If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
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I know with every fiber of my being that the healing presence of God is flowing throughout my entire being, soothing my emotions and healing my body. I am whole and well, for I am one with the healing presence of God.
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets; So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it...if it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy, they just promised that it would be worth it.
I AM MY BROTHER's KEEPER
"I Am My Borther's Keeper" - it is Mel Avila's great idea and I'd like to participate.
Thank you Mel ! I Am My Brother's Keeper!
Cain committed the world's first murder by killing his brother Abel. When God confronted Cain about his brother's whereabout, he gave this classic remark, "Why, am I my brothers's keeper?" Throughout all the ages, man carried this same cavalier attitude towards his fellowmen. He always turned a blind eye on the sufferings of others and we could almost surmise that in his mind, he always carry the same answer that Cain gave to God- "Why, am I my brother's keeper?"
Now, is the time to reverse this decadent attitude of man towards his fellowmen. Instead, let us show our concern and care for the least of our brethren by declaring these words:
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. His pain is my pain. His joy is my joy. His sorrow is my sorrow. His happiness is my happiness. His hunger is my hunger. His deprivation is my deprivation. His ignorance is my ignorance. His poverty is my poverty. His sickness is my sickness. His struggles are my struggles. His loneliness is my loneliness. His isolation is my isolation. His imprisonment is my imprisonment. His tortures are my tortures. His agonies are my agonies. His search for truth is my search for truth. His cry for freedom is my cry for freedom. His quest for salvation is my quest for salvation.
I cannot just sit here and mind my own business oblivious to what's happening to my brother. I cannot keep a blind eye to his cry for deliverance. I will make a commitment right here and now that henceforth, I will be my brother's keeper and I will do everything in my power to help him in every way I can. So help me God. Signed this day and attested by me.
Please copy this manifesto and affix your signature, and post or send it to your friends. Send me a copy of your post or email so I can consolidate the complete manifesto. Thank you so much. God bless us all. - Mel Avila.
Original Faith - Whether you're an atheist or a believer, this book may change your life.
"Be the one that the world is looking for" - Mahatma Gandhi.
Last week I received Paul's book "Original Faith" from Amazon.com. / I like Amazon/. I waited for this book for a long time and I was sure that it will be a great book for me. But I can tell you that this book is much more than I expected.
"The first step in learning any language is listening. Than comes speaking" - Paul Martin
From first words I knew that this book was for me. I love your book Paul! I am truly thankful! Your book becomes mysecond Bible, my Daily Bread for my soul.
Paul is a wonderful man, with great wisdom that he shares in such a gentle way in his "Original Faith". I have learned from his book more and I still have much that he can show me. What Paul said about love: "In love, our perception of the worth-in-being of others is so emphatic and assured that when we become conscious enough of it, we find ourself demanded to conform to love's perceptions more powerfully than we are demanded to conform even to far most blatant realities and truths. We will dedicate ourself to our families and friends even in times of great trouble. We will risk death or torture for the lives of others"...
Paul, you are truly an inspiration to many of us. Keep shining your brilliant job! May your days keep getting better and your health stay strong! glitter-graphics.com
If you know what it means -writing and editing first book, and in Paul's situation/he has a big health problem/ please visit him and give him your support.
"There is something else, some other way of Knowing, some deeper part of our Being, that knows we are not in Grief, that we knows we are in Eternity; that sings out of that - that's the Mystery that cannot be said..."
Please tell your friends and family who can read Hindi to support and also people who would love to read Hindi- can also support this book :) and the kids. http://www.dawnanddusk.org/
Author of this beautiful book, my dear friend from India said: "As I have said this is my dream and publishing this book not only gives me an opportunity to give some thing back to the community but also fulfills my dream to help children".
Congratulations Dawn! I'm so happy that your dreams realized!
Dawn said: Yes 20% of the amount that I get from this book will be given to an Orphanage “International Child Welfare Service” in Chennai, India. They have many programs and one of them is called as “Dawn and Dusk Home, A Home for the HIV+ children”, - those kids who were born with it not because of their fault.
