tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64847039599740857212024-03-08T12:18:48.119-06:00Words of WisdomVryRevDrGODJr++http://www.blogger.com/profile/02397641884259356753noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484703959974085721.post-65342027334130358902014-01-29T12:21:00.001-06:002014-01-29T12:21:53.881-06:00<br />
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PRAYER, READING AND MEDITATION are aimed at purity of heart -</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Adobe Gothic Std B","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Adobe Gothic Std B","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Adobe Gothic Std B","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: black;">an unconditional and totally
humble surrender to God, a total acceptance of ourselves and of our situation
as willed by him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means the
renunciation of all deluded images of ourselves, all exaggerated estimates of
our own capacities, in order to obey the will of God as it comes to us in the
difficult demands of life in its exacting truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Purity
of heart </i>is then correlative to a new spiritual identity - the
"self" as recognized in the context of realities willed by God -
Purity of heart is the enlightened awareness of the new man, as supposed to the
complex and perhaps rather disreputable fantasies of the "old man."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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insight, this direct knowledge of the self in its higher aspect. (CTP 68)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
VryRevDrGODJr++http://www.blogger.com/profile/02397641884259356753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484703959974085721.post-83176326245995688852014-01-22T10:20:00.001-06:002014-01-22T10:20:56.290-06:00<strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your LIfe!</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: black;">Are you sure that the meaning of your life is the
meaning God intends for it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does God
impose a meaning on your life from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">outside,
</i>through event, custom, routine, law, system, impact with others in
society?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or are you called to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">create from within, </i>with him, with is
grace, a meaning which reflects his truth and makes you his "word"
spoken freely in your personal situation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Your true identity lies hidden in the call of God to your freedom and
your response to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means you
must use your freedom in order to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">love, </i>with
full responsibility and authenticity, not merely receiving a form imposed on
you by external forces, or forming your own life according to an approved social
pattern, but directing your love to the personal reality of your brother, and embracing
the will of God in its naked, often impenetrable mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
VryRevDrGODJr++http://www.blogger.com/profile/02397641884259356753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484703959974085721.post-41241583019371194672014-01-22T09:46:00.004-06:002014-01-22T09:51:23.178-06:00<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">LIFE IN SOCIETY</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">We live in a society whose whole policy is
to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of
artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as
many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them
with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios. (SSM
133)<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Adobe Gothic Std B","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="background-color: black;">Science
and Technology are indeed admirable in many respects, and if they fulfill their
promises, they can do much for man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
they can never solve his deepest problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the contrary, without wisdom, without the intuition and freedom that
enable man to return to the root of his being, science can only precipitate him
still further into the centrifugal flight that flings him, in all his compact
and uncomprehending isolation, into the darkness of outer space without purpose
and without objective. (FAV 224)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
VryRevDrGODJr++http://www.blogger.com/profile/02397641884259356753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484703959974085721.post-32059006810613045872013-12-04T11:16:00.001-06:002013-12-04T11:28:34.416-06:00<span style="font-family: "Adobe Gothic Std B","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: magenta;">Everyday martyrdom</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">We can be a martyr even without the bloodshed. Whenever we set aside our unhealthy desires and avoid the traps of iniquity, we are a martyr - witness to the power of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Birds are fooled, and the animals of the forest, by the very charms that bring their destruction. Caves as well as food deceive them. They do not know how to avoid evil, and they are not restrained by the law.<br /><br /> Law is given to humanity, and we choose a doctrine of life, from which we remember that it is possible to live carefully, and recall our own place, and get rid of things that cause death.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whoever abandons rule condemns himself severely: he will be bound with iron, or lose his position, or be executed - he loses what he ought to be enjoying.<br /><br /> We have been warned by example. Do not commit serious iniquities. We have been transformed in baptism; have charity, and run away from the bait of the mousetrap, where there is death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Many martyrdoms are made without shedding blood, Not to covet the property of other people; to wish for the benefit of martyrdom; to control our tongue; to make ourselves humble; never to use force willingly or fight back when force is used against us - these things will give us a patient mind. And then, know that we are a martyr!<br /><br />-Commodianus, Instructions, 48</span><br /> </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>Owning
a Slave is no Measure of Worth<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></i></div>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Riches ought to
be used in a reasonable way, and it is necessary to overcome avarice and share
them generously with others.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;">The love of beautiful objects must not
become purely selfish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it does, we
shall end up not knowing what the true beauty is like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be sad indeed if people were to say
to us: ‘Their land, their slaves and their capital assets are worth fifteen
million, but they themselves are only worth three pennies.’<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;">If you separate owners and slaves, you will
see that the owners are not different from slaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact they are very like them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there is any difference, it is that the
owners are weaker and more prone to illness than their slaves.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;">We must continually repeat those amazing
words of the Lord: ‘Sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will
have treasure in heaven, where there are neither robbers nor rust.’ [cf. Matt.
