“Why are you so afraid of silence, silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.” – Rumi
Life can havenewmeaning when we realize the Wonder that is Creation, and the Beauty that is found all around andwithinus. . It helps when we take the Time for reflection and give Thanks to God for such Immeasurable Love.
There is Magic is this moment.
All we need do is close our eyes and Pray, and we are transported to a Magical Place where there is no anxiety, worry, strife, or stress.
The mind can become restless and turbulent. It may be more difficult to control than the wind.
But we can sooth and fulfill our troubled minds and aching Hearts.
What we have in our Hearts, and in our Sacred Souls, must find a way out. The fact that you have been Created and are so very Beautiful is Truly a Blessing. There is nothing on Earth more Beautiful than a Child of God.
And this World is more Beautiful, if we live together in Peace.
Yes, we may reminded of the Beauty of this World that we are so abundantly Blessed with.
We need but close our eyes and listen and Pray, and we are transported to the World of our inner Being – as the Birds sing such Beautiful songs and the Flowers of calming thoughts Blossom, and the colorful leaves from the Beautiful Trees fall down like a snowflakes. We can listen to hear the Peaceful music of the Wind as it starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, gently flowing through the Trees and through our Minds.
And suddenly, awareness Dawns like a bright new day. Life with Love in our Hearts, is a Peaceful Dream, and the Dawn of a new Day.
The hue of colors illuminating ourawareness warms the Heart.
What an amazing moment. What a precious Blessing, to suddenly realize that you are a Precious Gift to the World, because you are you. . If you failed to see you, it wasn’t because you couldn’t be seen. You simply failed to close your eyes, so that you could see the Light in your Heart.
Yes, you are a precious GIFT to the World.
My Dear Friends, One step leads to a long Journey. One note leads to a Beautiful Song – a Beautiful Harmony we can all sing along. One day leads to one night, one darkness to Light. Everyone is Loved from the depths of someone’s Heart.
If we but listen and reflect, we can know that Time really is Love.
Time is a Gift from Above.
Love yourself. Embrace yourself and be your very best friend. If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. The Spirit of your Heart can fly.
Life should read like a fairy tale book. Only the Beautiful and Magical here and there, with a lot of Dreaming in between. This is communicated from our Nature and Natural Consciousness.
Share your amazing Life and Love with this stressed out and distressed World. YOU make a big difference in the Hearts and minds and Souls of others.
The calming Music of Meditation, is like a windbreaker.
It enables you to fall in Love with your NaturalSelf, and with Nature so Beautifully Created all around you. You can feel every cell of your Body. You can be reborn here, in this Moment.
Nature and Music are two of the most soothing and fulfilling things for the Soul. They are truly Blessings. They can lift up your Spirit.
The mood of your Life will match the mood of the Music. Sweet and harmonious sounds are what your Heart desires, what your Heart needs.
God is everywhere. Be glad the World is filled with so much Beauty and Wonder. Blessings abound because God Loves you.
Let the Word of God and His Blessings renew you Life.
Goodnight.
Charlie Chaplin lived for 88 years. And, he left us with these Philosophical Observations:
1. Nothing is forever in this World, not even our problems.
2. I Love walking in the rain because no one can see my tears.
3. The most lost day in Life is the day we don’t laugh.
4. The six best Doctors in the World are 1. The sun 2. Rest 3. Exercise 4. Diet 5. Self-respect 6. Friends.
Stick to them at all stages of your Life and enjoy a healthy Life. If you see the Moon, you will see the Beauty of God. If you see the Sun, you will see the Power of God. If you see a mirror, you will see God’s best Creation.
ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.
A Soothing Balm for Troubled Emotions by: Marcia West click here to read more . The Tools of Change were given to me at a time of emotional turmoil due to changes occurring in my own life and in the lives of people I knew. I will never forget the day I received the gift of this second Tool of Change. It was a year before my Dad passed. He had become seriously ill a couple of months prior and I knew that we could lose him at anytime. It really hit me one day, sitting at my desk at home. Cherished memories from childhood came flooding in – things we had done together that meant so much to me. I must have sat there for a couple of hours sobbing over the loss that I knew was coming. I finally told myself that he hadn’t been able to do those things for years (foolishly hoping that I could talk myself out of it!). But logic did nothing to sooth my broken heart. The floodgates were open.
I finally did what people tend to do when they feel utterly helpless. I audibly cried out to God for help, asking for SOMETHING that would ease my pain. The answer came with no delay. “Put your memories into Gratitude.” Hmmmm…..OK. I had helped many clients put their painful, hurtful memories into gratitude, assuring them that it would help them to truly forgive and reap the wisdom from those experiences. But it hadn’t occurred to me to do this for the gnawing ache of grief inside.
A memory surfaced of fishing with Dad. The spigot of tears reopened. I placed this memory into gratitude, and asked gratitude to envelope me. The surge of joy that filled my body was a complete surprise. My tears stopped and I could breathe again. Another memory surfaced, of racing to the house with him from the detached garage when he came home from work, wondering if I would ever be as fast as my Dad. More tears. I put that one into gratitude, and joy returned. Again and again that day, one after another, memories came to mind to be placed into gratitude. I wondered if it would ever end. Yet as the morning became afternoon, the minutes between them turned into hours. I knew it was working. By the end of the day and into the next I was emotionally and mentally lifted, sitting in joy and gratitude for all those wonderful times with my Dad.
Gratitude is the love essence of the Second Tool of Big-Hearted Change. It brings us out of the past and back into the present moment. This is true whether the past was glorious or gloomy. Memories and experiences can be painful. People have asked me, “How can I be grateful for something that brought me so much pain?” This is an excellent question. The answer lies in the heart, not the mind. We don’t have to “try” to be grateful, or convince ourselves of the value of anything. Gratitude is like Grace. It is an aspect of Divine Love that can be called upon to assist and fill us. It is a healing balm for regret, guilt, grief, anger, resentment, and nostalgia.
Gratitude is like forgiveness, in that it serves to release our emotional attachment to what has been. Yet it does even more than that. Gratitude also integrates the past into the whole of our life’s journey. My experience has been that, when I am willing to trust in Love, and ask for its help, not only does healing and movement occur, but I am also given understanding and a higher perspective that brings my mind along for the ride. That’s how these Tools of Big-Hearted Change work. They originate in the heart, and then understanding and solutions present themselves.
While the first Tool of Change – Grace – brings us back to the present from our fearful projections of the future, this second Tool of Change brings us back from the past. We have emotional attachments to so many things – people, places, things, memories, ideas, and ways of doing things. I want to emphasize the importance of feeling the whole range of our emotions. They are road signs. When they have done their job, gratitude helps us to release them. Letting go of the past is an important aspect of moving forward. True change can’t happen without it. We live and release. Live and release. This is living in the joy of the present moment. A hot air balloon must release its tethers before it can fly. Gratitude helps us to do the same.
Marcia West, founder of Bridges of Unity, is an agent of love-based change. An author of books and articles on Unity Consciousness, Wholeness and Harmony, Marcia co-creates templates that inspire and empower humanity to live in love. She is available for speaking engagements, consultations and workshops.
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“Love is something Eternal – the aspects may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in Love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and is a good one, but now it is shedding Light, too, and that is its real function.” – Vincent Van Gogh
Children can lose their sense of wonder, no longer keep their hunger for Life and Living and Love. Never take a single precious breath for granted. . God forbid Love ever leaves your Heart empty. But please remember, whenever one door closes, one more always opens. And, if you give Faith a fighting chance, you will Dance.
I Pray you Dance.
And, never fear. God is near.
The Path to Love means taking a chance, . But, your precious Heart will makeallthings possible.
Give God more than just a Passing Glance. And when you get the chance, dance.
I Pray you Dance. Don’t look back and wonder why have all the years gone asunder, appearing so briefly, like a bolt of thunder.
“My Mom died of a brain aneurysm when she was just 45-years-old. Well now 14 years later, I’ve stumbled back onto it and the feelings feel like I’m back in those moments of loss. Funny how music encapsulates so much. Last year I got to meet the wonderful woman who received my Mom’s Heart and was able to listen to my Mom’s Heart beating inside her with a stethoscope. It’s not closure, but it’s close. Please be an organ donor.” – Sarah Clark .
In restless dreams you need never walk alone.
Life always combines Joy and sorrow. And, it reminds us that we too, someday will only be a memory. Enjoy this Life and do good while you are still vibrant and alive and able.
Your precious Spirit can be so refreshing in a World gone mad. Yes, YOU can be absolutely amazing. The eyes of those around you will Thank You for the Beauty in your Heart. . Love every minute.
Life is a short but a Heartfelt note in the Song of Life. .
Thank God for the Gift of your precious Soul. One day He will take you out of your Body and release your Spirit into His Infinite World of Love.
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The answers to all of your questions dwell within the Eternal Word of God.
When Love is blind it is there inside you mind, not within your Heart.
. “Above all, keep fervent in your Love for one another, because Love covers a multitude of sins.” – 1 Peter 4:8
Love has no bounds or barriers.
Yes, it is crazy how fast Love touches the Heart and Soul. We are still learning so much about Life, and the ways of God’s Universe.
We can be so Happy. Every Beautiful Life is unique. The Love and the emotion you put into each day, is another way God hears you Pray.
Everything God does, He does for you.
Your Life should ALWAYS be a Gift to someone.
From this moment on your Dreams can come true, if you Love with all your Heart.
And, how deep is your Love?
Love is dimensionless, Eternal, and Spiritual. The Love hidden in your Heart has always been deeper and more Heartfelt, than Life bears meaning.
Yes, you will ALWAYS be a precious Gift to someone you Love. And more Today than any day that passed you by.
What is the difference between like and Love? When you like a Flower, you pluck it. But if you Love a Flower, you water it and look after it every day.
What an incredible thing, to reach out and care for the Flower of someone’s Life, and sing the Song of Life so Beautifully that you are awestruck by your compassion, and caring deeds and Loving words.
The rhythm of your Heart can never be undone. .. YOU can lift the Spirit of someone in need every time you meet, and much higher than you can Dream.
We are formed by God into the Flower of our Precious Being.
Our World is full of goodness, just search for it, and you will find it.
“When Life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show Life you have a thousand reasons to Smile.”
Yes, there is so much that Time simply cannot erase. As you wipe away all of your tears, remember Love
also creates a moment that will last forever.
How can a Love Story never die? . .“Love is the vital core of the Soul. And of all you see, only Love is infinite.” – Rumi
When we lose someone we Love we must learn not to Live without them, but to Live with the Love they left behind.
