THINGS CHILDREN SAY ABOUT JESUS

This is actually taken from letters written to God by children in a sunday school:

Are you really invisible or is that just a trick? Lucy

I want to be just like my daddy when i get big,but with not so much hair all over. Sam

Did you mean for giraffe to look like that or was it an accident? Norma

I keep waiting for spring but it never come yet,dont't forget! Mark

You dont have to worry bout me,i always look both ways. Dean

Instead of letting people die and haveing to make new ones,why dont you keep the ones you got

now? Jane

I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church,is that okay? Neil

I think the stapler is one of your greatest invention. Ruth M

In bible times did they really talk that fancy? Jennifer

I think about you sometimes even when im not praying. Elliott

I am Amearican,what are you? Robert

I bet it is very hard for you to love all of everybody in the whole world.there are only 4 people in our family and i can never doit. Nan

Thank you for the baby brother but what i prayed for was a puppy. Joyce

Please put a-nother holiday between christmas and easter.there is nothing good in there now. Ginny

If you watch in church on sunday i will show you my new shoes. Mickey D

If we come back as something please dont let me be Jennifer Horton because i hate her. Denise

I would like to live 900 years like the guy in the bible. love,Chris

If you give me genie lamp like Alladdin i will give you anything,except my money or my chess set. Raphael

We read Thos Edison made light.But in Sun school they said you did it.So i bet he stoled your idea.Sincerely Donna.

If you let the dinasaur not exstinct we would not have a country.you did the right thing. Jonathan

Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill so much if they had their own rooms.it works with my brother. Larry

I do not think anybody could be a better God.well i just want you to know but i am not just saying that because you are God. Charles

AND YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE ALONE!

TAOISM - OTHER BELIEFS

Taoism is an ancient tradition of philosophy and religious belief that is deeply rooted in Chinese customs and worldview.
Taoist ideas have become popular throughout the world through Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, and various martial arts.

Physical practices
Because Taoism doesn't make a rigid division between body and spirit, it recognises that physical actions have a spiritual effect.

Purity
Taoist texts teach the importance of keeping the body pure in order to ensure spiritual health. To remain pure a person should avoid certain activities and foods. Greed, lust, pride and dishonesty are examples of things that should be avoided.

Meditation
Meditation is important to many Taoists. Complex meditation rituals are practiced in various temples.
A vital use of meditation is to create mental stillness and enhance mindfulness. This can give a person the mental space to know the Tao directly.

Breathing

Breath is the most easily perceived form of ch'i, and there are many Taoist breathing exercises. Taoist breathing exercises are called Qui Gong.
The flow of life energy - ch'i - within the body can be enhanced, regulated and harmonised by various forms of exercise, meditation, and techniques such as acupuncture and moxibustion.

Martial arts
Tai Chi originally derived from Taoist exercises created by Chang San- Feng (Zhang Sanfeng) (1127-1279 CE). Modern forms of Tai Chi are more likely to be secular exercises than Taoist practices.

Diet
Classical Taoist teaching recommends abstaining from alcohol, meat, beans and grains.

The One
The One is the essence of Tao, the essential energy of life, the possession of which enables things and beings to be truly themselves and in accord with the Tao.
Taoist texts sometimes refer to the Tao as the mother and the One as the son.

Wu and Yu
Wu and Yu are non-being and being, or not-having and having. Wu also implies inexhaustibility or limitlessness. Some writers suggest that Wu can be directly experienced by human beings.

Te
Te is usually translated as virtue, but this translation uses some Confucian ideas and can be confusing.
Another way of looking at te is an awareness of the Tao together with the capabilities that enable a person to follow the Tao.
Professor Victor Mair suggests that a better translation is integrity. He writes:
There is something fundamentally honest and psychologically healthy in being oneself and striding forward with one's vision facing directly ahead, instead of trying at every turn to satisfy abstract standards of goodness established by a reigning orthodoxy. This is what te/de is all about.