19:21; 6:20]<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;">The truly rich are not those who keep their
riches to themselves but those who give to others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Happiness comes not from possessing wealth
but from giving it away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever is
generously given away becomes a fruit of the soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It therefore becomes the soul’s wealth.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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of Alexandria<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span> <em>The Teacher, </em>3, 6
(PG8, 604)<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Adobe Gothic Std B","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">For
in [Christ] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete
in him, which is the head of all principality and power:</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Gothic Std B","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></i><span style="font-family: "Adobe Gothic Std B","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: orange;">To be filled, something
must first be empty, as anyone knows who has started to fill a water glass at
table, gotten distracted by conversation, and gone on "filling" the
glass when there was no empty space left for the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saint Paul wrote elsewhere about the
self-emptying of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What he calls
to our attention here is the need for our own. We cannot share in the fullness
of the deity that fills us as the Body of Christ unless we make room by
emptying ourselves of anything that offers no space for God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The words of Saint Paul call to mind the holy
of holies, the room at the heart of the Jerusalem temple kept all but empty to
receive God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sometimes build other
rooms in our inmost self and furnish them for other gods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The prophet Ezekiel described an "idol
room" in the much desecrated Jerusalem temple of his day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do we have an idol room, where we keep all
the false gods whom we honour with our obedience and our sacrifices?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their name is legion: public opinion,
unnecessary financial gain, self-satisfaction, pleasure, comforts of all sorts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are all demanding of our time, our
attention, our energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We recognize them
best when they decree that we have no time to pray, no time for Divine Liturgy,
no time to do a kindness, no time to listen to the stories of our children or
the aging laments of our parents, because we must be at the beck and call of a
TV program, an exercise class, a golf game, overtime work to pay for things we
do not need... we all know them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is room for only one God in the inner temple of the Christian self - the one
"who is the head of every principality and power."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With his help, let us drive out that other
crowd, with all its demands, so that our inner emptiness may be filled not with
their clutter but with the fullness of God in which we share through Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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VryRevDrGODJr++http://www.blogger.com/profile/02397641884259356753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484703959974085721.post-63248109440452635722012-11-02T20:13:00.003-05:002012-11-02T20:13:20.097-05:00<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remember that God, not Satan, is in control</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em> Some say that the demons control affairs on earth. Not so, says St. John Chrysostom. you're lucky God doesne't really let the deomons take over.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em> </em><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;">The sun is not more obvious than the providence of God. Nevertheless, some people dare to say that demons control our affairs.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana;"> What can I say? You have a loving Master. He chooses to be blasphemed by these words, rather than to hand your affairs over to the demons, and show you by real experience how demons govern. Then you would really know how wicked they are by experiencing it yourself.</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana;"> But I can show you by a little example. Certain men who were possessed by demons came out from the tombs to mee Christ, and the demons kept begging him to be allowed to enter the herd of swind. And he allowed them, and they went away, and immediately drove them off a cliff (Mathew 8:28-34)</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana;"> Tha's how demons govern! And yet the swine weere of no real importance to them. But with you there is always war without truce, and an implacable fight, and undying hatred. And if they would not even allow creatures with whom they had nothing in common a brief breathing saping in time, what wouldn't they have done if they had got us into their power - us, their enemies, who are always stinging them? What incurable evil would they have accomplishedf?</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana;"> This is why God let them fall on that herd of swine: so that you could learn their wickedness from what they did to the bodies of irrational animals. It's obvious to everyone that they would have done to the possessed what they did to the swine, irf the demoniacs in their very amdenes had not experienxcd the providence of God. So now when you see a manb provoked by a demon, worship the Master.</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana;"> -St. John Chrysostom, Homily 1 on the Power of demons, 6</span></em><br />
