Why go to Church?
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Posted:Jan 15, 2007 10:50 pm
Last Updated:Feb 8, 2007 5:50 pm 3840 Views
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If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope!
Why Go To Church?
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 ser mons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this.. They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!" When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!
"When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, "Jesus, could you get that for me?"
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list of things that make me happy
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Posted:Jan 10, 2007 6:25 pm
Last Updated:Jan 11, 2007 5:35 pm 3766 Views
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seeing old couple that despite of their old age are still in love with each other...
eating ice cream with my family...
chatting with dundeal...
seeing my nephews and nieces playing...
going to church...
praying...talking to God...
talking to my friends...
star gazing...
i could go on and on and on...
how about you...what are the things that makes you happy
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Christmas in Philippines
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Posted:Dec 19, 2006 3:24 am
Last Updated:Dec 30, 2006 12:54 am 3935 Views
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Traditionally, Christmas Day in the Philippines is ushered in by the nine-day dawn masses that start on December 16. Known as the Misa de Gallo (Rooster's Mass) in the traditional Spanish, and these masses are also more popularly known in Filipino as Simbang Gabi, or "Night Mass". The Simbang Gabi is the most important Filipino Christmas tradition.
These nine dawn Masses are also considered as a Novena by the Catholic and Aglipayan faithfuls. This refers to the Roman Catholic and Aglipayan practice of performing nine days of private or public devotion to obtain special graces.
In some parishes, the Simbang gabi begins as early as four in the morning. Going to mass this early for nine consecutive days is meant to show the churchgoer's devotion to his faith and heighten anticipation for the Nativity of the Lord. In traditional Filipino belief, however, completing the novena is also supposed to mean that God would grant the devotee's special wish or favor.
After hearing Mass, Filipino families partake of traditional Philippine Christmas delicacies, either during breakfast at home or immediately outside the church, where they are sold. Vendors offer a wealth of native delicacies, including bibingka (rice flour and egg based cake, cooked using coals on top and under), puto bumbong (a purple sticky rice delicacy which is steamed in bamboo tubes, with brown sugar and coconut shavings as condiments), salabat (hot ginger tea) and tsokolate (thick Spanish cocoa).
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The world is like a tree--
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Posted:Dec 19, 2006 3:18 am
Last Updated:May 11, 2024 1:39 am 3815 Views
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--if the tree is diseased and the leaves brown and brittle, the gardener does not treat the branches, but tends to the roots. Our world is made up of nations, in which there are states containing communities of neighborhoods where individual people live. We are the roots of our world tree. As attitudes change; as we accept and love ourselves honestly and learn, in turn, to accept and love others regardless of our differences, slowly, the branches that extend from us and cover the world will grow strong. The peace we can make within ourselves can be reflected everywhere.
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Thought for the day
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Posted:Dec 19, 2006 3:17 am
Last Updated:May 11, 2024 1:39 am 3839 Views
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In this time of international conflict and mistrust it is easy to despair. At times we may even feel hopeless as we hear about wars and weapons. But there is hope! Change can grow from within each of us.
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Dreams
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Posted:Dec 16, 2006 4:41 pm
Last Updated:Dec 17, 2006 5:09 pm 3873 Views
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What are dreams but journeys through the night?
Travels through black velvet and the light
Of starry staircases reaching to the moon
What are dreams but a journey I'll be taking soon?
And as I close my eyes and drift asleep
I slip away from all my tensions and my sorrow
And travel on a magic carpet of delight
That bridge that links today with my tomorrow
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Words
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Posted:Dec 16, 2006 4:40 pm
Last Updated:May 11, 2024 1:39 am 3787 Views
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Snatches of conversation
Words I have overheard
Some with hidden meanings
Others quite absurd
Words I have heard from passers-by
Or shouted up four stories high
In buses, shop, why anywhere
There's surely bound to be someone there
Speaking of others I don't know
Or starting a sentence before they go
They're teasing, tantalising things
Those words that chance it sometimes brings
But oh what fun it is to try
To decipher the words of passers-by.
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The lane off the busy street
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Posted:Dec 16, 2006 4:38 pm
Last Updated:May 11, 2024 1:39 am 3707 Views
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Hidden I barely saw them
Shy and very discreet
Those whitewashed little cottages
In the lane off the busy street.
White walls were ablaze with the shadows
Of the flowers that bloomed outside
In that little piece of Heaven
That t'was only by chance I spied
It looked an oasis of calm
In the midst of the traffic that day
The wonderful colours of nature
In the midst of a city so grey
I sat on the big double decker
And thought of the people within
Surrounded by such peace and quiet
Just yards from the big city's din
The scene had an air of enchantment
As though under some good fairy's spell
Wrapped up in a bubble of sunshine
As fragile as any seashell.
When I tire of the clamour around me
And the traffic's pulsating beat
I return, in my mind to tranquillity
In that lane off the big city street.
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Dundeal will be here next month
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Posted:Dec 10, 2006 6:19 pm
Last Updated:Dec 20, 2006 5:39 pm 3957 Views
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My husband DUNDEAL, will be here next month. And I just cant wait to be with him. That is all I've been wanting.
It is confirmed he booked lastnight. I wasnt expecting him to be here but he is full of surprises and he want me to be happy.
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Would God Forgive The Devil?
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Posted:Dec 8, 2006 5:37 pm
Last Updated:Feb 17, 2007 7:48 pm 3915 Views
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May seem like a really stupid question: Why doesnt the devil realize he is a no win situation? Satan for sure realize the prophesy of good overcoming evil will come true and God will win. Satan will be destroyed. So why doesn't he give in? Can he even repent? Would God even forgive the devil?
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