Rose: my thoughts are with you ..

sandra...: Our prayers and support are with you and yours.

sandra...: Sorry for your loss.

There is a funeral today for a member of my extended family. He was missing for 10 days and was found dead in a bog last week. They are unsure of foul play or if he was just drunk and the elements took him. Poor kid was only 19 yrs old.
Also lost very dear client today who passed away from cancer. I had no idea she was fighting cancer since last May.

today for my son in laws family. It was his grandmothers funeral today. a sad time for all.

thank you

I am in love with Life and with this Universe, with every being and every soul within it. I have a covenant with the Universe; a covenant of love. I share the glow of my spirit with everyone and everything that I encounter, and the Universe offers me its glow in return. When I offer the world my soul’s unconditional love, it returns to me burnished and enhanced; the Universe absorbs and retransmits it amplified a hundredfold. There is no limit to the power of this love. It brings me comfort, accomplishment, and joy, just as it contributes to the development of those attributes in those on whom it falls.

I keep this covenant by dismissing all selfishness, all jealousy, and all rancor. The body and the thinking mind urge me to take advantage of the open givingness that my love engenders in the world around me. They want me to hoard the joy the Universe freely offers me, to gather it unto myself and shield it from others. They do not know that love and joy exist only in the measure that they are shared. Any happiness that I take away from another being is a subtraction from my own; any love that I withhold evaporates from my being. I pursue only those pleasures that promote the ease and happiness of all.

My love is innocent and untarnished. Its light surrounds me; my aura is enhanced by it. Those I meet respond to its warmth in kind. My covenant extends to every other soul, to keep this purity intact. I wear visibly the knowledge that all is safe, that the Universe is good, that each of us is God’s perfect child; and everyone I meet is warmed and reassured by it. I draw in the boundless loving energy of Spirit, cleansing and renewing my physical and energetic selves. With the miraculous power of my energetic self I return to the Universe more cleansing energy than I absorbed.

And so it is.

The Poem
I knelt to pray but not for long,
I had too much to do.
I had to hurry and get to work
For bills would soon be due.
So I knelt and said a hurried prayer,
And jumped up off my knees.
My Christian duty was now done
My soul could rest at ease....
All day long I had no time
To spread a word of cheer
No time to speak of Christ to friends,
They'd laugh at me I'd fear.
No time, no time, too much to do,
That was my constant cry,
No time to give to souls in need
But at last the time, the time to die.
I went before the Lord,
I came, I stood with downcast eyes.
For in his hands God! held a book;
It was the book of life.
God looked into his book and said
"Your name I cannot find
I once was going to write it down...
But never found the time"
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Now do you have the time
to pass it on?

EatBeefNoTurkey: Thank you for sharing.

Each candle has a color for reasons.

http://virtual-candle.org/index.php

volant: He leaves Dec 15 his whole unit is going.My mother-in-law is so upset that he won't be home for Christmas.

EatHamNotTurkey: sorry he has to go at all, would have been nice if they would have at least waited a couple of weeks. 

My brother-in-law is going back to Iraq.Please say a prayer for his safe return.He leaves just before Christmas.

Jules: I just read Ecclesiastes 7.You can also donate i saw.
Thanks for sharing.


edited to add the l

alanback: After re-reading it i decided to anyways.

Foxy Lady: No editing necessary! Thanks for sharing it.

alanback: This board is open to all whatever religion.This was sent to me in an e-mail.I did edit the post sorry it wasn't meant to be bias.

Foxy Lady: Who are the "right" people? This message should be shared with everyone! Christians and non-Christians alike can appreciate the lifting of the burdens of this world that occurs with the realization that the Universe is filled with love and forgiveness for anyone who cares to accept it. Indeed, the Universe is love and forgiveness, anything else is false and transitory. "Only Love abides." God blesses us all without reservation or judgment. Our part is to stop judging each other and ourselves.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:19 NIV
19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
The Good News is about reconciliation between God and man. Jesus Christ accomplished it.
Mankind was estranged from God. We had gone our own way, were lost, and couldn't find our way back to fellowship with God. Fortunately, God loved us and did something to help us.
Two extremely important ideas are presented in the above verse.
First, God is not holding people's sins against them! As far as God is concerned, Christ's sacrifice paid the penalty for all sin -- and God considers the world reconciled back to Him.
Second, this wonderful good news of what God has done has been committed to us. Human beings must tell it. If we don't -- it won't be told.
People can live and die and never know the glorious truth that God is not holding any sins against them -- if no one tells them.
They need to know they are forgiven, loved by God, and welcome to come back into fellowship with Him through Christ.
Think about this: God is interested in reconciliation. Not in shutting you, or others, out. He is inviting humanity in, saying all is forgiven.
SAY THIS: Thank You Father God for reconciling me and not holding my sins against me. Please help me to share this message with everyone.

