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In ancient civilizations, the primary defense for cities was huge, imposing walls. Once the walls were surmounted, victory for the aggressor was virtually ensured. The Scriptures compare a person without self-control to just such a ravaged city. He is at the mercy of outside forces, subject to double-mindedness. He is tossed to and fro by turbulent emotions and passions. His life is unstable and only occasionally fruitful. The key to developing self-control with a spiritual emphasis is not more self-determination. It is not a doubling of efforts or better time management. The pivotal discipline for gaining godly self-control is the renewing of the mind. Like the ancient walls, the mind is the crucial defense mechanism. If it is broached by negative, critical, undisciplined thoughts, our behavior and our entire personality are adversely affected. We act out the way we perceive ourselves, the way we think. Our actions conform with our thinking. Right thinking is the first step toward right living... ...When Satan assaults the walls of our minds with alluring enticements, we do not have to yield, because of who we are in Christ. He is the source of our strength. He is our life. ...Ask Christ to fill you up daily with the Holy Spirit. Rest in him. Abide in him. The divine sap of God's gentle Spirit will flow through you to others who desperately need the healing touch of God. You will avoid quarrels. You will not be obsessed with your own self-interests. You will be an attractive witness for Christ and sow the seeds of peace everywhere you go. What a wonderful harvest you will reap. ---Charles Stanley, A Touch of His Wisdom
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@selenagomez @sarahpalinUSA hERES ANOTHER CLUE FOR YOU ALL jesus IS paul .
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From TIME Magazine's "Paul McCartney: The Legend Rocks on at 70" by James Kaplan. Insightful and revealing, definitely the kind of rock journalism I prefer: THE WHITE ALBUM...'[C]ouldn't have been a less group-like enterprise...The new repertoire, almost to a song, had lost its collaborative aspect...and bore few of the familiar qualities that identified them as Beatles songs.' --Bob Spitz The group recorded the double LP's 30 songs together, even as outer and inner forces were starting to shake them apart. For one thing, John was [addicted to heroin]; for another, he was falling in love with Yoko Ono, whom he insisted on bringing into the recording studio. She sat glued by his side at all times...in blatant defiance of an unwritten rule that excluded all outsiders. Suddenly there was no more inside. John's double remoteness pushed away the other members of the group, especially Paul. George...felt increasingly superfluous. And...Ringo felt like a kid helplessly watching his soon-to-divorce parents fight. And fight they did. One EMI employee vividly remembered..."I could hear them [arguing] in the hall, and it was terrifying. Paul was positively livid, accusing John of being reckless, childish, sabotaging the group." John was unmoved. And yet when he recorded what he later called "a throwaway song," "Glass Onion," he [added] a strange line: "Well, here's another clue for you all/The walrus was Paul." At a time when all the world was over-interpreting every syllable of every Beatles number...the reference to Lennon's oblique 'I am the Walrus' was...according to John, completely deceptive. "I was having a laugh because there'd been so much gobbledy-gook about Pepper--play it backwards, and you stand on your head and all that. At that time, I was still in my love-cloud with Yoko. I thought, 'Well, I'll just say something nice to Paul, that it's all right and you did a good job all these years, holding us together.' " The joke would have unintended consequences. ...The layers of the onion...
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The Real Enemy A poem by Renee Jean My eyes were opened and I learned the truth. Doubt and fear are tactics of the enemy who stands only to keep you from being the person that God created you to be...the person that God is calling you to be...the person that those you love and this world need you to be. We are in a battle. Every single day the enemy, our flesh and people try to distract us from the truth. These things pull us into a life that holds us captive, separate from God and His blessings. But we have a choice. When we chase after God's very own heart, we feel our hearts finally fulfilled. The void no longer. A love like none other. I've learned that Jesus is the answer to everything and he is the giver of life. He is a healer, a redeemer and a restorer. And it is only at the cross where we find the miracles, signs and wonders we desire. Heaven CAN be experienced on earth. May you be blessed, and may you find yourself equipped in the whole armor of God to fight this battle each day. I believe if you truly give your life to Jesus and wake up EVERYDAY seeking Him with all of your heart, mind, soul and strength...that you too will find all that you need just as I have. And you too will be set free. Remember this because there will be times when you feel differently, and times when people make you believe incorrectly: You were born on purpose and you have a great purpose! --Taxed from the facebook
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1 John 4:8 He (they) that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1 John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he (they) that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him (them). "Love Is Thee Answer...And, You Know That For Sure!" Jesus taught love and peace...Some people preach Jesus, but forget to teach love and peace. That is why God sends us prophets now and then to teach us love and peace which Jesus...taught us to do.
