Hmph...

I sit here and think about everything that happened this past week and not a single tear runs down my cheek. Maybe it’s because I'm too hurt to cry, or maybe I'm just too mad at you. Maybe just maybe it’s my hearts way of telling me this isn't over yet. What do you do when the only person who can stop your tears is the one making you cry? I'd like to think I'll be happy again, but I really need to just stop and cry now, and sometimes I wish I could just scream at you, and show you what you did to me. And even though you lied, and even though you pretended to care I can't seem to get you out of my mind and even though it seems like I should be over you, with every tear that falls, it reminds me of how much I am still in love with you.

You always say you hate to see me hurt, and you hate to see me cry. So all those times that you hurt me, did you close your eyes? Sad isn't it? How no matter what you do or say to me... when you come running back... when you need me again... I'll be here... right here waiting for you; I'll take you back... no questions asked. Sad isn't it?

So... from now on... when you think of me... just remember that I could've been the best thing you ever had. You hurt me more then I deserve, how can you be so cruel? I love you more then you deserve, why am I such a fool? You asked me what was wrong, I smiled and said 'nothing', when you turned around and a tear came down and I whispered to myself... 'Everything is'. I don't know which I would rather believe... that you never did care or that you eventually stopped. While I was holding on all you did was let go.

I just wonder how many people never get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to have. There were reasons we met, reasons for the good times and reasons for the bad times, and most importantly a reason to end. We have more to learn, more to experience and more loving to do in this lifetime.

Somehow I know we'll meet again, not quite sure where and not sure when, you're in my heart so until then good-bye.

I've been lying here all night, listening to the rain. Talking to my heart and trying to explain. Why sometimes I catch myself wondering what might have been. Yes I do think about you, every now and then. I didn't ask for it to be over, but then again, I didn't ask for it to begin. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunsets.

It's really painful to say goodbye to someone that you don't want to let go but it’s even more painful to ask someone to stay if they never wanted to stay.

In love you find the oddest combinations; materialistic people find themselves in love with idealists; clingers fall in love with players; homebodies capture and try to smother butterflies. If it wasn't so serious we could laugh at it.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mending whole was good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best; than mend it and see the broken places. Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

After a while, you learn the difference between holding a hand, and falling in love. You'll learn kisses don't always mean something. Promises can be broken just as easily as they were made, and as hard as it is to believe, sometimes goodbyes are forever. Life doesn't hurt until you have time to yourself to think about how things have changed, who you've lost along the way, and how much of it is your fault. If you don't love me at my worst then you don't deserve me at my best.

Make me stay. Say something sweet and tender and untrue and make me stay. The hardest thing about knowing you don't love me is that you spent so much time pretending that you did. Sometimes - no matter how long or how much you love someone, they will never love you back and somehow you have to learn to be okay with that. If you’re gonna make me cry, at least be there to wipe away the tears. How could you make me love you and then not be there to love me back?

Blasts of truth from the sun

The nearest star is the sun. It took the human race quite a few thousand years to discover this fact, for no objects could seem more unlike than the dazzling, burning sun and the coldly scintillating stars. It is the sun’s extreme closeness that makes the difference, and makes the sun so overwhelmingly important to us.

The amount of energy we receive from this nearest star is enormous, and the earth itself intercepts only a minute fraction of the sun’s rays; most of the energy goes rushing past into space. If the sun were made of coal, for example, it would have burnt itself out in a couple of thousand years. Astronomers racked their brains and decided that the sun obtained its energy from its slow contraction under gravity.

But if the sun were contracting, it must once have been bigger, and calculations showed that 50 million years earlier it would have embraced the earth. This obviously set a limit to the age of the earth. Geologists pointed out, however, that 50, 100, even 500 million years was not long enough for the changes our planet has seen - mountains worn away, chalk beds kilometers thick that had been laid down on the beds of vanished seas. They told the astronomers to look for a few more noughts. Not until the discovery of radioactivity did astronomers realize that gigantic stores of energy were locked up in the atoms themselves, and that the sun was able to tap that energy, which was sufficient to keep it shining for thousands of millions of years. But how does the sun tap the energy of matter?