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Love always touches the Heart, and makes you fell like going someplace and you don’t know where it is, but it feels something like Home.
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“For all my days in many ways I’ll think of all I’ve lived to see. The mountains high, clouds in the sky I thank the Lord for sharing them with me. The summer’s glow, the winter’s snow Are not to me just scenery When tree tops sway I long to say Oh thank you Lord for sharing them with me Life I believe, Love we receive We shouldn’t take too casually For all my days in many ways I’ll thank the Lord for sharing them with me.” – Jack Fishman / Roy Budd click to hear this Beautiful song by Mary Hopkin
The Love of God in you, is Simple and Perfect.
Please share with others in need such GOD given Love. May you continue to be an inspiration to others. . GOD BLESS YOU!
Goodnight.
“Real Love takes you from limits of personal Love into the immeasurable domain of Universal Love. Human life is an inner journey from the head to the Heart – from separateness to Oneness.” – Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)
Dr. Otto Warburg: The Man Who Discovered the Prime Cause of Cancer
by Alexander Light . Dr. Otto Warburg was a Nobel Prize-winning German scientist who dedicated his life to researching cancer and in the 1920’s discovered it’s prime cause.
Frustrated by the lack of acceptance of his ideas, Warburg often spelled out the axiom attributed to Max Plank, “Science advances one funeral at a time.”
Like all breakthrough scientific discoveries and the scientists who’ve discovered them, they are often laughed at for decades before they are acknowledged as true.
This occurs not because their conclusions are unreasonable; it occurs because either their peers don’t understand their work or because industries profiting from the lie go to great efforts to prevent the truth from becoming widely known.
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while truth is putting on its shoes,” Mark Twain was quoted as saying.
The highly-respected Nobel Laureate Dr. Otto Warburg was one such scientist.
Dr. Otto Warburg: ‘Cancer is a Metabolic Disease’
Born in Germany in 1883, Dr. Otto Warburg was a physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel Laureate who spent much of his life devoted to researching and understanding cancer.
During the first world war he served as an officer in the elite cavalry regiment and was awarded the iron cross (first class) for bravery. .
Warburg stood out among his peers as one of the most highly regarded scientists in the world. In 1931, he was the sole recipient of the nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Over the course of his career he was nominated for a nobel prize 47 times.
His work was published in a number of books including his keystone volume The Metabolism of Tumours in 1931. In a presentation to other Nobel Laureates in 1966 he made the following bold statement: .
“The cause of cancer is no longer a mystery; we know it occurs whenever any cell is denied 60% of its oxygen requirements.” .
Warburg hypothesized that cancer cell growth was fuelled by tumor cells producing energy (adenosine triphosphate or ATP) by the anaerobic breakdown or fermentation of glucose.
Whereas healthy cells generate energy primarily through a reaction between oxygen and glucose (they “oxidize” glucose) within the mitochondria of the cell, cancer cells produce energy through the fermentation of glucosein the absence of oxygen.
The end result of energy production by healthy cells is the production of carbon dioxide, which promotes health by serving as a potent antioxidant and by shuttling more oxygen into cells. .
Conversely, the end result of glucose fermentation by cancer cells is lactic acid or lactate, which can be consistently found in high levels within the bodies of people with cancer.
“Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by fermentation of SUGAR.” – Dr. Otto Warburg .
Dr. Warburg made it clear that the root cause of cancer was oxygen deficiency caused by malfunctioning mitochondria.
But as highly-regarded as he was by his peers, none of them took his finding seriously: It was almost as if they saw him as an otherwise brilliant scientist with a single flaw.
Frustrated by the lack of acceptance of his ideas, Warburg often spelled out the axiom attributed to Max Plank, “Science advances one funeral at a time.” .
It wasn’t until the past decade that Warburg’s work has begun experiencing a resurgence, and publishing activity of scientific papers worldwide has begun to soar.
It took almost 100 years, but scientists are finally beginning to acknowledge that Warburg had been right all along.
“All normal cells have an absolute requirement for oxygen, but cancer cells can live without oxygen – a rule without exception.” – Dr. Otto Warburg .
Modern Research Validates Otto Warburg’s Discovery
When a cell is deprived of oxygen, it undergoes a metabolic shift – from the oxidation of glucose to glucosefermentation – aptly titled The Warburg Effect. .
The second this shift in metabolism occurs is the moment it becomes a cancer cell. It’s also the moment that genomic instability and mutations begin to occur.
Warburg knew it – and in recent years, a myriad of other scientific studies from across the world have verified it: Only after a cell is deprived of oxygen (hypoxia) do genetic mutations begin to occur, or said differently, hypoxia is the primary driver of genetic mutations. .. Carlos Sonnenschein and Anna Soto of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachussets wrote in a study they published in 2000, “We argue that it is necessary to abandon the somatic mutation theory.”
That was 17 years ago, and the medical establishment is still pushing the outdated, fairytale (yet profitable) story that cancer is caused by genetic mutations.
(I hope this inspires you to stop believing in authority and to question everything you’re told.)
Thanks to the research of Dr. Otto Warburg and many others, we now know that cancer is a metabolic disease caused by oxygen deficiency – not a genetic disease caused by genomic mutations. .
Homing in on The Root Cause of All Disease
To broaden our understanding of the effects of hypoxia on cells, Dr. Arthur C. Guyton– author of one of the most widely used medical textbooks in the world, The Textbook of Medical Physiology – made this extraordinary statement in 1976:
“All chronic pain, suffering and diseases are caused from a lack of oxygen at the cell level.” – Dr. Arthur C. Guyton .
Suddenly, our quest to discover how to prevent and cure cancer, we’ve not only identified cancer’s prime cause, but in doing so we’ve come face-to-face with the possibility that what cures cancer, cures all diseases.
What this means is that cancer and all diseases are metabolic in nature, and remarkably, all can be reversed by restoring the efficient use of oxygen.
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Words are useless to describe the Beauty of this World.
My Dear Friends, the Sun and Moon rise inyour eyes.
If you reach out to speak tender words of understanding to someone in need of compassion, you will feel their Heart beat. The Love you give will be the Gift you give yourself.
Flowers ever open our Hearts, and give to us all of their Beauty. They feel the Light of Love beamed into their Being, and share this Love with you and me.
Traces of this Love are left within, majestically Flowering on powerful pathways to Higher realms of the Human Heart. Such benevolent Beauty provides a deep and lasting Communion with Creation.
A hushed feeling of Love mingles with the Light. God’s Love for us is proclaimed by each Sunrise.
The Light of God’s Love shines through His every Creation. Yes, it shines in you.
The Divine Light of God’s Love is everywhere, in every Time, and every space.
His Love is powerful and so very Beautiful. And our ability to Love, and the idea of knowing that we are Loved by others, is amazing.
God Loves you more in one moment than anyone could Love you in a lifetime.
Prayer and meditation are ways of nourishing and blossoming the Divine within you. They can ease your anxieties and the pain inside your precious Heart.
God understands our Prayers, even when we can’t find the words to say them.
Yes, the origin of our Love is God. “We Love because He first Loved us.” – 1 John 4:19
God is the reason Love exists. Our Love is feeble compared to the Love of God for us. His Love is Eternal.
“Nothing in or of this World measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
When you Love another, the gentleness you feel inside cannot be denied. The Gift of yourself is the Light that glows in the Hearts of those who know it is a Flame that warms and grows.
True Love will assume a place that Time cannot erase. With Faith in our Creator, Love will take us where we need to go. Reach out to every Living Creation with all the Love in your precious Heart, and feel the beat of God’s Heart. And Love will Never let you go.
You will never feel lonely or unloved again.
Love is the Gift you give yourself.
Goodnight.
The Sweetest Gift You Can Ever Give is the Gift of Yourself
One simple gift is the gift of listening. Listening is a silent form of flattery. Maybe it is listening to a small child who wants to show you a treasure they find absolutely fascinating. When my mother was in the nursing home, I learned how very much the residents treasured having someone really listen to them. Most people listen waiting for a gap in the conversation so they can speak or listen for just enough information to present their point of view. How many times do we really focus and listen. Are you ever guilty of stopping listening to your spouse because you have been together so long you think you already know what they are going to say?
Giving of our time and focused attention is one of the sweetest gifts we can ever give.
Another gift we can all give is writing a simple 2 line note. Walt Whitman was born in the early 1800’s and he was struggling to get anyone to pay any attention to his poetry. One day a little 2 line note arrived. It simply said, “I am not blind to the wit and wisdom of the Leaves of Grass. I greet you At the beginning of a great career.” Signed Ralph Waldo Emerson. I’ll bet Whitman kept that note. We all keep those special notes. Maybe we keep them in a scrapbook or drawer or even a box but we keep them. Leaves of Grass was published in 1855 when Whitman was 36 years old. 36 in 1855 was much later in life than our 36 in 2009. I greet you at the beginning of a great career.
Who is it in your life right now who deserves that little 2 line note from you? Write down the names of 3 people who deserve a note of encouragement, inspiration, or appreciation from you?
Giving of yourself to help others feel good is a gift of sharing Gods love. We are the children of a loving God. He is our father and he wants the best for us.
He sat in my soul and guided me as a single mother, many times with not enough money to feed the 3 of us. He gave me wisdom to share with those two adorable little boys which I had absolutely no way of knowing. My own childhood had been the total opposite of Ward and June Cleaver. How many of you remember the show Leave it to Beaver? I gave those boys love and encouragement and self confidence that I had never experienced. God did it for me. There is no other answer. They are wonderful men, great daddy’s and loving husbands. With Gods help the chain of abuse was broken. I am so deeply grateful.
It is said that the vibration in the room raised simply by having Mother Theresa walk into the room. Serotonin is the chemical in the brain which is the “feel good” chemical. It is a known fact that the serotonin increases in the brain of a person doing a kind deed for another. Not only that but the serotonin increases in the brain of the person receiving the act of kindness and it is even a known fact that it increases in the brains of people watching an act of kindness.
Do something good for someone today with the absolute knowing that they could never repay you. Spread Gods love by doing kind acts for others just for the joy of doing a kind act.
Giving is all about sharing the gifts God has given you.
We all have gifts. Whether it is art as in making cards or pictures, or cooking or music or reading or kind acts to other people. We all have gifts to share. The most cherished gift is a gift of the heart. A gift of yourself.