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...well, right you are... Forgiveness is the key to love, is it not?
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"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot open fully to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life." --John Lennon "L&G, The greatest tea-room orchestra in the world:"
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The first lesson we learn from John F. Kennedy is to fashion the future out of our rational hopes, not our fears. He was the first to deny the baseless hopes of idle dreamers: "I am not referring to the absolute, infinite concept of universal peace and good will of which some fantasies and fanatics dream. I do not deny the value of hopes and dreams but we merely invite discouragement and incredulity by making that our only and immediate goal." ...As a politician and statesman, he gave us the best single piece of management advice...: "By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all people to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly towards it." ...Kennedy recognized another obstacle. In opening the Peace Speech, he called peace "the most important topic on Earth." Yet he noted that "the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war, and frequently the words of the pursuers fall on deaf ears." Here is a dismaying truth: the most important topic on earth may fall on deaf ears! We are hardwired for drama, for competition, for the struggle to survive. Even when we cooperate, we often do it...so our group can be stronger than the others. ...We need to reconceive the challenge of peace itself. Making peace is a political and social process, but the ability to sustain peace depends on economic development. Impoverished countries fall into violence, conflict and civil war with far greater frequency and predictability than do stable, prosperous societies...This most basic lesson has been lost on recent policymakers. --From To Move the World, by Jeffrey D. Sachs
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The Famous Five Through Woenow Abbey: It was holiday time for the famous five by Enig Blyter; Tom, Stan, Dave, Nigel, Berniss, Arthur, Harry, Wee Jockey, Matoombo, and Craig ? For the past 17 years the fabled fibe had been forming into adventures on varicose islands and secrete vallets with their famous ill bred dog, Cragesmure. Their popular Uncle Philpole with his popular curly white hair and his rugged red weather battered face and his popular fisherman's boots and his big junky sweater and his littel cottage. 'Gruddly Pod, Gruddly Pod,' the train seemed to say, 'Gruddly Pod, we're on our holidays,' and they were. Pon arrival they notices a mysterious stranger who bode no ill? 'Oi, what's this 'ere,' he said from behind. 'We're the famous fire by Greenod Bladder,' replied Tom, Stan, Dave, Nigel, Berniss, Arthur, Harry, Wee Jockey, Matoombo, and Craig ?, and they were. 'Don't you dare go on the mysterious Woenow Abbey Hill.' That night by the light of their faithful dog Cragesmure, they talked Craig and Mtoombo into foing the dirty worj. Soon they were at Woenow Attlee grazine upone an olde crypped who turned round to be the furtive stranger. 'Keep off the grass,' he asked frae a great hat. Matoombo sprange and soon overpowdered the old crypt with a halfhelsie. Craig ? quickly fried the old crypt together. 'Wart is the secrete of Woebeat Dobby?' Craig ? asked. 'Yer can beat me but ne'er ye'll learn the secrete,' he answered from a green hut. 'Anything you say may be used in Everton against you,' said Harry. And it was. -- John Lennon, In His Own Write
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Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rare is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it is rarer; Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter; And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the metre. Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty sceptres the flowing; Never a Shakespeare that soared, but a stronger than he did enfold him, Nor ever a prophet foretells, but a mightier seer hath foretold him. Back of the canvas that throbs the painter is hinted and hidden; Into the statue that breathes the soul of the sculptor is bidden; Under the joy that is felt lie the infinite issues of feeling; Crowning the glory revealed is the glory that crowns the revealing. Great are the symbols of being, but that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, but vaster the inward creator; Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving. Space is as nothing to spirit, the deed is outdone by the doing; The heart of the wooer is warm, but warmer the heart of the wooing; And up from the pits where these shiver, and up from the heights where those shine; Twin voices and shadows swim starward, and the essence of life is divine. --Richard Realf, "Indirection"
