Daily Positive Thread for Wednesday

gloriajean — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 01:10:20 GMT

Hello my friends! Well today's blessings for me was trying to stay off my feet as much as I could, but got a pork roast done for supper when he got home from work, with the potatoes and carrots etc. from the cream can dinner left overs, turned out super delicious! I'm freezing alot of them now, and I looked up how to freeze cabbage, so will be doing that tomorrow. It's easy. First I used the food processor and I sliced all the potatoes and carrots that were left, makes for easy eating and storing. Then when the pork roast was almost finished, or maybe it was finished, I dumped a bunch of those veggies in it, just to heat up, delicious!! We had some wine with our dinner! Didn't get a nap in, but plan on getting to bed early. Another blessing was I didn't get leg cramps last night. I did put peppermint essential oil on my legs first before going to bed and I think that prevented it. Praise the Lord for working through these natural products! Praying for you all - and thanks for your posts!! All posts are greatly appreciated indeed!!! Thank you and God bless you and hear your prayers!

Do not worry about tomorrow. Do you not have enough to be busy with

today? Lord, help me use today wisely so that I have time for myself

and others.

Scripture of the day:

"As for that in the good soil, these are the ones who, when they hear

the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit

with patient endurance." ~Luke 8:15

Meditation for the day:

The laws of nature cannot be changed and must be obeyed if we are to

stay healthy. No exceptions can be made in our case. We can submit

to the laws of nature or they will finally break us. And in the realm

of the spirit, in all human relationships, we can submit to the moral

laws and to the will of God. If we continue to break the laws of

honesty, purity, unselfishness and love, we can be broken to some

extent ourselves. The moral and spiritual laws of God, like the laws

of nature, are unbreakable without some disaster. If we are dishonest,

impure, selfish and unloving, we are not living according to the laws

of the spirit and we may suffer the consequences.

Prayer for the day:

I pray that I may submit to the laws of nature and to the laws of God.

I pray that I may live in harmony with all the laws of life.

FIFTEEN MINUTES WITH JESUS

It is not necessary, my son, to know a lot to please me a lot; it is enough

to love me with fervor. Speak to me, simply like you would speak to your

mother, to your brother. Do you need to make me any supplication in favor of

somebody? Tell me their names, that of your parents, or your brothers,

sisters, friends... tell me what you want me to do for them. Pray a lot, a

lot, don't hesitate in requesting; I like the generous hearts that end up

forgetting, in certain way, themselves, to assist the other people's

necessities. Speak this way to me, with simplicity, about the poor to whom

you wanted to console, of the sick persons to whom you see suffering, of the

misplaced ones that you yearn to return to the good way, of the absent

friends that you wanted to see another time to your side. Ask me for a

friendly word for all of them, beloved and fervorous word . Remind me that I

have promised to listen all supplications that comes from the heart; and

shouldn't it come from your heart your prayer for those that your heart

especially love?

And for you, don't you need some grace? Make me, if you want, a list of your

necessities, and come, read it in my presence. Tell me frankly that you feel

arrogance, love to sensuality and pleasure; that you are perhaps selfish,

fickle, negligent...; and ask me to come in help of the efforts, few or

many, that you make to remove of you such miseries.

Do not be embarrassed, poor soul! There are in heaven so many Saints of

first order that had those same defects! But they prayed with humility...;

and little by little they were free of them.

Neither hesitate in requesting me spiritual and corporal goods: health,

memory, success in your works, business or studies; I can give you all that,

I wish you to ask me for it, and I will give it to you, if it is not an

obstacle for your sanctification, on the contrary, if it should help to your

sanctification. Actually, what do you need? what can I do for you? If you

knew the desires that I have of favoring you!

Do you at hand any project right now? Tell me everything minutely. What are

you worried about? what do you think? what do you want? what do you want me

to do for your brother, for your friend, for your superior? what would you

want me to do for them?

And for Me? Don't you feel desires of my glory? Don't you want to be able to

make some good to your neighbours, to your friends that you love a lot, who

may be living forgotten of Me?

Tell me what thing particularly calls your attention today, what you yearn

more vividly, and what sources you have to get it. Tell me if your project

is not successful, and I will tell you the causes of the bad success.

Wouldn't you want me to be interested in your favor? My son, I am the owner

of the hearts, and sweetly I take them, without damage of their freedom,

wherever I want.

Do you maybe feel sadness or bad humor? Tell me, tell me, forlorn soul, your

sadness with all their details. Who did hurt you? Who did hurt your pride?

who has rejected you? Come closer to my Heart that has effective balm to

cure all those wounds of yours. Give me details of everything, and you will

end up shortly telling me that, to likeness of Me, you forgive everything,

you forget all, and in payment you will receive my comforting blessing.

Are you feared? Do you feel in your soul those vague melancholies that far

from being groundless, they leave of being harrowing? Throw yourself in my

arms of providence. I am with you; here, you have me by your side; I see it

all, I hear it all, neither a moment I abandon you.

