Just sharing.

[beensetfree]

Below is a letter that I recently sent to all my children. If
you find something useable in it to share with your children,
please feel free to do so! Here is my letter to them:

Beloved Sons and Daughters,

This is a letter to all my children - Marquis and Dalina, Luis
and Neiel, Kirstie, Kristie, and Dale. I want you to know that
you mean the world to me! Your life, with your unique gift sets,
is a blessing to me and to everyone who has the pleasure of
meeting you. As Dad, it has been a joy to pour into your life. I
often wish we could go back and re-live some of our great
experiences together, but life marches steadily onward!

I am proud of who you are and who you are becoming! My desire
for you is that you are always content but never complacent!
Success and happiness are never an accident. They are honestly
the result of intentional living. You reap the harvest in your
future of the seeds you sow in your present!

You've heard me say before that victory does not come in a day,
it comes daily! The key to success is always found in your daily
routine! The key to focus is simply knowing what to say "NO" to.
So don't be driven by your problems, be led by your dreams!
Mohammed Ali said, "Champions are not made in the gym... they
have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision."
I want you to never forget that your destiny is ultimately
determined by your decisions. Your decisions determine your
CHARACTER, CONDUCT and DESTINY!

With that in mind, I want to give you part of my greatest gift
from God-- my WISDOM. Here is a short list of some things that
will give you a tremendous advantage over others, if you
endeavor to put these concepts into practice on a daily basis.
These simple ideas will take your life to another level!
Meditate on these and incorporate them into your life to make
you an even more exceptional person:

.
Spend daily time in personal devotion to God-prayer, Bible
reading, singing in worship.
.
Spend 30 minutes every day reading for self-improvement. Almost
nobody does this. The ones who do are called rich people.
.
Don't watch more than an hour of TV every day. Why watch other
people's lives on TV when your lives are far more important?
.
Don't spend more than 30 minutes a day on Facebook or Twitter or
other Social Media/Internet sites, unless it's career-related.
.
Call everyone you know and want to maintain relationship with at
least once every three months just to say hello. Call everyone
who is meaningful to you on their birthday and call everyone who
matters to you whenever they experience a life event.
.
Relationships are everything in life. Develop and grow only
those relationships with people who are positive, happy, godly,
upbeat and focused and avoid those who are negative, depressed
and lack direction in life. Remember like attracts like. If you
want to be godly and successful hang around godly, successful
people.
.
Exercise every day. Make sure to include 20 - 30 minutes of
aerobic exercise in with your routine. Aerobic exercise feeds
your brain with oxygen, gets your metabolism going and keeps the
weight off.
.
Volunteer at least 5 hours a month for some cause you believe
in. You'll not only be helping people but you will also develop
strong, long-lasting relationships with good people.
.
Watch what you eat. Don't eat more than 300 junk food calories a
day.
.
Save 20% of your net pay and live off the remaining 80%. This
forces you to live below your means.
.
Avoid accumulating any credit card debt. If you are then this
means you are living above your means and you have to cut back.
.
Avoid negative addictive behaviors and substances.
.
Remember the 5:1 Rule. Listen for 5 minutes for every 1 minute
you talk.
.
Filter every thought you have before it comes out of your mouth.
Saying whatever is on your mind is a lack of self-control.
.
Control your thoughts. Thoughts become things. If you have
positive, upbeat thoughts your life will mirror your thoughts.
Do not let negative thoughts or sad thoughts into your mind.
Cancel them out and replace them with positive, upbeat thoughts.
Use daily affirmations to control your thinking.
.
Don't beat yourself up over mistakes you make. Mistakes are
good. They are the foundation upon which success is built. The
only thing you need to remember about your mistakes are what you
did wrong so you don't repeat the same mistake twice. Remember,
you WIN some and you LEARN some; you never LOSE until you fail
to LEARN!
.
Control your emotions. Never lose your temper. Anger is a
negative habit that opens the door to Satan.
.
Be thankful for what you have. Every day look back on the
previous day and think of 5 things for which you are grateful.
This creates a bridge over which future blessings will be
brought into your life! Gratitude is the greatest deterrent to
unhealthy personal pride.
.
Don't confuse a wish with a goal. A goal is only a goal if it is
100% achievable and requires action or some physical activity.
Otherwise it's just a wish. Always have at least 1 major goal
you are working towards each year.
.
Don't gamble. Gambling is a poverty habit.
.
Listen to audio books when you're commuting or exercising.
.
Don't gossip. Gossip is negative and entertains an evil report
about others. Remember never to advertise anyone else's sins any
more than you would advertise your own!