Tzu Jan
Tzu Jan is usually translated naturalness or spontaneity, but this is rather misleading.
One writer suggests using the phrase 'that which is naturally so', meaning the condition that something will be in if it is permitted to exist and develop naturally and without interference or conflict.
The Taoist ideal is to fulfil that which is naturally so, and the way to do this is Wu Wei.

Wu Wei
The method of following the Tao is called Wu Wei. This can be translated as uncontrived action or natural non-intervention.
Wu Wei is sometimes translated as non-action, but this wrongly implies that nothing at all gets done. The Tao Te Ching says:
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Wu Wei means living by or going along with the true nature of the world - or at least without obstructing the Tao - letting things take their natural course.
So Taoists live lives of balance and harmony. They find their way through life in the same way that a river flowing through the countryside finds its natural course.
The world is a spiritual vessel, and one cannot act upon it;one who acts upon it destroys it.Tao

Te Ching
This doesn't stop a person living a proactive life but their activities should fit into the natural pattern of the universe, and therefore need to be completely detached and disinterested and not ego-driven.
Perfect activity leaves no track behind it; perfect speech is like a jade worker whose tool leaves no mark.
This implies that Taoists take an attitude akin to Voltaire's (satirically intended) doctrine that "All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds."
And certainly pure Taoism requires individuals to live on the basis that the world is working properly, and that they therefore should not interfere with it.

Yin Yang
Yin Yang is the principle of natural and complementary forces, patterns and things that depend on one another and do not make sense on their own.
These may be masculine and feminine, but they could be darkness and light (which is closer to the original meaning of the dark and light sides of a hill), wet and dry or action and inaction.
These are opposites that fit together seamlessly and work in perfect harmony. You can see this by looking at the yin yang symbol.
The yin yang concept is not the same as Western dualism, because the two opposites are not at war, but in harmony.
This can be seen very clearly in the symbol: the dark area contains a spot of light, and vice versa, and the two opposites are intertwined and bound together within the unifying circle.
Yin and yang are not static, the balance ebbs and flows between them - this is implied in the flowing curve where they meet.

The Taoist body
Taoists view the body as a miniature of the universe, filled with the Tao. The parts of the body have their counterparts in physical features of the universe, and:
The body, as much as the larger universe, is ruled and lived in by the gods-the multifaceted manifestations of spirit, the visible and accessible aspect of the Tao on earth.Livia Kohn, The Taoist Experience: An Anthology, 1993

Ch'i
Ch'i is the cosmic vital energy that enables beings to survive and links them to the universe as a whole.
Qi is the basic material of all that exists. It animates life and furnishes functional power of events. Qi is the root of the human body; its quality and movement determine human health. Qi can be discussed in terms of quantity, since having more means stronger metabolic function. This, however, does not mean that health is a byproduct of storing large quantities of qi. Rather, there is a normal or healthy amount of qi in every person, and health manifests in its balance and harmony, its moderation and smoothness of flow. This flow is envisioned in the texts as a complex system of waterways with the "Ocean of Qi" in the abdomen; rivers of qi flowing through the upper torso, arms, and legs; springs of qi reaching to the wrists and ankles; and wells of qi found in the fingers and toes. Even a small spot in this complex system can thus influence the whole, so that overall balance and smoothness are the general goal.
Human life is the accumulation of qi; death is its dispersal. After receiving a core potential of primordial qi at birth, people throughout life need to sustain it. They do so by drawing postnatal qi into the body from air and food, as well as from other people through sexual, emotional, and social interaction. But they also lose qi through breathing bad air, overburdening their bodies with food and drink, and getting involved in negative emotions and excessive sexual or social interactions.Livia Kohn, Health and Long Life: The Chinese Way

