* "WITH my blessing" ! *

Balance is an important part of life.  It is the recognition that every challenge contains a blessing and every blessing contains a challenge.  What we need to do is to embrace the whole of life. 

Focus on any area in your life which seems out of balance.  If there was something that you could learn from it, what would it be?

Create balance and receive blessings into your life from the Violet gift box! 

[Close your eyes and imagine a Violet gift box floating toward you.  When it comes closer unwrap it and receive the gift (into your heart).  Then allow a Violet ray of light to penetrate into your body, relaxing and energising it, as you let go of any fear, stress or worry and bring balance back into your life.]

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" Dear Heavenly Father, please allow me to create a balanced and harmonious life, full of blessings and joy."


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Inna Segal

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* We all need colours/colors in our life. *

 

HEART of Creation ..

 LOVE

The heart of love is the heart of creation.

All is possible through love.  All is worthwhile for love.

May all you think and feel reflect love's eternal truth.

 .. God. 

* * Complete ANY Assignment ! !

"Love has the quality of informing almost everything-even one's work" - Sylvia Ashton Warner.

We are changed through loving and being loved.  Our attitudes are profoundly and positively affected by the presence of love in our lives.  EACH time we offer a loving response to a friend, co-worker, even a stranger, we powerfully influence the dynamics of the interaction between us.

EVERY response we make to someone changes us while it informs them.  When we treat others with disdain, we invite the same.  WHEN we express only criticism of others, our self-assessment is equally negative.  The beauty of a loving posture is that it calls forth love in response.  The more love we give away, the more we receive.

Any task before us is lessened when we carry love in our hearts.  Love is more powerful than fear.  Love helps to open the channel to God, assuring us of the strength, the understanding, the patience needed to complete any assignment confronting us.

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I am loved, unconditionally, by God.  And I will experience the reality of that love the more I give it away.  Love wants to change me - and it can! 

K. Casey

Attitude

'Your life is an expression  of your mind.

You are free to will whatever state of 

being you desire through the use of your

thoughts and words.

The quality of your life is brought about

by the quality of your thinking.

Realise, the one thing you have complete 

control over is your attitude.

See the affect it has on those around you.

If you truly want to change your world,

you must change your thinking.

Reason is your greatest tool.

It creates an atmosphere 

of understanding

which leads to caring and love.'

Pocket Inspirations

~ ** Cartoon ( * Food for THOUGHT ! ) ? ? ~

" A humorous greeting card showed a grotesquely thin cow wandering in a barren desert. The skinny cow was meant to illustrate "where nonfat milk comes from." The logic of the cartoon, of course, is entirely unscientific. Nonfat milk is not produced by nonfat cows!

The idea, however, reminds me of D.L. Moody's comment: "Most people talk cream and live skim milk." If our hearts are spiritually underfed, we will produce "skim milk" Christianity. Our lips may utter spiritual-sounding words in prayer, worship, and conversation, giving the impression of "top-grade cream." BUT the reality is revealed by what is consistently produced in our lives.

How can we live cream and not just talk it? David grappled with this in Psalm 19. In verses 12 and 13 he was honest with himself and with God when he asked to be cleansed from secret faults and presumptious sins. Beyond forgiveness, David knew he needed God's continuing strength and help to harmonize his walk with his talk. So he earnestly prayed, "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation (occupied in thought; reflection) of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD" (v.14).

In our walk, let's move from skim milk to cream by being open, honest and prayerful." - JEY.

"I want my heart Christ's throne to be,
So that a watching world may see
His likeness shining forth in me;
I want to be like Jesus." - C.

Our Words And Our Deeds Should Say The Same Thing!

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"The DVD seeks to remind people newly diagnosed with MS that they are not alone," adds Sandra Helou (Project Manager, Education Resources, who was responsible for the development of the DVD).

"This DVD will be a wonderful tool," reports one of the interviewees, Rob de Ridder. "I remember that when I was first diagnosed, I felt so alone. To be able to pop in a DVD and hear professionals and other people with MS talk about MS in terms of reality and facts will help people to reallise that they can still live a fruitful life and contribute to family, friends and the community. The DVD is inspiring and is something that would have helped me immensely in those first few months. I am proud to contribute to this resource from MS Australia - ACT/NSW/VIC." ('Intouch'.)

* ASSURANCE ... * "Read it FOR yourself" ... * 1 John 5: 1-15.

"I have written this to you ... that you may know that you have eternal life" (1 John 5: 13).

"IF we believe God's Word, then we will never doubt the reality of our Salvation". SELWYN HUGHES

"Read it for yourself!"
The story is told of a young Christian who, having accepted Christ, went home that night and before going to sleep, read these words in his Bible:
"He who has the Son has life."
"Thank you, he said, "I know I am saved because the Bible says so." In the night, the adversary came to him and said, "You are not saved. It's all a myth." Switching on the light, he opened his Bible at the verse he had read before, then putting his finger on the verse, said to the foe/devil "There it is - read it for yourself!"

*Prayer:
Lord, how foolish I have been to listen to the/my adversary's doubts. I see so clearly how THIS has caused me to lack the assurance You want me to have. NOW I rest on Your Word and believe Your eternal truth. I am Yours, dear Lord, and You are mine, for time and through eternity. Amen.

P.S: WHAT do you believe??

ALONE ?

"IF your'e ever lonely, your'e not alone...

So many people all around us and we still feel lonely. NOT all the time, BUT sometimes. We reach out to find someone who understands or who cares or who'll just listen, and we find no-one there.

All sorts of things contribute to it: old age, unemployment, immigration or divorce. ULTIMATELY however, we all face the reality that no-one else really understands us. No-one can know our thoughts, no-one knows the deep joys or the dark secrets. Not ever ourselves, fully.

THIS is the reality. ULTIMATELY we are all alone, it's only in the quiet or hard times that we really feel it.

But that's only half the story. The Bible says:

You (God) created every part of me; you put me together in my mother's womb. Psalm 139, verse 13. - 'GOOD NEWS BIBLE'.

WHEN I am ready to give up, he (God) knows what I should do... WHEN I look beside me, I see that there is no one to help me, no one to protect me. No one cares for me, Lord I cry to you for help; you Lord, are my protector, you are all I want in this life. Psalm 142, verses 3 to 5. - 'GOOD NEWS BIBLE'.

"Do not be worried and upset," Jesus told them. "Believe in God and believe also in me." John Ch. 14, verse 1. - 'GOOD NEWS BIBLE'."

(A.L.)

* See associated post dated 27/11/2010.