Many of the ordinary elements are present in the sun. Some elements - radium, for example - are naturally unstable and continuously give out energy until they have decayed into less spendthrift substances such as lead. But radium could not account for such a vast generation of power over so long a period; the sun must have learnt the secret of releasing energy from “ordinary” matter. The first major clue to that secret came in 1868, when the newly developed spectroscope revealed an element in the sun not yet discovered on earth. The new element was named “helium,” and after an intensive search it was found in our atmosphere in minute quantities.

We know now that helium is the ash left when atoms of hydrogen are fused in the furnace of the sun. This type of “burning” is infinitely fiercer than ordinary combustion; it is an atomic rather than a chemical process, and takes place deep within the sun, under pressures and temperatures beyond imagination. Helium and hydrogen are vastly more abundant in the sun than all the other elements put together. Every second about four million tons of matter are converted into energy; to equal this output, we would have to explode 80,000 coal trucks full of TNT every second. The released energy batters its way up to the surface of the sun, hundreds of thousands of kilometers above. Then, in the form of light, heat and other radiations, it spreads out into space.

No man has ever seen the sun, or ever will. Only a small part of its radiation - narrow band of visible light - leaks down through the earth’s atmosphere, which filters out the ultra-violet and X-rays that would otherwise continually bombard us. At times the sun sends out sudden spurts of ultra-violet light that cause such intense electrification of the upper air that long-distance radio circuits are disrupted. In recent years it has been possible to make computer-simulated movies of the surface of the sun, and by speeding them up several hundred times to project on the screen the life story of cataclysmic solar events which may occupy hours of time and multiple millions of cubic kilometers of space. Some of these movies are awe-inspiring; they show immense fountains of glowing gases spurting to heights of a hundred thousand kilometers; bridges of incandescent gases, which could span a dozen earths, forming and crumbling; exact replicas of A-bomb bursts - but a thousand times as large - shooting up into space.

Watching these movies, you see the action of forces completely beyond our understanding. A slanting jet of incandescent gas, for example, will shoot out on a long, flat trajectory, reach its apex, and then whip back along its original path - as if a shell at the peak of its flight decided to return to the gun. And sometimes, thousands of kilometers above the sun’s surface, cascades of glowing matter will pour down from no apparent source, as if they were created high in the solar atmosphere.

Since the sun is purely gaseous, it is surprising that its surface is so sharply defined. Seen through the telescope, its edge is a perfect circle. One reason for the sharpness of the sun, edge is its intense gravity, 28 times that of the earth. On the sun an average man would weigh over two tons. Although many stars wax and wane in brilliance, the sun’s output of heat and light has changed little during the course of human history. But what of the future? What will happen when the sun starts to run out of fuel about the, year - A.D 10,000,000,000? The obvious assumption would be that the sun will gradually cool down to a dull red and finally gutter out into extinction. But the obvious assumption is not the correct one. The sun is not cooling down; it is warming up!

As the sun uses up its hydrogen fuel and the helium “ash” accumulates round its core, the rate of reaction will increase. Like a gambler who bets more and more frantically as he approaches the end of his resources, the sun will go out in a final blaze of glory. Within a span of a mere five million years it will increase its brilliance a hundred-fold, melting down the earth and the inner planets into balls of glowing lava. Then it will collapse swiftly to a tiny star only a few thousand kilometers in diameter. It will still be bright, but it will give out little more heat than the full moon does today. The minute star which finally gutters to extinction will not be anything we would recognize as the sun.

How Great Thou Art...

