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May 31st, 2012 § Leave a Comment
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Have a lovely week… two more days to the weekend!!!
Thought of the day – Week 22, 2012
May 31st, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Theme – Rest
Monday: Rest – silence is golden, stillness is platinum. As you be, so you do.
Tuesday: Rest – sleep is restorative, tranquillity is reflective. As you live, so you learn.
Wednesday: Rest – image is visual, identity is medicinal. As you think, so you are.
Thursday: Rest – fear is faithless, faith is fearless. As you feel, so you think.
Friday: Rest – worry is destructive, worship is constructive. As you look, so you see.
Saturday: Rest – power has, peace is. Peace gives, where power takes. As you act, so you change.
Sunday: Rest – hope ascends, faith arises and love abides. As you wait, so you walk.
Big God or little gods
May 24th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
When God made man, He made him in His image. When man made gods, he made them in his imagination.
The question you need to ask yourself is this – are you following the creator or the created? Are you following a reality or a religion?
It is amazing to see so much of religion is built around objects, icons and statues. Festivals and feasts are celebrated, myths and fables embraced, symbols and sacrifices made…..
It is amazing to see so much of reason and rationality is built around science. Evolution has not resolved murder, natural selection has not resolved prejudice and wealth has not resolved war……..
Loving the creature more than the creator and loving the created more than the creator.
My key observation for you today is this. Can you validate YOUR faith? Is there power in YOUR reality? Is there transformation in YOUR heart?
The evidence of true faith is not a community of believers or an ethic of morals or even a higher state of being. The evidence of true faith is to change the impossible, forgive the inconceivable and to heal the irreparable. What are all these things speaking about – the human heart.
Man can fly to the moon, dive to the depths, peak the highest summit and irrigate a desert. But he is impotent in the issues of the heart. What religion tries to do on the outside. God does on the inside.
The Christ of the cross, is the Christ of the crisis. Mans crisis is not the crisis of the head, but the crisis of the heart.
When Jesus split the cross with his body – the horizontal of humanity with the vertical of divinity – he did it through the heart.
If you follow a Prophet – you will lack the power. If you follow a Saint – you will lack the truth. If you follow a Guru – you will lack the relevance and if you follow your mind – you will lack your heart.
If you follow Christ – you will meet reality.
Big God or little gods – you chose, but never forget – only one rose again – that’s reality.
Liam
Thought of the day – Week 21, 2012
May 22nd, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Theme – Spiritual Hunger
1.Hunger – is when you need, beyond your want.
2.Hunger – is when you are desperate, beyond your desire.
3.Hunger – is when your cause, is beyond your career.
4.Hunger – is when your passion, is beyond your presence.
5.Hunger – is when you crave, beyond your appetites.
6.Hunger – is when you pursue, beyond your profession.
7.Hunger – is when your faith, is beyond your reason.
Thought of the day – Week 20, 2012
May 22nd, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Theme – Audacity
1. Audacity – is to believe the impossible in the improbable.
2, Audacity – is boldness with truth.
3. Audacity – is courage with cause.
4. Audacity – is faith with hope.
5. Audacity – is to step out in order to step up.
6. Audacity – is to confront in order to convict.
7. Audacity – is God`s moment in our momentum.
Thought of the day – Week 19, 2012
May 10th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Theme – Hope
Monday: Hope – is not the absence of problem, but the presence of peace.
Tuesday: Hope – is not the absence of fear, but the presence of faith.
Wednesday: Hope – is not the absence of loss, but the presence of comfort.
Thursday: Hope – is not the absence of lack, but the presence of life.
Friday: Hope – is not the absence of today, but the presence of tomorrow.
Saturday: Hope – is not the absence of risk, but the presence of rest.
Sunday: Hope – is not the absence of pain, but the presence of God.
Thought of the day – Week 18, 2012
May 3rd, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Theme - Faith
Monday: Faith creates possibility. Without faith there is always a question – what if?
Tuesday: Faith creates probability. Without faith there is always a doubt – what next?
Wednesday: Faith creates fulfilment. Without faith there is always a void – what for?
Thursday: Faith creates purpose. Without faith there is always a lack – what now?
Friday: Faith creates meaning. Without faith there is always a loss – what is?
Saturday: Faith creates miracles. Without faith there is always a limit – what could?
Sunday: Faith creates rest. Without faith there is always a question – what, why?
Thought of the day – Week 17, 2012
April 26th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Theme - Pride and Prejudice
Monday: Pride is what others see, but you don’t sense. What you don’t see, you might have.
What you do honour, you will gain.
Tuesday: Prejudice is prides ally. What you think you haven’t got, you got without thinking.
What you thought you cannot do, you can do without thinking.
Wednesday: Pride is darkness’s shadow. What you shade, exposes you. What you show, displays you.
Thursday: Prejudice is pre determined pride. What you limit, limits you. What you love, loves you.
Friday: Pride is self delusion. What you dictate, dominates you. What you yield, leads you.
Saturday: Prejudice is self deception. What you project, portrays you. What you trust, teaches you.
Sunday: Pride is humility`s enemy. What you get, gets you. What you give, grows you.
Thought of the day – Week 16, 2012
April 19th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Theme – Vision
Monday: Image is everything, likeness is something, vanity is nothing. God made us, in His image and after His likeness.
Tuesday: Insight is knowledge with wisdom. Jesus said. “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free”.
Wednesday: Prudence is faith with fear. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Thursday: Providence is perception with purpose. Jesus is – the Light of the world.
Friday: Revelation is when yesterdays blindness becomes today’s sight for tomorrows dream. Without vision, people perish.
Saturday: Light is darkness minus ignorance. What you can’t see, you don’t perceive. What you don’t know, you can’t have. What you haven’t met, you can’t receive. Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life”.
Sunday: Vision is tomorrows reality. Creation is something from nothing. Inspiration is somewhere from no where and restoration is someone from no one.
All vision has its source in God, its home in faith and its hope in love.