When I was a broke student secretary in college I worked for Dr. Reilly. Doc was brilliant beyond belief. He carried his Phi Beta Kappa key on his rosary every day. Docs honors filled several pages of a vita. With that many accolades, he could have been arrogant and egotistical but he was not. He was humble. When I went above and beyond my hours to do some special task for him, he knew I could not be paid. His hobby was growing long stem red roses. I knew after each of those tasks I would come in the next morning to a long stem red rose on my desk. He had his special way of saying thank you. I treasured those roses. A gift of appreciation and kindness.
There are so many ways we can give.
I truly believe God brought me here for a reason. I had every argument in the world why I could not make the move from Steamboat. He gently but firmly said “Castle Rock” for a year. Despite every reason why it should not have been possible, I am here in exactly the size house I wanted, the exact location, the exact price and the exact timing.
God opened to me a love for speaking and writing which I had never known or experienced. Apparently He was waiting for me to be ready to receive and share this gift. What gift is God waiting to open for you? What gift do you have to share? He gave each and every one of us gifts. It is like the talents in the Bible. He expects us to develop and multiply those gifts.
I am so blessed and so grateful for my life.
You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks for the abundance in your life and you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law. The more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
Give of yourself, give of your gifts and be grateful to God for all of your blessings.
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“When Life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show Life you have a thousand reasons to Smile.” – Gael Espino
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“Nothing can be Loved or hated unless it is first understood.” – Leonardo da Vinci.
God’s Love for you is deathless.
The Blessings of Blissful moments are Lived and Loved on the pathway to Happiness, as we struggle with all the misfortunes of this World, and Pray to God to shield us from harm.
In the brightest of days and the darkest of nights, amidst your Happiest moments and gloomiest hours, there can be a Soft Breeze flowing through your Life, the Breath of God, the Spirit of the Lord Passing By.
All that is needed is Prayer.
The Banner of our purpose for existence, for Love, for Life, floats calmly in this Gentle Breeze, of God’s Unbounded Love for us.
We may have unlimited confidence in the Love and Care God will have for His Precious Children of Faith.
Such Faith is simple and profound. It is the same Faith, that may be found in the Love your Children feel for you.
Feel gratified to God for the Beauty all around, found in every Leaf and every Tree, in everything that was, and is, and is to be. . The Hope in all our future years, theonlyHope there may be, resides in our Love for each other, the Love God has given to you and me.
The Love of our Lord is kept among even the dimmest memories of Childhood. In the Maternal Care we share, is the warmth and tender caress of all the Love that is there.
Yes, the Beauty ofall things can be beheld by you. This knowledge, this awareness, gives you Birth anew.
There are words Sacred in number that let us explore unfettered the Eternal Nature of God’s Love. They are here, they are real. And they reside within the Holy Word of God.
In the Eyes of God every teardrop is timeless, every smile remains in the Heart. You are Forever Eternal in the Love of God that Created you.
In every Flower we see, Blossoms the Love that Flows Eternally. In the Natural World, not built by you and me, is the Love of God, painted on every Living Thing that dwells in the Forest of His Heart, for you and for me.
The Holy Word of God is filled with His Promises to provide the rest we need. Our Precious Father in Heaven Above is an Endless Source of Peace and Strength.
Painted on every Living Thing.
And rest is important to our Spiritual Walk with the Lord. Mental and physical rest allows our mind and our body, and, importantly, our Spirit to renew and begin again each Blessed Gift of Day, with renewed strength and purpose.
My Dear Friends, during this precarious time of worry and stress, rest is importantto your physical Being, and your Spiritual Walk with the Lord.
Many people today don’t appreciate the true value of rest, physical and Spiritual. . God is an endless source of Peace and Strength.
“In order for God’s Strength to manifest and present in our Lives we must have Faith.” – Hebrews 11:1
Goodnight.
There is a fantastic book by Bill Kincaid: Wizard’s Gambit.
This is Bill’s first science fiction/fantasy book.
The central figure is Max Strider, the sole survivor of a mission to explore a distant planet classified as EVE (Earth Virtual Equivalent). But there are differences: like Fire-breathing Dragons & Wizards who shoot lightning bolts and work powerful magic.
Will Max’s knowledge of science and technology prevail against the dangers he will face?
.Bill is a Dear Friend and a wonderful author. He is also our school attorney and my former debate partner when we were students at Hardin-Simmons University.
Please consider : Wizard’s Gambit by Bill Kincaid and THANK YOU!
by Bill Kincaid Science and Technology vs. Magic and Wizardry Wizard’s Gambit
Although Bill Kincaid spent over 35 years practicing law in Texas, he started out as a writer and journalist whose articles and columns received several state-wide honors. Now that Bill is slowing down his legal practice, he finally has time to return to his writing roots, publishing two historical fiction books and one fractured fairy tale. Wizard’s Gambit is his first science fiction / fantasy novel. Bill and his wife of over forty years have three adult children.
Q. What books have influenced your Life the most? . A. I’ve been most influenced by The Bible and The Science of God. However, my favorite fiction includes White Fang, Hound of the Baskervilles, several of the Thoene books, and The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Jack Reacher, and Divergent series.
Q. Which actor/actress would you like to see playing the lead character from this book?
A. Probably someone like Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, or a young version of either Harrison Ford or Mel Gibson.
Q. Tell us about the cover and the inspiration for it.
A. The cover depicts part of a battle between Wizard Malmortiken’s forces and those of King Kylandar.
Why is Coffee Good For You? Here Are 7 Reasons By Kris Gunnars To read the full article click here
In recent years and decades, scientists have studied the effects of coffee on various aspects of health and their results have been nothing short of amazing. Here are 7 reasons why coffee may actually be one of the healthiest beverages on the planet.
1. Coffee Can Make You Smarter
The active ingredient in coffee is caffeine, which is a stimulant and the most commonly consumed psychoactive substance in the world. Caffeine’s primary mechanism in the brain is blocking the effects of an inhibitory neurotransmitter called Adenosine. By blocking the inhibitory effects of Adenosine, caffeine actually increases neuronal firing in the brain and the release of other neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine.
Many controlled trials have examined the effects of caffeine on the brain, demonstrating that caffeine can improve mood, reaction time, memory, vigilance and general cognitive function.
2. Coffee Can Help You Burn Fat and Improves Physical Performance
There’s a good reason why you will find caffeine in most commercial fat burning supplements.
Caffeine raises metabolism and increases the oxidation of fatty acids.
3. Coffee May Drastically Lower Your Risk of Type II Diabetes
Type II diabetes is a lifestyle-related disease that has reached epidemic proportions, having increased 10-fold in a few decades and now afflicting about 300 million people.
In observational studies, coffee has been repeatedly associated with a lower risk of diabetes. The reduction in risk ranges from 23% all the way up to 67%.
A massive review article looked at 18 studies with a total of 457.922 participants. Each additional cup of coffee per day lowered the risk of diabetes by 7%.The more coffee people drank, the lower their risk.
4. Coffee May Lower Your Risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Not only can coffee make you smarter in the short term, it may also protect your brain in old age.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common neurodegenerative disorder in the world and a leading cause of dementia.
In prospective studies, coffee drinkers have up to a 60% lower risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Parkinson’s is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by death of dopamine-generating neurons in the brain. Coffee may lower the risk of Parkinson’s by 32 – 60%.
5. Coffee May be Extremely Good For Your Liver
The liver is a remarkable organ that carries out hundreds of vital functions in the body.
It is very vulnerable to modern insults such as excess consumption of alcohol and fructose. Cirrhosisis the end stage of liver damage caused by diseases like alcoholism and hepatitis, where liver tissue has been largely replaced by scar tissue.
Multiple studies have shown that coffee can lower the risk of cirrhosis by as much as 80%, the strongest effect for those who drank 4 or more cups per day.
Coffee may also lower the risk of liver cancer by around 40%.
6. Coffee May Decrease Your Risk of Dying
In two very large prospective epidemiological studies, drinking coffee was associated with a lower risk of death by all causes.
This effect is particularly profound in type II diabetics, one study showing that coffee drinkers had a 30% lower risk of death during a 20 year period.
7. Coffee is Loaded With Nutrients and Antioxidants
Many of the nutrients in the coffee beans do make it into the final drink, which actually contains a decent amount of vitamins and minerals.
A cup of coffee contains:
6% of the RDA for Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5). 11% of the RDA for Riboflavin (Vitamin B2). 2% of the RDA for Niacin (B3) and Thiamine (B1). 3% of the RDA for Potassium and Manganese.
May not seem like much, but if you drink several cups of coffee per day then this quickly adds up.
But this isn’t all. Coffee also contains a massive amount of antioxidants.
In fact, coffee is the biggest source of antioxidants in the western diet, outranking both fruits and vegetables combined.
Even though coffee in moderate amounts is good for you, drinking way too much of it can still be harmful.
To make sure to preserve the health benefits, don’t put sugar or anything nasty in your coffee!If it tends to affect your sleep, then don’t drink it after 2 p.m.
If anything, coffee may literally be the healthiest beverage on the planet.
And so, my friends, instead of allowing your children to drink deadly and addictive soft drinks, why not introduce them to something healthy? Yes, like coffee.
“An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.” – C. V. Wedgewood
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The motivation to learn, and to survive, lies through theHeart, not the mind. – Wm. C. Anderson
In frequent discortations with other educators, I found a highly con-substantial Love of what we call a relaxed and informal atmosphere, combined with a real commitment to academic freedom. If you are old enough, you may actually recall having teachers who were trusted enough to make decisions and conduct the business of counseling, motivating and teaching children. . Oh, these were the good old days! These were the generations of Educators that enabled the children of this Nation to make the United States the envy of other nations. These teachers empowered us to become the only remaining true superpower on earth, to acquire more than half the wealth of the World, while comprising only six percent of its population and to realize that not locating a Starbucks could be a significant, Life-altering dilemma. How does the saying go, “Only in America”!
We share an abhorrence of those things that distract children from academic andthoughtful pursuit. Their Love of reading meshes beautifully with our first Love. We forbid homework and ask our students instead, to spend this precious time establishing a Life-time habit and Love of reading – with a requirement that each child read or be read to, for at least one hour each evening.
As with the Finns, we believe that overly strict rules do not translate into dedicated scholars. We harbor only three rules: to be kind, to be kind and to be kind. And when you think deeply about it, that covers everything.
Moments that linger in the Heart excite us now and linger on in the mind. . Leave the Flowers of your precious Smiles at the entrance to each precious moment.
Without your Love, there is no day.
Health experts have been baffled by a rise in suicide among teens and young adults.