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In defense of the satirist we may say that indirection is a "civilized" rather than a "cowardly" form of communication. And the satirist's failure to attack the basic problems in his society may be defended on the grounds that important things provide less suitable subject matter for laughter than does insignificant material. Since humor deals primarily with the social and superficial qualities of life, it is not likely to be successful with deep passions or profoundly held beliefs. Contradictory evaluations of the satirist's courage have been expressed. In an essay published in 1744, Corbyn Morris wrote that only the satirist "has the courage to cry out, unmoved by personal resentment: he flourishes only in a land of freedom, and when that ceases he dies too, last and noblest weed of the soil of liberty." But modern psychoanalysts see the satirist from a very different perspective. Dr. Kanzer...believes that the satirist sometimes "pushes aggression to provocative limits that result in a counterattack...which gratifies his need for persecution and suffering," and suggests that the satire of Gogol was motivated by an unconscious desire to be punished. Nor does Dr. Edmund Bergler have much respect for courage of satirists. According to him, the satirist's "aggression against authority is very tame. He uses indirect and not very transparent ridicule of it...a rebel who is always looking in the direction of the authority he is supposed to have overcome is no rebel at all." Satirists have from the earliest times divided themselves into two groups, one insisting that the evil action rather than the evildoer should be satirized; [such as] Juvenal...The other group asserts that the individual evildoer should be satirized, [such as] Voltaire, Bierce, Mencken, Hugo, and Frenau have... When WWII broke out, Evelyn Waugh joined the Royal Marines; later, as a commando, he gained a reputation for extraordinary bravery...(A psychoanalyst may object...that this...is not courage but an expression of the "death-wish."...If the psychoanalyst accepts cowardly acts on the part of the satirist as cowardice, but rejects the satirist's brave acts as a "death-wish," it becomes impossible to defend the satirist. --Leonard Feinberg, "The Satirist"
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"One of the great truths of the Bible is that whenever God gets ready to do anything in the earth, He always works through a person or a group of people whom He has called and who have willingly responded to Him. The human factor is key for God's activity on the earth. When God prepared to deliver the Israelites from Egypt, He called Moses. When He got ready to rescue His people from the Midianites, He called Gideon. When God wanted to warn His disobedient people of His judgment and call them back to Him, He called Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos, and the other prophets. When God was ready to send His Son into the world, He chose Mary, a humble peasant girl, to be His mother. When Jesus Christ prepared to send His message of salvation throughout the world, He called and anointed men and women--His Church--and commissioned them for the mission. This illustrates an incredible principle under which God operates: Without God we cannot, and without us God will not. For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion." "Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work." "Within the overall context of loving his wife, a husband's first and primary role is to be the spiritual head and covering and teacher in the home. Through his words, lifestyle, and personal behavior the husband should teach the Word, the will, and the ways of the Lord to his wife and children." "It is not enough just to know who we love; we need to know what we love. We need to know why we love the person we love. This is critically important for building a happy and successful marriage." "If we hope to become effective and successful in life, ministry, and especially marriage, we have to learn to be good managers. Stewardship means being accountable to God for every resource under our care. Effective managers do more than simply keep things running; they add value to everything they have responsibility over. Under a good manager, resources will appreciate in value." - Myles Munroe, The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
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So much for the analysis of love. Now the business of our lives is to have these things fitted into our characters. That is the supreme work to which we need to address ourselves in this world, to learn love. Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love. What makes a man a good cricketer? Practice. What makes a man a good artist, a good sculptor, a good musician? Practice. What makes a man a good linguist, a good stenographer? Practice. What makes a man a good man? Practice. Nothing else. There is nothing capricious about religion. We do not get the soul in different ways, under different laws, from those in which we get the body and the mind. If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires...no strength of character, no vigor of moral fibre, no beauty of spiritual growth. Love is not a thing of enthusiastic emotion. It is a rich, strong, manly, vigorous expression of the whole round Christian character--the Christlike nature in its fullest development. And the constituents of this great character are only to be built up by ceaseless practice. --Henry Drummond Everywhere are encountered those who...despise the truth and persist in their self-deception. Their error is not one of judgement, but of ultimate preference--they desire that a lie be the truth. Such are deluded; they resist a correction of the false idea when facts are presented. Their delusions are explained, not by inadequacy of facts, but by desire's distortion of the truth. In meeting such errors...the lover of truth very frequently misses his way by staking his case on logic when it is not the deluded's logic which needs untangling, but his perverted heart...How prone is humanity to justify its own mistakes! How cautious must one be to avoid self-deception! Whatever may be the evil consequences of falsehood and deception to the deceiver, the consequences of self-deception are to him far more serious. --L.R. Marston, From Chaos to Character