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<strong><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana;">IN GOD'S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana;"><strong> </strong><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">Do I remember to thank God for his providence, even when I can't immediatelly see it in action?</span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana;">CLOSING PRAYER</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana;"><strong> </strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><em>fATHER, CRUSH sATAN, AND LET ALL YOUR ENEMIES BE SCATTERED, AND THOSE WHO HATE YOUR NAME BE PUT TO FLIGHT.</em></span></span><br />
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VryRevDrGODJr++http://www.blogger.com/profile/02397641884259356753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484703959974085721.post-71096025180668932822012-10-31T16:34:00.000-05:002012-10-31T16:34:15.688-05:00Starve Stan<div align="center">
<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><em>Do you take the Lord's name in vain when things go badly? Satan brings you troubles just to hear you blaspheme, says St John Chrystostom. But He.s like a begging dog: if you do't throw hi any treats, he'll stop hanging around..</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">There are some who, if they meet with any reverse, or are slandered by anyone, or if they fall into any bodily malady, a;ny pain in the foot or head, or any other diseae, immediately blaspheme. In this way they endure the affliction, but are deprived of the beneift.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"> What do you think you're doing, blaspheming against your benefactor and yourself into an abyss of utter destruction? Nor do you make your suffereing lighter by balasphemingt but you increase it, and make your pain more severe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"> This is why the tempter brings so many misfortunes against you: so that he may lead you into that abyss. And if he see you blaspheming, how easily does he increase the anguish and make it greater, so that, being afflicted, you may rebel sufferi9ng, the more giving thanks to God,he gives up at once, sincere for the future he would attack you fruitlesly and in vain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"> Thus the tempter is like a dog waiting at the table. If he see the man who is eating continually throwing to him some morsel or other from the sihes on the table, he waits patiently. But if, having waited once or twice, he shold go away without anyting, he gives up for the future, because he has waited fruitlessly and in vain. ou starve him, so to speak, and quickly drive him away and make him flee.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"> -St. John Chrysostom, <em>Four Discourses, </em>3:7</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">Have I fallen into habits of using bad language when things go wrong?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">Have I made any sincere effort to change those habits?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><em><strong>Lord, may your holy, precious, glorious name be blessed in all things and by all people.</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><em>The devil makes use of temptation - the word means "testing" - to lure us to hell. But God test us, says Dionysius, to train us for heaven.</em></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;"> <span style="color: orange; font-size: small;">In general it seems true that it's not possible for anyone to keep from experiencing evil completely. As someone says, "the whole world is in the power of the evil one" (1 John 5:19), and again, "their span is but toil aned tgrouble" (Psalm 90:10).</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: orange;"> But, you might ask, what's the difference between being tempted and falling or entering into temptation?</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: orange;"> Well, if ou're overcome by evil - and you will be overcome unless you struggle against it yourself, and unless God protects you with his shield - then you have entered into temptation. You're in it; you're under its power like a prison. But if you hold up and endure, then you certainly are tempted, but you haven't entered into temptation, or fallen into it.</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: orange;"> Thus Jesus was led by the Spirit, certainly not to enter into tempation, but to be tempted by the devil. And again, Abraham did not enter into temptation, nor did God lead him into temptation, but he did tempt (that is, test) him; yet he did not drive him into temptation. Moreover, the Lord himself tempted - that is, tested - the disciples.