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for older teens and young adults.
The suicide rate has been increasing from 2007.
The rate went from 6.8 deaths per 100,000 people to 10.6, according to the CDC report.
A reportTrusted Source from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the teen suicide rate in the United States has skyrocketed in recent years.
Suicide was recently ranked as the second-leading cause of death for people between the ages of 15 and 24 years old.
Each year, about 7 out of 100,000 young adults between the ages of 15 and 19 die by suicide each year — and that number only seems to be growing. click here to read more
“Goodbye to you my trusted Friend We’ve known each other since we were nine or ten. Together we’ve climbed hills and trees Learned of Love and ABCs Skinned our Hearts and skinned our knees Goodbye my friend, it’s hard to die When all the birds are singing in the sky.” – Terry Jacks click here to play the song
At the Anderson School visitors are sometimes mildly shocked to find such things as: barefoot boys (and girls) fluttering down the hall (they really do feel more relaxed and at home this way), or a child asleep during the school day (why fight Mother Nature – if you are tired, rest! After a nap, children are energized and ready again to learn and play) and a mild, low-grade level of chaos can naturally prevail.
Another Anderson School Scholar.
This is normalbehavior for the young and can become highly productive. It provides opportunity for the interplay of ideas and Hopes and Dreams as kids banter back and forth. . And there are intangibles that result: the modeling of Creative flux, improved self-esteem and self-confidence and the intrinsic motivation generated by the children themselves. Since our bright students are busy teaching and working with each other, the tendency is toward non-stop communication, as they group themselves according to interests, not age. Typically, you find a very young scholar teaching older types and excited to share knowledge.
At our school students keep the same teachers for many years. They actually get to know them and we treat each other like Family. Why not? . Are we not really related in many ways? . We promote self-reliance and autonomous learning, minimize competition, assail perfectionism, promote informality and a relaxed Ho Ho Ho Home-like atmosphere, remove the harmful and potentially devastating emphasis upon grades (nogrades or report cards are provided – scholars are expected to perform at a mastery level of 90% not 70%, without time constraints) and, importantly, we eliminate homework. As educators, we have had plenty of time during the day to get the job done.
Think about it! . Children NEED to be involved in many after school activities, such as Scouting (my favorite), Golf, Karate, Taekwondo baseball, piano lessons, and Choir. The list goes on and on.
A great after school activity helps children on many levels. Your child builds community connections, and makes a positive impact on something that’s important to him or her.. . Music should be an essential part of every child’s development. A great song can light up their Hearts, encourage them to move around and dance, and help instill a sense of confidence. We can enjoy the benefits of music from the moment we are born, but NOT if we are pestering our parents about homework, asking for help with things like Algebra, that one parent never took and the other one forgot decades ago.
And parents are essentially not qualified to teach at Home and do not have the time or patience. They worked hard all day and the boss did not assign them homework. Parents would not tolerate this. They would find another employer. But your children cannot simply find another teacher. They are riveted to a desk, with little Hope of finding the time they need to do the real work of Kids – they need to PLAY.
We also provide the freedom to do such things as: progress at your own pace, allow children to prepare their own meals and dine whenever they like (some “graze” throughout the day) and play whenever they complete morning or afternoon assignments (a few will work all weekend so they may play at school). This is real Academic Freedom and allows for the independent use of personal judgment. We want our children to practice making many, many decisions and mistakes, while they are young and under our guidance.
After all, they will be making every decision regarding their own lives, and our own lives, and in a few years. So be very kind to your children, for in the end, they will be all you have left.
And don’t be shocked if your children can’t survive on their own in the near future, if you did every thing for them and made their every decision. They may become so dependent that they NEVER survive. It happens.
Some schools are largely successful because they truly realize that, “Less is more”. To be less demanding equates to more time at home with Mom and Dad and more time to play and this always leads to a more psychologically healthy person – someone who really WANTS to go to school the next day (and more importantly, wants to Live and knows how to PLAY).
“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.” – Joshua Becker
Children need to be more relaxed, energized and ready to study, rather than being burned out, bored, fatigued and more deeply depressedthan they will ever say– which can result in their becoming anxious, obnoxious, angry, rebellious and unwilling to continue what has evolved into drudgery and a loathing of going to school.
And when you think about it, wouldn’t you rebel if you were stressed out, overly assessed, classified, compared, bored, structured, and selected and sorted ad nausium. . Why, revolutions have occurred for less – revolutions of the mind and of the Family. We see many children today who are dropping out mentally, socially, emotionally, physically and in other ways that more frequently become SELF destructive.
Is Truth Ever a Lie? What if you are Living a lie?
I have been asked why the educational systems are imploding? What’s broken and what can we, as parents and educators, do to fix it?
Essentially, our educational systems are imploding because:
1.Our schools are now devoid of essential academic Feedom, 2. They are saddled with the ineffective and truly oppressive No Child Left Behind Act and its sinfully negative byproducts and 3.Schools lack the fiery furnace of competition in the free market place.
The solutions are simple but, in our present static state of mind, unavailable. However, if ever we do decide to act we know what to do:
We need to provide each student, through their parents, the funds to purchase their schooling wherever they choose to go. The natural and highly beneficial effect of competition for this money would produce results similar to every other commodity in the marketplace.
Beautifully crafted, thoughtful and productive products in the form of innovative and dynamic curriculums and remarkable institutions of learning would be engineered by our gifted educators in competition with each other. But importantly, regardless of the outcome, they would serve to please our Parents and Children.
But we have become imprisoned to the precept that government can extrinsically motivate schools and teachers, utilizing the negative bias of assessment and with such harsh and punitive prerogatives as the loss of employment for teachers and administrators, virtually worthless and shameful labels, accusations, inevitably harmful performance evaluations and even the unthinkable closure of entire schools. Such closures are so severe that one can imagine less damage being inflicted to a school community even in time of war.
This punitive, FEAR based system shall never produce overall sustainable positiveresults, especially for those children most in need. This system is far beyond broken. It poses a very real-time danger to our society. This obviatedly biased bent toward negative reinforcement is a conceptualization rejected many years ago in the study of Child behavior.
Our boat is now sinking by the bow and no longer in sight of the shore. We seemingly cannot even identify the real problems with our schools. But we act like we do really know who or what is to blame. So we keep felling the trees all around us in order to glimpse a sliver of the light of understanding from above and do not even know there is a fragile and endangered forest all around us.
For our underpaid, overworked and unappreciated Educators should never have been marked and targeted. They are not to blame! And our children should never have been used as pawns in this unintelligible game.
We now find it virtually impossible to patch our Ship of State, in light of the large, gaping holes created by FEAR, a focus upon self-serving and selfish interests and an inability to locate words such as equitable, fair or open-mindedin any dictionary to be found in our capitals of government in Austin or Washington.
What can parents do to help children attain success and be the best they can be?
Well, if your child is truly suffering (and can you believe you are paying for this abuse with your taxes or tuition?) I recommend removing them from any oppressive and harmful environment immediately (that means today!).
Then, you may want to take them for refreshments to a fun place (they may actually remember having fun). . There you can apologize for not sheltering them from the storm, for not protecting them or truly being their advocate and being there for them when you were needed. It helps to let a child know you are Human and make mistakes.
It will also help if you let them know that you will now and forever more be there for them and notallow anyone else or any other school to make them so unhappy and miserable again. . After you wipe the tears from their eyes, take a moment to wipe away yours. And remember, if your child forgives you, it is in the past. It is over. Now you can go forward and forgive all those who transgressed against your Beloved Children.
Just don’t vote for them again. Have mercy on the next generation.
Now, plan the future. Let your Child help you. . Explore the many other avenues available (and there are many). Remind yourself how thankful we all are that Thomas Edison’s Mother removed him from such a schoolat a very early age. Now that’s what I call – seeing the Light! With over 1,100 patents to his name, we can all be thankful that she removed him from school, which now enables us to watch a great movie tonight, with sound and the ability to record it. A compassionate decision for one deeply Loved child, has led us all out of the dark and into the light. Thank you Mrs. Edison! So just follow her example and start by stopping the pain.
Next, you will need to examine what happened to our schools and to your child. And that is a complex journey fraught with unbelievable intrusions into the coliseums and colloquiums of academia.
Special interests, and notso special lawmakers, intruded into the Sacred spaces of our Children’s classrooms, their Home away from Home, assuming they knew more than highly trained and devoutly dedicated educators about what your children needed. When in fact, teachers were well qualified and simply needed to be left alone.
Lawmakers could have helped the wonderful, beautiful, caring and ever-giving Teachers by paying them a decent wage and providing more money for materials (many, many teachers have spent their own meager funds on your children and without you ever aware of it). But we, as individuals, elected people who obviously did not know how to educate children, and much more importantly, how fragile they are or how to care for them.
Their pride went before our fall.
Simplicity
I fondly remember many years ago my good friend, who was a State Representative, Homer Dear, a wonderful and Loving retired school teacher and administrator, calling to ask what should be done, in my opinion, legislatively.
My immediate response was mandate relief. The volumes of dictates from our zealous state agency and the legislature, were so voluminous that no one on this Planet even knew everything that was required of a school. . He then sponsored a bill to provide such relief. Naturally, it was defeated. No one is going to tell the legislature that much of what they did is actually too much and leading toward a dastardly day of self-destruction (this is the impending implosion). But in essence, Homer knew what needed to be done. And now you know.
Freedom
Simply stated: remove nearly all of the governmental laws, mandates (typically unfunded – thank you), guidelines and regulations relative to education, substantially realign and reduce the size, scope and budget of the state regulatory agency (eliminating well over a billion dollars that funds this unbelievable megalopoliptic and essentially counter – productive enterprise) and get every one, and I mean every one out of the teacher’s way and out of the teacher’s classroom. . On your way out, buy her (or him) a cup of well-earned coffee.
This can significantly contribute to the academic freedom that Dr. Reed Dawson, a beloved Baylor professor of mine, warned way back in 1973, was perilously close to death. He was right. The infamous and highly destructive Texas Assessment of Basic Skills test, and its destructive off-springs (T.E.A.M.S., T.A.K.S., etc.) was about to be unleashed upon our unsuspecting and naive populace.
Academic Freedom, as with all the productive and beneficial benefits that any freedom provides, was about to be targeted and totally destroyed. And it began with the blunt instrument of institutional sin in 1980. Simply stated, this oppressive test needs to be abolished and accompanied by an apology to all of its victims, and there are many.