Immortality
Immortality doesn't mean living for ever in the present physical body.
The idea is that as the Taoist draws closer and closer to nature throughout their life, death is just the final step in achieving complete unity with the universe.
Spiritual immortality, the goal of Daoism, raises the practices to a yet higher level. To attain it, people have to transform all their qi into primordial qi and proceed to refine it to subtler levels. This finer qi will eventually turn into pure spirit, with which practitioners increasingly identify to become transcendent spirit-people. The path that leads there involves intensive meditation and trance training as well as more radical forms of diet and other longevity practices. Immortality implies the overcoming of the natural tendencies of the body and its transformation into a different kind of qi-constellation. The result is a bypassing of death, so that the end of the body has no impact on the continuation of the spirit-person. In addition, practitioners attain supersensory powers and eventually gain residence in wondrous otherworldly paradises.Livia

Kohn, Health and Long Life: The Chinese Way
Knowledge and relativity
Human knowledge is always partial and affected by the standpoint of the person claiming that knowledge. There can never be a single true knowledge, merely the aggregate of uncountable different viewpoints.
Because the universe is always changing, so knowledge is always changing.
The closest a human being can get to this is knowledge that is consistent with the Tao. But this is a trap because the Tao that can be known is not the Tao. True knowledge cannot be known - but perhaps it can be understood or lived.

GOD LOVES HUMOR, TOO!

SUNDAY SCHOOL HUMOR...

LOT'S WIFE: The Sunday school teacher was describing how Lot's wife looked back
and turned into a pillar of salt, when little Jason interrupted, 'My mommy looked
back once, while she was driving,' he announced triumphantly, 'and she turned into
a telephone pole!'

GOOD SAMARITAN: A Sunday school teacher was telling her class the story of the
Good Samaritan. She asked the class, 'If you saw a person lying on the roadside, all
wounded and bleeding, what would you do?'
A thoughtful little girl broke the hushed silence, 'I think I'd throw up.'

DID NOAH FISH? A Sunday school teacher asked, 'Johnny, do you think Noah did
a lot of fishing when he was on the Ark ?'
'No,' replied Johnny. 'How could he -- with just two worms'?

HIGHER POWER: A Sunday school teacher said to her children, 'We have been learning
how powerful kings and queens were in Bible times. But, there is a higher power. Can
anybody tell me what it is?'
One child blurted out, 'Aces!'

MOSES AND THE RED SEA : Nine-year-old Joey was asked by his mother what he had
learned in Sunday school. 'Well, Mom, our teacher told us how God sent Moses behind enemy
lines on a rescue mission to lead the Israelites out of Egypt . When he got to the Red Sea,
he had his army build a pontoon bridge and all the people walked across safely. Then, he
radioed headquarters for reinforcements. They sent bombers to blow up the bridge and
all the Israelites were saved.'
'Now, Joey, is that really what your teacher taught you?' his mother asked.
'Well, no, Mom. But, if I told it the way the teacher did, you'd never believe it!'

THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD: A Sunday school teacher decided to have her young class
memorize one of the most quoted passages in the Bible: Psalm 23. She gave the youngsters
a month to learn the chapter. Little Rick was excited about the task -- but, he just couldn't
remember the Psalm. After much practice, he could barely get past the first line. On the
day that the kids were scheduled to recite Psalm 23 in front of the congregation, Ricky
was so nervous. When it was his turn, he stepped up to the microphone and said proudly,
'The Lord is my Shepherd, and that's all I need to know.'

UNANSWERED PRAYER? The preacher's 5-year-old daughter noticed that her father
always paused and bowed his head, for a moment, before starting his sermon. One day,
she asked him why. 'Well, Honey,' he began, proud that his daughter was so observant
of his messages, 'I'm asking the Lord to help me preach a good sermon...
"How come HE doesn't do it?' she asked.

BEING THANKFUL: A rabbi said to a precocious six-year-old boy, 'So your mother
says your prayers for you each night? That's very commendable. What does she say?'
The little boy replied, 'Thank God he's in bed!'

