson
When things in your lives seem almost too much to handle, when 24 Hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Cups of coffee.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in Front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very Large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open Areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the Jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once More if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous "yes."
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the Empty space between the sand. The students laughed.
"Now," said the professor as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things--your family, your children, your health, your Friends and your favorite passions--and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.
The sand is everything else--the small stuff. "If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the Things that are important to you.
"Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first--the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked.
It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."
---- I inspired for this story actually so that's why I post it.
Have a happy life to everyone!
Thursday, 5. June 2008, 09:19:38
Engaged Idealist (EI)
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The engaged idealist is an extroverted, helpful personality. Others find him to be very congenial and inspiring - especially as he is always willing to see the best in the other person. His humour, his energy and his optimism attract other people. The engaged idealist is very good at communicating and is good at convincing and firing on others. That is why it is a matter of course that he often takes over the leading role in groups. This personality type often produces very charismatic persons.
The engaged idealist has an unusually strong ability to empathise. He is tolerant and generous towards others; he sometimes tends to idealise his friends. He always tries to suit everybody and wants his relationships to be harmonious and satisfactory. To achieve this, he is prepared to invest a great deal and to put his requirements last. As the engaged idealist is very considerate, there is the danger of him sacrificing and overexerting himself for others. In his job, he therefore has to be very careful not to develop a burnout syndrome.
The engaged idealist is reliable, well organised and loves structuring complicated situations. He has difficulty accepting criticism; he quickly feels hurt and misunderstood. His perfectionism also influences his love life - he looks for the perfect relationship for life. Once he has made his decision, he is a faithful, well-balanced and loving partner. However, should he get involved with the wrong person, it can happen that he allows himself to be exploited for a long time before he ends the relationship.
Adjectives which describe your typeextroverted, theoretical, emotional, planning, idealistic, committed, likable, enthusiastic, responsible, helpful, loyal, diplomatic, friendly, inspiring, caring, solicitous, optimistic, effusive, adaptable, communicative, articulate, convincing, energetic, optimistic, open, vulnerable
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Thursday, 5. June 2008, 08:35:03
Your Ice Cream Personality:
You like to think of yourself as a fairly modest person. And it's true that you don't talk yourself up... but you're also pretty happy with who you are.
You have a wild reputation, but you're not as wild as you seem. You take risks, but only measured risks.
You are a somewhat open minded person, but deep down you're fairly conservative. You don't like trying new things very much. And if you do find something new you like, you stick with it.
You are a natural multitasker. You feel alive when you're doing more than one thing at a time.
You are a serious and contemplative person. You definitely do your own thing in life.
It's fun! So visit in here>
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Thursday, 29. May 2008, 04:00:25
failure, disappoinment, helpless
This week for me is quite a bad week. I want to blow up and shout to anyone I see around but I controlled it and think that I need space for a moment and to be alone. Theres a lot of questions and thoughts running in my brain but I don't know whom I will going to ask to satisfy me and can comfort me. I look around in my room and I saw my computer and i open it and go to my blog in opera.
Goshhh... I just found myself doing this blog post and hope it will help me through this in a way. I feel really disapponted of whats happening with me, I ask to myself why I feel this way?... maybe Im just tired from my business trip that turns out to unproductive sales because of the crisis problem or because of the pressure of mining people on how to manage them to cope with this crisis. It's all mixed emotions I think of everything that sometimes you cannot control it.
Let's face it. There is never good time to have a flat tire in the rain. That's the only words I said to myself, calmdown, sit back and contemplate and realize what's the best thing to do.
When was the last time you were driving along, wearing your oldest clothes, wrench in hand, with nowhere to go and nothing to do?... I dont want to be helpless! I don't want trials to stop me or to feel that mylife has come to halt and everyone around you is continuing on his or her way, but you are stuck up and stranded, unable to get to your destination or fulfill your obligations, until we deal with the situation at hand.
Then I realize that events like these squeeze our comfort zones, causing us to feel pressure. And when the pressure is on, if we are not careful, reality can easily get blown out of proportion. So, just to avoid mental meltdown, it helps when we can step outside of our situations and stay steady and realize that in time this too shall pass.
I have learned that my strenghts are a result of my weakness, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
Thank's guys for spending little time for reading this nuts feeling i have right now... hope after this I will be okey. lol
Sunday, 11. May 2008, 06:34:15
In the presence of loving parent there is security… No voice is more reassuring, no love more unconditional and embracing… These are the wondrous attributes that Rabbis vested in God.
-Rabbi David Wolpe
When it comes to my children, all sorts of emotions run through my mind. I worry more. I hurt more. I laugh more. And the love. I didn’t know this much love was possible. It’s a love that’s different from any other.
It’s love that goes beyond understanding.
It all began for me the moment when I held my first daughter in my arms for the very first time. Once her sparkling eyes locked unto mine, there was no turning back. In that instant something magical took place-something supernatural-something spiritual. In the twinkling of an eye, I was no longer just another guy; I was now a daddy. And it’s daddies job to do something special to their kids-to protect them, provide for them, teach them, and most of all love them.
Don’t get me wrong, now. I’m not trying to pat myself on the back or anything like that. When it comes to their kids, most parent’s both moms and dads, do extraordinary things.
