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GUIDANCE

Here is an article with a message inscribed within the word GUIDANCE. It gives us a very good perspective about putting our trust in the supernatural intelligence who is responsible for the orderly creation and maintenance of the physical world we live in.

Free to Dance Again

One day while meditating on the word Guidance, I realized that it ended in “dance.”

Doing God’s will is a lot like dancing:

When dancing together, if both partners try to lead nothing feels right. The movement doesn’t flow with the music, and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky. However, when one person realizes this and lets the other lead, both bodies begin to flow with the music.

One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back or by pressing lightly in one direction or another. It’s as if two become one body, moving beautifully.

The dance takes surrender, willingness, and attentiveness from one person and gentle guidance and skill from the other.

My eyes were drawn back to the word Guidance.

When I saw the first letter, G, I thought of God. It is followed by the letters u and i. “God,” “u” and “i” “dance.” God, you, and I dance.

As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust that I would get guidance about my life, particularly if I let God lead.

My prayer for you today is that God’s blessings and mercies be upon you on this day and everyday. May you abide in God as God abides in you. Dance together with God, trusting God to lead and to guide you through each season of your life.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways acknowledge him,
and He shall direct your path.

-Proverbs 3:5-6

FREE TO CREATE

Every single item in creation is unique in itself, an expression of creativity and imagination with unlimited borders.
It is a reasonable assumption to think that there is a creator and designer who balances the complex parameters that keep the physical universe go round.

I believe that we are made in the image of God and that because God is a creator, he gave us the special ability to be creators ourselves and we are free to use that gift, for good or for evil, the choice is upto us.

We are given the creative freedom in all aspects of our lives. Even in worship — because we are free — not to. Again the choice is yours.

In Christ, we are set free to create. He sets us free to live — toward God, with people, in the world — as creative artists having our own brand of originality.

He sets us free to use the stuff that God gives us to live something original.

Go ahead, add some colors to our lives, especially the colors that God gave us to make living creations that are pleasing in His sight.

Only By Grace

My apologies to my readers for the temporary silence on my blog.

I have been busy last week with the launching of my software project at the Dubai Trade Center’s Vision-X Exhibition. It is an annual trade exhibit for optical related businesses. It is of particular interest to me, not just from a business perspective but also from the greater viewpoint of appreciation for one of the wonders of God’s creation — the human eye.

While many Darwinian evolutionists will disagree to my point of view, a closer examination of the innermost function and mechanism of this masterpiece will reinforce my theory that there is a master designer above the heavens whose craftsmanship and wisdom is beyond our comprehension.

The eye is a marvel of engineering. Its performance is so good, we cannot come close to imitating it in all its specifications that must be met simultaneously: stereoscopic, motion-picture, miniature, high-definition, self-repairing in many cases, self-cleaning, high signal-to-noise ratio, high depth of field, high dynamic range, low chromatic aberration, fast focus, image processing, long life, and much more. In fact, it may well exhibit the best of all possible optics combined ever.

Taking the subject a step further, interface all that influx of analog image information into a continuous stream of data to the brain for processing. Can you imagine how much data is passing through the optic nerve into the brain, and everything is processed in nanoseconds — from image recognition that recalls experiences as far as you can remember, to images that trigger feelings and emotions. Or the speed of character recognition as you are reading this article itself.

I can go on forever preaching the marvels of the eye as an instrument for appreciating everything else in the visual universe. I am thankful that I can see the world in full color and high-definition.

Yes, it is true that some people cannot see what I can see. I attribute these imperfections as defects from genetic copying errors that remind us we live in a world that is less than perfect. All the more that I am thankful for the wholeness of blessings bestowed upon me.

The following article is a perfect fit with today’s blog post. It talks about the human body as God’s masterpiece.

God is good … all the time!

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous — and how well I know it
(Psalm 139:14)

The Human Body — God’s Masterpiece

We live in an amazing world. The greatest of all creations is man himself, the marvelous machine—precise and efficient. The human body has a dynamic framework of bone and cartilage called the skeleton. The human skeleton is flexible, with hinges and joints that were made to move. But to cut down harmful frictions, such moving parts must be lubricated.

Man-made machines are lubricated only by outside sources. But the body lubricates itself by manufacturing a jelly-like substance in the right amount at every place it is needed. Yes, the body is a wonder machine, despite the defects from genetic copying errors (mutations) that have accumulated since the Fall of man brought on the Curse (Genesis 3).

The body has a chemical plant far more intricate than any plant that man has ever built. This plant changes the food we eat into living tissue. It causes the growth of flesh, blood, bones and teeth. It even repairs the body when parts are damaged by accident or disease. Power, for work and play, comes from the food we eat.