So, at least, runs the current theory, but to claim that is an accurate description of what must happen would be rash. Even when we have attained a complete understanding of the processes taking place inside the sun, we cannot be sure that external factors - clouds of interstellar dust into which it may run, for example -may not write new and unexpected chapters in its history. At any rate, we need not worry about the sun blowing up, or going out by ‘natural causes’, for the next few thousand years – at least scientifically…

How can anyone still doubt the existence and power of GOD ~ SB 

A Baby - Amazing……

This small, squirming object is a newborn baby. One of the thousands born daily, he resembles every other newborn. Yet deserves attention, for there never has been and never will be another baby exactly like him. It  is a brand-new person, different from either of, its parents and something other than a blend of both. This Babykin is unique.

Biologically, however, newborn babies do have common characteristics: Looks top-heavy, and is. The head is remarkably large - almost one quarter the length of its entire body. Most of its weight is concentrated in this big head and in the other disproportionately large part of its body, its abdomen. The reason for the latter is its relatively large liver, which has been storing iron for the next few months when there will not be enough of it in its diet.

The baby’s arms and legs are ridiculously short. Its bones, composed mainly of cartilage, are soft and almost rubbery. Its backbone is so elastic that, if the infant were put in traction, it could be stretched out another couple of centimetres. Its wrist-bones are not even formed. There is an open spot in the skull called the fontanelle, but it is covered by an extremely tough membrane which protects the brain. Its muscles are poorly developed; they haven’t been used much, and are soft and flabby - a condition which the baby sets out to rectify almost immediately by doing an extraordinary amount of squirming.

Its eyes are blue-grey, no matter what colour they are going to be. They will not acquire their individual pigmentation for another 90 days or longer.

The baby’s temperature at birth is slightly higher than normal, and since it’s naked and wet, and since evaporation produces sudden chilling, the baby must be swathed in blankets almost immediately in order to survive. A human baby is, in fact, the most helpless of all newborn creatures.

Yet this baby is considerably tougher than it appears. It has already lived through a good deal. The Chinese system of counting age gives a baby credit at birth for having lived a full year. It considers the nine months of pre-natal life as equivalent to any subsequent 12, and certainly they were as eventful. None of the changes in store for the newborn quite compares with the drama of his development from a single fertilized cell to a well-organized 200,000-million cell individual.

That is the main thing to understand about the baby’s birth: it is not an abrupt beginning. Its heart has been beating, or instance, for more than eight months. The general form and structure of its body took shape some six and a half months ago. After five months of development the baby weighed only half a kilogram, but by then it possessed all the 12,000 million or more nerve cells that make up the human nervous system. The baby could wiggle, stretch, flex its arms and legs, and move its head.

Except for crying, yawning and sneezing, which it can perform for the first time today, the baby has been practising this entire repertoire for months - sometimes with marked vigour, of this its care-giver / mother is well aware. Even though the baby has never breathed air before, its chest has been moving in motions very similar to breathing for the past four months. If the baby is sucking its thumb today, it is probably not for the first time - many babies suck their thumbs before birth. As a result, the baby’s sucking ability is almost always first-rate when it is born.

The newborn baby has to cry within a minute or two after delivery in order to start breathing air. This cry is an emergency gasp, a bellows-like action of its diaphragm which sucks air into its lungs and drives the fluids out of its nose and throat. The noise the baby makes is entirely incidental; its vocal chords just happen to be there, and the air rushing past them sets them in motion.

Before birth, the oxygen it needed reached the baby through its umbilical cord. This was connected to that amazing filtering device, the placenta, which allowed oxygen - together with other things, including glucose, calcium, iron, fatty acids, salt and hormones - to pass by osmosis from its mother’s blood stream into its own and at the same time kept its blood and the mother’s from mixing.

At the moment he was born his blood began following a new route: a bypass in its heart, which would never be needed again, started to close and sent its blood pulsing into its lungs. And the first crying gasp, bringing air into its lungs for the first time, brought oxygen to the place where its blood could pick it up. From its second breath on, the baby’s breathing was under the control of its brain’s respiratory centre. The baby had changed, in a matter of seconds, from an aquatic to an aerific environment. This awe-inspiring moment may be the greatest marvel of human birth.

