You are all seen by a God who is proud of those day to day things you do. Ministry doesn't always mean speaking at a pulpit often it comes dressed as everyday work. Don't ever doubt that what you do matters, don't believe that a inspirational speaker or pastor is more worthy then you, for ministry is a state of mind not a career path. God can and will use you in mighty ways through your day to day normal routine.
REBELby Tatyana DiasI have the might of separating the fight between darkness and light.With ashes that surpasses my sight, crime in time slashes, isolating my rights.I speak with my eyes, and visualize with my mind.I'm on a quest that has left me possessed and stressed 'cause I envy the blessed and pity the depressed.You can whip me, strip me, crucify me to a cross; my imagination within my deepest destination will not fall!
That night in bed I was thinking about the way creeks and streams operate. They start off little, gurgling and bubbling and jumping over rocks and stuff, full of energy, going all over the place. Then they get older and bigger, become rivers, take a more definite course, stick to their path, know where they're going, get slower and wider. And eventually they reach the ocean and become part of this vast mysterious world of water that stretches away forever.Yep, just like people.
When we work creatively and productively with others, our experience of meaning can be profound. When we work directly for the good of others, meaning deepens in ways that reward us beyond measure. Whenever we go beyond satisfying our own personal needs, we enter the realm of what Frankl called "ultimate meaning." some call it connection to a higher self, to God, to our own spirit, to universal consciousness, to love, to the collective good. No matter what it's called, it is deep meaning and it transforms our lives.
Why don’t we just say it already?” He smirked. “I mean come on now.”I eyed him carefully not knowing where to step. “What is it you think we want to say?”“That we love each other. I kick myself every time I stopped myself from saying it. And I know you love me and that’s all that matters,” he said, pulling me close instead of away this time. We stared at the water in a shared silence.My mind wished I could say the same thing, but knowing if I wanted to was the problem. Did I even know how?
طريق الحياه مليء بالاختبارات والاختيارات ,ومع كل اختبار هناك مستقبل مختلف ترسمه باختيارك وعالمك يتغير فى كل مره
As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround you, you have to do so equally with your life, because it's yours, it's you, and it's always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it. I gave up on my life for a while, but what I've learned is that even when that happens and especially when that happens, life never gives up on you. Mine didn't. And we'll be there for each other until those final moments when we will look at each other and say, 'Thanks for staying until the end.'And that's the truth.
We are images of Adonai, and are responsible for one another, and for taking care of all on earth created by Adonai: just as Adonai is responsible for everything created. We learned to differentiate between good and evil. We can even create order out of chaos, as Adonai did on day one. We not only procreate, but also teach the next generations. (Deuteronomy 6:7). All of these abilities and responsibilities, we inherited when created in the image of Adonai. Every person also has a spark of Adonai within. We can choose to ignore this, or to embrace this. We have the power of choice. With this great power, comes great responsibility. You see, not only were we given the ability to reason, but also, we have the ability to create a new and different future, because we have the ability to change, both ourselves, and the world.
آغازها ناگهانی، اما همچنین ناآشکارند. دزدانه، از گوشه و کنار به سراغت می آیند، در سایه می مانند، و به کمین می نشینند. و مدتی بعد ناگهان ظاهر می شوند.
I stared out of the window at the bright-blue Swiss sky and I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other. And I told him of the adventures they had, the places they had gone, and the things I had seen that I had never expected to. I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes. I drew a world for him, a world far from a Swiss industrial estate, a world in which he was still somehow the person he had wanted to be. I drew the world he had created for me, full of wonder and possibility. I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him. And as I spoke I knew these would be the most important words I would ever say and that it was important that they were the right words, that they were not propaganda, an attempt to change his mind, but respectful of what Will had said. I told him something good...
واقعیت این است که اولین تغییرات در پیری آن چنان به آرامی اتفاق می افتد که به سختی به چشم می آیند. آدمی باز خودش را از درون نگاه می کند همان طور که همیشه نگاه می کرده است، اما این دیگرانند که از بیرون به او پیریش را یادآوری می کنند.
خداحافظی ها ممکن است بسیار ناراحت کننده باشند، اما مطمئنا بازگشت ها بدترند. حضور عینی انسان نمی تواند با سایه درخشانی که در نبودنش ایجاد شده برابری کند. زمان و فاصله لکه ها را محو می کنند؛ بعد ناگهان عزیز سفر کرده باز می گردد و نور بی رحم آفتاب هر نقطه صورت، حتی جوش ها و چروک ها و موهای ریز را هم به خوبی نشان می دهد.
He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going up a smokestack of a crematorium there: "I had just been assigned to the Sonderkommando," he said to me, "when the order came from Himmler to close the ovens down." Sonderkommando means special detail. At Auschwitz it meant a very special detail indeed--one composed of prisoners whose duties were to shepherd condemned persons into gas chambers, and then to lug their bodies out. When the job was done, the members of the Sonderkommando were themselves killed. The first duty of their successors was to dispose of their remains. Gutman told me that many men actually volunteered for the Sonderkommando. "Why?" I asked him. "If you would write a book about that," he said, "and give the answer to that question, that 'Why?'--you would have a very great book." "Do you know the answer?" I said. "No," he said, "That is why I would pay a great deal of money for a book with the answer in it." "Any guesses?" I said. "No," he said, looking me straight in the eye, "even though I was one of the ones who volunteered."He went away for a little while, after having confessed that. And he thought about Auschwitz, the thing he liked least to think about. And he came back, and he said to me: "There were loudspeakers all over the camp," he said, "and they were never silent for long. There was much music played through them. Those who were musical told me it was often good music--sometimes the best." "That's interesting," I said. "There was no music by Jews," he said. "That was forbidden." "Naturally," I said. "And the music was always stopping in the middle," he said, "and then there was an announcement. All day long, music and announcements." "Very modern," I said. He closed his eyes, remembered gropingly. "There was one announcement that was always crooned, like a nursery rhyme. Many times a day it came. It was the call for the Sonderkommando." "Oh?" I said. "Leichentärger zu Wache," he crooned, his eyes still closed. Translation: "Corpse-carriers to the guardhouse."In an institution in which the purpose was to kill human beings by the millions, it was an understandably common cry. "After two years of hearing that call over the loudspeakers, between the music," Gutman said to me, "the position of corpse-carrier suddenly sounded like a very good job.