Even in freezing weather our bodies will sometimes overheat. The body’s own cooling system then takes over. Drops of perspiration pour from millions of tiny sweat glands in the skin. This is a major way in which our cooling system keeps our temperature down. The human body has an automatic thermostat that takes care of both our heating and cooling systems, keeping body temperature at about 37°C (98.6°F).

The brain is the centre of a complex computer system more wonderful than the greatest one ever built by man. The body’s computer system computes and sends throughout the body billions of bits of information, information that controls every action, right down to the flicker of an eyelid. In most computer systems, the information is carried by wires and electronic parts. In the body, nerves are the wires that carry the information back and forth from the central nervous system. And in just one human brain there is probably more wiring, more electrical circuitry, than in all the computer systems of the world put together. Yes, it is a wonderful thing—this brain of ours.

The control centre of the human body is the human brain. It is by far the most complex information-management system in the universe.

In fact, as we look at this very moment, we are actually seeing with our brain. Although, of course, the message is carried there from another marvelous structure, the human eye. Modern cameras operate on the same basic principle as our eyes. In our eye the focus and aperture are adjusted automatically.

The sound we hear is being played on a perfect little musical instrument inside our ear. The sound waves go down the auditory canal and are carried by the bones of the middle ear to the cochlea, which is rolled up like a tiny sea shell. The outer ear operates in air. But the cochlea is filled with liquid, and transferring sound waves from air to liquid is one of the most difficult problems known to science. Three tiny bones called the ossicles are just right to do the job that enables us to hear properly. Interestingly, the size of these little bones does not change from the time we are born.

The heart actually is a muscular pump forcing blood through thousands of miles of blood vessels. Blood carries food and oxygen to every part of the body. The heart pumps an average of six litres (1.5 U.S. gallons) of blood every minute, and in one day pumps enough blood to fill more than forty 200-litre (50-gallon) drums.

Yes, the human body is a wonderful machine. The fact that any one of these devices exists is a complete demonstration that they are the work of an intelligent and skilful designer, God Himself. ‘So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him, male and female created He them’ (Genesis 1:27).

The raw material, the basic chemicals in our body, can be found in the ‘dust of the ground’. However, these chemicals cannot arrange themselves into cell tissues, organs and systems. This can only happen with an input of intelligence.

The book of Genesis teaches that God took ‘the dust of the ground’, a heap of chemicals, shaped a man and then blew into his nostrils the breath of life. Then man became a living soul. Human beings are different from animals, for ‘God created man in his own image’ (Genesis 1:27). Our bodies have been designed with the ability to pass on to the next generation the programmed information required to form another person from simple chemicals.

We are more than the chemicals that form our body. We are a special creation of God. Man is God’s masterpiece — His workmanship, the crown of creation.

The human brain is ‘ …the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe’
– Isaac Asimov

 

After my dose of sunshine and jogging at the beach, I decided to go skin diving today.

It has been quite a while since I did any scuba or open-water activity. What turned out as an unplanned exercise opened a whole new world of re-discovery. As I splashed through the corals, the serenity and beauty of the underwater landscape was a manifestation of physical and spiritual creations that didn’t seem to mind my intrusion. All the fishes by the hundreds seemed to be eager to display their colors and grace as they swam past by me in all directions.

This connection with nature reminded me yet again that it is a beautiful world, you just simply have to look closer to appreaciate the beauty. If something is ugly, treat it as if it’s something yet to be understood to be appreciated.

It takes a certain state of mind to be susceptive to the beauty around us, recognizing at the same time that there is a supreme architect behind all this wonder of creation.

It’s been a great week. I love all the new things that I discovered.

God is good! All the time …

The natural world is a spiritual house. Man walks there through forests of physical things that are also spiritual things, that watch him with affectionate looks.
– Charles Baudelaire

15 Laws of Life

What You Need to Keep in Mind

1. Love Is The Law Of Life: All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore, love for love’s sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.
2. It’s Your Outlook That Matters: It is our own mental attitude, which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.
3. Life is Beautiful: First, believe in this world – that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!
4. It’s The Way You Feel: Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
5. Set Yourself Free: The moment I have realised God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
6. Don’t Play The Blame Game: Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
7. Help Others: If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
8. Uphold Your Ideals: Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
9. Listen To Your Soul: You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
10. Be Yourself: The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!
11. Nothing Is Impossible: Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin – to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
12. You Have The Power: All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
13. Learn Everyday: The goal of mankind is knowledge… now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man ‘knows’, should, in strict psychological language, be what he ‘discovers’ or ‘unveils’; what man ‘learns’ is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.
14. Be Truthful: Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
15. Think Different: All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

 

 
God didn’t promise days without pain,
  laughter without sorrow
  or sun without rain.