Now, having established breathing with its first cry, the baby is prepared to cry for a host of other reasons - hunger, followed closely by wet a wet bottom, being the two main ones. Then, as the baby learns that crying brings help, it will start to develop a vocabulary of shrieks, whines and grunts, which its mother / care-giver soon understands, even if no one else does.

Besides crying, the baby can grimace, smile and scowl. But its expressions only seem to have meaning. They are attributable to its rapidly adjusting nervous system; and is simply trying on various faces for size rather than portraying emotion.

The baby also has a number of reflex reactions to discomfort or pain. It can shiver. If it is pinched it will draw away. Put a baby face down and it will turn its head to one side so that it can continue to breathe. The newborn hates to have its head held still or its hands held against its sides; in either case it will struggle with surprising violence to work itself free.

The baby’s strength on such occasions is comparable to its extraordinary grasping ability. Its grip is so strong that if a rod is put into its hand it will grasp it and hold on while it is lifted right off its bed. It may hang from it with a one-hand grasp for as long as 30 seconds. This grasp is a pure reflex; it will disappear in a few months when the baby begins to co-ordinate its hand movements with what it sees.

A newborn can blink its eyes, although it doesn't do so until its eyeball is actually touched. It will take time for this protective reflex to develop to the point of making it blink, as grown-ups do, when somebody makes a threatening motion. Perceiving light is about the best its eyes can do, although within 60 days it will be able to recognize a number of familiar objects.

Probably the first sensations the baby feels, however vaguely, have to do with its sense of touch. But it is the baby’s skin that is sensitive rather than its fingertips. When, after a few weeks, it begins to explore the world around and surrounds, it will start by feeling things with the palms of its hands, not its fingers. As a more reliable method, the baby will try to taste things, for of its five senses taste is the best developed. While it may not distinguish clearly among sweet, sour, salt and bitter, the baby reacts to them – it likes them or it doesn’t - about as emphatically as an adult.

But this newborn baby amounts to much more than all these physical facts. It brings something unique into the world: its heredity; present physically in every cell of its small body in the form of genes. These genes are its inborn endowment, not only from its parents but from all its ancestors back through history. They have determined not only its sex, its size and how much its nose today looks like its mother’s, but they have directed the baby’s development from a single cell - a cell startlingly similar to the first cell of every other creature - into a human being rather than, say, a dog.

Above all, they have established the baby’s unique personality. No matter what its future environmental influences may be, it is the only person in the whole world with exactly this set of genes.

But the most impressive and accurate way of looking at this newborn baby is to consider it as a being in the midst of an almost incomprehensibly rapid process of growth. The baby’s capacity for development is unparalleled. For most of the coming year its rate of learning will be slightly inferior to that of a baby chimpanzee. From then on, however, the contest is over. After age one it will race ahead into a realm where no other creature can follow. Its power to perceive and to act will go on growing for decades, and its power to understand will increase until the day it dies. At the pinnacle of its capabilities its brain will be able not only to assimilate an infinite variety of ideas but to arrange them in patterns and draw conclusions and proceed, perhaps, towards answering the greatest of all questions: “What is Man?”

Oh, how wondrous – GOD is GREAT – indeed awesome! ~SB

Justice for Buba...the dog burnt alive while giving birth | causes.com

Justice for Buba...the dog burnt alive while giving birth | causes.com

Craving for You - by Snuki

All alone

Craving for your touch

Kiss me with passion of fire

Tongues dancing in closeness

Feel the rise of my desire

Tease me with your fingertips 

Softly over my tender breasts

Let them beg for sensual kisses

Taste the sweetness of my pearl

Be wicked and wild 

Take me, make me yours

Let me scream your name

As we fly to Nevaland

Just you and me

Forever and a day

Be together, share your joy and sorrow, understand each other, provide space to each other, but always be there for each other's need. And surely love will blossom to strengthen your relationship with your matter of affection

THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU

THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU LYRICS - COLE NAT KING

The very thought of you and I forget to do

The little ordinary things that everyone ought to do

I'm living in a kind of daydream

I'm happy as a king

And foolish though it may seem

To me that's everything

The mere idea of you, the longing here for you

You'll never know how slow the moments go till I'm near to you

I see your face in every flower

Your eyes in stars above

It's just the thought of you

The very thought of you, my love

The mere idea of you, the longing here for you

You'll never know how slow the moments go till I'm near to you

I see your face in every flower

Your eyes in stars above

It's just the thought of you

The very thought of you, my love

On the days that are summer sweet and full of a thousand dreams, I will love you. On the days when thunder and rain come dashing against our hopes, I will love you. On the days when we share a quiet world of contentment, I will love you. On all the days, through all the seasons of our lives, I give you my heart... I give you my love. - unknown

‘How do you make GOD laugh? – tell Him your plans…’

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That’s one of the greatest things about life – its wonderful surprises. – Marlo Thomas.

Look me in the eyes - and tell me your story... so I can continue mine...

Self-Hypnosis

According to numerous research reports, many people have been able to use self-hypnosis to relieve anxiety, overcome fears, control overeating, stop smoking and conquer insomnia Research studies also show self- hypnosis can be an effective treatment for many ailments in which tension and anxiety are factors: asthma, colitis, frigidity and impotence, migraine and high blood pressure, for instance. But authorities warn that it should not be relied on to take the place of medical treatment for serious physical illnesses, and it should not be used to explore deep emotional disturbances unless it is under professional supervision.

To many people, self-hypnosis sounds impossible - but only because their view of hypnosis is incorrect. They think of hypnosis as a process in which a hypnotist, using special skills and powers, forces his subject to fall into a sleep - like trance and to become obedient to his commands. Actually, you have to be willing to enter the trance - it can’t be forced on you. Hypnosis isn’t something a hypnotist does to you. You do it to yourself.

By using such techniques as having the subject stare at one point and telling him to relax one group of muscles after another, the hypnotist helps the subject slip into a “trance,” in which he becomes open to certain kinds of suggestions. The trance is achieved by focusing one’s attention to the point where all distracting thoughts and physical sensations are excluded. It is not unconsciousness and not sleep, but much like the condition you fall into when you are so absorbed in what you are reading or working on that you fail to hear someone when they speak to you.

Once in the trance state, you’re able to ignore most of the messages of your body and mind, and thereby become receptive to certain ideas. Suggestions aimed at enabling you to achieve specific goals enter into your preconscious or unconscious mind and remain active there, influencing your behaviour and feelings.

But in every case you must want to carry out the suggestion. If you don’t really want to kick the smoking habit, for example, hypnosis won’t help. Self-hypnosis is very different from telling yourself in a normal (non - trance) state of mind, “Don’t be afraid” or “Stop feeling hungry.” Such self-given commands rarely succeed. Self-hypnosis puts far more powerful mental forces - those of the unconscious - to work. The suggestions you make to yourself in self-hypnosis have much the same power as skills or habits - like riding a bicycle or driving a car - which you’ve learnt thoroughly. You perform such acts automatically without having to think or exercise willpower.

The chances are good that you can learn self-hypnosis. According to experts, a minority of people is gifted at it - they tend to be imaginative and good at daydreaming. A minority can’t do it at all. But most people are somewhere in between and should be able to achieve a degree of self-hypnosis.

(While hypnosis is basically benign, some experts believe that a therapist should be consulted before self-hypnosis is attempted.)

1. Induction. There are many techniques for getting into or “inducing” a trance. Here’s one made up of elements common to many time-tested systems. You can use it either by sound recording instructions and playing it, or by inwardly telling yourself what to do:

In a quiet, softly lit room, sit comfortably in a chair with your hands on your lap. Tell yourself that at any time, if you need to come out of your trance, you will be able to do so by counting from one to five.

Pick some point at eye level or a little above it; stare steadily at that spot. Take a deep breath; hold it and tense your whole body, especially your hands; then slowly let the breath out and relax your muscles. Do it all a second time.

