Thursday, December 3, 2020

CHOOSE YOURSELF OVER EVERYTHING.


 YOU GOT THIS.

YOU WILL HANDLE ANYTHING THAT COMES YOUR WAY. 

YOU ALWAYS HAVE, YOU ALWAYS WILL, TRUST YOUR STRENGTH, TRUST YOURSELF.

REST IN THAT


THE PERSON YOU ARE BECOMING WILL COST YOU PEOPLE, RELATIONSHIPS, SPACES AND MATERIAL THINGS, 

CHOOSE YOURSELF OVER EVERYTHING.

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

OLD BUT BEAUTIFUL

 








The Gold Wrapping Paper - An Inspiring, Short Christmas Story


Once upon a time, there was a man who worked very hard just to keep food on the table for his family. This particular year a few days before Christmas, he punished his little five-year-old daughter after learning that she had used up the family's only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper.


As money was tight, he became even more upset when on Christmas Eve he saw that the child had used all of the expensive gold paper to decorate one shoebox she had put under the Christmas tree. He also was concerned about where she had gotten money to buy what was in the shoebox.

Nevertheless, the next morning the little girl, filled with excitement, brought the gift box to her father and said, "This is for you, Daddy!"

As he opened the box, the father was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, now regretting how he had punished her.

But when he opened the shoebox, he found it was empty and again his anger flared. "Don't you know, young lady," he said harshly, "when you give someone a present, there's supposed to be something inside the package!"

The little girl looked up at him with sad tears rolling from her eyes and whispered: "Daddy, it's not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was all full."

The father was crushed. He fell on his knees and put his arms around his precious little girl. He begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger.

An accident took the life of the child only a short time later. It is told that the father kept this little gold box by his bed for all the years of his life. Whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems, he would open the box, take out an imaginary kiss, and remember the love of this beautiful child who had put it there.


In a very real sense, each of us has been given an invisible golden box filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family, friends and God. There is no more pre
cious possession anyone could hold.

SOME OF MY CHRISTMAS PROJECTS








 

BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS CAKES








 

GOOD THINGS ARE COMMING.


DON'T USE YOUR ENERGY TO WORRY. USE YOUR ENERGY TO BELIEVE, CREATE, TRUST, GROW AND HEAL.

EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT YOURSELF. IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE, YOU HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR SELFCONCEPT.

THE MORE WILLING WE ARE TO GIVE OUT WHAT WE WANT TO RECEIVE, THE MORE OUR LIVES WILL BECOME WHAT WE WANT IT TO BE.

 




THE SERENITY PRAYER

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE;
COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN;
AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME;
ENJOYING ONE MOMENT AT A TIME;
ACCEPTING HARDSHIPS AS THE PATHWAY TO PEACE;
TAKING, AS HE DID, THIS SINFUL WORLD
AS IT IS, NOT AS I WOULD HAVE IT;
TRUSTING THAT HE WILL MAKE ALL THINGS RIGHT
IF I SURRENDER TO HIS WILL;
THAT I MAY BE REASONABLY HAPPY IN THIS LIFE
AND SUPREMELY HAPPY WITH HIM
FOREVER IN THE NEXT.
AMEN.

--REINHOLD NIEBUHR