Strengthen your inner self, see yourself as God see’s you and not as other’s see you

Genesis 49:24But his bow remained strong and steady and rested in the Strength that does
not fail him, for the arms of his hands were made strong and active by the hands of the Mighty God of
Jacob, by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

 

 

 

It’s not easy trying to live your life when you feel you are a constant outcast. Just because you are different. Hey, you know what?? We are all different. If you think there is nothing wrong with you, and that you are better than someone else because they have obvious signs that they are weaker than you, than you are the one who need some adjusting.  That might be a hard thing to hear. But maybe it’s something you need to be hearing to correct yourself.

 

Sure, there are people out there who’s weakness’s are easier to spot than other’s, but that doesn’t mean that you intentionally make them feel bad about themselves because of it. Maybe they can’t help it? Maybe they have a condition that you can not see that is invisible to you. Making other’s feel bad about themselves because they are different from you is a sign of a bully.

 

I sincerely hope that you are not one of those people who are doing it. You will never realize the internal damage you might cause with that person. Everyone should feel good about themselves no matter who they are. When you cause internal damage to someone it’s such a hard fight to get back to the point where you once were.

 

Sometimes, there are people who may never fully recover from being victimized by a bully, because they have constant reminder’s.  Those constant reminder’s will cause even more damage psychologically. Depending on how strong minded the person is or isn’t.

Please don’t stop living your life because of a new bad apples in the basket. You are who you are and God made you in His image and likeness. Never forget that. Maybe I have repeated these things before, but faith comes by hearing, and hearing, and hearing the word of God.

 

We have the Word of God for this exact reason to strengthen us and keep us full of life and hope.

 

 

Psalm 138:3
In the day when I called, You answered me; and You strengthened
me with strength (might and inflexibility to temptation) in my inner self.

Wish I could do more

I love writing it brings out the passionate side of me. I am a swf in my 30’s who loves taking pictures. If I could I would takes pictures for websites for a living. That would be great for me I’d get to travel and go different places. I love being able to say what I want to say on my blog. If we were living in Afganastan, or Iraq we would not really be having these freedom’s that we do in the United States. We have so many more freedom’s than most people do in a lot of other countries.

Some countries you have to worry about stepping outside your front door, even in some of our neighborhood’s you have to worry about that. I was listening to an MPR interview the other day and this one guy who was being interviewed said he and his sister would hide in their bathroom to avoid getting shot at.

Can you imagine what it must be like to live like that in fear of being shot at in your own house? Just because your not in a nice neighborhood? It just makes me sad to think about those things. And that I or we can’t do more to prevent them from happening.

Just like our homeless situation. I wish I could do more than just feed them a meal. It just makes me sad that not all of them can be accepted into homeless shelters because they just don’t have enough room for everyone. So they have to turn some of them away back onto the streets.

I wish I could do more to help out. It makes my life seem pretty good compared to some others. Though it might not always seem that way at times. I just wish I could do more. I don’t have some of the problems that others might have like alchoholism, drug addition, not having a place to live, chemical dependancy, paranoid dillusions, severe mental illness, just to name a few of them.

Well maybe my little contribution to society is just keeping my life in order so that there is one less problem to deal with. I’ll think of it that way.

Today it was time for tears

God’s voice said and I cry with you.

I was sitting on my couch tonight and thinking to myself why is it that people want me to feel so bad about who I am? I just don’t get it? Tears started to come down my face, and I clearly heard God saying “I cry with you.”

God knows my pain and that is probably why it hurts more than it does. Because he is hurting with me. I’ll just never understand why people think that they need to do the things they do to another human being. I don’t think I will understand it except to say that, they don’t understand it themselves and want to feel that they are in control of what they don’t know.

After those tears came I did feel a relief. Every once in a while that happens. Sure some people might think I am loosing my mind. But that ain’t the case buddy! Now some people might think I should keep some things with the Holy Spirit (probably that too). But sometimes the Holy Spirit will overcome you whether it’s overcoming you with tears, with laughter, with Joy, with sadness.

There is a time for everthing under Heaven. Today it was time for tears. Those tears are now gone and now it’s time for joy. I don’t think I am meant to understand everything about people, if I were I’d have every answer to every human situation. And we all know that’s not even possible.

I’m just glad that I cried along side with God today instead of crying alone. God has his ways of reminding us that he is there.

How does he remind you?

Well I just got back from a trip to Lanseboro, MN. I would recommend though going the second week or third week of October. We went the frist weekend in October There were some colors that changed but not as many as I would have liked to see. I was a little bit disappointed. There was a lot more green than I anticipated.

But I found out one interesting fact that my Great Great Grandparents on my mom’s side came to Lanesboro, MN when they first settled in Minnesota. So, I need to start doing some family history research again. That is something that I would highly recommend doing because you never know who keeps those records. Someone in your family may have records if you were to just ask for them.

I wrote to some of my relatives in Sweden and they had records dating back to the early 1800’s on my dad’s side. I still have those copies and even pictures of when my Great Great Grandmother was a child! I’ll have to look up my G Gparents on the Ellis Island Passenger list website.

10 Minute Apple Sauce

This recipie sounds really good actually and I am going to try it out. I don’t know if I am going to splurg though on a bottle of Brandy just for the applesauce? It only calls for 2 tablespoons and I’m sure that it just adds a little bit of kick to it.

