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God's pharmacy
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Nov 13, 2009 11:57 am
Mood: contemplative,
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Its really true what mother Theresa says about Love
"If you love until it hurts in the end there can be no more hurt, only more Love".
Last week I hurt my feet (almighty blisters) whilst taking the sunday school kids on an outing to the ice rink.
I never went to any doctors but relied on God's pharmacy to work its supernatural wonders. So i thought as a form of gratitude i will share God's pharmaceutical wonders with anyone who needs it. (everything contained here below is age old wisdom passed to me by friends and family, and has been tried and tested by me the human guineau pig 
HONEY - Natural antibiotic (if there's any danger of poisoning or a wound turning septic / taking long to heal...)
LOCAL HONEY - good for hayfever sufferers and asthmatics (tried and tested as i'm asthmatic).
GARLIC - increases metabolism (rate at which body burns energy). It is also useful for ladies with problematic menstrual cycle. Helps fight colds and flu (keeps it at bay to be exact).
GINGER - revitalizes and restores energy. Is reputed to cleanse / purify the blood (detox) and again, great for ladies and their cramps!
VINEGAR AND OIL - a tablespoon with half of each loosens phlegm...(ewwww)
LEMON JUICE - softens skin / also can be used in (rooibos) tea with honey. Rooibos tea has vitamins, is cultivated and grown here in south africa and has myriads of other healing properties for skin.
ROOIBOS TEA - instant calm for excema (tried and tested on my sisters baby who has it...fill a bath with warm water, chuck in a few of the original tea bags, wait until it is nice and well soaked, then bath in it. (i used the bath crystal which was a birthday gift from a lovely friend of mine who had NO CLUE i have very sensitive skin - i asked her afterwards if this was why she had given it to me...doesnt God work in wonderful ways?)
(Rooibos has been used as a traditional herb amongst indigenous people here in south africa for healing of all sorts).
OATS - normal porridge oats, could be used as a scrub to calm/cool problematic facial skin. Use it on an exfoliating glove and gently rub in with a little water. It smooths the skin and restores it where the pimples may have left scars or little holes.
EGG WHITE - use it as a mask on oily skin (add lemon juice but only a teaspoon or it may inflame as its very potent and consequently very effective to tame an oily skin).
LENTILS - super source of protein, helps with tissue repair, is reputed to help with burning fats, great for digestive tract to function optimally.
OLIVE OIL - great for dry hair/scalp, eczema and edible uses.
FISH - brain food (i love it! its the secret of my success!! har har)
Now, there's loads more i probably can't think of right now, but my ex used to say, well,, why did God create drugs if He didnt intend for us to use them???
My question in response to this is...do we kill people just because we think they deserve to die??? (ok, americans pls dont answer)
erm.. lemme ask another question...
do we eat all the food in our kitchen just cause its there?? do we attend orgies just cause they exist?
duh...we need never do certain things just cause its an available option / it exists. we have the choice to discern and do everything we do in moderation...even the above, if one uses it too much, it loses its effect, honey for instance, like any antibiotic...if taken too much, it loses its effect on the body.
This is precisely why doctors can only put one on a 7 day course of antibiotics, cause if the problem gets worse, then their next step wont be as effective, thats why we can only get certain things by prescription...people are foolish and always go for a 'quick fix'...tut tut.
pls feel free to add your own tried and tested product from God's pharmacy of nature and be blessed!
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Mother in Law
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Nov 8, 2009 1:11 pm
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It is a known fact that all daughters-in-law have problems with their mothers-in-law. Anyway one day the daughters-in-law all got together and decided to apologize to their mothers-in-law for everything they had apparently done wrong.
A week later the daughters-in-law decided to take their families (including their mothers-in-law) on a picnic. The mother in laws were all in one bus, which was the first to leave.
On the way their bus had an accident and all the mothers-in-law died.
The daughters-in-law were devastated but one in particular was more heart broken than the rest. Everyone tried to console her by telling her that at least her mother-in-law had died without any tension between them.
But still she cried. Eventually when she was calm enough to
Speak the other women asked her: Why are you crying so much. Was your mother-in-law that special?
