BEING DIFFERENT

"I will never forget you"

This is the promise God gives us.
It is impossible to try to change other people. We can change the way we see things and this can be infectious.

Daily life can take us from God's presence, but if we trust Him He will show us the way. "All will be well".

"The LORD has forsaken me,

the Lord has forgotten me."
15 "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast

and have no compassion on the child she has born?
Though she may forget,

I will not forget you!
16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;

Isaiah 49:14-16

REMEMBRANCE

There are some personal belongings that remind me important events in my life such as:

• Pictures
  
• Jewelleries


• Clothes


• Books


• Key ring

I could write down an extent list of things that remind me some other things. Friends, events, my past, trips... They can be hilarious, funny, sad, terrific, amusing. I can experience different feelings when something reminds me.

What does Jesus remind you? He reminds me that He is the son of the God. He reminds me that He died for me. He reminds me that He is LOVE, and He LOVES me. Where LOVE is there is no fear. His LOVE gives me confidence.

Ephesians 3:16
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

I belong to God and He Loves me.

THIRTY SECONDS OF SILENCE

I like to be silent and I'd like to try an experiment.

How about if we stay in silence for 30 seconds, just for 30 seconds.

Please ... close your eyes and be silent before God.

I can understand that your mind wanders here and there ... probably you are going to think of things you've forgotten.

It's a hard exercise. It's hard to be silent, to be still before the living God.

It requires practice. You might look at your schedule carefully and examine a proper place to stay.

Where? At home? Which room? Somewhere else? On the mountain? On the beach? In your car? Going out somewhere for a walk?

When? Before going to work? Before going to bed? When can you make your own time with God?

ALONE WITH GOD

The Scriptures tell us that Jesus departed into the mountain to be alone with the Father and that He was often "alone praying."

You are going to benefit if you are alone with God. That is the way to start your relationship with God. You can share the feeling of His gracious heart, His unique glory, His powerful presence, His bright light...

You can feed your heart with His purity.

He is HOLY!!!

PSALM 27:14

“Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.”

MY TRIP TO MALLAIG AND FORT WILLIAM

POWER OF GIVING

IN THE BIBLE THERE ARE SOME CHAPTERS THAT EXPLAIN THE TRUTH BLESSING OF THE POWER OF GIVING "TITHING 10%".

CAN IT REALLY CHANGE SOMEONE'S LIFE?

I HOPE IT WILL ENLIGHT AND INFORM THE ONES WHO WANTS TO JOIN AND ENJOY THE EXPERIENCE OF CONTRIBUTING 10%. GIVING IT WITH YOUR HEART.

GENESIS 14:20

...And blessed be God Most High,

who delivered your enemies into your hand."

Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

GENESIS 28:22

...and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house,

and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth."

2 CORINTHIANS 9:7

Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

LUKE 16:13

"No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

MALACHI 3:10-12

10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit," says the LORD Almighty. 12 "Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land," says the LORD Almighty.

DEUTERONOMY 12:11

Then to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name—there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the LORD.

1 CORINTHIANS 9:4-14

4Don't we have the right to food and drink? 5Don't we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas? 6Or is it only I and Barnabas who must work for a living?
7Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk? 8Do I say this merely from a human point of view? Doesn't the Law say the same thing? 9For it is written in the Law of Moses: "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain."Is it about oxen that God is concerned? 10Surely he says this for us, doesn't he? Yes, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. 11If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? 12If others have this right of support from you, shouldn't we have it all the more?
But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ. 13Don't you know that those who work in the temple get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? 14In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

PARIS 25 MONTHS

We are celebrating 25 months of our wedding. Paris to relax, enjoy and have a very good time. Thanks my Lord for the gift! I love you!!!

LIVE TO THE LORD

“If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.”- Romans 14:8

RAINBOW

when I say you are green, like that little green star (do you remember the story?)... it is because you are beautiful and you always bring hope in your words...it lifts me up...

but you are also blue...no...it is not sad...you use peacefull words...it is like a straight contact with heaven and ocean... it puts me up...

yellow...hot like the sun, heats me up, makes me laugh...I can see the brightness side of life...

red...like blood...tell me about dangerous things, rules, words full of passion and love...

orange...health, rich spirit, vigorous, support for life...

gray...you teach me in the silence, how to live with my inner thoughts, reflections, and I can go deep inside my heart...

purple...it belongs to the nobles and it is related to the kings...authority, knowledgable words...

black...you show me the dark side, hard words are moderated but always with good intension...I can consider my attitudes...

white...you are honest and the revelation of the truth adds to the knowledge of sharing...

HOLIDAY IN BRAZIL

It is school holiday in Scotland and here I am in Brazil with my kids. Time to look after them, stay together, renew our strenght and feel the love we can live as an individual and a family. Home sweet home I and II, Brazil and Scotland.

It has been a week already, but it seems that I have just arrived, I have tried to live every minute intensively. It is so good!!!

I am missing the one who has my heart ... far far away ...

“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.”- Colossians 2:9-10

Oh Lord, thanks for life, for your provision, for your love...stay with me and with my family everyday of our lives...Amem

SPIRIT OF TRUTH

Ecclesiastes 12-7

7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Galatian 5-16:22

Life by the Spirit

16So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 17For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. 19The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control.

Deuteronomy 18-9:14

Detestable Practices

9 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. 12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. 13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

Isaiah 8-19:20

19 When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? 20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

Hebrews 9-27

27Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,

Acts 16-16:18

16Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. 17This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved." 18She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so troubled that he turned around and said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!" At that moment the spirit left her.

