Your due... - by mp123

The sky is the brightest bright

The flowers such an awesome sight

The air crisp and fresh

Every day better than next 

I'm not saying I never 

Experienced all the above

Just that I never appreciated it

Till I saw the world through the eyes of love

Complete my life

That's what you do

To you my darling girl

All the credit is due...

I BETCHA DIDN'T KNOW THAT LYRICS - KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND

I BETCHA DIDN'T KNOW THAT LYRICS - KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND

I'm blessed, oh, I guess I'm the luckiest guy in the world

Oh babe, you don't know what you do to me, girl, no

Sometimes I forget to say the things I should say to you

Oh babe, I spend all my time loving you, loving you

Your love makes me strong when things go wrong

I betcha didn't even know that

You're my sun shiny day when skies are gray

I betcha didn't even know that

You're my everything, my whole world revolves around you

In times of despair, you proved to me that your love is real

I like, I like the way that you make me feel, make me feel

So proud I am to be able to say you're my own

Oh babe, in your love I found me a home, found me a home

Your love makes me strong when things go wrong

I betcha didn't even know that

You're my sun shiny day when skies are gray

I betcha didn't even know that

You're my everything, my whole world revolves around you

I betcha didn't even know that

I betcha didn't know that, I betcha didn't know that

I betcha didn't even know that

I betcha didn't know that, I betcha didn't know that

I betcha didn't even know that

I betcha didn't know that, I betcha didn't know that

I betcha didn't even know that

You're my sunshine, you're my sunshine

I betcha didn't even know that

And you're my everything, you're my everything

I betcha didn't even know that

You make me happy, you make me happy

I betcha didn't even know that

No, no, no, no, oh no

I betcha didn't even know that, no

I know you don't know it

I betcha didn't even know that

I wanna spend my life with ya, spend my life with ya

I betcha didn't even know that, no

I don't want nobody else, no, no, nobody else

I betcha didn't even know that

You turn my sky from gray into a sunny day

I betcha didn't even know that

No, no, no, oh baby

I betcha didn't even know that

Loving is not easy, but ..! - by cdgmr

Loving you hasn't been all easy but it has been a journey that I have enjoyed and cherished.

  

Loving you hasn't been all easy but it has been rewarded because  I have not only learn about you, but I have also learn about myself too.

Loving you hasn't been all easy, but it has been a path that I choose to take, and proudly walk with you, when I said I Do!!

Loving you hasn't been all easy, but I would rather have it this way, and been with you, than have it easy and without you...

Myth: Alcohol Kills Brain Cells

A little bit of brain damage goes a long way. If you were actively killing brain cells when consuming alcohol, you'd notice some permanent side effects pretty quickly. Although alcohol does have a significant effect on your brain and body, brain damage isn't a given. You'll have to drink yourself into a coma to go that far.
The proof comes from a 1993 study by Grethe Jensen that matched brain samples from both (deceased) alcoholics and non-alcoholics and found no difference in the density of brain cells. (You can read more about this study here.) What alcohol actually does in inhibit the functionality of brain cells.

What alcohol can and does do to your brain is affect the way your neurons get their firing triggers from glutamate. It infiltrates the glutamate receptors in your synapses, hurting their ability to send off their normal "fire" messages. Alcohol has this impact all across your brain—the parts that control muscles, speech, coordination, judgment, and so on. Keep that in mind the next time you or someone else claims that they drive, golf, or otherwise perform some task better with alcohol's help.

In the end, you just need to worry more about your choices than the lifespan of your brain.