UNTIMELY ANSWERED PRAYER: During the minister's prayer, one Sunday, there was
a loud whistle from one of the back pews. Tommy's mother was horrified. She pinched him
into silence and, after church, asked, 'Tommy, whatever made you do such a thing?'
Tommy answered, soberly, 'I asked God to teach me to whistle, and HE just then did!'

TIME TO PRAY: A pastor asked a little boy if he said his prayers every night. 'Yes, sir,'
the boy replied.
'And, do you always say them in the morning, too?' the pastor asked.
'No sir,' the boy replied. 'I ain't scared in the daytime.'

ALL MEN / ALL GIRLS? When my daughter, Kelli, said her bedtime prayers, she would
bless every family member, every friend, and every animal (current and past). For several
weeks, after we had finished the nightly prayer, Kelli would say, 'And all girls.'
As this soon became part of her nightly routine, to include this at the end, my curiosity got the
best of me and I asked her, 'Kelli, Why do you always add the part about all girls?'
Her response, 'Because we always finish our prayers by saying 'All Men'!'

SAY A PRAYER: Little Johnny and his family were having Sunday dinner at his
grandmother's house. Everyone was seated around the table as the food was being served.
When Little Johnny received his plate, he started eating right away. 'Johnny! Please wait
until we say our prayer.'
I don't have to,' the boy replied.
'Of course, you do,' his mother insisted. 'We say a prayer before eating, at our house.'
'That's our house,' Johnny said. 'This is Grandma's house and she knows how to cook!

CAVE FOUND MAY BE OLDEST CHURCH IN THE WORLD

Archaeologists in Rihab, Jordan, say they have discovered a cave that could be the world's oldest Christian church.
Dating to the period AD33-70, the underground chapel would have served as both a place of worship and a home.
It is claimed that it was originally used by a group of 70 persecuted Christians who fled from Jerusalem.
These early Christians lived and practised their faith in secrecy until the Romans embraced Christianity several hundred years later.
'Beautiful things'
Rihab is in Northern Jordan. The cave is beneath the ancient church of St Georgeous, itself one of the oldest known places of worship in the world.
According to Dr Abdul Qader Al-Hassan, the director of the Rihab Centre for Archaeological studies, the cave site shows clear evidence of early Christian rituals that predate the church.

Dr Al-Hassan says that steps lead down into the chapel which is approximately 12m long and seven metres wide.
There is a circular area of worship with stone seats separated from living quarters. This circular element, called an apse, is important says Dr Al-Hassan because there is only one other example of a cave with a similar feature, which was also used for Christian worship.
Dr Al-Hassan said: "We found beautiful things. I found the cemetery of this church; we found pottery shards and lamps with the inscription 'Georgeous'".
In the cave there is also a tunnel that leads to a cistern which supplied water to the dwellers. An inscription in the floor of the church above refers to the "70 beloved by God and the divine" whom the archaeologist believes were refugees from religious persecution in Jerusalem.
Dr Al-Hassan says that excavation of the tunnel and the cistern may yield yet more evidence about the lives of these early Christians.
"From the tunnel to the cistern is very important. We want to clean it and make an excavation inside it. We found a very old inscription beside it and coins also, and crosses made from iron."
Other experts say they are cautious about the claim. They want to examine the artefacts and see clear dating evidence. The earliest confirmed examples of churches date from the third century, they say.

LA PAPA CAMINO EN ELLO

Store Gives out Carpets walked on by Pope
FLEMINGTON , N.J. (UPI) -- A New Jersey store owner says he is giving away sections of carpet walked on by Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to New York's Yankee Stadium. Ted Resnick, Flemington Department Store owner, supplied 20,000 square feet of carpet used for the pope's April 20 mass at Yankee Stadium and his April 19 trip to St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y., Newhouse News Service reported. Resnick said people from across the nation are asking for pieces of the carpet. "There was one woman who wanted a piece for her son to kneel on when he got married," he said. Part of the reason people are eager to get their hands on the carpet is that a papal visit to the United States is a rarity. Benedict's trip marked only the third such visit in history. Copyright 2008 by United Press International

PHOTOS THAT SHOW THAT GOD IS BUSY KEEPING US HAPPY

Me in Atlanta, Georgia at Christmas time!