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HauserPlenty:
Chiefed from The Guideposts Treasury of Inspirational Classics: The spectrum of love has nine ingredients: Patience: Love suffereth long. Kindness: And is kind. Generosity: Love envieth not. Humility: Love vaunteth not itself; is not puffed up. Courtesy: Doth not behave itself unseemly Unselfishness: Seeketh not its own. Good temper: Is not provoked. Guilelessness: Taketh not account of evil. Sincerity: Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth. ...these make up the supreme gift, the stature of the perfect man. You will observe that all are in relation to [humanity],...life...the known today and the near tomorrow, and not to the unknown eternity. We hear much of love to God; Christ spoke of love to [humanity]. We make a great deal of peace with heaven; Christ made much of peace on Earth. Religion is not a strange or added thing, but the inspiration of the secular life, the breathing of an eternal spirit through this temporal world. The supreme thing, in short, is not a thing at all, but the giving of a further finish to the multitudinous words and acts which make up the sum of every common day... 'The greatest thing,' says someone, 'a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children.' I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder than we are? How much the world needs it! How easily it is done! How instantaneously it acts! How infallibly it is remembered! How superabundantly it pays itself back--for there is no debtor in the world so honorable...as love. 'Love never fails.' Love is success, love is happiness, love is life. 'Love,' I say with Browning, 'is energy of life.' For life, with all it yields of joy or woe, And hope and fear, Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,-- How love might be, hath been indeed, and is. Where love is, God is. He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God. God is love. Therefore love. Without distinction...calculation...procrastination, love... You know the meaning of the word 'Gentleman.' It means...a man who does things gently, with love. That is the whole art and mystery of it. The gentle man cannot in the nature of things do...an ungentlemanly thing. The ungentle soul, the inconsiderate, unsympathetic nature, cannot do anything else. 'Love doth not behave itself unseemly.'...there is no greatness in things...the only greatness is unselfish love. Even self-denial in itself is nothing, is almost a mistake. Only a great purpose or a mightier love can justify the waste....Nothing is a hardship to love, and nothing is hard... Good temper: The next ingredient is a very remarkable one: 'Love is not provoked.' We are inclined to look upon bad temper as a very harmless weakness...not a thing to take into very serious account in estimating a man's character. And yet, here, right in the heart of this analysis of love, it finds a place; and the Bible again and again returns to condemn it as one of the most destructive elements in human nature...it is the vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character...You know men...and women who would be entirely perfect, but for a...quick-tempered...disposition. This compatibility of ill temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics. The truth is, there are two great classes of sins--sins of the body, and sins of the disposition...We have no balance to weigh one another's sins, and coarser and finer are but human words; but faults in the higher nature may be less venal than those in the lower, and in the eye of Him who is love, a sin against love may be seen as a hundred times more base. No form of vice, not worldliness, not greed of gold, not drunkenness itself, does more to unchristianize society than evil temper...for sheer gratuitous misery-producing power this influence stands alone...Analyze, as a study in temper, the thunder-cloud itself as it gathers on the Elder Brother's brow. What is it made of? Jealousy, anger, pride, uncharity, cruelty, self-righteousness...sullenness--these are the ingredients of this dark and loveless soul. In varying proportions, also, these are the ingredients of all ill temper. Judge if such sins of the disposition are not worse to live in, and for others to live with, than the sins of the body. Did Christ indeed not answer the question Himself when He said, 'I say to you that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of heaven before you'? There is really no place in heaven for a disposition like this. A man with such a mood could only make heaven miserable for all the people in it. Except, therefore, such a man be born again, he...simply cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. --Henry Drummond, The Greatest Thing in the World ...The one great need in our Christian life is love, more love to God and to each other. Would that we could all move into that Love chapter, [1 Corinthians 13] and live there. --D.L. Moody "So faith, hope, love abide, these three. But the greatest of these is love." --1 Corinthians 13:13 God is love. Love is all you need.
Just stumbled on your words ... As Sur Steven said... Amen? I too love Corinthians... Interesting words on a true gentle man... A rarity There is so much to be said about true kindness as well. Compassion, generosity of spirit, benevolence and gentleness emerging from the heart. Love comes from God through our hearts. I'm going to read more or your thoughts...