Do these things and watch the difference they will make in your
life! It's doing the little things in life that makes the big
difference! I believe in you! Go to your destiny!

Love,

Dad

 

[drifteri]

Animal Sacrifice

 

[drifteri]

Child Sacrifice

 

[drifteri]

The old Testament is babaric. Period

 

[beensetfree]

4 Businessmen


Once there were four business men. They were sitting on a bench
in a hospital waiting room because their wives were having
babies.

A nurse comes over and says to the first businessman,
"Congratulations! Your wife had 1 baby."

The man says, "What a coincidence! I'm the president of And1!"

The nurse goes away.

Then the nurse comes back and says to the second businessman,
"Congratulations! Your wife had twins!"

The man says, "What a coincidence! I'm the owner of the Minnesota
Twins!"

The nurse goes away.

The nurse comes back and says to the third businessman,
"Congratulations! Your wife had triplets!"

The man says, "What a coincidence! I work for Triple Crown!"

The nurse goes away.

The nurse comes back and sees the fourth businessman alone on the
bench crying.

She asks, "Why are you crying"?

The man replies, "I work for Seven Up"!!

 

[beensetfree]

If You Face The Light


If you face the light,
the shadows MUST fall behind you.

 

[drifteri]

Mattew 21

 

[Frodo]

The old Testament is babaric. Period

Your ignorance is abysmal. Period.

 

[beensetfree]

In General


In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery,
eats twice as much as nature requires.

~Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)~

 

[drifteri]

Your ignorance is abysmal. Period.

: Old Testament is barbaric. Period

 

[Frodo]

: Old Testament is barbaric. Period

This kind of generalisation is the abysmally ignorant kind made by abysmally ignorant village atheists.

 

[beensetfree]

Talk To The Cook


My wife recently became discontent with our evening dinners.

I would notice her plate as I finished eating my plate and her
plate would be barely touched. I would ask her why she ate so
little and she would respond, "It's just not good to me."

I didn't get upset and tell her how many children were starving
around the world, I just calmly asked her to send her complaints
to the cook. There was only one problem with this answer.

She was the cook.

She would always have to laugh when she realized that she was
the cook. I recently suggested that she take cooking lessons
since she didn't like her own cooking and my cooking was even
worse. I found a master chef who agreed to come into our home
and teach her. After a few classes, I noticed her plate and it
looked as though it had already gone through the dishwasher.

This was a lesson that we all need in some area of our life.

Most areas of our lives could be better if we just did something
about it.

If you are not pleased with your knowledge, talk to the student;
you are the student.

If you are not pleased with your marriage, talk to the spouse,
no not the other spouse, the spouse reading this.

If you are not pleased with your spiritual life, talk to the
seeker.

If you are not pleased with your weight, talk to the eater.

Sometimes we would rather talk to everyone except the only one
who can really do something about a problem.

Most times in our lives we are that someone.

We can be our own best coach, our own best motivator, our own
best challenger, if we would just tell ourselves the right
things. Sometimes others don't believe in us because we don't
believe in ourselves.

Next time something doesn't taste right in your life,
try talking to the cook.

 

[septuagint]

[video=youtube_share;-SHIrS6pMG4]http://youtu.be/-SHIrS6pMG4[/video]

 

[drifteri]

Your ignorance is abysmal. Period.

OT is barbaric. Period

 

[beensetfree]

Woman Seeking Man


We get many prayer requests for a mate.
Many are lonely and seek a spouse.

We get many more prayer requests from those who need help in
dealing with the spouse that they already have.