The woman replied: ''No, my mother-in-law missed the bus!''
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Saying "I do"
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Nov 8, 2009 1:04 pm
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WHEN YOU SAY I DO
When we say "I do" and enter into the covenant of marriage, DO WE REALLY?
Do we really mean what we promise? Or are we just mouthing words that sound romantic at the time? The marriage vows we exchange with each other is something God does not take lightly. And neither should we. The Bible says, "Let your 'yes' be yes, and your 'no' be no or you will be condemned" (James 5:12). We're also told, "It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly and only later consider his vows" (Proverbs 20:25). God knows we're ALL sinners, and no one can "cast the first stone" without throwing some their own way. We are God's ambassadors representing the bride and Bridegroom to a world that needs to see this living picture lived out in healthy ways. May we do so to the glory of God!
Author H. Dale Burke says something important about marriage vows and how those who marry often look at is as a romantic, "legal" or "religious" formality "to be dispensed with before the party can begin" (and afterward they wake up to reality, rather than a lifelong party). He says, "... maybe they just consider [their vows] to be a part of cultural tradition,
like singing the national anthem before a ball game or saying the pledge of allegiance at the start of a school day. But what SHOULD it mean -- what DOES it mean to say such things to a person in the presence of God?
What does God do during the wedding? Is He, like us, merely a spectator?" I don't think so.
God said through the Bible, something that both men and women should pay attention to, "You flood the Lord's altar with tears. You weep and wail because He no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. You ask, 'Why?' It is because the Lord is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant. Has not the Lord made them one? In flesh and spirit they are His. And why one? Because He was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. 'I hate divorce,' says the Lord God of Israel, 'and I hate a man's covering himself [which actually means 'his wife'] with violence as well as with his garment,' says the Lord Almighty. So guard yourself in
your spirit and do not break faith" (Malachi 2:13-16).
God takes marriage and committing violence with words and deeds very seriously. It is a way of breaking faith. (Ephesians 4 and 5 and 1 Peter 3 speaks more on this and the way we should conduct ourselves in our marriages so that we live with each other in an "understanding way."
We read of one pastor who recommends to everyone he marries that they write out their wedding vows, frame them and put them up somewhere in their home so they can periodically review them as a reminder of what they promised each other. What an outstanding idea because so often we forget what we promise each other on our wedding day -- kind of like the man "who looks at his face in a mirror and after looking at himself, goes away and
immediately forgets" (James 1:23-24).
H. Dale Burke, in his book, "Different by Design" (published by Moody Press) gives insight on this when he wrote, "I'll never forget the couple who showed up in my office weekly trying to patch up their marriage which, while in trouble, had incurred no damage that was beyond repair. ... This was just two Christians who hadn't learned to think 'we' instead of 'me.'
They had never been taught to value and respect one another or nurture their love.
"Tragically, the biggest obstacle standing between them and reconciliation was Christian friends who kept fueling their frustrations and counseling them to give up. The very group of people who should have been cheering their efforts to save the marriage was sabotaging the rescue mission.
"At least one part of this couple's problem was rooted in a misunderstanding of what marriage is all about. They, like most newlyweds today, saw marriage as a contract, which, according to my dictionary, is a 'binding agreement.' At the heart of every contract is a set of conditions or promises -- the 'deal.' The deal is, you do this for me and I'll do that for you. A contract lays out what 'this' and 'that' consists of. It also has an escape clause; either stated or implied, which says that if you fail to do 'this,' then I can stop doing 'that.' And in recent times, quite frankly, many people don't feel that their contracts mean much of anything. All I need to justify breaking one is to say I'm not happy with the deal.
"This flexible concept of contracts is how many people now view marriage. 'If my marriage is an ordeal,' they say, ''I'll opt out and look for a better deal somewhere else.' This is the unspoken amendment many people attach to their spoken vows of matrimony. Men and women differ in a lot of ways when it comes to what they bring to the marriage relationship, but this is a weakness they both share. Thousands of husbands and wives
exercise this escape clause every year.
