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Seriously, there is pleasure in buying something for yourself or for someone else. You just have to remember that the gift is in the journey, this means that in your mind you must account for all the things you had to accomplish before you could acquire the money to purchase the object or the service desired. When you buy something after you had gone shopping, think of every detail and every event that led you to the purchase point. Perhaps you had to get up very early in the morning to go to work, once at work you had to perform multiple tasks, some pleasant, other tasks not so enjoyable. Maybe you had to deal with people who were not so easy to get along with, however in the end your work was done with satisfactory results. Part of the journey can be receiving your paycheck, maybe you have to pick it up personally. In that case it can take part of your day. On the other hand if you have direct deposit, saving time and money is such a relief. Now you know the money is available for your shopping to come to complete fruition. What an awesome feeling!
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January 20th, 2011Have you experienced a Mission Trip?
December 7th, 2010If you want to know where God resides, embark on a missionary journey to help others. You will find that doing it can enrich your spiritual life and in the process you can make new friendships that can last a lifetime. Participating on a mission trip to help people who might be in pain or might lack the basic human needs, is a humbling experience. It brings the awareness of the greatness of God in your everyday life.
As you minister to those in pain and in need you can be an angel of mercy and God shines through you.
The mission trip journey is not easy, however it is very rewarding. You can see how God moves, and your heart can find joy and peace that no other activity can provide. One thing for certain, you do not even have to say that you are a christian, because your actions show it. It is true that actions speak louder than words!.
If you do not want to go to other lands on a Mission Trip, you can have your own little mission in your own country, or even in your neighborhood. There are plenty of people in need in this recession, God is powerful and is always working, he never sleeps. Dare to be a missionary!
Are you hiding behind “principle” to be rude?
November 26th, 2010Sometimes we can react rudely to someone, thus separating ourselves from others. In other words we separate our heart’s emotion connection, creating a lacuna between us and others. We can justify our rude behavior all we want, however if it compromises our emotional management it is not working for us, it is not giving us good results in our everyday relationships. We must exercise grace.
I am not saying that having good principles is deleterious or pernicious. Having good principles is exceedingly important,it provides us with guidelines to make good decisions. We must not hide behind “principles’ to be rude to people. Sometimes we use our principles to justify our toxic emotions.
How many families have been hurt by this false “righteous indignation”? I know of some. Perhaps you also know of someone. I know of a woman who is constantly stirring unhappiness for herself and others due to her false righteous indignation. She does not make life enjoyable for anyone, not even for herself.
An easy example of her rudeness is noted, when she saw her neighbor’s dog leaving excrement on her front yard, she quickly proceeded to pick it up and placed it on the neighbor’s property, right outside his neighbor’s car door. Not a nice thing to do. We must hot hide behind “principle” to be rude.
What’s on your list of things to do?
November 13th, 2010If you want to help your day to go smooth, keep in mind the most important things to do. Have them organized in order of importance, first things first. It really depends on what your priorities are, make sure that your priorities are real priorities. In the morning say good morning to your family, to your co-workers, to anyone you meet in the hallway, top that with a smile and with eye contact. It makes a difference in other people’s day. Stay healthy, if you are in the medical field or even if you are not, wash your hands using common sense, before and after tasks that require it. Also make sure the area where you work is clean to prevent acquiring infectious organisms. Think about how much health depends on your attitude today, if appropriate give someone a hug. Start at home. Laugh as appropriate, laughing is a good medicine.
Take your vaccines if you are due , pharmacies offer the Influenza vaccine annually for a reasonable fee.
If you are around infants you must get the Tdap (Tetanus and diphtheria, whooping cough) Protect babies, if they catch the whooping cough from grown ups it is deadly to them.
Something else you can add to your to do list is taking your fiber in your food, drink plenty of water, eat simple whole food.
More about powerful words!
November 4th, 2010Very powerful messages are sent through words. At home, at work, all around us we constantly send messages to people as well as messages to ourselves. Our own minds receive messages that can either empower us or weakened our potential.Words are strong enough to help our body’s healing processes. We must remember that our mind is not much different than a computer, if we put positive information it, we can only get positive information out. Our daily work should be to program our computer, in this case our mind with good information. Accurate, clear, true information, will assist us in reaching better conclusions. Good quality words, are a positive approach to help us be successful, prosperous, peaceful.
We must practice this approach and we soon will see the results. For instance if we do, it does not matter what difficulties we face every day, as we focus on the positive and good things that connect us to our source of peace, we will become stronger. Think of positive statements to ingrain in our minds that we can be the person we want to be. Let us have a good plan of action to benefit ourselves and others. Practice using words such as challenge instead of problem, eager instead of anxious, when instead of if, do not say I’ll try instead say : I can/ I will do it. Use words that edify.
Save more money!
October 26th, 2010Keep more of your money as you pay attention to a plethora of ways to save. There are simple ways to save money. Some auto insurance companies offer discounts that can make a difference in your budget. If you are planning to buy a car, a used car for less than 40,000.00 dollars from a dealer in California, there is a two day sales contract-cancellation option. This option allows you to return the car to the auto dealer for any reason within two days. You can save yourself thousands of dollars in debt.
Another way to save money, is to turn on your auto engine and drive the car gently until the reading on the temperature gauge shows the normal operating range. Avoid warming up your car before driving away, when your warm it up it only gives you zero mpg and more air pollution.
Having an auto is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. Save more money buy getting the right kind of tires for your automobile. It is recommended that you buy summer tires rather than all-season tires. The summer tires offer superior traction on wet roads as well as dry roads.