Daily Om We all have days when it feels like the world is against us or that the chaos we are experiencing will never end. One negative circumstance seems to lead to another. You may wonder, on a bad day, whether anything in your life will ever go right again. But a bad day, like any other day, can be a gift. Having a bad day can show you that it is time to slow down, change course, or lighten up. A bad day can help you glean wisdom you might otherwise have overlooked or discounted. Bad days can certainly cause you to experience uncomfortable feelings you would prefer to avoid, yet a bad day may also give you a potent means to learn about yourself.
You may consider a bad day to be one where you have missed an important meeting because your car stalled or the dryer broke or you received a piece of very bad news earlier in the morning. Multiple misfortunes that take place, one after the other, can leave us feeling vulnerable and intensely cognizant of our fragility. Although bad days can only have a long-term negative effect on us if we let them. It is better to ask yourself what you can learn from these kinds of days. The state of your bad day may be an indicator that you need to stay in and hibernate or let go of your growing negativity.
Bad days contribute to the people we become. Though we may feel discouraged and distressed on our bad days, a bad day can teach us patience and perseverance. It is important to remember that your attitude drives your destiny and that one negative experience does not have to be the beginning of an ongoing stroke of bad luck. A bad day is memorable because it is one day among many good days. Otherwise, we would not even bother to acknowledge it as a bad day. Know, too, that everybody has bad days. You are not alone, the world is not against you. Tomorrow is a brand new day, greet it with love and watch it unfold into perhaps, a better day.
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Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; when there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand, to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
He is known as the patron saint of animals, birds, and the environment, and it is customary for Catholic churches to hold ceremonies honoring animals around his feast day of October 4.
The thoughtful inspiration of the Daily Word message is here: Dayily Word
God’s spirit of life and renewal is active within my loved ones now. I picture those I am praying for being blessed by each one of my life-affirming thoughts and prayers. “Dear God, I give thanks that Your spirit of life and renewal is active within my loved ones now. Whatever the circumstances or conditions may be, I know that healing is taking place within each person. I am partnering with You and with them in affirming their health and vitality. “I will continue to pray as I move through this day. Each thought of my loved ones is a prayer of faith, and each prayer is an AFFIRMATION of their total well-being. “Having prayed for the well-being of others, I am refreshed. The thoughts I think and prayers I say for others are returning to bless me. Thank You, God.” “And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.”—Job 42:10
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Prayer Request
Please, those of you that have faith, remember Kevinek in your prayers! Kevinek sining...
Kevinek as more my friends know is seriously sick. It is leukemia. After 5 months of chemotherapy treatment his parents decided to break off chemotreatment. It was a very hard decision. Nobody knows what to do. I think that they did the best. This week's post I dedicate to PRAYER for Kevinek
Please, pray, send positive thoughts and energy. He really needs your prayers!
THANKS!
This picture is from Nasra: (click-see larger image)
Mel's daughter Heidi (the youngest kid blogging): http://wonderfulworldofprincessheidi.blogspot.com/ and Kevin and Kyle - my lovely grandsons. And very fabulous cat Azer. Kids like to play with such sweet Cat.
Today is my birthday. I'd like to post today in a different way. The time goes forward very fast and every year I am .... younger, hahaha. "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." Lucille Ball
My age is not a problem for me and it is not a secret. I was born many, many years ago and it was Perfect. It hapened on December 22nd, 1948. I love this date!
From New Year I'd like to try to post the new blog and it will be about..."Staying Young". I'd like to be young (healthy and strong) until to the end and I think You too.
"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old." ......... James A. Garfield
Today as I said my post is different than usual. Today I want to dance with my blogger friends. (hope you too). Enought words, start to dance. Please take it easy, don't be too serious this day, and laugh, laugh ... it is the special funny day.
Today I'd like to express my gratitude and love to my blogging friends. I feel that We Are A Big Lovely Blogger Family! Do you feel that? The truth is, we are all different and we all must learn to appreciate our differences. Certainly, we always learn from each other. Just be yourself! Be who you are! You are Special!
I'd like to give You this Award.
This Award is for You... and You... and You... for ALL my blogging friends.
Do you know what type of food does an emotional eater crave?
-Protein ? -Fat ? -Carbohydrate ?