Now, after you give back freedom to teachers to teach, come back in one year, and you and your child will be well on the road to being Happy. Trust me, teachers knew what to do all along. How many years did our educators spend in a College or University preparing to take an oath of poverty, so he or she could have the Honor of teaching your child?
Yes, the teacher can do the job. Just get everyone out of her (or his) way. Remember, in the successful schools, such as in Finland, less is more. And it always has been. Isn’t that in the Bible?
“Less is more and more is less.“ – Psalm 37:16-17
Simplicity must replace the absolute mess that we have today! By the way, the highest achieving schools in the entire World, value exactly this – simplicity.
Finance
Finland sets the example for us again, in providing roughly EQUAL per-pupil funding. The gap between the best and worst performing schools in Finland was the smallest tested.
So what happened to our free enterprise system and the competitive market place? . You know, the one we preach about from on high in every school in America. The system that created such wealth for us, that we have reached record levels of obesity, consumption and waste. Why is the competitive marketplace of our free enterprise system provided an exemption in the marketplace of knowledge? Do we not yet realize that competition is the primary catalyst for excellence in our economic society, that it is the engine that drives us to unsurpassed prosperity?
Or are we not willing to vote for people of courage and conscience or recruit those rare individuals to run for public office who are willing to sacrifice an innate defensiveness and desire for self-serving interests for the sake of what is most precious in our lives – our children.
To date we have not mustered enough courage or votes to really change anything. And my fear is that we may never do so! This boat full of unwilling and highly dependent people who will soon need to have everyone bailing the waters of indifference, and neglect. The perilous sea has already reached the water line and mighty Casey has struck out.
Stay tuned, the game will resume overseas. What’s that gurgling sound?
Can you even imagine educators from other countries observing that our system of public education strives to, “leave no child behind” while we post a drop out rate for Fort Worth I. S. D. of over 45 percent, according to the Editorial Projects in Education Resource Center.
Let’s compare that to less than 4 [that’s FOUR] percent for other countries.
My Dear Friends, we left halfof our children at the starting gate. And we did not just leave them behind, we abandoned them with no hope that they will ever truly flourish and prosper But, on the bright side, we meagerly raised the minimum wage with them in mind, didn’t we?
Ultimately, these lost children will never even be able to sustain themselves, much less impact this system that has been so neglectful to so many. And the system we created and perpetuate to this day will, one day soon, not be able to support them or their children. The weight of so much water will cause this listing ship to topple over. (Have you ever tried to live on the minimum wage?)
We left many of our children with little hope that they will ever truly thrive in our highly competitive economy. Our focus upon minimumskills for all has evolved into a minimum wage for many.
Our mediocrity has become merit to us, the mediocre. And our children did not deserve this! They are the victims of our now tired, cowardly, self-centered neglect.
It is a sad commentary that our fear to change what needs to be changed is now the driving force behind the fall of twenty-first century Rome.
Dr. William C. Anderson, Co-Director The Anderson Private School for the Gifted, Talented and Creative 817-448-8484 andersonschool.net
Barbara Saunders
submitted this comment on this post previously:
“I Love this post. My mother, a teacher and the daughter of a teacher who attended segregated public schools in the 1930s and 1940s, chose the private school to which she sent my sisters and I because, she said, “I could not stand the rigid desks and rows in the public schools. When I saw kids sprawled out in the halls, talking and laughing, that was the place I want you kids to go!
I have a hard time believing that “reformers” don’t notice that the schools for the intellectual and socioeconomic elite are more – not less – free, relaxed and playful.”
The school calendar is HIGHLY subject to change due to circumstances. Please contact the school to be aware of changes.
Thank you.
Dr. & Mrs. Anderson may schedule 2-5 additional days (to be announced later) for In-service Training. Visit our website at http://www.andersonschool.net for updated information.
The School Calendar is subject to change.
There are no make-up days if school is closed due to inclement weather.
Inclement Weather Policy: the school will close if Fort Worth I. S. D. is closed.
Lyrics/songs texts/paintings/articles are property and copyright of their owners and provided for educational purposes.
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” Autumn is a second Spring, when every Leaf is a Flower”. – Albert Camus
Yes. Leaves are the Flowers of Fall. They are transformed into Beautiful Colors cast against the Sky so blue, as they take flight in fields so bold of shade and hue. . And then, the withered Leaves collect at our feet and the Wind begins to move and moan. And the Beauty of the Leaves reminds us to forget, to no longer remember our troubles and travails, the toils and tribulations, and our longing for belonging takes flight anew.
For with every Leaf that falls, a Beautiful new Leaf will Spring forth from the Tree of Life.
How humble and thankful we should be, that we are so deeply Loved, we were never blinded by what we could not see.
The Light of awareness is the dawn of rebirth.
Rebirth and Renewal encompass us all the time. It is in every aspect of our Being and in everything that surrounds us. In the Natural World, it is the Natural Order of things. It is there to reminder us of our strength, our resilience, our rebirth, so that we can survive the storms of our Life and Blossom like Flowers once again.
And now in our knowing, we are miles away in another World, the REAL World. Sunshine fills our eyes and our Dreams are hung in the Heart near the Sky. And in our eyes we behold there is magic everywhere.
The Soul sets sail to a place in the Heart, and we are running through the pastures of the mind and laying among the Leaves under the magnificent Trees, thinking and Dreaming.
And Life becomes REAL again. What a wonderful place to be. May God teach us where our Home, and our Heart Truly is, and always has been. May your Sacred Heart once again be unified with Creation, and our Creator.
Philosopher René Descartes wondered whether the World we experience while awake might itself be a Dream. If the Dream World feels just as real as the waking one, how can we know for certain that we’re not Living in a Dream – a Dream from which we may one day wake up? click here to read more
“All that we see or seem is but a Dream within a Dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe
If Life is the Dream, then deathis the end of that Dream. If we consider that the I we call consciousness, is the reason this body is alive, then yes.
Every Religion is mostly based around the idea that Life is a great Dream, and that deathis an awakening from that Dream into God’s Kingdom.
After the death of his old friend, Albert Einstein said “Now Besso has departed from this strange World a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us … know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
New evidence continues to suggest that Einstein was right, death is an illusion.
My Dear Friends, we can be close to our Dear Lord, in feeling older and acting like a Child. Being like a Child, is being close to YOU. We are Children of God.
“Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like Children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this Child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever receives one such Child in my name receives me.” – Matthew 18:1-35
And, the melody of the moment pierces the deepest chamber of the Heart.
As we behold such Beauty all around, it makes us want to cry. It enters our Lives, and overflows the Heart and turns into a calm quiet and Peace.
The Beauty of the Earth makes us feel like we have just been showered with stark new Reality that melts away the gray of yesterday, as it touches the Soul in a golden glow of Sunlight and Salvation.
Such Beauty has taught us to enjoy Creation. Life is the Colors of the Rainbow, a reflection of God’s Work of Art, the refraction of something called His Love.
The Story of our Life has new beginnings, and told endings. What awaits us all on this Journey we walk, is interpreted with delicacy and subtlety, or horror and war. . We ever have the chance, the choice, to see the World where we use to Live, for a time longer than we know of as Today.
For deep within every Being, is a Gardener, wanting to nurture the Garden of our Dreams, and hear the melodious sound of waves lapping upon the shores of Time and the Loving breeze that inspires every Living Thing to breathe.
My Dear Friends, another Day is dawning. Yes, a new day has begun. And the memories of this Day can include the Sun that rises in the Heart, if you let it touch you, and come to understand what Happiness is. . Look, soon it will be Morning. And as we wait for this Sun to rise, let us think of a new Life, a new Dawn, and new Memories that will begin.
If we cannot understand how Life goes on the way it does, perhaps we are not Truly alive. For we Live in vain, or we Live in each other’s Heart.
“I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. “ – Jeremiah 8:8.
Love is the Gift God allows you to give yourself, as you give to others. . Today, is a reflection of Life. But Tomorrow can be a reflection of Love.
One Day, can be a Lifetime of Serenity and Beauty nurturing the Garden of your Heart. It is so very Beautiful and compliments the Colors of the Rainbow that unfold after it rains tears of Thanksgiving.
Love is painted on the canvass of the Endless Blue Sky of your Heart. With Love, you find yourself drifting into such a Peaceful place, deep within your very Being. . Love is where the Music of this Sacred Moment takes you in your Heart.
Your thoughts may be gentle in reply. Deep gentleness can come when there is Wisdom. Let go of the things you punish yourself and others for. Walk into the Beautiful Fields of Peace, found only in the Sacred Sanctuary of your Heart.
What you have done may also be, what you have never done, when Forgiveness Blossoms like a Flower in the fertile field of your Heart.
You can finally find yourself and find where you belong. The True Meaning of your precious Life, is not you. . Your Life is written with our Heavenly Poet’s Pen. Your Wings can unfold and flight you will behold, when you whisper God’s Name, and you are told “I Love You”.
If we carefully look and Pray and behold our reflection in the water, we can see His Face rather than our own. We can come to realize God is truly within us, and as a Child of God, reflect Him and no longer ourselves. . When we have given ourselves to Him, we discover He IS Pure Love, and finally we know, WE are One.
Goodnight.
Drs. Oz & Roizen: New benefits of omega-3s discovered
The largest fish in the world is the 40-foot-long whale shark, which can weigh more than 40,000 pounds — all from ingesting plankton and small fish. But it’s the 4- to 15-inch-long anchovy and herring, along with tuna, that are common sources of the omega-3 fish oil that delivers oversized heart health benefits.
Now, a recent study reveals some new ways this essential fatty acid can keep your life going, well, swimmingly. For three years, researchers from Switzerland tracked older folks and found that those who had an active lifestyle and no preexisting conditions showed unexpected benefits from omega-3s.
If those participants took 1 gram of omega-3s a day, their overall risk of infection fell by 11%, upper respiratory infections specifically were reduced by 10% and the risk of a urinary tract infection decreased by 62%.
Interestingly, the research also found that for those folks, omega-3s did not protect against broken bones, strengthen muscle function or lessen memory problems — possibly, say the researchers, because the study participants were already doing well in those areas to begin with.
To make sure you’re getting the omega-3s you need to stay healthy, indulge in salmon, sea trout, anchovies and sardines. Flaxseed, chia seeds, avocados and walnuts also provide some, as can a fish or algal oil supplement.
But ask your doc about taking a daily supplement first, since it may interact with some medications, such as aspirin, blood thinners, blood pressure meds and certain chemotherapies.
Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer Emeritus at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, tune into “The Dr. Oz Show” or visit www.sharecare.com.
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Our Lord gives each of us the strength to dissolve the veils of Life’sillusions. . At the very summit of Human endeavor, we find that we are Truly Blessed and Abundantly Loved by the Spirit of our Lord. His Teachings soothe and cleanse our precious Soul, as He guides us, and gives us His LOVE.
The Spirit of God will emerge with Power and Force, at the Time we Pray for His Precious Love.
Our Beautiful and fragile Home on Earth is Sacred Ground. There are many Joys and Delights to come from our exploration of this Sacred Planet. . My Dear Friends, there is Inspiration, and Love, and Pure Joy to be found inside your Heart, and all around. Love dwells deep within the Hearts ofeveryone of God’s Precious Children. And His Desire is for us to share our Love.
God’s Love is a Gift. His Love is inus, and resides in our Heart. We need but to release it to others around us, through our words and deeds. . “We know that we have passed out of death into Life, because we Love the Brothers. Whoever does not Love abides in death.” – 1 John 3:14
The History of Mankind is replete with periods of deep sorrow and pain. But our Tomorrows can be ripe with potential and Promise for a Perfect and powerfully delightful Garden in which to dwell.
The choice is ours.
There is a profound and gentle Peace to be found in the Child abandoned, in the Child you still are. It is the Path of the Pilgrimage to your youth, that is still you, with Belief in yourself, that will guide you toward a Spiritual Path.
The Path is shaded by Beautiful Memories and Dreams still held aloft.
“History is too categorical and bases itself on facts, not on Love or the Radiance of the Heart.” – Jacqueline Kelen
The Road of Life is curved through the Forests of what is never easy. Sometimes, it is steep and laced with turmoil and strife.
But our Faith in the Love of God will lead us to the steps that take us to Truth and Grace.
Let us drink from the Spring of our youth, and drench each other with the cool, Pure Water of Blessings from our Sacred Mother Earth. And as we walk in the silence of awareness, let us give Thanks for the bountiful and Beautiful Blessings we all share.
Upon entering into Prayer, you will be overwhelmed with the Presence of the Divine. The Essence of what is, of what is to be, may be felt in the Presence of the Lord in Prayer. . Go willingly.
Walk through the Mystical Forest deep in the Heart of Mankind. Go where your Heart lives. Go where you Truly Live.
Your Heart is a strong muscle that pumps blood to your body. A normal, healthy adult heart is about the size of your clenched fist. Just like an engine makes a car go, the Heart keeps your body running. The Heart has two sides, each with a top chamber (atrium) and a bottom chamber (ventricle). The right side pumps blood to the lungs to pick up oxygen. The left side receives blood rich with oxygen from the lungs and pumps it through arteries throughout the body. An electrical system in the heart controls the heart rate (heartbeat or pulse) and coordinates the contraction of the heart’s top and bottom chambers.
How Your Heart Changes with Age
People age 65 and older are much more likely than younger people to suffer a heart attack, to have a stroke, or to develop coronary heartdisease (commonly called heart disease) and heart failure. Heart diseaseis also a major cause of disability, limiting the activity and eroding the quality of life of millions of older people.
Aging can cause changes in the heart and blood vessels. For example, as you get older, your heart can’t beat as fast during physical activity or times of stress as it did when you were younger. However, the number of heartbeats per minute (heart rate) at rest does not change significantly with normal aging.
Changes that happen with age may increase a person’s risk of Heart disease. A major cause of heart disease is the buildup of fatty deposits in the walls of arteries over many years. The good news is there are things you can do to delay, lower, or possibly avoid or reverse your risk.
The most common aging change is increased stiffness of the large arteries, called arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. This causeshigh blood pressure, or hypertension, which becomes more common as we age.
High blood pressure and other risk factors, including advancing age, increase the risk of developing atherosclerosis. Because there are several modifiable risk factors for atherosclerosis, it is not necessarily a normal part of aging. Plaque builds up inside the walls of your arteries and, over time, hardens and narrows your arteries, which limits the flow of oxygen-rich blood to your organs and other parts of your body. Oxygen and blood nutrients are supplied to the heart muscle through the coronary arteries. Heart disease develops when plaque builds up in the coronary arteries, reducing blood flow to your heart muscle. Over time, the heart muscle can become weakened and/or damaged, resulting in heart failure. Heart damage can be caused by heart attacks, long-standing hypertension and diabetes, and chronic heavy alcohol use.
Age can cause other changes to the Heart. For example:
There are age-related changes in the electrical system that can lead to arrhythmias — a rapid, slowed, or irregular heartbeat — and/or the need for a pacemaker. Valves — the one-way, door-like parts that open and close to control blood flow between the chambers of your heart — may become thicker and stiffer. Stiffer valves can limit the flow of blood out of the heart and become leaky, both of which can cause fluid to build up in the lungs or in the body (legs, feet, and abdomen).
The chambers of your heart may increase in size. The heart wall thickens, so the amount of blood that a chamber can hold may decrease despite the increased overall heart size. The heart may fill more slowly. Long-standing hypertension is the main cause of increased thickness of the heart wall, which can increase the risk of atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm problem in older people.
With increasing age, people become more sensitive to salt, which may cause an increase in blood pressure and/or ankle or foot swelling (edema).
Other factors, such as thyroid disease or chemotherapy, may also weaken the heart muscle. Things you can’t control, like your family history, might increase your risk of heart disease. But, leading a heart-healthy lifestyle might help you avoid or delay serious illness.
What Is Heart Disease?
Heart disease is caused by atherosclerosis, which is the buildup of fatty deposits, or plaques, in the walls of the coronary arteries over many years. The coronary arteries surround the outside of the heart and supply blood nutrients and oxygen to the heart muscle. When plaque builds up inside the arteries, there is less space for blood to flow normally and deliver oxygen to the heart. If the flow of blood to your heart is reduced by plaque buildup or is blocked if a plaque suddenly ruptures, it can cause angina(chest pain or discomfort) or a heart attack. When the heart muscle does not get enough oxygen and blood nutrients, the heart muscle cells will die (heart attack) and weaken the heart, diminishing its ability to pump blood to the rest of the body.
Early heart disease often doesn’t have symptoms or the symptoms may be barely noticeable. That’s why regular checkups with your doctorare important.
Contact your doctor right away if you feel any chest pain, pressure, or discomfort. However, chest pain is a less common sign of heart disease as it progresses, so be aware of other symptoms. Tell your doctor if you have:
Pain, numbness, and/or tingling in the shoulders, arms, neck, jaw, or back
Shortness of breath when active, at rest, or while lying flat
Chest pain during physical activity that gets better when you rest
Swelling in the ankles, feet, legs, stomach, and/or neck
Reduced ability to exercise or be physically active
Problems doing your normal activities
Problems witharrhythmia are much more common in older adults than younger people. Arrhythmia needs to be treated. See a doctor if you feel a fluttering in your chest or have the feeling that your heart is skipping a beat or beating too hard, especially if you are weaker than usual, dizzy, tired, or get short of breath when active.
If you have any signs of heart disease, your doctor may send you to a cardiologist, a doctor who specializes in the heart.
There are many steps you can take to keep your heart healthy.
Try to be more physically active.Talk with your doctor about the type of activities that would be best for you. If possible, aim to get at least 150 minutes of physical activity each week. Every day is best. It doesn’t have to be done all at once.
Start by doing activities you enjoy — brisk walking, dancing, bowling, bicycling, or gardening, for example. Avoid spending hours every day sitting.
Follow a heart-healthy diet.Choose foods that are low in trans and saturated fats, added sugars, and salt. As we get older, we become more sensitive to salt, which can cause swelling in the legs and feet. Eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and foods high in fiber, like those made from whole grains. Get more information on healthy eating from NIA. You also can find information on the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Patterns.
Keep a healthy weight. Balancing the calories you eat and drink with the calories burned by being physically active helps to maintain a healthy weight. Some ways you can maintain a healthy weight include limiting portion size and being physically active. Learn more about how to maintain a healthy weight from NIA.
Keep your diabetes, high blood pressure, and/or high cholesterol under control. Follow your doctor’s advice to manage these conditions, and take medications as directed.
Don’t drink a lot of alcohol. Men should not have more than two drinks a day and women only one. One drink is equal to:
One 12-ounce can or bottle of regular beer, ale, or wine cooler
One 8- or 9-ounce can or bottle of malt liquor
One 5-ounce glass of red or white wine
One 1.5-ounce shot glass of distilled spirits like gin, rum, tequila, vodka, or whiskey
Adults age 65 and older are more likely than younger people to suffer from cardiovascular disease, which is problems with the heart, blood vessels, or both. Aging can cause changes in the heart and blood vessels that may increase a person’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
To understand how aging is linked to cardiovascular disease so that we can ultimately develop cures for this group of diseases, we need to first understand what is happening in the healthy but aging heart and blood vessels. This understanding has advanced dramatically in the past 30 years.
Today, more than ever, scientists understand what causes your blood vessels and heart to age and how your aging cardiovascular system leads to cardiovascular disease. In addition, they have pinpointed risk factors that increase the odds a person will develop cardiovascular disease. They are learning much more about how physical activity, diet, and other lifestyle factors influence the “rate of aging” in the healthy heart and arteries. The aging of other organ systems, including the muscles, kidneys, and lungs, also likely contributes to heart disease. Research is ongoing to unravel how these aging systems influence each other, which may reveal new targets for treatments.
In the future, interventions or treatments that slow accelerated aging of the heart and arteries in young and middle-aged people who seem to be healthy could prevent or delay the onset of heart disease,stroke, and other cardiovascular disorders in later life. Some interventions that we already know slow the rate of aging in the heart and arteries include healthy eating, exercise, reducing stress, and quitting smoking.The more we understand the changes that take place in cells and molecules during aging, for example, the closer we get to the possibility of designing drugs that target those changes. Gene therapies can also target specific cellular changes and could potentially be a way to intervene in the aging process. While waiting for these new therapies to be developed, you can still enjoy activities, like exercise and a healthy diet, that can benefit your heart.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) 800-860-8747 (toll-free) 866-569-1162 (TTY/toll-free) healthinfo@niddk.nih.gov www.niddk.nih.gov
This content is provided by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health. NIA scientists and other experts review this content to ensure that it is accurate, authoritative, and up to date.
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“By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. The objects of sense are supposed to be real, but in Truth they are not. Only atoms and the void are real.” – Democritus
Life is a Beautiful song of Love.
