Wholeness

The beauty of loving someone is the feeling of "wholeness" that I experience.  The need for that individual in my life, the "I'm part of you and you're part of me" feeling that connects two people and makes them necessary to each other - Kathleen Andrus.

Our Creator asks us to love one another!  Where love doesn't flow easily, perhaps we can just decide to not hurt someone.  If we each avoided hurting all people, for just one day, lives would be transformed.  We'd each see the world with a fresh perspective.

The more we love others, any others, the deeper our love will grow for all others.  Loving lifts our hearts and lightens our burdens.  Every day's tribulations can become triumphs when we carry love in our hearts.  Love fills us up, and the more we share it, the fuller we become.

We are connected-each of us to one another, all of us together.  Our contributions to the whole are necessary.  Its completion is made perfect by our presence.

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As I pass a friend today, I will be grateful for their contribution to my wholeness, too.

K. Casey

~ Broken Toes, Broken World !! ~

"TWICE in my life I've broken one of my little toes by colliding with furniture. Ouch! FOR days I limped painfully, my body protecting its tiny injured member. My body was doing exactly what it was designed to do. IT supported and sympathized with the part of me that was hurting. GRADUALLY my toe healed.

ALTHOUGH I'll never again take my toes for granted, I sometimes take for granted certain members of the church. Paul taught that the church is the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:12-27), not merely like the body of Christ. Each member has God-given abilities to support and sympathize with other members.

IF Christ's church is to function the way God designed it, there are three things we dare NOT do: (1) Refuse to fellowship. (2) Let fear and lack of Love cause us to withhold our gifts. (3) DISREGARD or OPPOSE the gifts of others through pride and envy.

INSTEAD, we need to be actively using our spiritual gifts to the benefit of fellow members of Christ's body. Only when we experience both the giving and receiving of Christ's healing-Love for broken members will we be ready to reach out to a broken world." - JEY.

"You are the body of Christ, and members individually ( 1 Corinthians 12:27)."

FOR We Are Connected By The Love That Comes From God Our Father.

~ Surrender Your Suffering ! ~

"WHILE it is natural to associate Christ's suffering solely with His cruel crucifixion and His death on the cross, there were other ways in which He suffered. His own family members often misunderstood Him and and withheld credibility until after His death.

LATER in His ministry, even after He had gained a following and some measure of popularity, most of the religious leaders treated Him with disdain and suspicion. THEY even plotted ways to ruin His ministry and to destroy Him. AT one point, many of His followers turned away and left Him.

AT the most difficult hour of Jesus' life, when hostility and hatred had reached their peak and the cross was before Him, His dearest friends failed Him. He had poured Himself into them for years, but when He most needed their prayer and loving support, they left Him.

FINALLY, He found Himself numbered among criminals as He came to trial and then was crucified.

As Christians, God has called us to suffer, and it is a high and holy CALLING. SUCH suffering binds us to Him.

ARE you suffering TODAY? IS it from loneliness, from misunderstanding or rejection? DID someone very dear to you fail you? DO not rail out against the offender? INSTEAD, embrace the suffering as God's will for you this moment. PRESS close to Him and allow the work of holiness to be perfected in your life." Yvonne Swope

"Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin (1 Peter 4:1)."

*** ~ JUNK mail .. ~ ***

"People don't like to be fooled, but it happens so often that it might seem as if they do.

Far too many people fall for crooked schemes that cost them money, endanger their health, or waste their time !

IT happens to elderly people when they trust the friendly, persuasive person who comes to the door selling a too-good-to-be-true product. IT happens when a shyster tells a couple that he's from the bank, and they need to withdraw money and give it to him to fix a bank error. IT happens when a person with health problems buys hundreds of dollars' worth of bogus medicine.

It can happen to us to - in spiritual matters. We can be fooled by deceitful presentations that make guarantees far beyond what God has clearly promised. But this isn't anything new. Paul warned about this kind of deception in Colossians 2:8.

So, how do you protect yourself from those who make religious claims that God's Word does not support? By being "rooted and built up in [Christ Jesus] and established in the faith, as you have been taught" (v.7).

Whether listening to a salesperson or to a preacher, be discerning (*distinguish/insightful). Don't be fooled." - JDB

"Christ is all we need, His truth complete -
The world will try to add, subtract, distort;
Cling to what you know, and trust God's Word,
Don't let yourself believe a false report." - Carbaugh

"Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines" - HEBREWS 13:9. ** Read: Colossians 2: 1-10.

FEEDING ON GOD'S TRUTH WILL KEEP YOU FROM SWALLOWING A LIE.

* See associated post dated 27/11/2010.

(Note: Never open an email attachment from a sender you don't recognise. *Have anti-virus software installed. Look at, NOT in (*don't open) what you find in your junk mail box on the internet ! )

* "PRECIOUS .. yes !!"

Consuming the right (genuine) food is AN added support for our existence. FOOD is more than fuel as it provides nutrition to the 'building blocks' of every cell in the Body ! Precious ? .. yes !!

* "REST-BREAK" !!

HAVE been booked into Respite at Ocean Grove before Christmas. Am quietly looking forward to attending. There will be other Women there with similar conditions as myself. It will be a "learning curve" apart from a much-needed restbreak.

Had been to "respite" in Melbourne earlier this year and would heartily suggest it as profitable for ongoing obtained benefit. There are a few places that can secure accommodation for just that cause. We all need our "breaks", regardless of the challenges we personally face before life's mural.

CONTACT whatever organisation you may be associated with and inquire regarding possible "respite" and how to astir (move out in excitement) to acquire it. We are so fortunate that we have these specific localities (*they have been attractively described as being 'scenes of events') that can give support.

May I say Bon Apetit?