</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: orange;"> This the evil one, when he tempts us, pulls us into the temptations, because he deals himself with the temptations of evil, But God, when he tests us, brings temptations or trials as one who is not tempted by evil. For God, as it says, "cannot be tempted with evil" (James 1:13). So the devil drives us on by force, pulling us toward destruction; but God leads us by the hand, training us for our salvation.</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: orange;"> -St. Dionysius of Alexandria, Gospel According to Luke 22:45-46</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">What temptations will I probably face in the rest of the day?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">How can I use those opportunities to get in shape for heaven?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><em>God who made the universe and everything in it, have mercy on me and wash away my sins, and save me in the time of trial.</em></span></div>
VryRevDrGODJr++http://www.blogger.com/profile/02397641884259356753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484703959974085721.post-59820860883921128222012-07-19T19:25:00.001-05:002012-07-19T19:26:15.477-05:00Twelve Wise Sayings from the Book of Proverbs<span style="color: #eeeeee;">1. Don't take advantage of the poor just bcos you can.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">2. Don't make frenz with people who have hot, violent tempers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">3. Don't promise to be responsible for someone else's debt.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">4. Never move an old boundary mark that your ancestors established.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">5. Be wise enough not to wear yourself out trying to be rich.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">6. Don't try to talk sense to a fool, he can't appreciate it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">7. Pay attention to your teacher and learn all you can.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">8. Don't hesitate to discipline children, a good spanking won't kill them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">9. Don't be envious of sinful people, let reverence for the Lord be the concern of your life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">10. Don't be glad when your enemies meet disaster, nd don't rejoice when they stumble.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">11. Listen to your father; without him you would not exist, when your mother is old, show her your appreciation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">12. Wise saying are too deep for stupid people to understand.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">Always have faith in God and sing with me saying .................</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">The storm is over, the storm is over now...........</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span>VryRevDrGODJr++http://www.blogger.com/profile/02397641884259356753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484703959974085721.post-52194584365027079542012-07-11T15:01:00.000-05:002012-07-11T15:01:00.522-05:00Always Move Forward No Matter How Difficult!<br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>In the Yangtze River waves push the waves ahead; so in life new people constantly replace the old ones. Life <span style="color: blue;"><u>IS </u></span><span style="color: red;">change! Go with the Flow. ... Hang in there!</span></em></strong></span><br />
<br />VryRevDrGODJr++http://www.blogger.com/profile/02397641884259356753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484703959974085721.post-31258709583450444832012-07-11T14:55:00.001-05:002012-07-11T14:56:19.792-05:00Change is Important<br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict! Buckle Up. Go with the flow! </em></strong></span>VryRevDrGODJr++http://www.blogger.com/profile/02397641884259356753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484703959974085721.post-43176241779321313452012-07-11T14:35:00.000-05:002012-07-11T14:35:02.104-05:00Focus<em><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>"When you want something in life, you have to focus." </strong></span></em><a href="http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/mcmillan_rosalyn.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>Roslyn McMillan,</strong></em></span></a><em><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong> Writer </strong></span></em>VryRevDrGODJr++http://www.blogger.com/profile/02397641884259356753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484703959974085721.post-22595740200574795232012-07-11T14:27:00.001-05:002012-07-11T14:29:47.139-05:00Adapt to Change<span class="q"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="txt" id="text2165">Adapt yourself to changing circumstances!</span></span></span></em></strong></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <!--<span class="qn">...</span>--><span class="qc"></span></span></span></em></strong></span>VryRevDrGODJr++http://www.blogger.com/profile/02397641884259356753noreply@blogger.com0