Mere words can never express the emotion and Beauty ofthisSong.
From the depths and heights of our Hearts and Souls, we simply cannot express such Love, as is Life.
Each day just listen, admire the Beauty, the Harmony, and the pure Poetry of Life.
It is mesmerizingly Beautiful.
Although this Life is never easy day to day, YOU have a special way to make someone smile, when they are feeling blue.
When you see tears in the eyes of someone with Love profound, then you know that God’s Spirit dwells there celebrating the moment. . Our precious tears wash away from the Soul the dust of Life.
The Beautiful Melody of this moment, can make you hold your breath all through the Song your Heart is singing.
“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some Peace there, for Peace comes dropping slow. Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the Cricket sings; There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the Linnet’s wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep Heart’s core.“ – William Butler Yeats Lake Isle of Innisfree
There is a powerful feeling when Love is near. This feeling takes us out of our body, and releases our mind into the Infinite. . Yes, we feel the Infinite Love of God, in the Love we give, in the Love we receive.
We are the manifestation of God’s InfiniteLove. We are His Children. Everything in our brief lives awakens us and reminds us that Happiness and Joy may be found in the deepest center of ourselves, where we are closest to InfiniteLove, where our needs will be met.
It is God’s Love that paints the Stars in our eyes. In this Love we may Believe. To believe in God, is to believe in Love.
“The Sun is only shining like it always does. But I never noticed it in the Sky before. And you don’t need to worry ‘Cause I need your Love, my Friend’.
There’s a strong kind of feeling when I know you’re near. Nobody alive can take it away from me. And I feel like I’ve known you for a thousand years. Bring it out into the Light.“ – Mike Batt
Life is Beautiful when one finds Flowers like you along the way, blowing gently in the wind of Time. . Love will be the Gift you and the Flowers give. Never walk away, when you have so much in your Heart, and so much left to say.
The most Comforting, Healing Voice, the most Touching ever, is filled with the raw, and deep Truth of God’s Love for you. . It takes much energy, but little time, to find the strength, the courage, to be what we want to be.
The Light of your Love shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
“Always respect our Humanity, for we are not of this Earth for long ; your family and friends and all things good should be cherished.” – Tassie Parker . My Dear Friends, slip out of your super-silliously serious attitude. We have just enough Time to be Happy. And Happiness is a choice.
Love attracts us and it divides us. Love is such a Beautiful matter.
In this brash World of problems and worries your voice can become an oasis of calm and sensitivity. Your innate compassion for everyone around you can shine through.
Love resides in our Life with such a deep and meaningful authority, and with such complexity that we never truly understand. But how could we?
“No one can comprehend what goes on under the Sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.“ – Ecclesiastes 8:17
It is the most celebrated matter in the World. Love is a Heavenly Gift. Though Life is never easy day to day, God has a very special way to make us smile. He lets us take part in the very natural and beautiful thing called Love. . As the wounds of the World deepen, the heavy perfume of wild Flowers permeate what lies all around, and they patiently wait to be found. . And the songof Crickets on humid nights, may be heard with such delight, as rivers run, and stars rise, and the rain falls as we open our eyes with delightful surprise, and all the good things that God provides, enters our Hearts, and gently calms our fragile minds. . Love is the Stars in your eyes.
God calls for all of us to see the Beauty in His Many Gifts surrounding us. Let us give thanks for something so magical as this Life.
The Songs of many Birds are singing your name, to fill your Heart with Love, and your eyes with tears of Joy. . Yes, My Dear Friend, God is here,there, and everywhere, and He knows your name.
Scientists at Tel Aviv University and Shamir Medical Centerhave shown that hyperbaric oxygen treatments in healthy aging adults can stop the aging of blood cells and reverse the aging process. In the biological sense, the blood cells actually grow youngeras the treatments progress.
The scientists studied the impact of hyperbaric oxygen treatments (HBOT) on 35 healthy persons aged 64 or over. They aimed to discover whether such treatments can slow down, stop, or even reverse the normal aging process at the cellular level. The study results, published in Aging, indicate that the treatments actually reversed the aging process in two of its major aspects:
The telomeres at the ends of the chromosomes grew longer instead of shorter, at a rate of 20-38 percent for the different cell types.
The percentage of senescent cells in the overall cell population was reduced significantly, by 11-37 percent depending on cell type.
“Senescent cells have been linked to many of the chronic conditions associated with old age, including arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes and dementia,” explains The Times. “Aging also shows itself through the shortening of pieces of DNA … known as telomeres … Longer telomeres are thought to guard against some illnesses.“
“Today telomere shortening is considered the ‘Holy Grail’ of the biology of aging,” said research co-leader Shai Efrati. “Researchers around the world are trying to develop pharmacological and environmental interventions that enable telomere elongation. Our HBOT protocol was able to achieve this, proving that the aging process can in fact be reversedat the basic cellular-molecular level.“
“Until now, interventions such as lifestyle modifications and intense exercise were shown to have some inhibiting effect on telomere shortening,” added research co-leader Amir Hadanny. “But in our study, only three months of HBOT were able to elongate telomeres at rates far beyond any currently available interventions or lifestyle modifications. With this pioneering study, we have opened a door for further research on the cellular impact of HBOT and its potential for reversing the aging process.“
Researchers at Tel Aviv Universityhave demonstrated that the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system is very effective in treating metastatic cancers in laboratory mice. This could be a significant step on the way to finding a cure for cancer.
The researchers developed a novel nanoparticle-based delivery system. It is described in a paperpublished in Science Advances. The system specifically targets cancer cells and destroys them by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing.
The researchers emphasize that this is the first study to prove that the CRISPR genome editing system can be used to treat cancer effectively in a living animal. There are no severe side effects like in chemotherapy. And the technology opens numerous new possibilities for treating other diseases.
Synthetic Organic Compounds Kill Cancer Cells
Scientists at Tokyo University of Scienceare developing drugs that can kill cancer cells. A research paper is published in ACS Omega.
The scientists found ways to synthesize organic compounds called “phenazines.” The compounds have cellular toxicity effects that can be directed against cancerous cells. The synthetic compounds are more than four times more selectively toxic to cancer cells than normal cells.
The scientists are persuaded that their research can assist in the creation of new anticancer drugs with minimal side effects.
Antidepressant Inhibits Growth of Cancer Cells
Researchers at KU Leuvenhave shown that the antidepressant sertralinehelps to inhibit the growth of cancer cells.The substance acts on a metabolic addiction that allows different types of cancer to grow.
Cancer cells produce large amounts of serine and glycine, two amino acids. And this stimulates the growth of cancer cells to such an extent that they become addicted to serine and glycine.
A study is published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. It demonstrates that sertraline inhibits the production of serine and glycine, causing decreased growth of cancer cells.The safety of using sertraline in humans has already been well described.
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Neuroscientists believe that hearing another person laugh triggers mirror neurons in a region of the brain that makes listeners feel as though they are actually laughing themselves.
To Shine a Light of Hope.
As we inhabit our Sphere of awareness, dimly lit or unaware, each of us reflects from time rare to almost forgotten, upon our purpose far or near, on the deeper meaning of Life, the reason we are here.You alone, among all the precious Living Things in the Universe, possess the singular ability to save the Life of someone known but to God, and desperately in need of Love.
You and I are here for Love.
To instill Hope in the Life of another, is to raise from the dead a Life lost in the horrible abyss of apathy.
God endowed each of us with precious and amazing Gifts to deeply touch the Hearts and minds of others.
” If some Lives form a perfect circle, others take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been a part of my Journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has a Love for which I can only be grateful.” – Biro Carmen
. Yes, you are here for a reason: to shine a Light of Hope, to shower those around you with the Blessings of God’s Abundant Love, reflected and refracted through the prism of your Beautiful personality.
May your unfolding be like that of God’s beautiful Flowers.
My Dear Friends, the reason you are here has nothing to do with you.
You and I are here for Love.
We are in this small space, on this tiny planet, in this one sliver of Time, to open our Hearts and let the Infinite Love of God flowthrough us, the Love that sparkles in your eyes, the Love shared with your warm smiles, charitable thoughts and giving and forgiving ways.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite.” – William Blake
You are the greatestGift God can bestow upon someone in need of His Love. To open your Heart is to unwrap this magical, mystical Gift of Spirit from Above.
“Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Door to your Heart gives entrance to the Divine Itself.
For we dwell in the Divine, and the Divine dwells in us. This Truth is the central awareness of Life.
“Every man is a Divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
May the unfolding of your Sacred Heart be like that of God’s Beautiful Flowers.
The real reason we are here.
Your precious Life touches everything and everyone.
“He Who Saves Just One Life Saves The World Entire” –Talmud
My Dear Friends, the center of the Universe is in the middle of your Heart. And your Heart is Home to everyone to whom you open the door. It is Home to everything God desires for you.
It is the question and the answer. . It is the now of Forever. It is the pathway forward. It is who you are, and what God desires for you. It is the Universal language and the end of all wars, the answer to Prayer and Salvation ever after.
It is Heaven’s Gate.
Look for the Key, and never again lock this door.
“And now these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love. But the greatest of these is Love.” – 1 Corinthians 13:13
Goodnight.
Only Love turns darkness into Light.
“How often we turn our bodies into prisons as we carry our Hearts around like inmates. We hold back our Love until we feel it’s deserved; we want to be assured we’re Loved in return.
Why are we so selfish with something of endless supply? We can turn our bodies into prisms allowing our sunshine to cast rainbows on the world.
Like a rainbow, Love bends, radiates, and stretches, giving Hope to all it reaches. Love penetrates the darkness and catches the World on fire.” – Suzi Cate
You alone possess the singular ability.
“As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or Joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.” – Dr Haim Ginott
As Jack London once said, “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.” Far too often we travel through Life on autopilot, going through the motions, accepting what is, and having every day pass like the one before it. Everything seems relatively normal and comfortable, except that constant twitch in the back of your mind that’s saying, “It’s time to make some changes.”
Here are 15 simple suggestions for those who want to break free from the mold and truly live more of their life – to experience it and enjoy it to the fullest, instead of settling for a mere existence.
Appreciate the great people and things in your life. – Sometimes we don’t notice the things others do for us until they stop doing them. Don’t be like that. Be grateful for what you have, who loves you, and who cares for you. You’ll never know how much they mean to you until the day they’re no longer beside you. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it to live. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. .