Whatch this very short, but interesting video and try to answer:
Daily Video - Emotional eating ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In times of stress, Lenore turned to food as her best friend. She wasn't alone - experts estimate that up to 75% of overeating is tied to emotional needs. I'm sure that your answer is correct. Wishing you a wonderful weekend! ******************************** VegTV+Recipes (not only recipes- worth to see)
THE MAGNIFICENT SMOOTHIE with FLOWERS.
You need Personal Blender ____________ I have something magnificent to share with you for the weekend. It is easy to make (I don't like to spend much time in kitchen).
This is a recipe I tried out from the fantastic woman
With her permission : _______________ Dazzling Daylight Flower Smoothe from Kristen Organic edible flowers are not just for salads and garnish. I love using them in smoothies, too! Did you know that organic edible flowers are rich in nectar and pollen (studies have shown pollen to be nutritious with minerals and vitamins). Roses, especially rose hips, are very high in vitamin C. Dandelionblossoms (and yellow flowers, in general) have plenty of vitamin A, while the leaves are loaded with iron, calcium, phosophorous and vitamins A and C. Marigoldsand Nasturtium have vitamin C. I made a magnificent smoothie from fresh organic peaches and edible flowers. You definitely want to try this.
Yield 3 cups
2 large white peaches, pitted Juice of 1 lemon 1 cup organic edible flowers
Blend the peaches and lemon juice until smooth. Add the flowers and pulse briefly. You want to have gorgeous flecks of colors showing. Enjoy served in a sassy wine glass or goblet. _______________________________ Thanks Kristen for this wonderful, healthy and delicious recipe and the concept!
********************************************** Keep enjoying the weekend! *****************************
Bodybuilding & Weightlifting on the Raw Food Diet?
Today's post is my favorite. But who believes me that Raw Food is the first step to attain long and healthy life? "What we consume and what consumes us". Raw Food Diet is the first step to reverse the diseases even cancer. ( I am an example)
Bodybuilding & Weightlifting on the Raw Food Diet? "That's the question I'm so often asked, "Can you actually lift weights and build muscle on a Raw Food Diet?" The whole question is asked in a state of disbelief, especially the words Raw Food Diet, which bring to mind images of people looking like concentration camp victims, with protruding ribs, trying to live on lettuce and celery, and oh so woefully deficient in that magic ingredient: PROTEIN. But when I tell people that I'm a bodybuilder; I'm 49 years old; I just won 3rd place in an actual bodybuilding contest; and my diet consists of of fruits, vegetables, and only 1/2 cup or less of nuts per day (considered a protein food); well, they really don't know what to say. And then I go on, "OK, so if you're eating all this protein - meat, fish, chicken, eggs, milk, and I'm not, in fact, according to you I'm not getting any protein," then, rolling up my arm and showing my baseball size biceps muscle, "then how did I grow these muscles, in fact, let's see your biceps muscles!" To which I've yet to receive much of an intelligent response, and certainly not a response that has any facts or research behind it. I really can't blame anyone for their interest in protein. I grew up on the Standard American Diet myself. As a bodybuilder in my teens and 20's, I read the bodybuilding magazines and I too, was convinced enough to spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on protein supplements along with eating all the protein foods: meat, dairy, eggs, etc. But then my life changed, and I started to learn differently. In 1999 I opened a personal training studio, and my life's work was to show people how to reap the benefits that a strength training program could offer. I sought to deliver to people the most effective methods I could find in both training and nutrition. We'll talk about training methods later, but right now the focus is on nutrition. As I sought the best nutritional information, I read book after book, fascinated by what I was learning. I was definitely in the correct occupation because I loved what I was doing, eagerly devouring new information. What I found was that a plant based diet, and specifically a raw plant based diet, was incredibly healthy for humans. I read stories of many people who were even reversing serious "incurable" diseases by adopting such a diet. I even made my own glaucoma go away at age 40 by changing my diet and not using medications. (I'll go into more detail on diet later). The reason this is important, especially for the strength trainee, is what I heard from listening to the contestants at the last bodybuilding contest I entered in May of 2005, which was the first contest I had entered since 1982. You see, these bodybuilders are under the impression that what they're doing, their sport, is healthy for them, and it is. But, they never consider the fact that their habit of consuming large amounts of protein, especially animal protein, is hard on their bodies. They just accept it without question. Bodybuilding started out as a health promoting sport, designed to improve your health and well being by virtue of the fact that the inner health and vitality from healthful