But God did promise strength for the day,
  comfort for the tears
  and a light for the way.

And for all who believe in His kingdom above,
  He answers their faith with everlasting love.

 

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This nice message was taken from a gift item I received from an old friend with these words inscribed on it. I thought this would be worth sharing.

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Tranquility and Peace
Heavenly Theme

The following articles are taken from Ralph Marston’s The Daily Motivator. These related articles talk about the motivational issues that determine your success in life’s ventures.

This is worth sharing and I hope it helps you improve your rate of success in this wonderful learning experience called life.

These messages talk about navigating through the physical and material world as we know it. This should also be taken in the context of a higher source of guidance who is in control of all things in the universe.

In the end, our success cannot be fully attributed to our own human endeavour alone. Success happens with the blessings from the one above.

Without Him, I cannot succeed.
With Him, I cannot fail.

Only By Grace

Your Own Special Songs

Allow yourself to be yourself. If you don’t want what the world says you should want, have the courage to say so.
Your greatest opportunities for making a difference in this world flow from your unique perspective. Explore, strengthen, celebrate and express that perspective every chance you get.

It’s not a matter of being different just to be different. It’s a matter of being honest with yourself and others about who you truly are.

You have your own special songs to sing. Sing them with passion, just because it feels so right.

What the world tells you is to be like everybody else. What the world needs is for you to be you.

Give to life the unique beauty of your own special making. Allow yourself to feel how good it feels, and to see what a positive difference the real you can make for everyone.

Reasons To Succeed

Surround yourself with reminders of the reasons you have chosen to do the work you do. Keep the thoughts of those reasons foremost in your mind.
Achievement never happens for its own sake. Achievement is built when there are solid, meaningful reasons behind it.

The only enduring impediment to success is the lack of a reason for that success. Connect with a good reason, keep that connection strong, and you will find your way through whatever challenges you encounter.

When you have a reason, you have a stake in the outcome. When you have a reason, you’re able to summon the discipline, commitment, persistence and creativity necessary to get the job done.

The best motivation is not to be found in some sophisticated secret technique or procedure. The best motivation is to constantly keep yourself in contact with your reasons.

Give yourself plenty of reasons to succeed. And you most assuredly will.

Your Vision

What is your vision for your life? Have you thought about it lately, or ever?
There is some vision, some dream, some goal so absolutely compelling that you cannot help but make it happen. Find it and connect with it.

There is a purpose within you that longs to be expressed. In following that purpose you will bring great value and fulfillment to your own life and the lives of those around you.

Feel the intensity of that purpose. Surrender to it and allow it to pull you powerfully forward.

It is never too early and never too late to immerse yourself in the empowering glow of your purpose. Now is when you can know the overwhelming sweetness of true fulfillment.

Step decisively toward those most treasured dreams that spring from your purpose. Right now, in this moment, fulfill the best of what you know life can be.

Behind Desire

Behind every desire is a deeper desire. Behind the deepest of desires, you’ll find the true identity of the person you are.
If you follow only the desires on the surface, without ever looking beneath them, you’ll likely come up empty. For knowing why is a key part of accomplishment. If your desires are ever to be realized, you must question them. Know that beneath each and every desire is a more profound, more fundamental purpose.

Perhaps you are a slave to your desires, or perhaps you are shocked by your desires, and maybe you’re even fearful of them. Have you ever considered stepping back and really examining them? They all exist for a reason. Knowing and following those reasons can lead you to an undeniable sense of real and lasting fulfillment.

Behind your desires you’ll find something even more compelling — purpose. The more often you bring that purpose to the surface, the more successfully your life will proceed.

A Reason That Is You

Why do you get angry? What is it that causes you to experience frustration? What is the reason behind the joys you have known? Why are you the person you are? Somewhere underneath it all is a purpose. Somewhere, inside all you are, is a reason.
If there was no purpose, if there was no reason, you would not care about anything at all. Nothing would bring out anger or sadness, excitement or joy.

There is a reason that is you, a purpose that is yours. As each day passes, you grow to know, to understand, and to fulfill it to an ever greater degree.

Behind every single thing you desire or think or say or do, behind the feelings, there is a reason that is you. The more fully you live it, the richer life will be.

No Day is Wasted

Living with purpose and clear focus helps you to understand the value of being meaningfully focused. And aimlessly wandering with no clear focus can also help you to appreciate the power of a positive purpose.
Either way, life leads you surely, steadily toward your purpose. Whether you experience the pain of losing touch with that purpose, or the joy of living in harmony with it, you grow in understanding and appreciation.

