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Lord Please Bless My Computer

Every night I lie in bed

This little prayer inside my head

God bless my mom and dad

and bless my children

and take care of my spouse

who brings me so much joy...

God, there's just one more thing

I wish that you would do

if you don't mind my asking

to bless my 'puter, too??

Now I know that it's not normal

to bless a small machine

but listen just a second

and I'll try to explain...

You see, that little metal box

holds more than odds and ends

Inside those small components

rest a hundred loving friends.

Some it's true I've never seen

and most I've never met...

never shaken hands or

ever truly hugged, and yet...

I know for sure they love me

by the kindnesses they give,

and this little scrap of metal

is how I get to where they live.

By faith is how I know them,

Much the same as I know You.

I share in life it brings them,

So if it's OK with you...

Just take an extra minute

from your duties up above...

to bless this little hunk of steel

that's filled with so much love.

So God, Please Bless My Puter...
- author unknown-
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just a word of thanks to you all for sharing a part of you with me. I so enjoy reading the blogs, forums and many many pages you all have made. How Blessed I feel that God has lead me here!!! Have a most Blessed day, Special Blessings to all

1. Wake Up !!
Decide to have a good day.
"Today is the day the Lord hath made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it."
Psalms 118:24

2. Dress Up !!
The best way to dress up is to put on a smile.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
"The Lord does not look at the things man looks at.
Man looks at outward appearance;
but the Lord looks at the heart."
I Samuel 16:7

3. Shut Up!!
Say nice things and learn to listen.
God gave us two ears and one mouth, so He must have meant
for us to do twice as much listening as talking.
"He who guards his lips guards his soul."
Proverbs 13:3

4. Stand Up!!...
For what you believe in.
Stand for something or you will fall for anything.
"Let us not be weary in doing good; for at the proper time,
we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good..."
Galatians 6:9-10

5. Look Up !!...
To the Lord.
"I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me."
Philippians 4:13

6. Reach Up !!...
For something higher.
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and lean not unto your own understanding.
In all your ways, acknowledge Him,
and He will direct your path."
Proverbs 3:5-6

7. Lift Up !!.
Your Prayers.
"Do not worry about anything; instead PRAY ABOUT
EVERYTHING."
Philippians 4:6

Noah's safty required that he stay in the ark for as long as it rained and for as long as it took the waters to subside. There was no way to hurry the process.
   Often when we are hurting, we try to take short cuts through the healing process. Doing so however, leads to trouble. Recovery from addiction or loss is not a time to try and beat the clock. Time is on the recovering person's side. recovery is not a place that we hurry to arrive, and then lay back and relax. Rather, it is our new way of life.
   Twelve-Step programs are not twelve goals we reach, and then we begin to live. Recovery is , rather, the ongoing process of changing unhealthy attitudes and habits. And these changes rarely occur when we want them to. But they do begin to take hold when the time is right, that is in God's timing. The Steps work in every area of our lives, and as we work the Steps, life begins to smooth out. When we hit a snag in life that we have no power to change, then Step One reminds us that we cannot control the situation, Step Two reminds us that only God can, and Step three helps us to turn this problem over to God.
   Recovery is not " the waiting game."
 Time, because it is in God's hands, is our friend.
            &nb sp;                         &nb sp;          --Barbara Stephens

Read
Genesis 8:1-16

Step
11

Prayer
Father, help me to relax
when I feel the urge to
get this recovery thing
over with.

How easy it is to blame our problems on others. " Look at what he's doing." "Look how long I've waited." "Why doesn't she call?" "if only he'd change- then i'd be happy."
Often our accusation are justified. We probably are feeling hurt and frustrated. In those moments, we may begin to believe that the solution to our pain and frustration is getting the other person to do what we want. But these self-defeating illusions put the power and control of our life in other people's hands. We call this codependency.
The solution to our pain and frustration, however valid, is to acknowledge our own feelings. We feel the anger, the grief; then we let go of the feelings and find peace - within ourselves. We know our happiness isn't controlled by another person, even though we may have convinced ourselves it is. We call this acceptance.
Then we decide that although we'd like our situation to be different, maybe our life is happening this way for a reason. Maybe there is a higher purpose and plan in play, one that's better than we could have orchestrated. We call this faith.
The we decide what we need to do, what is within our power to do to take care of ourselves and move toward health. This is called recovery.
It's easy to point our finger at another, but it's more rewarding to gently point it at ourselves.
--Melody Beattie
Read
Exodus 16:2-3

Steps
4, 5, 6, 7

Prayer
Instead of grubling and
blaming other people,
God, help me to live with
my pain and frustration
be dealing with my
owm feelings.