This is how complete my world is. World's Best Daughter and Granddaughter of my life! This is the reason I live! Miss you girls but looking forward to seeing y'all soon. Give my love to Georgia!

It's all in the eyes! Triki at Consejo. Happy to be alive. We'll have more fun days, daughter No. 2

Mathematics Teacher- Roy Smith in his First Year Class at 6:00p.m. If 9x+3y isn't equal to one happy smile, I don't know what is!

Mathematica Teacher, Eduardo Itzab t4aching Evening Division at 8:00p.m. Thanks, Itz!

Second Years enjoying their classes at 8:00p.m. Third Years Stand for Class Picture with Director

THIS WAS THE FLOODING AFTER HURRICANE DEAN LAST YEAR

As we can see Belize and Belizeans know what it is like to have floods. Unfortunately it is costly and the country of Belize cannot really deal with it. But, what can we do? This is life!

GOD IS EVERYWHERE

If you think about the life you are fortunate to have, THAT'S GOD! The scuba divers are able to enjoy a world hidden from those of us who fear water or can't dive. They experience nature in a way few people can. It is a marvel of God and one that is so peaceful.

Friendship is special and is something to be enjoyed. This group of students have spent as much as five years together and the friendship that has formed this last year will take them to the next step in their lives. Some of them will continue studying while others will be heading off into the working arena. The power of friendship shows the presence of a greater being. THAT'S GOD!

Look into the eyes of this proud father and see the tender love he feels for his new born child. That is true love and that is what being a father is all about. That's a feeling that can only be sensed and guided by a higher being. THAT'S GOD!

FLOODING CAN ALSO MEAN CLEANSING, I GUESS!

COROZAL TOWN, HOME OF THE WRITER OF THIS BLOG HAD FOUR DAYS OF RAIN FOR THIS TO HAPPEN AS TROPICAL DEPRESSION ARTHUR CAME OVER BELIZE. THE RAIN STILL CONTINUE AND NOW PEOPLE ARE HAVING TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES DUE TO THE FLOODING. A LEAST 5 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER DUE TO THE FLOODS. SOME IN TRYING TO HELP BRING OTHERS TO SAFETY. AND WHILE WE DEAL WITH HELPING THOSE IN NEED WE HAVE TO CONTEND WITH THIS AS THE FIRST OF WHAT COULD BE A LONG HURRICANE SEASON FOR US. IN FACT THE SECOND STORM IS ALREADY FORMING AS WE SPEAK AND IT WILL BE UP TO GOD IF THIS SEASON WILL BE ANY KINDER TO US.
GOD BLESS BELIZE!!

THERE IS ALWAYS PROOF THAT GOD IS ALIVE AND WELL!