And though human parents make human mistakes, the unconditional love they have their children come from the source of all unconditional love-God.
All my life I have heard the words “God is love.” And even though, while growing up, I wondered about pain in the world and many question directed toward God, I always believed that God loved me. I guess it was partly due to the fact that I had loving parents and they instilled in me at an early age that God is love. It may sound simple, but every time my mother put her arms around me, I somehow felt that she was an extension of God. I knew everything was going to be alright. I felt the security that every child needed to feel. My image of God was shaped, in large part, by my image of my parents. I knew God loved me and felt it through my parents. Our view of our parents directly affects our view of God. This can be positive or negative. If our parents were loving and caring, not necessarily perfect, our view of God will be a loving one. However, if our parents were abusive and unloving, our view of God will be negatively affected.
Saturday, 10. May 2008, 04:10:19
Life
This is a hard thing. It’s because we want to control life. We want life to be painless. We don’t want to struggle. We want a “normal life.” The difficulty is that everyone’s definition of normal is different. In our materialistic world society, we are constantly bombarded with images that impose unrealistic expectations upon us. They tell us that in order to be happy we must have this thing, or live in that house, or look like a supermodel, or be married to a supermodel, or live in the suburbs with two beautiful kids and have a marriage with no problems, etc….
Many people’s image of a “normal life” is a smooth ride. Hollywood-type ideals leave us believing that a normal life is filled with excess-that if we have problems, we are abnormal or we did something to deserve them. We fall into the trap of comparing our lives to others’, often oblivious to their own personal struggles. For the most part, we see only the surface of others. But underneath the surface, most of them are struggling, too.
We find ourselves on a quest, driving toward the way we think life should be. And when adversity hits or our plans don’t pan out, we sometimes feel cheated, as if this were not normal. Which leads me to the question, “What is a normal life?”
Scott Peck wrote:
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult- once we truly understand and accept it- then life is no longer difficult.
A “normal life” is one of much adversity and struggle, plain and simple. As peck said, it’s difficult. Things happen out of our control. People sometimes choose to complain or become resentful because they believe that somehow life should not be this way- that their problems are the exception to life’s rule. How many times have we heard or stated such word as “Nothing ever comes easily for me”? - implying that others don’t experience setback as we do. Once a woman said to me, “All my life I’ve tried to do the right thing, and this is what I get.” Her perception of how life should be was different from the reality she was experiencing. Somewhere she picked up the notion that if she did “all the right things”, her life would be problem-free. This is a tragedy that engulfs our society.
We begin to transcend and experience peace only when we see life as a series of struggles and then, instead of complaining about them, we set out to solve them. Armed with this attitude, our faith, prayers and optimism become focused upon creating solutions. We cease seeing ourselves as victims of life and become conduits for giving life, regardless of the depth of our trials. This is success in its purest form.
Saturday, 10. May 2008, 04:05:44
Hope
Another truth I can tell is… There is hope! Our hope lies not in our ability to prevent adverse events from touching our lives, or in our ability to control circumstances, but rather in the fact that we can have peace during tough times and we can transcend these periods, regardless of their intensity. Transcend “as to rise above”. Transcend does not mean “eliminate”. Trials will always be a part of the human experience. They come to us in a myriad of fashions, all at different levels. Yet, the principles for transcending trials and experiencing peace within them are the same.
Tuesday, 29. April 2008, 12:47:03
Disappointment, adversity, frustration and pain: they affect us all. They are a universal language. There’s not a human being alive who hasn’t left the winds of adversity blowing hard at some time or another in his or her life.
Adversity is as much a part of the human experience as the sun rising the east and setting in the west. But the truth is, life’s ordeals are not all small stuff. Sometimes, even when we are doing the best we can, in matter of seconds, we can find ourselves in the midst of brutal struggles that leave us feeling as if life were beating us up. Accidents occur. Love ones get sick. People do things that hurt us. We make mistakes. Stock markets crash. No matter how much we plan, or prepare, or use prevention, adversity still finds a way to surprise us. Some of these misfortunes are small but frustrating, like having a flat tire in the rain on the way to an important event.
But no matter how severe your trial or how deep your pain, there is hope! You need not to be defeated by anything. Don’t sink into the mire of despair. Your life can be a beautiful experience. You can turn your adversity into opportunity, your tragedy into triumph, your hurt into happiness, your outrage into outreach, and your disappointment into reappointment.
When Life Happens
Crises bring us face-to-face with our inadequacy and our inadequacy in turn lead us to the inexhaustible sufficiency of God.
-Catherine Marshall
to be continued…
Tuesday, 29. April 2008, 12:42:06
Funny! Sometimes we struck alone by memories that can captured us without having noticed that you are on the shower, watching movie or TV or show, in the middle of conversation on the phone with friends, in the work or business meeting or even at the center of the road (oooops... dangerous). It's nice to flash back the good time and sometimes bad time memories in our life... those are memories that keep us now how to be strong and to face the reality of life.
Whatever it takes and how long we run and how tough life it maybe... it doesn't matter I know we can survive and can be of what we want. To fight life or shall we say how you can fight your life and can survive is the ultimate goal already of a human being. At least we never beg our life and our existence.