I’m trying it without the Brandy.

10 Minute Apple Sauce Recipe courtesy Alton Brown Show: Good Eats Episode: Cable in the Classroom

3 Golden Delicious apples, peeled, cored, and quartered 3 Fuji apples, peeled, cored, and quartered 1 cup unfiltered apple juice 2 tablespoons cognac or brandy 2 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons honey 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon  In a sealable microwave-safe container, combine apples with all other ingredients. Close lid, leaving one corner of lid open to allow steam to escape. Microwave on high for 10 minutes.Using a hand blender or potato masher, blend to desired consistency. Serve hot immediately or chill for later use.

Decided it’s time to get serious

I decided that it’s time to get serious about loosing weight. I keep hearing over and over again that you can’t have one without the other when it comes to diet and exercise. The other day I was eating cheese curds and I LOVE cheese. Cheese curds have 110 calories for a 1 inch piece and I had already eaten half the bag!! My God. I do know that I have an eating problem. 

I really need to control what I am eating and how much I am eating. And I need to get serious. I know I’ll look better and feel better. When you are thin most people automatically look better when they get their weight down. I am going to have to get serioius about walking.

I went for a walk tonight at about 8:00pm. Maybe a mile at the most and I was already feeling some pain in my left hip muscle. But I got to keep telling myself I am never going to look better unless I loose weight. I’ve been thinking maybe I need to cut down on my medication dosage too. I am only taking 20 mgs of my medication right now to see if that is going to help because it has weight gain as a side effect. 

It’s so damn hard when you don’t want to exercise because you are already overweight your body doesn’t want to do shit to start with.

Review of Oprah’s book list – Tolle A New Earth

Review of Oprah’s book list – Tolle A New Earth

Now I admit that I haven’t completly read through the entire book yet. But I can tell you that so far I don’t llike what I have read about his book. I have read through about the first 18 pages. Basically it’s putting religion(s) and humanity down for their ego’s and dysfunctions. And that dysfunctions are hereditary. That what you believe in has nothing to do with how spiritual you are. We know as Christians that is not entirely true!Although Tolle has made a couple of good points, he’s made a majority of negative points. He is a spiritual teacher and counselor. There was another ‘review’ even though she didn’t call it a review it was a warning of his book to warn Christians of his teachings.

This book is also on Oprah’s book club list for reading. I wonder what Oprah’s opinion of this book was? I wonder if she reads all these books that she recommends to her audience. How in the world does she find the time??!! I don’t know how she does it. This is probably the most reading that I’ve done in the last two years or so. I have completed reading some other books as well.

I won’t get into it though. I am going to point out some statements in the book if you are considering buying it.

 

 

 

I welcome any comments if you have read the book.page 3
Some reptilians grew feathers and wings and turned into birds thus defying the force that held them for so long.

There is scripture that does not support this statement and that Adam and/or God together named all the mammals and birds in the garden. It makes it sound very closely that Tolle may believe in the Theory of Evolution?

HOW ZEN WAS DISCOVERED:
The smile, or “realization” was handed down by 28 masters and became known as Zen, because of a smile.

page 6
The messangers Buddha , Jesus and others not mentioned were humanities early flowers.

Flowers?

Jesus was a disciple and Son of God

Page 8
Talks about the ego being the main “enemy” and the workings of the ego how it will overtake you. It will trick you into identifying with it again and again.

I think I can see what he is talking about that the Ego going unchecked will take over you which is the key word there.

Page 8
Also says ‘you cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight agianst darkness.

 

 

 

This statement I do not agree with and I don’t think that a lot of Christians will agree with this either:Page 9 Talks a little about Buddism.

Page 8 Talks about that we Inherit dysfunction:
That is true in part if we have a mental illness. Just because a family may have dysfunctions doesn’t mean that it will always be carried over to the next generation. Someone maybe suseptible to mental illness but they can make the ultimate decision to reverse that dysfunction if they have a strong enough will power.

Page 10
The mind is very intelligent but tainted by madness.

Tainted by madness?

Page 11
The collective manifestations of the insanity that lies at the heart of the human conditions constitute the GREATER part of human history.

when he is speaking of destruction – yes that would be true. Again not all hearts of all humans are destructive.

While there has been many wars fought throughout time, I find it really hard to believe that all human hearts are subject to insanity. The author makes points about the early war of 1914 and there after. Yes destruction is undeniable. But so is goodness. If you research all the good that’s gone on in the world there are thousands of examples.

Page 12
Important to realize that fear, greed and the desire for power are not the dysfunction that we are speaking of but are themselves created by the dysfunction which is deep seated collective dillusion of EACH HUMAN BEING. I completely disagree with that one.

Page 13
History of Communism – he has a good point.

Page 15
Division among religion
While that is true in many cases I disagree with that statement because in the case of Christianity where it is present has brought thousands of people together, just take a look at the numbers yourself. Sure, there will always be strife, but I try to look at the good that Christianity has also done.

Page 17
The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself. (Disagree)

Faith (religion) is what you believe in. It does become a part of you. It’s the substance of things hoped for but unseen.

Maybe I will make this into a monthly project to read a few pages every week and do a monthly update of the points I agree or disagree with? How does that sound?