living manifested itself in the outward strength, vitality, and large muscles. But then the sport was ruined by not only steroids, but multitudes of other drugs. So I was careful to enter a bodybuilding contest that offered strict drug screening via urinalysis. So backstage at this contest, I spoke to contestants about things like: "did you hear what happened to such and such famous bodybuilders? He had a triple bypass surgery . . . both brothers died in their fifties. . . he had kidney failure." These were the things that we only heard about through the grapevine, but what about first hand knowledge? Well, I personally know of a weight lifter in his sixties that had both hips replaced. I actually saw one famous bodybuilder who was featured in the documentary Pumping Iron, who is getting around on crutches these days. And one of the contestants I spoke to at this last contest I entered told me that his doctor told him not to do squats anymore, because all that weight pushing down on his spine will cause degenerative disc disease. Then he told me that "even people who don't workout get degenerative disc disease." And when he told me that, I realized what I said earlier, that bodybuilders think that what they're doing is healthful, but they never even consider the possibility that excess protein is slowly degenerating their bodies. So when I read about the plant based diet, I thought, you know, it sounds good, it makes a lot of sense, but I just need meat for adequate protein - I'll think about it. And I did think about it, for two months or so. And then I thought to myself, "Ok, I'll try it. I'll experiment on myself. I'll try a vegan diet and see what happens." And so I did for two years, and then I progressed to a raw vegan diet for the next 3 years. So far, it's been working out great - I'm strong, muscular, healthy, and happy - what more could a man want? And so, through this website I have the opportunity to pass on to you what I found out. Enjoy your visit, and please, e-mail me with any questions or comments. Also, let me know if I have explained things clearly and if it would help if I wrote a more in-depth training manual or perhaps made a video/dvd of a training session so you can see proper form and intensity. This information on this website on training and nutrition applies equally to women, although obviously they will not have to eat the quantity of food that I do, and even some men will eat more or less depending upon their size. So are you going to become a famous bodybuilder after reading this site? Most likely not, but with high intensity training and a healthy diet, you will become as muscular as your body will allow, and build your health at the same time, and not risk your health at the expense of building large muscles. My ideal is to build my muscles as large as they can be, as strong as they can be, and at the same time build my health and live as long as I can, and with the raw diet I no longer worry about developing the disease from a Standard American Diet - I live worry free. "
Divine orderis unfolding in my life right now. Some trees begin to grow with a spindly, lopsided appearance. Yet a wise gardener knows that in time, those scraggly branches will become full, feathery fronds of graceful and intricate symmetry. Nature offers countless examples of the natural unfolding of life patterns. This is often the case in my life, as well. There are times when there may be action required of me. However, often the answer to my prayer comes as I step back and allow the perfect unfolding of divine order to take place. I discern when I am to take action and when I am to just allow more time for a plan to unfold. I recognize and give thanks for that which is complete and for the result that I know is on its way. “The human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.”—Proverbs 19:21
I don't want to be a bonsai tree. A bonsai tree is an imitation of a real tree. It looks like a real tree, exept it can't do many things a real tree can. It is kept in a small pot with limited nutrients, trimmed constantly to fit someone else's whin. It cannot provide shelter, it cannot find food on its own; its life and death are totally reliant on its owner.
********************************** Wishing All my friends a wonderful weekend!
AMAZING WOMAN - click
I am very impressed by the great, talented poet and amazing woman -Nasra Al Adawi. She not only inspires people with her wonderful poetry, she also does a great work for support of cancer patients. Nasra
_____________________________________ It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. —Ralph Waldo Emerson *************** Kevinek must visits hospital two times a week. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is a very good and very nice hospital, but Kevinek thinks of it in a different manner. He weeps all time and yells: Go uot! Go out! **************
Thank You to All The Great Friends for your supporting words and prayers. I'm surrounded by Angels, but I call them Friends. ******************************** Thank you so much Carmel for your supporting. I am touched and appreciate your prayer's post. http://winterr.blogspot.com/
This photo shows - Kevin is healthy and happy. It was taken about month before this diagnosis. (this information is for those who never read my posts) I hope he will be healthy and well.
