FROM TOP, NEW MEXICO, WEST VIRGINIA, KANSAS.
ARE YOU IMPRESSED?
Friday, 31 August 2007
MORE SIGNS
DAILY MAIL 30, 2007
FROM TOP DELAWARE, ALABAMA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH DAKOTA
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
SIGNS TO ATTRACT WORSHIPPERS IN USA
DAILY MAIL (UK), THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2007, published some signs carrying advertising slogans to attract worshippers in USA, Colorado, California, Illinois and Nevada.
The headline is..."THE SIGNS THAT SHOW THE LORD MOVES IN HILARIOUS WAYS!"
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THEM?
Thursday, 30 August 2007
A HEART TO FORGIVE
Forgiveness is not a state of mind; it is a state of the heart.
Being able to forgive someone from a heart level is not something that comes to us naturally. If it did, God wouldn’t have mentioned it so many times in the Bible. The challenge that we face is in getting our hearts to a point where we can accomplish this.
Luke 17:3-5
“So watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, 'I repent,' forgive him.”
FORGIVING IS ABOUT YOU
"Forgiving is not about the wrong doer, it's about you. You forgive people, not for their sake, but for your own sake. You forgive because you want to set yourself free. You set yourself free by breaking the shackles of anger, hurt, helplessness or shame and that occurs when you forgive the person who caused those feelings. .
Forgiveness is not about setting conditions with all those "ifs" and "buts," it's unconditional. By setting conditions, we give power to our tormentors. When we leave that power with them, they can hurt us again.
Forgiveness is really about empowering yourself and taking back the control of your life in your own hands.
Forgiveness is about healing old wounds. Bind your wounds. Once you do that, you don't have to become a victim of those past experiences. "
Vijai P. Sharma, Ph.D
Forgiveness is not about setting conditions with all those "ifs" and "buts," it's unconditional. By setting conditions, we give power to our tormentors. When we leave that power with them, they can hurt us again.
Forgiveness is really about empowering yourself and taking back the control of your life in your own hands.
Forgiveness is about healing old wounds. Bind your wounds. Once you do that, you don't have to become a victim of those past experiences. "
Vijai P. Sharma, Ph.D
UNFORGIVENESS AND SIDE EFFECT
WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE RESPONSE OF UNFORGIVENESS.
“Emotional forgiveness is where the health action is,” says Worthington.
“Emotional unforgiveness causes a chronic stress response, which results in obsessing about the wrong done to you. Rumination is what gets people into trouble. Rumination is the mental health bad boy. It’s associated with almost everything bad in the mental health field -- obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression … probably hives too.”
THOUGHTS OF FORGIVENESS
MEDITATION AND YOUR THOUGHTS OF FORGIVENESS
*I don't want to waste my precious life in the discomfort caused by anger or hurt, so I will decide to feel differently. I am able to forgive myself, forgive others, forgive life...
*I know how it hurts when people don't forgive me. I do not want to hurt other people by my actions, so I will perceive the problem in a way that I can either deal with it or let it go.
*Life is filled with incredible beauty and wonder and I am missing these experiences if I am stuck in the remembrance of old hurts or disappointments. I forgive myself for getting sidetracked.
*People do the best they can and if they don't the best way to help them is by offering understanding. The first step in this process is to forgive whatever constituted the specific offense.
*Everyone, including myself operates primarily out of self-interest. I must expect that some times I, in my self-interest, will be annoyed by some one else's expression of their self-interest.
* If I can understand that this is an ordinary part of life, what is there to be upset about? If I understand that self-interest is my guiding principle, how can I not offer forgiveness to everyone, including myself for behaving that way?
The Art and Science of ForgivenessFrederic Luskin, Ph.D.
*I don't want to waste my precious life in the discomfort caused by anger or hurt, so I will decide to feel differently. I am able to forgive myself, forgive others, forgive life...
*I know how it hurts when people don't forgive me. I do not want to hurt other people by my actions, so I will perceive the problem in a way that I can either deal with it or let it go.
*Life is filled with incredible beauty and wonder and I am missing these experiences if I am stuck in the remembrance of old hurts or disappointments. I forgive myself for getting sidetracked.
*People do the best they can and if they don't the best way to help them is by offering understanding. The first step in this process is to forgive whatever constituted the specific offense.
*Everyone, including myself operates primarily out of self-interest. I must expect that some times I, in my self-interest, will be annoyed by some one else's expression of their self-interest.
* If I can understand that this is an ordinary part of life, what is there to be upset about? If I understand that self-interest is my guiding principle, how can I not offer forgiveness to everyone, including myself for behaving that way?
The Art and Science of ForgivenessFrederic Luskin, Ph.D.
BE PREPARED TO FORGIVE
Forgiveness involves the proactive choice to rarely if ever take offense in the first place.
This means:
"you are prepared to forgive in advance "
Frederic Luskin
This means:
"you are prepared to forgive in advance "
Frederic Luskin
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