Luke 10-18:19

18He replied, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

Mark 16-17

17And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

Luke 9-1

1When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases,

1 John 4

Test the Spirits

1Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
4You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

BIRTHDAY

Today is my birthday. I have got some gifts, cards, kisses, but lots of warm and lovely messages of friends who are a little bit far away. I feel loved, cared and special just because I have the privilege to have you all very close to my heart.

Only a child can get a very gorgeous cake like this one.

This is my prayer:

God of all hope, to you I pray.
I have stretched out your arm of love and gathered me into your warm embrace, cleansing me from sin, forgiving me and raising me up to be a child of the king. To you I come now, yet again, head hanging in shame. I have spoken harshly, judged self-righteously, nursed a grudge, scowled and moaned when I should have allowed your grace to beautify my face and permeate my conversion.
Father, there is no reason why you should love me-except that I love Jesus, your perfect son. I love his selflessness. I love his wisdom. I love his gentleness. I love his strength. I am overwhelmed that because of his sacrifice, I am a new person, full of possibility and promise, full of the Holy Spirit.
I praise you, Father, that confessed and forgiven, I can start over again. I praise you for your great mercy and love, and with hope in my heart, trusting that you do, indeed, have a good plan for me, I step out today joyfully, with my eyes firmly fixed on Jesus, my Saviour.

Thank you Lord, Amen.

CHILDREN

THIS HYMN EXPRESS MARY'S FELLING TOWARD JESUS, HER SON.

WHILE MARY WAS WATCHING, THEY HUNG JESUS HIGH.

HIS FEET HUNG BEYOND HER; HIS HANDS REACHED THE SKY.

HIS BLOOD AND HIS SWEAT SOAKED AND MATTED HIS HAIR.

SHE WISHED SHE COULD TOUCH HIM, AND SHOW HIM HER CARE.

SHE WISHED HE COULD HEAR HER: NOT EVEN HER SHOUT

WOULD CARRY; THE HUBBUB WAS SHUTTING HER OUT.

HIS FRIENDS KEPT SAFE DISTANCE, AWAY FROM THE SCORN;

BUT SHE STOOD THERE RUEING THE DAY HE WAS BORN.

SHE THOUGHT OF THE ANGEL, BEFORE HE BEGAN.

SHE THOUGHT OF THE SONG OF THE FAITHFUL OLD MAN.

SHE THOUGHT OF THE DAY SHE DELIGHTED TO FIND

HER BOY IN THE TEMPLE, WITH GOD IN HIS MIND.

SHE GAZED AT THE SON, WHOM THE FATHER HAD SENT;

AND LOOKING, AND THINKING, SHE SAW WHAT HE MEANT.

LORD JESUS, OUR SAVIOUR, WITH MARY WE BOW

TO HONOUR THE DEATH WHICH GIVES LIFE TO US NOW.

Alison M. Robertson (1940)

LONDRINA MEANS LITTLE LONDON

Attitude: 608 meters (1976 feet high)

Population of Brazil: 181.581.024 people. (IBGE – 2004 Population Est.).

Population of the state of Paraná: 10.135.388 people. (IBGE – 2004 Population Est.).

Population of Londrina: 728.120 people. (IBGE – 2004 Population Est.).

This is a replica of the first church built in Londrina.

In the early sixties it was considered the capital of "coffee", which used to produce 51% of all the production of the world. The "Little London", where the company´s founders were from, became the third biggest city in the south of Brazil.

DESIDERATA

Desiderata


Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.


If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.


Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.


Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.


Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.


Strive to be happy.


--- Max Ehrmann, 1927

GOD'S MEN

1 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same attitude of mind Christ Jesus had:
6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.



Philipen

FROM PATAGONIA

Penguins come with the cold water from Patagonia to Rio de Janeiro State. This picture was taken in Buzios on the 20th of December 2009. It amazing!!!

According to the local people, hundreds come every year. Unfortunately some die... but look at this one...it is beautiful, isn't it?

THREE OF US

Special time to celebrate "we are always together" ...in the street, in the rain, in the farm or in a cottage...tim tim

A little prayer for the three of us...God is good...He has mercies...and we can smile everyday...because He is God in our lives.

Amen

GLORY

I give glory to the Lamb,

in the hightest,

Lord,

glory only to you...

I give glory...to you God...

LUCKY

Lucky to become

lonely to be

lost in me

just lonely as to be

I believe...

WATER

Water that comes from the mountains,
ice is melting,
cold water,
calm sound,
it flows...

Water that brings me refreshment,
warm my body,
water, water, water,

deep, shallow, blue,
cross the sea,
cross my heart...

YOU ARE MY JOY

Who else Lord,

You are my joy,

in all I do,

I honour you,

Everything I am,

I honour you... my King...my Lord...

AMAZING LOVE

Amazing love,
that is true,
in all I do,
I love you,
and you are you my king...Jesus...you are my king...

PROVISION

Only you God,

You are my provision,

Friends you send every where I am,

they come beautifully,

someone to listen to,

someone to laugh with,

hearts...

God knows...

SLEEPING HOUSE

I can hear my heart,
I can't rest,
Everybody sleeps in the house,
It's my mind,
laying in bed,
closed eyes,
I wish I could dream,
Everybody sleeps...

It is my world,
quiet,
lonely,
mine,
It is my world...

YOUR VOICE

This sweet sound remind me that I can rest...
In my soul there is a place,
only you can come and touch my heart,
your voice rejoices my life,

I can rest in your hands...

Jesus...come...take me...make me rest in you

COLD NIGHTS

Cold nights,
silence hearts,
loneliness,
God comes,
warm my life,
bring your love,
full fill my mind
with your kindness...

Cold nights,
miss you all
that I love so much,
tears,
beaten heart,
nobody knows,
but I miss you all
so much...

Cold nights,
come my Lord,
I worship you,
with all of my heart,
all of my strenght,
more of you in my life...

Jesus...I love you...