This issue may help many women (and men) who are desperately
looking for Mr. or Mrs. Right. Some have even settled for
Mr. or Mrs. Right Now.
The phenomenon affects more women than men.

Society and perhaps biology have long ago programmed women to
believe that they need to be married early. Good marriage is a
good thing, make no mistake about that, but so many rush
headlong into misery.

Let me give those rushing and anxious souls something to
consider that may make the wait far more tolerable.

1. Over half of all marriages end in divorce. The figures are
now moving closer to two out of three. Those stats are debatable
among the experts but one thing is sure, it's a high figure.

Divorce is rated as the second most traumatic event in life,
second only to death of a spouse.

By the time people divorce, they have usually gone through many
years of unhappiness. Statistically, chances are only four out
of ten that you won't divorce.

2. I read a survey in USA Today years ago that has always stuck
with me. The survey asked couples married for 25 years or more
one question.

The question was:
"If you could get married all over again,
would you marry the same person?"

The results surprised me. 50% said yes, but 50% said no.

Half of the couples married for over 25 years said they would
NOT marry that person again. Needless to say, those were not 25
years of bliss. Those couples were not happy.

I know from dealing with people that those stats are accurate.

So here is the breakdown.

According to the stats, if you marry, there is a one in five
chance that you will be together 25 years later and not regret
whom you married.

One in five!

Marriage is a great thing when it is right.

When it is very wrong, you are far better off remaining single.

I did not marry until I was 38 years old.
People would ask me when I was in my 30s,
"You aren't married yet?"
"No," I replied,

"but I'm not divorced either."

Take your time.
Become content.
Know the truth that it is better to remain single than to go
through a tumultuous divorce or be stuck with someone whom you
really regret you married in haste.

There is one other bit of advice.
In most of the counseling cases that I have where the marriage
has really gone sour, almost without fail, one of their parents
had told them not to marry the person.

Listen to mama and daddy.

It may save you many headaches and heartaches from what you are
rushing off to do.

 

[septuagint]

[video=youtube_share;oGKLmThF2to]http://youtu.be/oGKLmThF2to[/video]

 

[drifteri]

This kind of generalisation is the abysmally ignorant kind made by abysmally ignorant village atheists.

OT is barbaric. Period

 

[drifteri]

And many of the peoples of the lands embraced Judaism, for they were seized with fear of the Jews. (Esther 8:17 NAB)

 

[beensetfree]

Know What To Fear

George, my eight-year-old son asked me, "Daddy, how do I know
what to fear?" George had turned eight less than a week ago;
and beginning on his eighth birthday, he began asking me some
deep life questions.

As I usually do with George's questions, I had to think before
I answered him.

I gave him four questions to ask to determine if he should
fear something. Here are the four.

1. Is it real?
The boogey man, vampires, monsters and the like aren't real.
At least they aren't as far as I know. Often we fear things
that in truth aren't real but our imagination has brought the
thing to life.

2. Can it hurt me?
A roach, a green garden snake and the dark are real but they
can't hurt you.

3. Is it likely?
Many people are afraid to fly on commercial airlines.
Are they real? Yes.
Can they hurt you? Yes, a plane crash can hurt you.
Is it likely? Flying is 24 times safer per mile than driving.
So if you aren't afraid to ride in a car, you shouldn't be
afraid to fly commercially.

4. What can I do to reduce the risk if 1, 2 and 3 are yes?
Since riding in a car is 24 times more dangerous than flying
in a plane, you can buckle your seat belt to reduce the risk.

The leading killer in industrialized countries is
cardiovascular disease (heart attacks and strokes). For heart attacks, the answer to 1, 2 and 3 is yes.

A bag of French fries is statistically deadlier than an
airplane.

Know what to fear.

 

[drifteri]

Beating Slaves is OK

The servant will be severely punished, for though he kne his duty, he refused to do it. "But people who are not aw that they are doing wrong will be punished only lightly. Much is required from those to whom much is given, and much more is required from those to whom much more given." (Luke 12:47-48 NLT)