God Bless and grant you fortitude for temperance ~ SB

Myth: Your Memory Is An Exact Account of What You See and Experience

Some of us have better memories than others, but no memory is perfect. If you need proof, close your eyes and try to imagine the face of someone you know. In fact, try to imagine your own face. While you'll be able to conjure up a decent idea of the way you or anyone else looks, you won't be able to envision every last detail. This is because our memories don't recall anything we see, hear, sell, taste, or touch with much detail at all. Instead, as psychologist Dan Gilbert points out in his book Stumbling On Happiness, our brains record the seemingly necessary details and fill in the rest when it's time to remember:

The elaborate tapestry of our experience is not stored in memory-at least not in its entirety. Rather, it is compressed for storage by being reduced to a few critical threads, such as a summary phrase ("Dinner was disappointing") or a small set of key features (tough steak, corked wine, snotty waiter). Later, when we want to remember our experience, our brains quickly reweave the tapestry by fabricating-not by actually retrieving-the bulk of the information that we experience as a memory. This fabrication happens so quickly and effortlessly that we have the illusion (as a good magician's audience always does) that the entire thing was in our heads the entire time.

Gilbert's conclusions come from memory researcher Daniel Schacter, who believes the construction of memory is very similar to the way we imagine the future:

We have argued in recently that memory plays a critical role in allowing individuals to imagine or simulate events that might occur in their personal futures. We have further suggested that understanding memory's role in future event simulation may be important for understanding the constructive nature of memory, because the former requires a system that allows flexible recombination of elements of past experience, which may also contribute to memory errors.

While a little common sense and life experience can demonstrate the imperfections in your (and everyone else's) memory, research points to two important things: we're no good at recalling past events or imagining the future because our process for doing either is essentially the same—at least as far as our brain functionality is concerned. While this points to much more of a problem than a solution, it certainly helps to remember that no memory is perfect and we're all designed to recall with error. Next time someone gets something wrong, it's at least worth remembering that..!

Just remember - GOD LOVES YOU! ~ SB

Truth in Love

You may try a hundred things, but love alone will release you from yourself. So never flee from love - not even from love in an earthly guise - for it is a preparation for the supreme Truth." - Yiddish Saying

Q & A time... - how to forgive and forget

QUESTION:  “How does one truly forgive and forget betrayal, deception and lies of those you love? I have been lied to all my life - great and small lies. I also went through bad relationships. I made lots of poor choices as an adult and have unvalidated feelings. But that was then and this is now. I am over 40 and still cannot forgive and forget.”

This is a beautiful question. It is indicative of a strong and grateful heart, which is indeed a thing of beauty in this world.

ANSWER: “The pain within your heart is great; but know that it will heal with time. You have taken the first step with this expression of your desire to understand, to forgive, and to heal. For first must come the desire; the door is now open and the way will be revealed. It must be, for God always honours the sincere and seeking heart, which is Love made manifest.

“You say you have made many bad decisions. This is the burden you carry. You have weighted yourself down with guilt and judgment – judgment of yourself, first and foremost. You cannot move forward into true forgiveness of others from a place of self-loathing or self-rejection. Look back now and see the You of the past, at the place of each of these decisions you regret. Take the time to picture You at each of those moments of choice. You have judged that person; now see that person with eyes of Love. See who that person was then and how that person perceived the world and what pain that person was carrying which would caused the decisions that brought more pain. For only someone in pain would do this to themselves. Painful decisions come from a place of insecurity, doubt, and despair.

“Your true essence is one of Love, for you were created by Love. Thus when decisions and choices are unloving to yourself, it is because you are going against your true nature. For this is the true source of pain: the denial of who you truly are. Perhaps in your early training you were taught to see yourself as sinful and defective, and that what you call ‘poor choices’ were the inevitable expression of that sinful or defective nature. This is not true. Your central, core essence is one of Love. When Love denies itself, it can only experience the pain, regret, loss, dissatisfaction and unfulfillment of not being and expressing its true nature.

“When you come to realize that you in these past actions acted from pain and denial of your true being, you will also see that this is true of others as well. Someone who would hurt, deceive or betray you, could only do so because of their own betrayal of themselves and who they truly are. This is all that is ailing each one, both the one that lashes out to hurt another, and the one who feels the hurt and cannot forgive. It may seem a daunting task to forgive such great injuries, but you have asked, and that asking is your beginning. We honor and celebrate you for this. And we encourage you to see this desire to forgive as a seed you have planted, and which will take time to emerge.

