Never Letting Go...A SPII Sugga-cize

 

 

"Man never made any material as resilient
as the human spirit"


" Beating the odds

Persistent
Not giving in
to the statistics
Realistic
Loving you is simplistic
Infatuated with your existence
Me & You make perfect sense
Admiring you close-up
and from a distance.
Beauty before my eyes

Unexpected like a walk-in
No appointment needed.

.....
'without you

the magic dies'... "
~dark330~

Every scratch of my brow
has me wondering how
after everything we've been through,
what you're doing now

As another morning unfolds
I sit here...refreshing old words,
stories and conversations
I had with you
How in uncanny ways
I be making them feel just like new,
like I just said those words to you

Relying on recent thoughts
that we wouldn't spring back
from this round of adversity
and thinking to myself
...what would I really do...
if I had to live the rest of my life
without you

I really, really don't want to know

"The wonderful thing about Nature
is it's resilience"

There isn't a place that I go
or try to escape to
that I don't bring you

You got that 'staying power'

You remain the same...unchanged
in those places..secret,
which are graced with your beauty
your endurance
your flexibility
your courage
your intestinal fortitude
your vitality
and your resilient spirit

"Understanding your ways
Demanding better days
Commanding my position
like a ripple
between your wave,
seeking freedom
free of restrictions "
~dark330~

But is free really free?

I'm still so much like you
I've been bent
pressed
shaken
stretched
gutsy
and still
remain connected to you
Like you...I've gotten used
to adaptability

We will never be free
as long as we love
Love is a sentence
I'm happy to serve with you

How does it seem...
they wonder
that we loved
and touched
beyond this screen
we've connected
spiritually
emotionally
fighting dirty
and making it clean
We've been friends and foes
Which one..today...nobody ever knows
We've already lived a lifetime
inside our dreams




Our love will fill the vacancy left
by the theft
of hearts
won and lost
from the start..
without considering the cost

They depart
but we never let go
because our love

never let's go

jakuper (10/28/09)

DAILY OM..Considering Others

Reaffirming Our Integrity

 

Every thought we think and every action we take has an effect on the world around us. To be aware of this is to be conscious of our impact on the people in our lives.

Sometimes we just want to do what we want to do, but considering the full ramifications of our actions can be an important part of our spiritual growth and awareness. At first, being more conscious requires effort, but once we have made it a habit, it becomes second nature.

The more we practice this awareness of others, the more we find ourselves in easy alignment with our integrity.

Our thoughts are an important place to begin this practice because our thoughts are the seeds of our actions. It is not necessary or beneficial to obsessively monitor all our thoughts, but we can perhaps choose one thought or action per day and simply notice if we are in alignment with this experience of integrity.

For example, we may find ourselves replaying a negative encounter with someone in our minds. We may think that this doesn’t affect the person about whom we are thinking, but the laws of energy tell us that it does. When we hold someone negatively in our minds, we risk trapping them in negativity.

If we were this person, we might wish for forgiveness and release. We can offer this by simply letting go of the negative thought and replacing it with a wish for healing on that person’s behalf.

With regard to our actions, we may have something difficult to express to someone. Taking the time to consider how we would feel if we were in his or her shoes will enable us to communicate more sensitively than we would if we just expressed ourselves from our own perspective.

When we modify our approach by taking someone else’s feelings into account, we bring benefit to that person and ourselves equally.

The more we do this, the more we reaffirm our integrity and the integrity of our relationship to the world.

 

What do you think?

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

 

 

THINK HOPE

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.—Romans 8:25

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.—Romans 12:12

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.—Romans 15:13

To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.—Colossians 1:3-5, 27

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.—2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,—Titus 2:11-13

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.—Hebrews 11:1

　

　

　

　

　

　HEAVEN #2183 (Correct Number) Powerful Thoughts

God said:

Whatever you are doing with your thoughts, you are doing with your life. Your thoughts are the inciters and enrichers of your life. Your thoughts are your advance guard, and then you follow. Your thoughts wend their way through your life. In a sense, they pursue you, at the same time as they lead you. Now is time to set your thoughts straight.

Pull down from Heaven thoughts that benefit. I don’t mean wishful thinking. I mean pulling down useful spirit-raising thoughts. Accept no less.

Consider your thoughts like clothes you hang on the line. Whatever clothes you hang up, those are the clothes you will take down. Those are the clothes you will fold, put in a basket, and carry home with you. The thoughts you put out are the thoughts that you take home with you.

What thoughts do you want to have? Then have them. Discard unwelcome thoughts. Take on thoughts that meet your requests.

One thought follows another. This you know well. Your mind is always rambling on. Now point your thoughts in a direction. Your thoughts are like children. Tell them which way they should go.

Heretofore, you have sorted people and countries. Now I suggest that you sort your thoughts. Make two categories. Thoughts that you greet with open arms, and thoughts you step aside from. You do not have to welcome every thought that comes. You can send it on its way, or you can stop it in its tracks. You can substitute one thought for another. Accept only the very best.

When you eat strawberries, you don’t eat the ones that won’t taste good.

You don’t eat burnt toast.

You don’t spread your bread with spoiled butter.

You would not accept broken merchandise from the store.

You would not eat food off the floor.