"A question worth asking, then, if words have meaning and we desire to be responsible with our wedding vows, is the same abbreviated on so many bracelets and other items in recent years: What would Jesus do? Or better yet, what would Jesus declare about marriage, divorce, and the meaning behind those vows so often heard at weddings?"
You can read what Jesus said in Matthew 19 and you can understand more as you read through what the Bible says about relationships. Saying "I do" is the easy part, living it isn't. Through it all, please know that "Marriage can be wonderful. It can be deeply satisfying and mutually fulfilling. But IF it becomes that, it is because BOTH partners have paid a very high price over many years to make it that way. They will have died to selfishness a thousand times. They will have had countless difficult conversations. They will have endured sleepless nights and strained days. The will have prayed hundreds of prayers for wisdom and courage and understanding. They will have said, 'I'm sorry' too many times to remember. They will have been stretched to the breaking point often enough to have learned that, unless Christ is at the center of both their lives, the odds for achieving marital satisfaction are very, very low" (Bill and
Lynne Hybels).
It's a tough mission, but with God's help, all things are possible. We pray as you look to the Lord, He will help your marriage to be one that reflects the heart of Christ.
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The road less travelled...
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Nov 1, 2009 12:42 pm
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"Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go".
<<Robert Frost's famous poem The Road Not Taken, is about two paths. One path is well worn and the other isn't well mapped out. Frost finally decides to take the road "less travelled by".
We're constantly faced with divergent paths and we have to take the risk of determining which way to go. The safe route is always tempting because we know that not much will be expected of us. The uncertain route is much more difficult...but every so often, it may offer more than we ever hoped for.
Life keeps asking you to make choices. If you're strong and courageous, you could be off on a great new adventure. What would you choose?>>
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Blessings
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...and Jesus chose a donkey...
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Oct 21, 2009 1:15 pm
Mood: thoughtful,
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Take a lesson from this donkey!
One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well.
The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.
Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway;
it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbours to come over and help him.
They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.
At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly..
Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.
A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well
He was astonished at what he saw.
With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing.
He would shake it off and take a step up.
As the farmer's neighbours continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal,
he would shake it off and take a step up.
Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up
over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!
MORAL :
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt.
The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up.
Each of our troubles is a steppingstone.
We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up!
Shake it off and take a step up.
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...and the word became flesh...
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Oct 21, 2009 1:01 pm
Mood: optimistic,
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Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.
Psalm 119:105 (NIV)
...Words are very powerful indeed. Words can shed light, it can refresh, restore, empower, or it can destroy.
We have been given FREE WILL to choose how we share this God given privilege. We can build up, encourage, advise, heal and help, with just the right word, at the right time.
How often haven't we felt downtrodden, dismayed, smacked about by life's tossing waves of agony and torture...when someone came along and spoke to us that universal language of love, the kind that sometimes requires no words at all, but shows itself through kind deeds, kind gestures, acts of goodwill.
When we speak from soul to soul, in a way which sets off feelings of love and noble intentions, we feel alive with peace and contentment, love and awe, for the fact that things which seem so seemingly simple, can touch the core in a way which nothing else can. Its as if the fire of life grows brighter as fuel is added to sustain it.
on the flip side, when the core is stung by rejection, anger, bitterness and strife, the soul feels diminished, shrivelled up and ready to die.
Words can bring life, as much as it can destroy. We need to decide what we spread around, but remember it is in the reaping, that we harvest the fruits of our labour. If you labour in the camps of evil, that is where you can expect to find your wages.
When we reap in the fields of the spirit of love, we can rely on God's promise to reap the fruits of the Spirit, which lasts for all eternity.
Love and peace to you,
Frootz. 
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Words of Love
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Oct 18, 2009 1:54 pm
Mood: calm,
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"A gentle answer turns away wrath, but harsh words stir up anger." Proverbs 15:1
'We've all experienced the angry words of another person, whether justified or not and we've had to choose how to respond. Would we retaliate with more anger or harsh words? Or would be respond gently, offering the olive branch of peace? Proverbs 15:4 says, "Gentle words bring life and health." What we say is vital to the well-being of others and to their spirit.