“You have planted the seed of your willingness to forgive. Now wait patiently and trust, and let forgiveness grow within you. Pray each day and ask, how may I tend this seed today? You may be led to shed tears of healing, to spend time in solitude, or to simply rest. You may be led to read a certain book or seek the company of a certain friend or to dance. Be led by Love, knowing and trusting all the while that the great work of forgiveness is being grown within you, and will sprout and bud and bloom with time and with healing. For your own heart must heal first, and you can never forgive another until you have forgiven yourself.

Please trust and know that all is not lost, all is never lost. You are the beloved child of God and you are never lost. Love cannot lose you. Love can only love you, and waits but your receiving. God Bless you, and may peace wrap its arms around you, that you may feel the Love in which you dwell.”

Flawless change - to everlasting life and beyond...

'The more things change, the more they stay the same' - not sure who's the first person who said that; but its a sentence that somewhat explains our tragic flaw; our inability (or fear) to change.

The more you get to know people you realise its kind of everyone's flaw; staying exactly the same, for as long as possible. Standing perfectly still feels better, safer somehow; and if you're suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected, who knows what other pain might be waiting out there; chances are it could be even worse.

So you maintain the status quo, you choose the road already travelled, and it doesn't seem that bad; not as far as flaws go... you're not a hopeless addict, you're not killing anyone - except maybe just yourself a little.

When you finally do change, it doesn't happen as an earthquake or massive explosion, or all of a sudden you're this totally different person; its smaller than that. Its the kind of thing most people won't even notice; unless they looked really, really close... - which many hardly ever do!

But you notice it, inside you, that change feels like a world of difference (and you hope that it is); that this is the person you get to be forever (at least in this life), that you never have to change again...

It is written...

'1Cor:15:52: In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.'


'1Co 15:52 In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.'

All the saints should not die, but all would be changed.


In the gospel, many truths, before hidden in mystery, are exposed. Death never shall appear in the regions to which our Lord will send His risen saints.


Sin gives death all its hurtful power. The sting of death is sin; but Christ, by dying, has freed us from this sting; He has made atonement for sin, He has obtained remission of it. The strength of sin is the law. No one can withstand its demands, endure its curse; which leads to terror and anguish.


Consequently; death is terrible to the unbelieving and the impenitent. Death may seize a believer, but it cannot hold him in its power.


Believers must be steadfast, firm in the faith, unmovable in the hope and expectation of this great privilege, of being raised incorruptible and immortal. Attend to the work of the Lord, always happy in the Lord's service, and obey the Lord's commands.


May Christ give us increased faith, that we may not only be safe, but joyful and triumphant.


AMEN

Love poems explored...

Words So Deep - by brandybs1

You say words so deep, not speaking at all

My heart beats fast, I know soon I'll fall

Your touch sends chills so deep through me

Your hunger for love is so plain to see

Longing for that missing piece, of what you need to complete you

You're not alone in this, I want you to know I feel it too

Your eyes are floating, I can see you feel this just may be

The very thing you've always known you would need

Searching the eyes, being fooled by some

I'm thinking maybe that the time has finally come

To watch something grow from nothing so fast

I'll pray every night that this is the one that will truly last

Know this is for real, I'm not playing a game 

Because I saw in your eyes that too were sick of the pain

And with that know I believe I'm the one for you

To create a world with, where everyday will be so new...

Chely - by kbwright

When the hour moves my tender quill

On golden leaf, my words escape,

Your earthen set of eyes fulfill.

Unfolding in their blessed shape.

To brilliant for mortal men best seen,

Where every star is set in place,

With spheres that gleam sweetly serene.

How pure? How dear? In nameless grace.

Heavens shine is counted fair

The holy hours external light,

Greets you with beauty's wear.

Your gently gaze frames my true sight.

Upon your brow is beauty's name,

My sweet express becomes your fame...

Been there, done that...

Respect people who find time for you in their busy schedule, but LOVE those who don't look at their schedule when you need them...

Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.