Begin to count backwards very slowly from 300; if you lose your place, start anywhere or go back. While counting, tell yourself to relax your feet - concentrate on them, feel them becoming limp. Slowly continue upwards, relaxing your ankles, calves, thighs, buttocks, abdomen, chest, hands, arms, shoulders, neck, face (your eyelids should grow heavier and heavier, and close; your head should fall gently forward).

Stop counting and tell yourself that now you are totally relaxed, in a trance, ready to proceed.

2. Deepening. Most hypnotists teach students to deepen the trance by a shift in the technique. Some advocate repeating a single word or number to yourself while seeing it in your mind’s eye. Others recommend imagining a scene that will give you a sense of peace and detachment. For example:

Imagine yourself in the open centre of a modern building, surrounded by shops and people. You get on an escalator moving down and feel yourself slowly sinking to the next floor, where it is quieter, the lights are softer and no-one else is around. You drift; you sink, and down you go deeper, until finally you are as deep as you wish to be.

3. Suggestion. In this stage, you make suggestions to yourself. You may repeat your goal in words, or tell yourself things you know are true but which you have been unable to live by or face. Or you may visualize yourself, as vividly as possible, looking and acting as you want to look and act. Here’s how self-suggestion might work for someone trying to lose weight:

Imagine looking in a mirror, seeing and admiring a new, trim you. Tell yourself. “I will feel more energetic as I come closer to my ideal weight. I will feel no hunger after I have had enough for my body’s real needs. I will be pleased with the way I look and proud to be in control of my life.”

4. Coming out. Although it is unlikely that you’ll have trouble coming out of the trance, most experts advise you to tell yourself, in advance, how you will come out. If you’re not using a sound recording, you may want to set a clock or timer to remind you to come out in case you fall asleep. Here’s one method:

“As I count slowly from one to five, I’m going to come out of my trance refreshed, alert and able to do what I set out to do. One, I feel my body beginning to regain muscle tone. Two, I’m becoming aware of sounds around me. Three, my head is coming up. Four, I’m feeling more and more alert. Five, I’m opening my eyes, feeling fine.”

The first few times you go through this procedure, with or without a recording prompt, you may feel that it didn’t work very well. But inducing trance in yourself is a skill that takes patience and a lot of regular practice. If it didn’t, I’d be a whole new self by now…

I've got a list of things I want to achieve, acquire and improve upon. By next year, I hope the people who know me will be saying about me - about the way I look, converse, dance, run, romance, or whatever – ‘Amazing! - However did you do it?’ -  Prayer, Faith and Love of God - with a healthy dollop of self-hypnosis…

Healing Power of Prayer

In a study, at a hospital, prayer groups were simply given the patients’ first names, with brief descriptions of their problems. They were asked to pray each day until the patient was discharged - but were given no instructions on how to do it or what to say.

When the study was completed ten months later, the prayed-for benefited in several significant areas: They were five times less likely to require antibiotics; and they were two and a half times less likely to suffer congestive heart failure or cardiac arrest.

If the medical technique being studied had been a new drug or surgical procedure instead of prayer, it would probably have been heralded as a breakthrough. Even hardboiled sceptics, who question the validity of faith healing, acknowledge: “If this is a valid study, we doctors ought to be writing on our prescription charts, ‘Pray three times a day.’ If it works, it works.”

Scientists, including doctors, can have blind spots. The power of prayer seems to be one of them. There are studies that suggest that prayer can have a beneficial effect on high blood pressure, wounds, headaches and anxiety. Results occurred not only when people prayed for explicit outcomes but also when they prayed for nothing specific. Some studies showed that a simple “Thy will be done” was quantitatively more powerful than specific results held in mind. In many experiments a simple attitude of prayerfulness - an all-pervading sense of holiness and a feeling of empathy, caring and compassion - seemed to set the stage for healing.