No day, no experience, no encounter is really wasted. Through the ups and downs, in the good times and in times of despair, you feel more intensely the longing to express who you truly are.

The beauty of this day is not in its particulars. The beauty is that you can take it all in, whatever and however it may be, and add it to the substance of your being.

Whatever comes along, be thankful for the opportunity to pass through it. Whatever is, go with it and grow with it.

Your purpose cannot help but become stronger, as each moment passes. Feel that strength, and live it more fully, more authentically, day after day.

Are you busy? Here’s a new and painful definition of it.

We are living in a world which is fast-paced and we overlook the things that really matter. We scramble to meet deadlines and over-achieve our targets so that we can afford to live in our houses which we spend time to sleep for the most part, so that we can afford to buy the material things that compensate for our lack of time for the ones we love, to compensate for our emptiness within our wealth-oriented, consumer-driven existence.

Somewhere in the Bible, I read something that goes like “what will you benefit if you gain the world and lose your spirituality in the process ?”.

Let’s face it. Even if God were to add one extra hour each day to make it 25 hours for one day, can you guarantee that this extra one hour will be devoted to worship for God or to family?.

When I started my professional life, I was obsessed with achieving and excelling on the job, and exploring the corporate landscape 24×7. I was going too fast. I thought I was superman. Well, nobody is. I came to realize this at a later part of my life. Better late than never.

This following narrative will help you gain a new perspective in what is really important. Spirituality, family, friends, health. Our jobs come in last in the order of quality time food-chain.

This article is quite long, but it is worth it. Read if even if you are BUSY.

God bless!

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Satan called a worldwide convention of demons.

In his opening address he said:

“We can’t keep Christians from going to church.”

“We can’t keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth.”

“We can’t even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their saviour.”

“Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.”

“So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don’t have time to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ…”

“This is what I want you to do,” said the devil:

“Distract them from gaining hold of their Saviour and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!”

“How shall we do this?” his demons shouted.

“Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds,” he answered.

“Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow.”

“Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles.”

“Keep them from spending time with their children.”

“As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work!”

“Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice.”

“Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive; To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly.”

“This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ.”

“Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers.”

“Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day.”

“Invade their driving moments with billboards.”

“Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services and false hopes…”

“Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands will believe that outward beauty is what’s important, and they’ll become dissatisfied with their wives. ”

“Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night.”

“Give them headaches too!”

“If they don’t give their husbands the love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere.”

“That will fragment their families quickly!”

“Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas.”

“Give them an Easter bunny so they won’t talk about his resurrection and power over sin and death.”

“Even in their recreation, let them be excessive.”

“Have them return from their recreation exhausted.”

“Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God’s creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead.”

“Keep them busy, busy, busy!”

“And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences.”

“Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Jesus.”

“Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause.”

“It will work!”

“It will work!”

It was quite a plan!

The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there.

Having little time for their God or their families.

Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives.

I guess the question is … has the devil been successful in his schemes?

You be the judge!

Does “BUSY” mean: B-eing U-nder S-atan’s Y-oke?

Here is a tribute to our parents who need our attention especially in their old age.

Leader of the Band

Leader of the Band

The Musings of the Mahatma — Answers for our Times

Here is another collection of powerful messages, this time from the meditations of Gandhi. They are as timeless as they are ever so relevant.

You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

To give service to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever

There is sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not but not for man’s greed

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others

In prayer, it is beter to have a heart without words than words without a heart

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow human beings

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others

Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he blesses

Enjoy the beauty of math. Words can’t express it, just let the numbers speak.

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature … If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in

Wonderful World

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn’t it?

And look at this symmetry:

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=123456789 87654321

Now, take a look at this…

101%

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint:

What Equals 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?

We have all been in situations where someone wants you to GIVE OVER 100%.

How about ACHIEVING 101%?

What equals 100% in life?

Here’s a little mathematical formula that might help answer these questions:

If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

If:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K

8+1+18+4+23 + 15+18+11 = 98%

And:

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E

11+14+15+23+ 12+5+4+7+ 5 = 96%

But:

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E

1+20+20+9+20+ 21+4+5 = 100%

THEN, look how far the love of God will take you:

L-O-V-E-O-F-G-O-D

12+15+22+5+15+ 6+7+15+4 = 101%

Therefore, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that:

While Hard Work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there , It’s the Love of God that will put you over the top!

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I doubt this was all by coincidence.

It’s a wonderful world when God’s love is practiced as a part of our daily life.