Category: Inspiration

(My friends are on fire today! First Karen Hadley and now this from Jan Houston-Solari!)

This is a beautifully wise way to illustrate the problem of burdening young children with sex “education”.

This excerpt from the book ‘The Hiding Place’ by Corrie Ten Boom needs to be shared.

“So the line had stuck in my head. “Sex,” I was pretty sure, meant whether you were a boy or girl, and “sin” made Tante Jans very angry, but what the two together meant I could not imagine. And so, seated next to Father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, “Father, what is sex-sin?”

He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case from the rack over our heads, and set it on the floor.

“Will you carry it off the train, Corrie?” he said.

I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning.

“It’s too heavy,” I said.

“Yes,” he said. “And it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It’s the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you.”

– from The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

Some are asking our children to carry loads that are way too heavy for them. They should not be forced, as children, to see and feel the world through the lens of adults. Innocence is worth protecting and worth fighting for. We need to do our part as parents and caregivers to carry certain things for them until they are old enough to bear the load.

My friend Karen Hadley wrote:

I’ve had a realization about how a society can drive its population into drug use.

Over the centuries, Man has naturally been drawn to the Divine. He has sought knowledge of God and gods. If you erode a population’s interest in or sense that they can participate in this search, that population is left with the physical universe and goals related to material success to engage with. So Man seeks piles of money, big houses, trips around the world and sensations of the flesh as signs of success.

If he fails at those endeavors and loses any hope of success in the material realm, what echelon lies below that? Blotting out the pain with drugs and drink.

So how do you drive humans into drug addiction and alcoholism? Remove faith and God from the lives of humans, then feed them vast quantities of false information about relationships and finance; provide them with misleading models of success so they feel defeated before they ever make an effort.

Further, create an atmosphere of insecurity, fear and anxiety.

The susceptible among the population will reach for drugs (medical or illicit) and alcohol to make the pain tolerable. But a certain number of them—far too many—will lose their lives in the effort to blot out that pain.

And thus you have the path America has been on for the last several decades. This erosion from the Divine to the defeated is continuous, relentless and perpetrated in the tiniest, most minimally-offensive and most logical-sounding increments possible.

Many of us work every day to reverse this descent and return Divinity to Mankind as its birthright and true nature. (Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash)

This little girls knocks it out of the park!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CVUlxIJlPCd/

“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.”

Russell Brand Interviews Edward Snowden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0zAJfbP3gg

Just found the inspiration for our next chocolate loving granddaughter’s birthday party!

https://www.flixxy.com/chocolate-angel.htm

1. Don’t call someone more than twice continuously. If they don’t pick up your call, presume they have something important to attend to;
2. Return money that you have borrowed even before the person that borrowed you remember or ask for it. It shows your integrity and character. Same goes with umbrellas, pens and lunch boxes.
3. Never order the expensive dish on the menu when someone is giving you a lunch/dinner.
4. Don’t ask awkward questions like ‘Oh so you aren’t married yet?’ Or ‘Don’t you have kids’ or ‘Why didn’t you buy a house?’ Or why don’t you buy a car? For God’s sake it isn’t your problem;
5. Always open the door for the person coming behind you. It doesn’t matter if it is a guy or a girl, senior or junior. You don’t grow small by treating someone well in public;
6. If you take a taxi with a friend and he/she pays now, try paying next time;
7. Respect different shades of opinions. Remember what’s 6 to you will appear 9 to someone facing you. Besides, second opinion is good for an alternative;
8. Never interrupt people talking. Allow them to pour it out. As they say, hear them all and filter them all;
9. If you tease someone, and they don’t seem to enjoy it, stop it and never do it again. It encourages one to do more and it shows how appreciative you’re;
10. Say “thank you” when someone is helping you.
11. Praise publicly. Criticize privately;
12. There’s almost never a reason to comment on someone’s weight. Just say, “You look fantastic.” If they want to talk about losing weight, they will;
13. When someone shows you a photo on their phone, don’t swipe left or right. You never know what’s next;
14. If a colleague tells you they have a doctors’ appointment, don’t ask what it’s for, just say “I hope you’re okay”. Don’t put them in the uncomfortable position of having to tell you their personal illness. If they want you to know, they’ll do so without your inquisitiveness;
15. Treat the cleaner with the same respect as the CEO. Nobody is impressed at how rude you can treat someone below you but people will notice if you treat them with respect;
16. If a person is speaking directly to you, staring at your phone is rude;
17. Never give advice until you’re asked;
18. When meeting someone after a long time, unless they want to talk about it, don’t ask them their age and salary;
19. Mind your business unless anything involves you directly – just stay out of it;
20. Remove your sunglasses if you are talking to anyone in the street. It is a sign of respect. Moreso, eye contact is as important as your speech; and
21. Never talk about your riches in the midst of the poor. Similarly, don’t talk about your children in the midst of the barren.
22.After reading a good message try to say “Thanks for the message”.

APPRECIATION remains the easiest way of getting what you don’t have….

https://www.topherfield.net/videos/preferential-voting-with-marbles-how-to-stick-it-to-the-major-parties-this-election/