The power of love is legendary. It’s built into folklore, common sense and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh - as the blushing and palpitations experienced by lovers attest. And throughout history tender, loving care has been recognized as a valuable element in healing. In fact, a survey of men with heart disease published in The American Journal of Medicine found a reduction of close to 50 per cent in frequency of angina in those who perceived their partners as supportive and loving.

Virtually all healers who use faith and prayer agree: love is the power making it possible for them to reach out to heal, even at a distance. The feeling of care and warmth is so pronounced that they usually describe “becoming one” with the person being prayed for. In healer Agnes Sanford’s words, “Only love can light the healing fire.”

As a Sunday-school-attending youth we were always advised to “pray unceasingly.” I was old enough to realize that ‘unceasingly’ means non-stop. Yet try as I might, I was not capable of non-stop prayer, and my attempts in bed at night would always succumb to sleep. At the time I had no idea that “subconscious” prayer was possible.

Today we equate prayer almost exclusively with waking awareness and rationality. The concept that prayer may occur in the depths of the unconscious, even during dreams, may seem preposterous. And the possibility that our unconscious may know how to pray better than our conscious mind is not entertained.

A foremost medical practitioner and researcher studying the health benefits of prayer and meditation found that among Christians, Muslims and Jews who prayed regularly, their various ‘chants' were equally effective in stimulating healthy physiological changes in the body - what he called the “relaxation response.” Also discovered was a connection between exercise and prayer. Runners taught to meditate as they ran, found that their bodies became more efficient.

The research showed not only that prayer is good for the body, but also that our methods of prayer vary widely. Prescribing one, specific way to pray can disenfranchise people from the prayer process and result in prayer dropouts.

Most people who pray are convinced that prayer can be used in a purposeful, goal-specific manner. But research shows that open-ended entreaties seem to work too. Invocations such as “Let it be” or “May the best thing happen” do not “use” prayer for specific outcomes, nor do they involve complicated messages. Perhaps this is what some mean when they advocate, “Let go and let God.” Many recognize in their prayers a spontaneous, uncontrollable quality that brings results.

I remember a neighbour dying. A day before, I sat at his bedside with his mother and brother. He knew he had little time left, and he chose his words carefully, speaking in a hoarse whisper. Although he was not a religious person, he revealed to us that he had recently begun to pray.
“What do you pray for?” I asked. “It isn’t ‘for’ anything,” he said thoughtfully. “It simply reminds me that I am not alone.”

Prayer is like that. It is a reminder of our unbounded nature, of the part of us that is infinite in space and time. It is the universe’s affirmation that we are not alone. 

And the truth shall set us free...

The true nature of the experience of Love remains only little understood. Ultimately the rare and true romantic love must be defined as a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment that reflects a high regard for the value of each other’s person. And while sometimes this can happen because the individuals were “made for each other,” there’s no reason why two people who were not necessarily “imprinted” for one another can’t achieve a long, successful love affair simply by working at it - notwithstanding any current circumstances...


Any shortsighted or damaged person is unable to grasp the implications, power and immensity of true love - they will even reject it despite the yearning for it; because of their skewed and erroneous self-inflicted perceptions of low self-esteem, guilt, undeservedness and blame they have taken to place upon themselves.


As things progress we shall see if any underlying history and details need to be revealed - because for things to move forward (or the dream to be trampled underfoot), all the past has to be laid bare and the nature of events leading to the point of giving up thoroughly discussed and made clear to ALL parties concerned - failing this any matters must be given due consideration for change that will inevitably occur...


The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the TRUTH ~ SB

To Mom and Dad

Very, very recently I have been willfully deceived, hurt and discounted by someone I care for deeply - the ingratitude and mistrust displayed has however only cemented my resolve to do my best and act in the best interests of  this misguided person - it caused me to post the following words for my parents:

I finally understand and appreciate the important role that you have played in my life. I guess part of the maturing process is realizing how the discipline and teaching at a young age shape and mould one’s future. Politeness, confidence, respect and love for God and myself are treasured gifts I developed primarily because of my upbringing.
Each time I see this I thank God for a mother and father who had the foresight and love, and most of all the patience, to instill these ideals in me. The more independent I become, and the further away I am from you, the more I depend upon what you have taught me.
This doesn’t mean I know everything. There is so much more I still need to learn; and I don’t think that will ever end.
Instead of constantly receiving, I feel that I want to give something back, and that is the satisfaction of you knowing how successful all your efforts were. To make you proud is just as important as my own success.
I love you...