Shame is the emotion which gives us permission to be human. Shame tells us of our limits. Shame keeps us in our human boundaries, letting us know we can and will make mistakes, and that we need help. Our shame tells us we are not god. Healthy shame is the foundation of humility.
Unfortunately, shame as a healthy human emotion can be transformed into shame as a state of being. As a state of being, shame takes over one's whole identity. Once shame is transformed into an identity, it becomes toxic and dehumanizing. Toxic shame is unbearable and always necessitates a cover-up, a false self.

The Bible describes shame as the core and consequence of Adam's fall. It suggests that Adam was not satisfied with his own being. He wanted to be more than he was, more than human. he failed to accept his essential limitations. He lost his healthy shame.
Before the fall, the man and the women were both naked and "not ashamed" ( 2:25). Nakedness symbolized their true and authentic selves. They accepted who they were. there was nothing to hide. They could be perfectly and rigorously honest. but once they chose to be other than who they were, they became naked and ashamed, and they went into hiding
( 3:9-10)
Like Adam and Eve, so many of us refuse to accept our "real selves." We try to create more powerful false selves, or else we give up and become less than human. this results in a lifetime of cover-up and secrecy. this secrecy and hiding is the basic cause of suffering for all of us. John Bradshaw

Read
genesis 2:25

Step 1

Prayer
God, help me to cast away my false self and humbly accept my real self as you created me in your image.

 

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation. And every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his room-mate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside. The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young couples walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color of the rainbow. Grand old trees graced the landscape, and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene. One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn't hear the band - he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive grace.

Then unexpectedly, a sinister thought entered his mind. Why should the other man alone experience all the pleasures of seeing everything while he himself never got to see anything? It didn't seem fair. At first thought the man felt ashamed.

But as the days passed and he missed seeing more sights, his envy eroded into resentment and soon turned him sour. He began to brood and he found himself unable to sleep. He should be by that window - that thought, and only that thought now controlled his life.

Late one night as he lay staring at the ceiling, the man by the window began to cough. He was choking on the fluid in his lungs. The other man watched in the dimly lit room as the struggling man by the window groped for the button to call for help. Listening from across the room he never moved, never pushed his own button which would have brought the nurse running in. In less than five minutes the coughing and choking stopped, along with that the sound of breathing. Now there was only silence-deathly silence.

The following morning the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths. When she found the lifeless body of the man by the window, she was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take it away. As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the world outside. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it all himself. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window. The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall. She said, "Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you."

Epilogue. . . .

You can interpret the story in any way you like. But one moral standsout: There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations. Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled. If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

Author unknown.

What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.

When we don't know Christ, we make choices as though this life were all we have. In reality, this life is just the introduction to eternity. How we live this brief span, however, determines our eternal state. What we accumulate on earth has no value in purchasing eternal life. Even the highest social or civic honors cannot earn us entrance into heaven. Evaluate all that happens from an eternal perspective, and you will find your values and decisions changing.

 

 

The following is a passage from "Conversations with God," by Neale Donald Walsch.      

(God speaking)

1. I have created you in the image and likeness of God.

2. God is the creator.

3. You are three beings in one. You can call these three aspects of being anything you want: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; mind, body, and spirit; super-conscious, conscious, subconscious.

4. Creation is a process that proceeds from these three parts of your body. Put another way, you create at three levels. The tools of creation are: thought, word, and deed.

5. All creation begins with thought ("Proceeds from the Father"). All creation then moves to word ("Ask and you shall receive, speak and it shall be done unto you"). All creation is fulfilled in deed ("And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us").

6. That which you think of, but thereafter never speak of, creates at one level. That which you think of and speak of creates at another level. That which you think, speak, and do becomes made manifest in your reality.

7. To think, speak, and do something which you do not truly believe is impossible. Therefore, the process of creation must include belief, or knowing. This is absolute faith. This is beyond hoping. This is knowing of a certainty ("By your faith shall ye be healed"). Therefore, the doing part of creation always includes knowing. It is a gut-level clarity, a total certainty, a complete acceptance as reality of something.

8. This place of knowing is a place of intense and incredible gratitude. It is a thankfulness in advance. And that, perhaps, is the biggest key to creation: to be grateful before, and for, the creation. Such taking for granted is not only condoned, but encouraged. It is the sure sign of mastery. All masters know in advance that the deed has been done.

9. Celebrate and enjoy all that you create, have created. To reject any part of it is to reject a part of yourself. Whatever it is that is now presenting itself as part of your creation, own it, claim it, bless it, be thankful for it. Seek not to condemn it ("God !@#$ it"), for to condemn it is to condemn yourself.

10. If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing. Do this magnificently and the rest of the world will follow you. As it to. Call for it to. Say, "I am the Life and the Way, follow me."

This is how to manifest God's will "on Earth as it is in Heaven.

How can you use these 10 points to change your health? What thoughts and words can you eliminate and what words will you replace them with? What actions can you eliminate , which keep you from being healthy, and which actions could you replace them with? These 10 points can give you an enormous opportunity to change your life when used.

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