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Why, thank you! I'm glad to find it's your cup of...uh... Where do they all come from, indeed, You Might Well Arsk? Mate of mine from Liddypool, (I call 'im "Liverpool Phil") still asks me if I'm keeping a face in a JBTD...) The Rev. Charles Stanley once preached a sermon, in which he said: "Loneliness is not of the Lord." This was quite a revelation to me, as I used to believe a woman could save me. Or that maybe I could save her...but it was wrong of me. Now, I've got God, God is love, and love is all I need...to put it another way: "Don't indulge." https://relevantmagazine.com/god/god-our-generation/philip-yancey-christianitys-negative-stereotypes http://www.startribune.com/dalai-lama-visits-eden-prairie-for-discussion-on-compassion/430463413/#1 Where do they all belong, indeed? Their all washing the rabio.
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I'm Still Searching for you in Every Person I went astray the day I lost you. On the outside, I'm physically complete. On the inside, I'm an empty barrel of wine. I refuse to pour myself in anybody's glass. I traced your footsteps into the woods; I found nothing but nature at work. Trees have grown, animals were born, and I'm still adamant about finding you. I'm still searching for you in every person and begging them to reveal "you." I'm carefully tracing their faces, hoping to find yours among their lines. I'm beholding their eyes, trying to glimpse the aurora I have found in your irises. Nowhere, but in yours, have I seen the Big Dipper constellation. I hear your voice in every person's uttered words. I lie to my heart and whisper, "It's your beloved." I fake your presence and tell my unconsciousness, "Weep no more, your beloved has returned." I fear the day I might realize that my quest has come to failure. No stranger, no friend, no lover could refill the empty barrel of wine that I am. I return to the woods, retrace your footsteps-- what is it that we wouldn't do for love? If death's the only thing that would join us together, I'd build my sepulcher and wait for you there. I couldn't find you in people; perchance, I'll find you in the wilderness. Everything in nature seems to remind me of you. Like the stars, you bring me infinite joy, yet you're unattainable. I can only gaze at you from afar or reshape myself to become your night sky. The purpose of love is to find each other. Join me in my quest and look for me. Let's bump into each other amongst the trees and below the stars that are so much like you. I believe in the force of gravity--come find me. You're not a star; I'm not a human. I'm the Earth; you're the Moon. Come orbit me. --Elayne Youssef
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SOME TRAVELING MUSIC How can you say something new about being alone? Tell someone you're a loner and right away they think you're lonely. It's not the same thing, you know. It's not wanting to put all your marbles in one pocket. It's caring enough not to care too much. Mostly it's letting yourself come first for a while. --Rod McKuen
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance The first time I saw Brother Lawrence was upon the third of August, 1666. He told me that God had done him a singular favor in his conversion at the age of eighteen...That useless thoughts spoil all; that mischief began there, but that we ought to reject them as soon as we perceived their impertinence to the matter at hand, or our salvation, and return to our communion with God. That at the beginning he had often passed his time appointed for prayer in rejecting wandering thoughts and falling back into them. That he could never regulate his devotion by certain methods as some do...That we ought to make a difference between the act of the understanding and the acts of the will; that the first were comparatively of little value, and the others, all. That our only business was to love and delight ourselves in God. --Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
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Can you say "I love you" any better? Touching words from the mouths of babes: A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds: "What does love mean?" The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. "Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." Terri - age 4 "Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK." Danny - age 7 "Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss." Emily - age 8 "Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen." Bobby - age 7 (Wow!) "If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate." Nikka - age 6 (We need a few million more Nikka's on this planet!) "Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it every day." Noelle - age 7 "Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well." Tommy - age 6 "During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore." Cindy - age 8 "My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night." Clare - age 6 "Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken." Elaine-age 5 "Love is when Mommy sees Daddy all smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford." Chris - age 7 "Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day." Mary Ann - age 4 "I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones." Lauren - age 4 "When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." (What an image!) Karen - age 7 "Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross." Mark - age 6 "You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget." Jessica - age 8 And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said: "Nothing, I just helped him cry." When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need. Take 60 seconds and give this a shot! All you do is simply say the following small prayer for the person who sent you this: Heavenly Father, please bless all my friends in whatever it is that You know they may be needing this day! And may their life be full of Your peace, prosperity and power as he/she seeks to have a closer relationship with You. Amen. Then send it on to five other people. Within hours you caused a multitude of people to pray for other people. Then sit back and watch the power of God work in your life. P. S. Five is good, but more is better... The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They simply are the ones who care the most.