What I am compelled to do is so necessary; yet so equally unspeakable...

King Warrior Magician Lover - it begins...

Myths of the reality - fooled again...

Familiarity, the first myth of reality: What you know the best, you observe the least.


Devotion, the second myth of reality: The faithful are most hurt by the objects of their faith.


Conviction, the third myth of reality: Only those who seek the truth can be deceived.


Fellowship, the fourth myth of reality: As the tides of war shift, so do loyalties.


Trust, the fifth myth of reality: Every trust holds the seed of betrayal.

When you are experiencing emotional trauma and struggling to see the sense in it all, when you feel it is NOT FAIR and RESENT others for having what you cannot have. When you feel they are being insensitive and lacking understanding of your situation. Remember that this is a natural primary reaction to have, when things do not turn out how we would like. At these difficult times though it helps us to remember the things, or indeed recall loving memories which you DO have and which others may NEVER be fortunate enough to have. It really is not that bad ♥

WHEN I FALL IN LOVE

WHEN I FALL IN LOVE LYRICS - NATALIE COLE

And the moment I can feel that

You feel that way too 

Is when I fall in love with you...

When I fall in love

It will be forever

Or I'll never fall in love

In a restless world like this is

Love has ended before it's begun

And too many moonlight kisses

Seem to cool in the warmth of the sun

When I give my heart

It will be completely

Or I'll never give my heart

And the moment I can feel that

You feel that way too

Is when I fall in love with you

When I give my heart

It will be completely

Or I'll never give my heart

And the moment I can feel that

You feel that way too

Is when I fall in love

When I fall in love, Is when I fall in love with you, I love you...

...FREE...

I wish I knew how it would feel to be free

I wish I could break all the chains holding me

I wish I could say all the things that I should say

Say them loud, say them clear

For the whole wide world to hear.

I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart

Remove all the bars that keep us apart

I wish you could know what it means to be me

Then you'd see and agree

That every man should be free.

I wish I could give all I'm longing to give

I wish I could live like I'm longing to live

I wish that I could do all the things that I can do

Though I'm way overdue, I'd be starting anew.

Well I wish I could be like a bird in the sky

How sweet it would be if I found I could fly

Oh I'd soar to the sun and look down at the sea

And I'd sing 'cos I'd know

How it feels to be free...

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke

We are not in control...

Were God to merely relax His grasp on the universe every atom would come apart "by fire" (that is, by nuclear fire). God dynamically sustains the universe, including the atoms themselves. They are "stable" only because force from the spiritual realm is being supplied into the physical nuclear binding fields.

Whatever we may think of God and physics, the Bible leaves us with no room to doubt that God does care about the sparrow that falls to the ground, the widow, the orphan, and the homeless. He does not lose track of His children and watches over them with infinite, patient, intimate Fatherly care. He sustains the universe by His mighty word of power. He also alters the status quo and, in response to prayer, frequently changes the course of entire nations.

God is the present Sustainer of the universe. That is, He is not uninvolved, remote, detached and impersonal, leaving things to run by themselves by any means...

Among secular scientists today there are many who acknowledge that God exists. But He is usually considered as only a First Cause -the One who brought the universe into existence and set it into motion. But most of these same scientists assume God was not involved after the initial act of creation.

The statements are clear in the Bible that God is very much involved in every event that takes place in the on-going history of the entire universe...

"Even when you think God is long gone, if you can remember to ask for help, you will see that He has been there all along."

Signs of the times...

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God. - Lew Wallace