Yet you would accept tainted thoughts, down-turning thoughts, thoughts with rough edges, thoughts that will cause you discomfort, thoughts with only three legs that will unbalance you, thoughts that you would not want to pass on to your children, yet you will pick up thoughts from off the floor, and pop them into your head.

Request the thoughts you want. Ask for them.

When you are in a hotel, and you have room service, and you order one thing, and they bring you another, you send the food back. There is nothing you have to accept as if you have no say.

It is unlikely that you will get the best without asking for the best.

Why should you not have the best, most forward-moving, most uplifting thoughts in the world? They are free. They are for all, the wealthy as well as the poor. The powerful thoughts are for everyone as well, not only the mighty. Perhaps the mighty are mighty because they chose powerful hard-working thoughts that surmount obstacles.

You have been inculcated to expect obstacles. Now expect miracles instead. Call them to you, not in desperation, but as you might call a dear friend to your side. Call up miracles. Your thoughts will call them to you.

The vibration of your thoughts will call them to you. Miracles will rush to you. They are lined up waiting for you to catch them.

They have wanted you to till your mind as a farmer tills the soil. Be ready for miracles, and miracles you will have. When I suggest that you settle for only the best, what can I be talking about but miracles, that which you call miracles, which are only, after all, the return of the line you cast into the waters.

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

 

　"Love ye one another.."

"And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."
~Ephesians 4:32~


"Then said Jesus, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do ..."
~Luke 23:34~

"For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another."
~1 John 3:11~

 

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ ... "
~Galations 3:28~

 

 

" Love is profound.  I love the way I Corinthians 13: speaks of love: as being as strong as death itself..it cannot be killed by time or disaster; it cannot be bought ... not even by the richest king!

It must be accepted as agift from God and then shared within the guidelines that God provides: striving to make your love a reflection of the perfect love that comes from God himself. There are so many types of love but the truest, purest, unconditional, most faithful love is that love of God and that is "agape"love. "

 

 

President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize! Awesome

 

 

President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.

The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.

"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the committee said. "His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."

The committee said it attached special importance to Obama's vision of, and work for, a world without nuclear weapons.

"Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play," the committee said.

Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson won in 1919. Former President Jimmy Carter won the award in 2002, while former Vice President Al Gore shared the 2007 prize with the U.N. panel on climate change.

The Nobel committee received a record 205 nominations for this year's prize.

In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."

Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, he said the peace prize should be given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Sweden and Norway were united under the same crown at the time of Nobel's death.

The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel's guidelines, expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to combat poverty, disease and climate change.

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Associated Press Writer Ian MacDougall contributed to this report.

　

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

Forgetting The Past

Phillipians 3:13 ....Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do , forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,

　

　

HEAVEN'S LETTER #2449

 

God said:

I give with a wide sweep of My hand. I do not give little spritzes of love. I do not put any love aside. I pour it all out. Love overcomes ego. Love overcomes your ego. Faced with My love, ego gives up. It can only accede to love.

Ego is not so foolish as to believe its own promises.

Love is the only lasting promise. When everything else is gone, love remains. Everything else never was.

When your body dies, all your wealth, all your fame, all that you accumulated disappears. Their value disappears. They were always nothing at all.

All your past life is a phantom. All the people who came and went were phantoms. They were phantoms in that their physicalness seemed to be who they were. Their physical presence meant a great deal to you, and yet it was meaningless. The only meaning was the love you shared. You share it still.

Your life in the relative was nothing more than those cardboard movies that you turn -- the cardboard figures flip past you. When the move is finished, it is finished, never to return again. Not even a movie of your beloveds brings them back. There is no restoring their physical presence. There was much more than the physical that was dear to you, beloveds. You know that. You already understand that the spirit flees the body, and the body is nothing but mere physical without the spirit.

How can you take a picture of love? How can you take a picture of Me?

From the physical, you deduce love. The physical gives you an image of love. The physical demonstrates love, but love has nothing to do with the physical.

I do not negate the power of the physical, yet compared to love, it is negligible.

Love is the sweet essence of life. Just as when you drink orange juice, the sweetness is beyond the juice itself. There is more to the orange than the juice itself and the drinking of it. We can call the essence of the orange love. Certainly, its sweet juice is for you, and yet an orange is far more than its physical qualities. An orange disappears, and yet you know that the orange still is nourishing you. You do not mourn the passing of an orange.

Beloveds, an orange nourishes you so that you may nourish the world with your sweetness. Accept that I call you sweet. Love is truly sweet. All the sweetness of love is yours. It emanates from you. Don't stiffen yourself, beloveds. Let love work its magic on you and the world.

You are the sweetest thing in the world because you are love. Nothing compares to the sweetness of love. Nothing, nothing at all, can hold a candle to love. You agree, don't you? Now agree that you, whoever you think you are, no matter what you look like, no matter what you are doing, you are love itself. I ask you to be the love that you are.

There is nothing that equals love, and there is nothing that equals the power of love.

Love your enemies, beloveds, and enmity disappears. Never mind how awful someone was and how right you are. Let go of awfulness and rightness, and simply love. Be in your natural state of love, Stand still, and you will emanate love. You have enough love to heal the whole world. There is more than enough love in the world to raise it to Heaven.

Beloveds, picture your love like the finger of a magician, and the magician's finger lifts the Planet Earth and restores it to Heaven in the minds and hearts of everyone. Do not think this is illusion. The illusion was to think that Earth was anywhere but in Heaven.