BARACK OBAMA RESIGNS FROM HIS CHURCH

ABERDEEN, S.D. - Barack Obama has resigned his 20 year membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in the aftermath of inflammatory remarks by his longtime pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and more recent fiery remarks at the church by another minister.
Obama campaign communications director Robert Gibbs said Obama had resigned from the church "over the last few days."
Campaign aides said they weren't immediately certain how the resignation took place, whether by letter or in some other fashion, and were trying to find out.
Messages left for a church spokeswoman in Chicago were not immediately returned Saturday afternoon.
The development came as Obama campaigned in South Dakota.
Obama said he disagreed with Wright but initially portrayed him as a family member he couldn't disown. The preacher had officiated at Obama's wedding and been his spiritual mentor for some 20 years.
But six weeks after Obama's well-received speech on race, Wright claimed at an appearance in Washington that the U.S. government was capable of planting AIDS in the black community, praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and suggested that Obama was acting like a politician by putting his pastor at arm's length while privately agreeing with him.
Obama denounced those Wright comments as "divisive and destructive."
Comments by Wright inflamed racial tensions and posed an unwanted problem for Obama, front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, as he seeks to wrap up the nomination.
More recently, racially charged remarks from the same pulpit by another pastor, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, kept the controversy alive and proved the latest thorn in the side of Obama. Pfleger mocked Obama rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as a guest speaker at Obama's church.
Although Obama condemned comments by both Wright and Pfleger, the controversy has persisted.
For months, Obama has been hamstrung by the rhetoric of Wright, whose sermons blaming U.S. policies for the Sept. 11 attacks and calls of "God damn America" for its racism became fixtures on the Internet and cable news networks.
Initially, Obama said he disagreed with Wright but portrayed him as a family member he couldn't disown. The preacher had officiated at Obama's wedding and been his spiritual mentor for some 20 years.
But six weeks after Obama's well-received speech on race, Wright claimed at an appearance in Washington that the U.S. government was capable of planting AIDS in the black community, praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and suggested that Obama was acting like a politician by putting his pastor at arm's length while privately agreeing with him.
On Thursday, Obama was again forced to reject another man of the cloth, this time Pfleger, who made racially charged comments mocking Clinton in a guest sermon at Obama's church.
Obama made it clear he wasn't happy with the comments — in which Pfleger pretended he was Clinton crying over "a black man stealing my show" — and said he was "deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause."
Pfleger, too, issued an apology, saying he was sorry if his comments offended Clinton or anyone else.
The timing of Obama's decision was clearly planned with an eye toward Washington and the calendar. The news broke late on a Saturday and while most of the political attention was focused on the Democratic National Committee's struggle to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan.
Republican John McCain also has had his woes with religious leaders.
Earlier this month, McCain rejected endorsements from two influential but controversial televangelists, saying there is no place for their incendiary criticisms of other faiths.
McCain spurned the months-old endorsement of Texas preacher John Hagee after an audio recording surfaced in which the preacher said God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land. McCain called the comment "crazy and unacceptable."
He later repudiated the support of Rod Parsley, an Ohio preacher who has sharply criticized Islam and called the religion inherently violent.

THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN

When we seek to control a child, we end up sending them away. (Brenda A. Ysaguirre)

In today's world so many evil things are happening that it is hard for parents to keep control of their children. Unfortunately, while most children may come from good homes and have been brought up the proper way, the friends that they make in school sometimes are the ruination of their lives.

So, how can parents keep their child out of trouble and away from those bad influences that are ever present today? Not an easy task I must tell you as I see most of my friends who have children deal with this situation. I thank God that my daughter is now happily married and the mother of a 61/2 year old daughter. Otherwise I would be biting my nails too.

It is no small wonder that many parents are trying to control the outings of their children. It has gotten to the point where in some of the homes the only way the child will get out is if it is on a family outing. But does this solve the problem? NO! In fact one family that I know of is having a very hard time indeed with this problem.

Both parents are very strong willed and refuse to let their daughter, who is over 18, go out on weekends with her friends. So you would think that would solve the problem, right? NO WAY!

In fact, the daughter is skips classes and goes out with her friends.

PARENTS, YOU HAVE GOT TO LEARN TO LISTEN AND TO UNDERSTAND YOUR CHILDREN. TOO MUCH RULES AND YOUR BEING STRICT WILL NOT MAKE THEM DO WHAT YOU WANT. TELL A CHILD "NO" AND THE FIRST THING HE OR SHE WILL DO IS FINE A WAY TO GO AGAINST THAT COMMAND.

WEREN'T YOU A YOUTH ONCE? HOW DID YOU BEHAVE? WHAT MISCHIEF DID YOU GET INTO? I KNOW YOU WEREN'T A LITTLE CHURCH MOUSE OR A COMPLETE RECLUSE AT HOME. LET'S BE FAIR TO THE YOUTHS. THEY NEED THEIR TIME WITH THEIR FRIENDS AND THEIR FREEDOM NOW AND AGAIN.