My dearest friend Abigail, These probably could be the last words I write to you and I may not live long enough to see your response but I truly have lived long enough to live forever in the hearts of my friends. I thought a lot about what I should write to you. I thought of giving you blessings and wishes for things of great value to happen to you in future; I thought of appreciating you for being the way you are; I thought to give sweet and lovely compliments for everything about you; I thought to write something in praise of your poems and prose; and I thought of extending my gratitude for being one of the very few sincerest friends I have ever had. But that is what all friends do and they only qualify to remain as a part of the bunch of our loosely connected memories and that's not what I can choose to be, I cannot choose to be lost somewhere in your memories. So I thought of something through which I hope you will remember me for a very long time. I decided to share some part of my story, of what led me here, the part we both have had in common. A past, which changed us and our perception of the world. A past, which shaped our future into an unknown yet exciting opportunity to revisit the lost thoughts and to break free from the libido of our lost dreams. A past, which questioned our whole past. My dear, when the moment of my past struck me, in its highest demonised form, I felt dead, like a dead-man walking in flesh without a soul, who had no reason to live any more. I no longer saw any meaning of life but then I saw no reason to die as well. I travelled to far away lands, running away from friends, family and everyone else and I confined myself to my thoughts, to my feelings and to myself. Hours, days, weeks and months passed and I waited for a moment of magic to happen, a turn of destiny, but nothing happened, nothing ever happens. I waited and I counted each moment of it, thinking about every moment of my life, the good and the bad ones. I then saw how powerful yet weak, bright yet dark, beautiful yet ugly, joyous yet grievous; is a one single moment. One moment makes the difference. Just a one moment. Such appears to be the extreme and undisputed power of a single moment. We live in a world of appearance, Abigail, where the reality lies beyond the appearances, and this is also only what appears to be such powerful when in actuality it is not. I realised that the power of the moment is not in the moment itself. The power, actually, is in us. Every single one of us has the power to make and shape our own moments. It is us who by feeling joyful, celebrate for a moment of success; and it is also us who by feeling saddened, cry and mourn over our losses. I, with all my heart and mind, now embrace this power which lies within us. I wish life offers you more time to make use of this power. Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.Take care!Love,Francis.Title: Letter to AbigailScene: "Death-bed"Chapter: The Road To Awe
...Bộ dạng nằm trước mặt kia đột nhiên trở người. Nàng định choàng người bước khỏi giường thật nhanh. Đã lâu lắm rồi, chẳng bao giờ giữa nàng và anh có cái ôm siết chặt, nụ hôn ngọt ngào, những gần gũi yêu thương. Cùng nằm trên một chiếc giường mà đối diện nàng luôn là tấm lưng băng giá. Trời sáng cũng là lúc anh rời khỏi.Tại sao lại thế? Nàng nào có lỗi gì. Không yêu, anh vẫn lấy nàng làm vợ được sao? Chỉ để mà chăm sóc, lo lắng cho anh? Nước mắt nuốt ngược vào trong, nàng chọn sự im lặng. Vợ của một người đàn ông trên con đường thành đạt liệu còn mong chờ điều gì nữa? Biết bao nhiêu người hằng ao ước được như nàng cơ mà. Đúng rồi. Đúng vậy rồi.Anh đang quay người lại. Nàng rùng mình. Mắt nàng nhắm chặt. Thiếp đi nào. Chỗ của nàng không phải ở đây. Nàng phải quay về gặp chàng. Nếu không, hẳn chàng sẽ cô đơn lắm!- Anh đây em!Giọng của chàng. Nàng mừng rỡ, mở mắt ra. Đúng là gương mặt chàng cùng nụ cười trìu mến, thân yêu.- Em đang mơ?- Không. Đây là thực!Nhìn quanh quất, nàng nhận ra mình vẫn đang nằm trên giường. Phòng ngủ với bao nhiêu đồ đạc, cách bài trí không lẫn vào đâu được. Chỉ duy nhất một điều lạ lùng đang hiển hiện.- Tại… tại sao anh lại ở đây? Vậy thì... chồng em... chồng em đâu?Bàn tay chàng dịu dàng vuốt lên mái tóc dài mượt mà của nàng.- Đừng lo. Bây giờ em không cần mơ để gặp được anh nữa. Cũng không sợ chỉ mình em già đi, xấu xí. Anh sẽ trải qua tất cả, cùng với em, ở đây.- Thật không anh? Thật vậy không anh?Chàng mỉm cười, đặt lên môi nàng một nụ hôn ngọt ngào nhất nàng từng biết tới. Đó hẳn là một nụ hôn thực sự, không thể là mơ...
