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Is that they are no problem at all. This country is collapsing bit by bit. The shooters in this country are all controlled by a socialist called satan. He very much believes in his cause and has recruited others as his conglomerate. The fact that people don’t see this as spiritual warfare and only as a mere materialistic problem with guns is a giant red flag and I beg you…in fact I implore you to seek where you are going when you die. None of this head knowledge and political knowledge is gonna matter when you face the Almighty. He’s just gonna simply ask you one question…did you believe in me or not? That alone is enough to scare me more than any gun pointed at me ever could. The guns are the distraction. The destruction and lost souls is the man behind the mask or behind the gun so to speak.

There were 200 people attending a seminar on mental and physical health.

At one point, the speaker told the group they were going to do an activity. He gave each attendee one balloon and told them to write their name on it. Then, the balloons were collected and moved into a very small room. The participants were then asked to go into the other room and were given 2 minutes to find their balloon.

It was chaos…People were searching frantically for their balloon, pushing each other and running into one another while they grabbed a balloon, looked at it, and inevitably tossed it to the side. At the end of the 2 minutes, no one had found the balloon that had their name on it. Then, the speaker asked the participants to go back in the room and pick up one balloon at random, look at the name, and return it to its owner. Within minutes, everyone had been reunited with their original balloon.

He then told the group, “This is what it’s like when people are frantically searching for their own happiness in life. People push others aside to get the things that they want that they believe will bring them happiness. However, our happiness actually lies in helping other people and working together as a community.”

According to the Dalai Lama, “If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”


Blessings everyone!

The truth is actually more complicated, but I will simplify it. We actually know the future, every part of it. Each of us knows our future but also pieces of the future of those around us. It's just that we forgot it. And there is a well-founded reason why "we don't know our future / we don't remember it". The reason is that: 1 knowing the future gives power. The power to change it but also responsibilities among others. 2 God has a plan for us, a path that we must follow. And if we knew / if we remembered the future as it is, with good and bad. We would accept the good parts with love, joy, impatience. But the bad parts, we will fear them, we will avoid them, and we will want to change them. Without caring about responsibility, repercussions, God's will or etc. We will want to change what does not suit us and that's it. And here...we generally complain that life is unfair...well, if we knew the future we would be unfair too. Because as I said, we will want to accept the good parts and change the bad ones. That is why we are not allowed to remember the future. And that's why sometimes we have that "deja-vu", those are escapes of the memory that struggles to remember. But it is not allowed to us because that is the only way we will follow exactly the path we are meant to follow. As she is, with good and bad. We are on the path we are meant to follow.

Went to the graveyard this afternoon, not been there since my sisters ashes went down with mother, in December gone. Plan was to remove withered flower's, tidy up the grave and get it ready for spring bloom. Among the usual bits and bobs already on the grave was heart stone with the words MUM engraved along with a sentimental verse, the moment I seen it, I had a bad feeling about it.

I am the main keeper of the grave, the others never visit but nevertheless I asked my siblings all the same if any had left the stone there recently, and like I guessed, neither of the three had which means there is one remaining ... he being the prodigal son, my youngest brother.

It's a real stone/rock, heart shaped, nice imprint of the image of Jesus along with lovely words...
" two tired eyes are sleeping"
two willing hands are still
the one who worked so hard for us
is resting at Gods will.

The end of the heart is flat, designed as if to go in soil, I picked it up, there was a very rusty stand at it's back to stand it upright, it looked old and the flat part looked discolored, as if it were in the ground, but on my mothers grave it was not.

I can't prove it but I know it was stolen from another woman's / mothers grave and and that bothers me BIG TIME, not just because my own mother was very superstitious about stealing from graves but in my eyes, it's morally wrong

Now I've the task of trying to find the lady's grave the stone should be resting on...
I've no idea how the heck I'm going to do that, but I'll try
but regardless of whatever, I'm not going to be leaving the stolen stone on my mothers grave.

Just out of a matter of interest ....
Is what my brother done, forgivable?

Life is immortal, death is not the end. When life ends in one body, it finds another body to live again. The cycle of birth and death continues until you learn to live without a body.

Well, the women of Iran have shown what they feel about wearing head scarfs. Swinging them round in front of officials. That shows that they don't accept any reason for wearing the covering and that it should be voluntary if some women desire it.
How backward the Iranian government is. How uncivilised those officials are.
But in my country loads of women wear them and without compulsion. But are they pressured from within their own community?