Ignore other people’s negativity. – If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative before you know it. Ignore unconstructive, hurtful commentary. No one has the right to judge you. They may have heard your stories, but they didn’t feel what you were going through. You do not have control over what others say; but you do have control over whether or not you allow them to say these things to you. You alone can deny their poisonous wordsfrom invading your Heart and mind. .
Forgive those who have hurt you. – I forgive people, but that doesn’t mean I trust them. I just don’t have time to hate people who hurt me, because I’m too busy loving people who love me. The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest.The first to move forward is the happiest. Be brave. Be strong. Be happy. Be free. .
Be who you really are. – If you’re lucky enough to have something that makes you different from everybody else, don’t change. Uniqueness is priceless. In this crazy world that’s trying to make you like everyone else, find the courage to keep being your awesome self. And when they laugh at you for being different, laugh back at them for being the same. It takes a lot of courage to stand alone, but it’s worth it. Being YOUis worth it! .
Choose to listen to your inner voice. – Life is a courageous journey or nothing at all. We cannot become who we want to be by continuing to do exactly what we’ve been doing. Choose to listen to your inner voice, not the jumbled opinions of everyone else. Do what you know in your heart is right for YOU. It’s your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. And be sure to appreciate every day of your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, and the worst days give you the best lessons.Read Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No. .
Embrace change and enjoy your life as it unfolds. – The hardest part about growing is letting go of what you were used to, and moving on with something you’re not. Sometimes you have to stop worrying, wondering, and doubting, and have faith that things will work out. Laugh at the confusion, live consciously in the moment, and enjoy your life as it unfolds. You might not end up exactly where you intended to go, but eventually you will arrive precisely where you need to be. .
Choose your relationships wisely. – The best relationships are not just about the good times you share, they’re also about the obstacles you go through together, and the fact that you still say “I love you” in the end. And loving someone isn’t just about saying it every day, it’s showing it every day in every way. Relationships must be chosen wisely. Don’t rush love. Wait until you truly find it. Don’t let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone you know you don’t belong with. Fall in love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely. A great relationship is worth waiting for. .
Recognize those who Love you.– The most memorable people in your life will be the ones who loved you when you weren’t very Loveable. Pay attention to who these people are in your life, and Love them back, even when they aren’t acting Loveable. .
Love yourself too.– If you can love children, in spite of the messes they make; your mother, in spite of her tendency to nag; your father, even though he’s too opinionated; your sibling, even though she’s always late; your friend, even though he often forgets to return what he borrows, then you know how to love imperfect people, and can surely love yourself. .
Do things your future self will thank you for. – What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. Make sure it’s worthwhile. .
Be thankful for all the troubles you don’t have. – There are two ways of being rich: One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied with what you have. Accept and appreciate things now, and you’ll find more happiness in every moment you live. Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don’t have. And remember, you have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life. Read The How of Happiness. .
Leave enough time for fun. – Sometimes you need to take a few steps back to see things clearly. Never let your life become so filled with work, your mind become so crammed with worry, or your heart become so jammed with old hurts or anger, that there’s no room left in them for fun, for awe, or for joy. .
Enjoy the little things in life.– The best things in life are free. There is absolute joy and wonder to be had in the simplest of moments. Watching the sunset over the horizon or spending time with a family member. Enjoy the little things, because one day you may look back and discover they were the big things. .
Accept the fact that the past is not today.– Don’t let the past steal your present and future from you. You might not be proud of all the things you’ve done in the past, but that’s okay. The past is not today. The past cannot be changed, forgotten, or erased. It can only be accepted. We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future. .
Let go when you must. – It’s not always about trying to fix something that’s broken. Some relationships and situations just can’t be fixed. If you try to force them back together, things will only get worse. Sometimes it’s about starting over and creating something better. Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over again with a smile on your face and passion in your Heart.
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Dr. & Mrs. Anderson may schedule 2-5 additional days (to be announced later) for In-service Training. Visit our website at http://www.andersonschool.net for updated information.
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We cannot be Loved less, when we choose to Love more.
As we are called to the Life of our Ancestors in order to survive this wilderness of thought, we can gaze into the eye of our Sun, and Love and Honor and Cherish our Sacred Mother, this Earth, and choose to walk upon her lightly, and bring Happiness and Kindness to all Hearts, all Life.
The answers to Life are everywhere. If we seek to know, inwardly, we will find them, and, we will find our True Self.
Your Soul speaks a Language Divine. You know what it is saying. It knows what True Love is, and that it means to be Truly alive.
In every word you speak and everything you do, there is flowing sand and running water. YOU come through our Mother Earth, from the Love of your Father in Heaven Above. Let your precious Sacred Being flow like Poetry.
As we seek the Truth about everything . . . about Life and death, about Love and pain and the Joy that resides deep within our Souls, about sacrifice and Salvation, about our God that Loves us so much, know that He is listening to the Music in your Sacred Heart, and He Feels Endless Love for you.
“One smile can start a friendship One word can stop a fight One look can save a relationship One hug can spark a Hope One touch can bring a warmth One whisper can bring assurance One decision can stop a war One cooperation can bring abundance One kiss can bring a kindness One sleep can bring rest One wake can bring Happiness One solution can stop the tests. If we only learn to smile to a stranger, to stop the fight, to start a relationship, to spark a Hope, to embrace with warmth, to speak assurances, to end the war, to give abundance, to pass forward Kindness, to allow rest, to share Happiness, then maybe we can pass God’s Test!” – Govinda Kumar
“Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.” ― Rumi
There is pleasure on the pathless trails that flow through the endless Forests of Life and Living, if we Love not our fellow Human Beings the less, but Love all of Naturemore.
Commune with the Universe, and feel what cannot be expressed.
Life is not just a Beautiful Love story, it’s about our brief Timeon this Earth, about opportunities to Love and be Loved, about the choices we make in Life, about sharing our Gifts of Joy.
“How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more Loving one be me.” – W.H. Auden
This World is ancient and mysterious. It reverberates with the sounds of Life and Infinite Love.
Cherish your memories, forget your regrets, Forgive and Truly Live. This is a short Life and this is a real opportunity for Happiness and Joy.
Our Time is limited. And that makes Life all the more special.
In these troubled times, YOU can bring Hope. Your inner Beauty does that. Let it shine.
Listen to the Beautiful Music of the precious Lives that Live all around you. There are tears falling like drops of rain, Hearts that weigh so heavy they beat slowly, with feelings so immense you may not understand the words never spoken. But you can feel the Music in their moment.
“We all are gladiators, fighting battles every day that others don’t know.” – Ali Hamza
Our emotions can hold us in a timeless grasp.
But, in the moment your Heart beats for someone else, your Life has just begun.
There are Signs all around us, some more obvious to see than others. Ask your Father in Heaven Above to Light your path, You are not alone. You are never alone.
JOY lives within knowing that God Loves you.
YOUR Ultimate Story of Being is much, much more than you can ever dream.
My Dear Friends, becontent with the precious Life and the Love God has given, and you will enjoy Living. We have value far beyond our imagining.
Did you know that your dental health has consequences that go well beyond your mouth? Taking care of your teeth has been found to protect your overall health, and the most surprising relationship between dental health and overall health is that problems with your dental health have been associated with stroke.
What Kind of Dental Problems Lead to Stroke?
Research studies from countries as diverse as Germany, France, Sweden, India, and Korea show that varying degrees of periodontal disease (gum disease) are associated with strokes.Mild gum disease, which causes inflammation of the gums, is called gingivitis, while more serious gum disease that causes the actual destruction of the gums is called periodontitis. Severe periodontitis can lead to tooth decay and eventually even tooth loss. All three of these types of gum disease are associated with a stroke — even the mildest form, which is gingivitis.1
A recent research study from Sweden followed randomly selected people over a period of 26 years. Researchers reported, “that gingival inflammation was clearly associated with stroke.”2
And yet another research study found that having severe periodontal disease and tooth loss was a strong predictor of stroke, and even that people who had lost more teeth had usually experienced more strokes. Tooth loss was found to be a predictor of silent strokes.3Silent strokesare strokes that people don’t know they had because silent strokes don’t cause obvious handicaps. However, over time, the build-up of silent strokes can cause disabling problems such as dementia.
What Kind of Strokes Can Dental Problems Cause?
Many research studies have shown a correlation between gum disease and lack of dental care with ischemic strokes.4Ischemic strokes are strokes caused by interruption of blood flow due to a blood clot.
Dental Problems Associated With Stroke
Dental problems such as gingivitis, periodontitis, and tooth loss are all associated with inflammation, and sometimes with an infection. Infections have been shown to increase the risk of stroke, possibly due to the body’s inflammatory immune response to infections.5
Sometimes inflammation and infection can make the blood more likely to clot, causing a stroke. If serious dental problems persist untreated for a long time, the inflammation and infection that result from unhealthy teeth and gums can make an ischemic stroke more likely.
How to Protect Your Teeth
It is advantageous to have good dental health. For many people, dental care can seem time-consuming and costly. Prevention of gum disease and tooth loss is best achieved through consistently brushing teeth, flossing, avoiding cigarettes and regular visits to the dentist. Once gum disease has started, it is treatable and manageable. Often, deep cleaning in the dentist’s office is recommended.
Cost of Dental Care
One of the biggest reasons that people do not take care of their teeth is concern about the cost. It may be beneficial to ask for recommendations and ask the dentist’s office about the cost of a dental visit ahead of time. And it is useful to keep in mind that some health insurance plans cover the complete or partial cost of dental care. Overall, the cost of dental care is much lower than thecost of a stroke, which is an expensive lifelong condition to live with.
Dr. & Mrs. Anderson may schedule 2-5 additional days (to be announced later) for In-service Training. Visit our website at http://www.andersonschool.net for updated information.
The School Calendar is subject to change.
There are no make-up days if school is closed due to inclement weather.
Inclement Weather Policy: the school will close if Fort Worth I. S. D. is closed.
Lyrics/songs texts/paintings/articles are property and copyright of their owners and provided for educational purposes.
Copyright Disclaimer – Section 107 – Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research. Fair use is permitted by copyright statute.
Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of “fair use”.
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Your Heart is a strong muscle that pumps blood to your body. A normal, healthy adult heart is about the size of your clenched fist. Just like an engine makes a car go, the Heart keeps your body running. The Heart has two sides, each with a top chamber (atrium) and a bottom chamber (ventricle). The right side pumps blood to the lungs to pick up oxygen. The left side receives blood rich with oxygen from the lungs and pumps it through arteries throughout the body. An electrical system in the heart controls the heart rate (heartbeat or pulse) and coordinates the 
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