THE KEY TO THIS IS 'TRUST'. PARENTS, YOU HAVE GOT TO LEARN TO TRUST YOUR CHILDREN OR YOU WILL LOSE THEM. THINK BEFORE YOU DO SOMETHING YOU WILL REGRET IN THE END.

Have a great day!

God Bless You,

Brenda A. Ysaguirre

IT'S ONLY GOD!

Everytime you see a rainbow,

IT'S ONLY GOD!

Everytime you feel cool breeze on your skin,

IT'S ONLY GOD!

Everytime you feel homesick,

IT'S ONLY GOD!

Everytime you listen to the sound of the rain falling,

IT'S ONLY GOD!

Everytime you feel like calling home,

IT'S ONLY GOD!

Everytime you think of your friends and then they call,

IT'S ONLY GOD!

Everytime you are touched by someone's good deed,

IT'S ONLY GOD!

Everytime you are hurt but get over it,

IT'S ONLY GOD!

GOD NEVER PUNISHES!

Brenda A. Ysaguirre

Copyright 2008 Brenda A. Ysaguirre

HELP ME FIGHT THE DEVIL, LORD

Where are you God, when your faithful need you?

Don't you see the corrupt things that people do?

You have got to do something before more are hurt.

There is too much going on, what is it worth?

Tell me what to do and I will try my best.

But if it is impossible, please don't put me to the test.

Why must we suffer because of things we can't skip,

How can You make people lure others by words from the lip?

I'm trying to understand that this is part of your plan,

But You have got to give me stength and a helping Hand.

Because the devil is at work and he is ahead,

So please Dear Lord, don't make me see red.

GRACIAS, SENOR

THANK YOU, LORD

Lord, I thank you for this life,

I thank you for keeping me safe both day and night.

May all my thoughts and prayers go to the one above,

May all I do be done with much love.

Through all my trials and my times of fear,

You've been a loving Father, ever dear.

May all come to know you as I do,

May they get to love you, too.

Dear Lord, you've brought me to this day,

And guarded all I do and say,

May I always know that you are there for me,

Lord, I thank you for letting me your love see.

Guide me now through this time of sadness,

Let me on your shoulder my head rest.

For Lord you're the only one we always cares for me,

Give me strength - take this pain and set me free.

Brenda Aurora Ysaguirre

Copyright @ Brenda Ysaguirre 2008

SELLING JESUS FOR A QUARTER!

There is good and bad in each person but the one that wins the battle most time than not is the one that we really represent. Brenda A. Ysaguirre

It's only a quarter.....

Several years ago, a preacher from out-of-state accepted a call to a church in Houston, Texas . Some weeks after he arrived, he had an occasion to ride the bus from his home to the downtown area. When he sat down, he discovered that the driver had accidentally given him a quarter too much change.As he considered what to do, he thought to himself, 'You' d better give the quarter back. It would be wrong to keep it.' Then he thought, 'Oh, forget it, it's only a qua rter. Who would worry about this little amount?Anyway, the bus company gets too much fare; they will never miss it. Accept it as 'a gift from God' and keep quiet.'When his stop came, he paused momentarily at the door, then he handed the quarter to the driver and said, 'Here, you gave me too much change.'The driver, with a smile, replied, 'Aren't you the new preacher in town? I have been thinking a lot lately about going somewhere to worship. I just wanted to see what you would do if I gave you too much change. I'll see you at church on Sunday.'When the preacher stepped off of the bus, he literally grabbed the nearest light pole, held on, and said, 'Oh God, I almost sold your Son for a quarter.'Our lives are the only Bible some people will ever read. This is a really scary example of how much people watch us as Christians and will put us to the test! Always be on guard and remember that you carry the name of Christ on your shoulders when you call yourself 'Christian'.Watch your thoughts; they become words.

Watch your words; they become actions.

Watch your actions; they become habits.

Watch your habits, they become character.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.The Will of God will never take you where the

Grace of God will not PROTECT you...