One time years ago a Methodist Minister said something wonderful and very freeing: " There are many Paths to the top of the mountain. But they all lead to the same place."
Now there are some who see Spirituality as a 'waste of time'. They want to focus upon making money, material wealth and power. Yet, their Path is in the deep bowels of the city. The sunlight is there but is obscured by pollution so the energy is lessened and therefore supplanted by the energy of the city itself where there is lots of noise and plenty of distractions that can 'cost' plenty for that type of energy.
Then there are those who forego the mountain altogether and head off into the Prairie. They have the sunlight that can empower them but, unless they have a really good ability for direction-finding, they can get lost. Sure, they can find others who have etered the Prairie before them. And those 'others' may invite them to 'join the group'. But, most of them have little awareness of where they are going out there in the flatlands and have just settled together to make things habitable.
Again, there are others who have chosed to take the 'trolley' up the mountain. Now the trolley is run by two men who have very strict requirements to become a passenger: one must Obey ALL the Rules set up by these men. They will tell you what to eat, when to eat, what to read, what music to listen to, what to do for study and for fun while you're a passenger. and that if you fail to follow ALL of their instructions you will be thrown off the trolley and will be doomed forever.
And lastly, there are those who have chosen to "walk their own Path" up the mountain. Sure, it may seem "slower" than the trolley. But there are others you meetalong the way with whom you get to share your own experiences, hoping to learn something new and share something new with them. You will get to know your Path without 'Dogma'; you will get to know how to follow your Heart and your Higher Self; you will get to learn a great deal about yourself FROM yourself and your Self. You will feel the Sunlight energies and the Rain energies and the Snow energies and will learn what they have to teach you.
And,,,,, you may ever find another Person whose Path is similar to yours with whom you can get into deep conversations about Paths and Heart and Learning and energies and, and, and.....

So, what is YOUR Path that you have chosen? Is it a mixture of some or all of the above? What have you learned on YOUR Path? What do you WANT to Learn in your future walking of your Path?

Well as I was interpreting Our 7 days Maori to English, because I was truly curious, knew these 7 days all my life never knew the true meanings.

I will share With you the Maori Names related to Sun - Sat and the meanings
Ra = day
Ratapu = Sunday --> HOly day
Rahina = Monday --> Moon day
Ratu = Tuesday --> fight day
Ra apa = Wednesday --> slave day
Rapare = Thursday --> fasting day or abstain day/avoid day
Ramere = Friday --> Venus day
Rahoroi = Saturday --> Wash day

So for those that dont know why we have Venus day, because Venus is known as the Bright and early morning star in relation to the bible. I hate however the misinterpret in movies. So Revelation 22:16 Christ claims himself as the bright and early morning star.
So yes it would appear we knew of him as well.

Moon day for Maori the moon is in Honor to Our Mother of Heaven. Sunday is in Honor to The First Born Colored Son commonly known as The Holy Spirit, Venus day is in Honor of Christ who saved Us. So how does one actually Honor them? Simple. Stare at them with them in Mind.
The Moon is truly fitting because she brought light into a world full of darkness at a time when Our Father needed her most. Imagine from Our Father's perspective being lonely for ten thousand years. So when you feel lonely you get a mere droplet of how lonely He was truly feeling.

Slave day means we serve others

Why fight day? well there might be different interpretations to this but, in my eyes, it is in Honor of how The HOly Spirit was born,

Wash day or day of cleansing, but which is it?
The body, Mind or Soul? You choose.

Happy Venus day peoples. Its Friday here in nz

In my homeland, when this exclamation is heard it’s either a cry of woe, a plea for leniency or a shout of frustration. We've all heard or said “Lord, have mercy”, “May God have mercy upon your soul”, “Mercy me” and other similar phrases at least once in our life. All mention 'mercy', but what does the word mean…exactly?

The Bible explains that Mercy is an act of forgiving the sinner and withholding the punishment that is justly deserved, and it also offers many examples of man-to-man and God-to-man experiences, the foremost one being Jesus’ sacrifice for sin (on mankind’s behalf).
The Dictionary says that it is “compassion or forgiveness shown towards someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm.”
And, in Criminal Law it is “The total or partial remission of a punishment to which a convict is subject.” When someone pleads to the Magistrate for mercy, he/she is aware of their guilt and the punishment that is deserved, but is asking for leniency with the sentence to be given.

Mercy is a godly trait or virtue, so when we show mercy to those who’ve wronged us we are exercising the godliness within us, which then leads us to forgive them. Without ‘Mercy’, granting someone forgiveness (even one’s own self) is impossible, because the formula for it is Love + Mercy. And, it is better to receive mercy than it is to get justice (the formula for which is Love – Mercy). I’m better with reasoning, than with mathematical equations, so if those aren't sound, please, ‘have mercy on me’ .

Remembering to exercise the ‘god’ in us by being merciful, especially towards those who’ve harmed us, is key to receiving mercy from God.
Blessings everyone!