Do you feel deviation on behalf of people that before loved you well, and

now they move away from you, without giving you the smallest reason? Pray

for them, and I will return them to your side, if they are not an obstacle

to your sanctification.

And don't you have something happy, perhaps, to communicate Me? Why don't

you make me participant as an special friend of yours?

Tell me how your heart has felt consoled and smiley, since yesterday, since

the last visit you made me. You have maybe had pleasant surprises, you have

maybe been dissipated black mistrust, you have maybe received happy news,

some letter or sample of affection; you have conquered some difficulty, or

solved a complicated problem. I've done all that, and I have provided it to

you: why shouldn't you show me your gratitude, and tell me simply, as a son

does to his father: «Thank you, my Father, thank you!»? The gratefulness

bring with itself new benefits, because the benefactor likes to be

corresponded.

Neither you have a promise to make me? I read, you already know it, in the

bottom of your heart. Men are deceived easily; God is not. Speak to me,

then, with all sincerity. Do you have firm resolution of not exposing

yourself to that sin occasion again? of depriving you of that object that

damaged you? of not reading again that book that exalted your imagination?

of not treating again that person that upset the peace of your soul?

Will you be sweet, kind and condescending again with that person that,

because having lacked you, you have considered until today as an enemy?

Now then, my son; return to your usual occupations, to your work, to the

family, to the study... but don't forget the fifteen minutes of pleasing

conversation that we have had both here, in the solitude of the sanctuary.

Keep, as soon as you can, silence, modesty, withdrawal, resignation, charity

with the neighbour.

Love my Mother, who is also yours, the Sacred Virgin, and return again

tomorrow with the most loving heart, more surrendered to my service.

In my Heart, you will find every day new love, new benefits, new comforts.

Mother Teresa Said...

"If we are careful of silence it will be easy to pray and to pray fervently.

There is so much talk, so much repetition,

so much carrying of tales in words and in writing.

Our prayer life must suffer so much because our hearts are not silent,

for as you know "only in the silence of the heart, God speaks."

Only after we have listened can we speak from the fullness of our hearts."

Blessed are you

when you remain available

sharing in simplicity what you possess

Blessed are you

when you weep over the absence of happiness around you

and throughout the world

Blessed are you

when you strive to take the first steps,

the necessary one, to attain peace with

your brothers and sisters, throughout the world

Blessed are you

when you take seriously your faith

in the risen Jesus

- - -

Luke 7:22 - (Jesus said) "The blind can see, the lame can walk, those who

suffer from dreaded skin diseases are made clean, the deaf can hear, the

dead are raised to life, and the Good News is preached to the poor. How

happy are those who have no doubts about me!"

The Enemy's Perfect Plan

Author Unknown

Let's not allow the enemy to distract us...

Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil

angels, he said, "We can't keep Christians from going to church. We can't

keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't even

keep them from conservative values. But we can do something else. We can

keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship experience in

Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is

broken. So let them go to church, let them have their conservative

lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't gain that experience in

Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do, angels. Distract them from

gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection

throughout their day!"

"How shall we do this?" shouted his angels.

"Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent unnumbered schemes

to occupy their minds" he answered. "Tempt them to spend, spend, spend then

borrow, borrow, borrow. Convince the wives to go to work for long hours and

the husbands to work six or seven days a week, ten to twelve hours a day so

they can afford their lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their

children. As their family fragments, soon their homes will offer no escape

from the pressures of work."

"Overstimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still small voice.

Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive, to

keep the TV, VCR, CD's and their PC's going constantly in their homes. And

see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical

music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with

Christ."

Fill their coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds

with news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards.

Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail order catalogues,

and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering, free products,

services and false hopes."

"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from

their recreation exhausted, disquieted, and unprepared for the coming week.

Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's wonders. Send them to

amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead. And when they

meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that

they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotion."

"Let them be involved in soul-winning. But crowd their lives with so many

good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ. Soon they will be

working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family unity for

the good of the cause."

It was quite a convention in the end. And the evil angels went eagerly to

their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy, busy and

rush here and there.

Has the devil been successful at his schemes? You be the judge.

LIVING YOUR LIFE WITHOUT SIN

Author Unknown

There was a little girl, who's father was a pastor.

One day, she came to her father and said, "Daddy, can a person go their

whole life without sinning?"

The father answered, "No, honey, I'm sorry, but that's just not possible."

"What about a year, daddy? Can a person go a whole year without sinning?"

She continued.

"No, I don't think that's possible either."

"What about a day, can a person go a day without sinning once?"

"It's very unlikely, no, I don't think they can."

"What about one moment, daddy, can a person go one moment without sinning?"

"Yes, that is possible."

"Then daddy, I want to live my life, moment by moment."

Isn't that how we should live our lives. Not looking ahead to our

whole lives, or distant plans. But live moment by moment, as if this

moment where your last one before you reach eternity.

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