Shaping Life

Benjamin Franklin said: "Well done is better than well said."

Thomas Jefferson; "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. In other words, the harder I work, the luckier I get!"

Eleanor Roosevelt: "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Albert Einstein: "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

Anonymous: "Leaders are like eagles; they don't flock … you find them one at a time."

Anonymous: "A religion that does nothing, gives nothing, costs nothing, suffers nothing, is worth nothing."

Jacob Riis: "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it--but all that had gone before."

Such are the ways of God in helping to "shape" us into the person He sees we can become.

Dear God
Please give me
a wise, understanding, and listening heart
to learn your ways of grace, truth, wisdom, and love.

Thank you for hearing and answering my prayers ..

Delay, Not Denial

The story is told about a lone shipwrecked survivor who landed on a lonely, uninhabited island. He managed to build a simple hut and stock it with items he was able to save from his sinking ship.

He prayed that somehow God would send someone to save him. Day by day he anxiously watched the horizon to hail any passing ships.

He was devastated when his hut caught on fire and he lost all that he had. He felt utterly forsaken by God.

The very next day a ship arrived to rescue him. "We saw your smoke signal," said the captain.

Dear God ..
please help me to trust you ..
even in my darkest hour ..
knowing that my times are in your hands ..

Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer ..

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Happy Independence Day

Mental Disharmony

If we don't live the life we believe, we will end up unhappily believing the life we live.

Moody Institute of Science experimented to put a special pair of lenses that made everything appear upside down to analyze mental distress! In an experiment the founder of theInstitute, Irwin Moon, wore these glasses every day and night for three weeks, and slept with his eyes covered so that he never looked at anything without wearing these lenses. After three weeks his mind converted everything so things appeared the right side up!

The mind does a similar thing when we live out of harmony with God's directives. For example, the alcoholic denies his alcoholism. The person who
consistently lies, ends up believing his own lies. And criminals often justify what they have done by telling themselves that the people they victimized deserved it!

We do this because if we consistently go against what we know to be right, we get into what is called cognitive dissonance, which, simply put, means mental disharmony. And, not being able to live with this distress, we will change our beliefs to match our behavior. This way we justify whatever it is we want to do.

It's true, if we don't live the life we believe, we will end up unhappily believing the life we live. It's a dangerous course to follow. Another way of saying it is, we end up with a dead conscience and a hardened heart.

Dear God ..

help me never to deny any negative and/ or sinful behavior ..
but be honest with myself and admit it when what I am doing is wrong ..
so that I can always live in a state of mental harmony ..

Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer ..

Good Morning

Stay Blessed .. Always ..

Remember

Azee

Being Honest

Make A Difference ..

Never Ask Why

One day, Death encountered a man and told him:

- Today's your last day.

The man replied:

- But I am not ready!

Death said:

- Your name is at the top of my to-do list for today.

The man said:

- Alright then… before you take me along, let's sit together and have
one last cup of coffee.

Death said:

- Of course.

The man offered a cup of coffee to Death; the coffee was laced with
some sleeping pills ..

Death drank the coffee and soon it was fast asleep ..

The man took Death's to-do list, wiped his name from the top and
placed it at the bottom of the page.

When Death woke up, it said:

- You've treated me so kindly and with full of love today. I would
like to reciprocate you by starting my today's work from the names at
the bottom of my list.

Sometimes some things are written in your fate. No matter how hard you
may try to change them, they never change ..

The crow and the parrot were both created ugly. The parrot protested
and was made beautiful. However, the crow remained content with the
will of its Creator. Today the parrot is in a cage and the crow flies
free ..

Behind each incident is so exquisite a wisdom that maybe you will
never understand it.

Therefore ..

Never ask "Why?" to the Creator.

Difficulties

Doing Right

Believe on "Yourself"

Belief