Today, let us remember the amazing power of words and how to offer them in kindness, gentleness, and a spirit of healing.
Saint Francis de Sales said, "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength." Let your words always be for the good of another." Karen Moore (A taste of the Spirit).
blessings, Frootz 
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Today I really felt tired of being me when...I got sent this joke!
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Oct 14, 2009 2:12 pm
Mood: sore,
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HOW I LEARNT TO MIND MY OWN BUSINESS:
I was walking past the mental hospital the other day.
All the patients were shouting, '13....13....13.'
The fence was too high to see over, but I saw a little gap in the planks, so I looked through to see what was going on.....
Some crazy idiot poked me in the eye with a stick!
Then they all started shouting '14....14....14'...
*** 000 ***
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Are you looking for a half a banana??
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Oct 10, 2009 1:40 pm
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I was on a coach to P.E to visit a friend recently, and had no clue the coach company was Christian owned, as a result they displayed some Christian stuff on tv and at the end of our journey said a prayer of thanks (over intercom) for a safe journey. I was impressed.
But what I found really interesting was when a video clip was shown about the theory of evolution. I was never and probablyh still am not too decided about evolution and the like, although, i know a the core of our existence, there is intelligent design.
Just like building have different designs, and may have the same architect, so we, in comparisons to 'our cousins' the apes, have a designer in common, and are not necessarily, as theories suggest, descendants of our furry friends, primates.
The scientist (a christian scientist) concluded that it is a scientific fact that we are made up of 50% the same DNA as banana's, that doesnt mean we're half banana!! This made me chuckle. Should I change my profile info and say i'm looking for half a banana??? lol. oh dear, no wonder i've not found mr right thus far, i was looking for a whole man!!!
...as an afterthought, NO this post is not meant to be perverse in any way shape or form!!!
blessings and bye now!
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We are weak, BUT God's strength is made perfect in our weakness ...
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Oct 10, 2009 1:27 pm
Mood: loved,
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Bear with me as I quote the following from the Holy Bible:
28 When Eliab, David's oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, "Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the desert? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle."
29 "Now what have I done?" said David. "Can't I even speak?" 30 He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the men answered him as before. 31 What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.
32 David said to Saul, "Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him."
33 Saul replied, "You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a boy, and he has been a fighting man from his youth."
34 But David said to Saul, "Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine."
Saul said to David, "Go, and the LORD be with you."
38 Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. 39 David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them.
"I cannot go in these," he said to Saul, "because I am not used to them." So he took them off. 40 Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd's bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.
41 Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. 42 He looked David over and saw that he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised him. 43 He said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 "Come here," he said, "and I'll give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!"
45 David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. 47 All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands."
48 As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. 49 Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.
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Verse 34 starts with BUT. David was a boy, he came up against many obstacles for his anger at the philistine who tried to undermine and belittle God. However, David persists. His whole attitude is one of BUT! He clearly seems to think that despite what people think of his age, his position in life (lowly shepherd boy) or his lack of experience (in fighting and battles, certainly not against a seasoned soldier such as the giant he slew) He interjects and his actions indicate a BUT.
He knew and pressed on in Faith and complete Trust that God is able. We are weak, BUT God is able. We cannot walk the walk of life alone, BUT with God, we are able.
We sometimes feel inspired to quit loving, to quit caring, when the unlovable inspires us to their level of living...BUT God shows us another way.
David is so confident of our Heavenly Father's love for us, that when the Giant makes for him, he RUNS towards the giant. (he's clearly fired up by the Holy Spirit for another part of the Bible says that God will terrorize the terrorist on our behalves). Isnt that a wonderful privilege and blessing. So, though life may often hand us a sour lemon, we can always make lemon aid with it. When we see others suffering let us reach out in love and say, there BUT for the grace of God, go I. When we feel low, remember that we can be brought low as far as the adversary may find delight in lowering us, BUT, God promises that nothing can ever seperate us from His Love, and it is this promise on which we have every right to lean.
Much love and blessings to you all.
Dalene 
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