Saving money is important, November 2, is the time when we can make a difference . We need to get the facts on Propositions that impose more taxes on us. Vote, stop the wasteful projects, stop making us the motorists the piggy banks of the state wasteful budget and spending.
Your Heart’s influence in a child.
October 23rd, 2010I came across some research that shows that love is more important for children than anything else in the world This subject is something to be pondered. Your heart and the child’s heart are so important. It is amazing how the heart has its own center commander. Kind of its own brain, which can send messages to the brain in the head. Very intriguing indeed is that the brain understands and obeys the heart instructions. You can see evidence of this when you observe your own behavior. Just for fun analyse how your heart influences your actions. You do have an intelligent heart, that has an effect on other individuals. It is in fact evidenced based that the health of the child depends on the love that the child experiences. It has been concluded and backed up by research that adults who felt the lack of love as children now are suffering from disease at a higher degree than those who felt loved.
What does it all mean? It simply means that children require love in order to develop, and thrive. Healthy well developed individuals can only be the result of such experience. Children need to be nourished not only with food, but also with love; this is quintessential to their physical and mental health.
There is a connection between the heart and the brain, in the mother’s womb when the fetus is developing, the heart beats, way before the brain is completely formed. A six week old fetus has a beating heart, how amazing is that!
The heart of a child must be treated kindly by the adults that take care of him or her, because the heart reaches out it influences the child, due to the heart’s electromagnetic field that envelopes one’s body. All this sounds very strange, but it is true.
2010 November Elections
October 11th, 2010This November 2010 is a very important date, you must have it in your agenda. The future of California depends on your action. I am referring to the importance of your vote. It is true, every vote counts. If you decide to sit and do nothing you are making a decision that can also tip the scales in favor or against what you would like to see in the future of your country.
Vote your conscience, personally I want to vote to decrease taxes, keep government out of our personal lives, keep government from getting bigger and bigger. I work too hard to have politicians superfluously spend my hard earned dollars.
I want to see my tax dollars at work. I pray that God will send us good leaders who are honest, strong, caring, passionate about helping edify our country. I do not believe that redistributing of wealth is a good system to follow. I know that there are those who need some help if they are born with impediments that keep them from taking care of themselves, provisions and allowances need to be made for them, however those who are able to take care of themselves, should and must take care of themselves. Parents are responsible for the care of their children and must not expect the government to provide every time there is a need. There is great satisfaction in providing for once family. The government is not your father or mother. We need real jobs to earn money so we can provide for our families. Voting is a must this November!
Tu y el Alcohol!
September 29th, 2010El alcohol es la droga mas usada y tomada en exceso. El Alcohol se considera la droga mortal por excelencia. Es asi porque afecta tu cuerpo de multiples maneras. Afecta tu cerebro causando dano irreparable. Dana tu corazon directamente. Al beber alcohol el riesgo de tener hipertension o alta presion sanguinea aumenta. Cuando esto sucede puedes tu sufrir una embolia cerebral, paralizandose asi el lado derecho o el lado izquierdo o ambos lados del cuerpo. Los pulmones tambien pueden ser afectadosc cuando al beber en exceso la circulacion del oxigeno se vuelve floja y lenta porque la respiracion es tan lenta que hasta puede cesar.
Hay otros danos que puede causar el alcohol, son viejicimos y muy conocidos como lo son la destruccion del higado y la supresion del sistema inmunologico; cuando esto ocurre te torna en persona propensa a enfermedades. La verdad es que no podemos vivir sin el higado, porque el higado tiene muchas funciones que son vitales. El higado filtra muchas de las sustancias que ingerimos, ayuda para que nuestro cuerpo se deshaga de sustancias nocivas. Tambien nos ayuda a mantener nuestro cuerpo saludable, por medio de la produccion de bilis que emlea el intestino delgado para digerir y absorber las grasas.
El detalle es que al tomar alcohol en exceso estas danando tu cuerpo, el higado que es uno de tus mejores amigos en el cuerpo, este se convierte en algo parecido a la gelatina y no puede ya servirte,el resultado es la destruccion de las celulas hepaticas o las celulas del higado. A fin de cuentas las celulas son destruidas por la malnutricion debido al alcohol o por ambas cosas.
Alimentate bien y evita el exceso.
Alcohol and you.
September 15th, 2010Alcohol is the most abused drug in the world. There is no question about this fact. Alcohol abuse is not only a problem for the young but also for the aged. Alcohol is considered the most deadly drug, because it affects the human body in many ways. It affects your brain by causing damage that could never be repaired. It affects the heart, by directly affecting the muscle. By drinking alcohol the risk of hypertension is increased, the sequel is a stroke. Your lungs are also affected, oxygen is not able to be circulated and used due to respiratory depression.
If you are interested in having children and you are a male, you must be cognizant about the fact that alcohol damages cells in the testes, or if you are simply interested in having sex, alcohol causes impotence and sterility. If you are a woman it also can affect your sex life, unpredictable menstrual cycles, ovaries malfunction. What is the saddest thing is that when a woman gets pregnant the risk of having a child with fetal alcohol syndrome is very high. Furthermore alcohol can and it does hurt the liver. As you already know the liver is responsible for filtering alcohol from your blood. Alcohol literally kills the liver, by poisoning liver cells, the sequel is cirrhosis of the liver. When drinking alcohol your body is unable to fight infection, due to weakened immune system.
A wise man wrote the Proverb stating that wine is a mocker and beer a brawler, and the one who allows to be led by them is not wise. If you are a parent, set a good example to your children, do not drink alcohol, which leads to debauchery. You and I must strive to live good, excellent, virtuous lives( Be filled with the Spirit, not by “spirits”).