Oh Lord, You are so wonderful
Did I take the time to pray,
Or did I find myself wrapped up
In other things today?

Did I remember to thank You
For the moon and stars above,
And all You have created
But most of all... Your love?

Did I mention that I'm thankful
I can read Your words each day,
By opening up my Bible
And to Your words, try to obey?

Did I remember to thank You too
For this beautiful sunny day,
For the birds that sing so joyfully
In their melancholy way?

Have I asked for Your forgiveness
When I complain of things I should not?
For I know, Lord, in my heart
I must be grateful for all I've got.

Did I thank You for the love
You have placed within my heart,
And for the many friends I have?
For with me, they are a part.

Finally, Lord, have I let You know
My life would be incomplete,
If I didn't know You, as my Savior...
The one someday I'll meet?
~Author~
Ruth Ann Mahaffey

This was sent to me.

I want to say a prayer for those 2 poor children whose lives were tragically taken away from them, recently in Corfu. Please pray for them and there parents

Pbarb2: Thank you for that beautiful prayer.

God's Boxes
I have in my hands two boxes,
Which God gave me to hold.
He said, "Put all your sorrows in the black box, And all your joys in the gold."
I heeded His words, and in the two boxes, Both my joys and sorrows I stored,
But though the gold became heavier each day, The black was as light as before.
With curiosity, I opened the black,
I wanted to find out why,
And I saw, in the base of the box, a hole, Which my sorrows had fallen out by.
I showed the hole to God, and mused,
"I wonder where my sorrows could be!"
He smiled a gentle smile and said,
"My child, they're all here with me.."
I asked God, why He gave me the boxes,
Why the gold and the black with the hole? "My child, the gold is for you to count your blessings, The black is for you to let go."
We should consider all of our friends a blessing. Send this to a friend today just to let them know you are thinking of them and that they are a joy in your life.
A ball is a circle, no beginning, no end. It keeps us together like our Circle of Friends. But the treasure inside for you to see, is the treasure of friendship you've granted to me.

Let's pray for world peace.

Dolittle: I hope her grandaughter is ok.She timed out in our games.

PegasusInAR:I was wondering what the latest news is on your granddaughter. Do pray she is doing ok!

bouncybouncy: Awwwww thats so cute.

bouncybouncy:  The older one gets the more important that is!!!  ;)

The only thing is now, he rings me up, to tell me how is bowel movements are

bouncybouncy: That is wonderful Ali.. I am happy to hear your good news..

bouncybouncy: Your welcome i know how happy you are.

bouncybouncy: SO good to hear that your Dad is on the mend enough to come home - made my day

After 3 weeks in hospital, my daddy is finally coming home today. I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you, for all your kind thoughts, prayers and pm's, through this difficult time for my family.

My dad is now getting better, but we still have a long way to go, but is allowed home, on one condition, that he doesnt go near a golf course for about 6 months lol.

Thanks again, you are all stars

Groucho: It makes ya stop, and think how fast loved ones can be taken.
Living in NY my first thought was we were under attack again.
So i'm going to ask God to Bless All Troops and say Thank You for serving our country.

Foxy Lady: Thats for sure.  What a scary and tragic event!

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the families in NY today.

I have to say it sure brought back some horrible memories.

Jules: I pray we don't go into another war.

prettymama: Your welcome and you know you can always come here for comfort.Or you can always write in Angels Are Amoung Us.There;s extra boards i put in the f/s.

thank you all for your kind words and prayers

PegasusInAR: Our thoughts and prayers are with you and yours.Please feel free to post anytime,were all here for you.

PegasusInAR: My thoughts and prayers are with you all.

PegasusInAR:  I read about this on GC too.  Thanks for sharing it here.  We will definately keep your granddaughter in our prayers.  That's a lot to deal with!  May God's grace be with you and your family.  May God's healing power be upon your Granddaughter.

I probably will not get any further information until Monday or so since that is probably the day that my son's significant other will get out of the hospital she is in and will move into the Ronald McDonald House that is attached to the hospital that Vanessa Nicole, my granddaughter is in. Only Vanessa's parents are allowed to visit and/or call in to get information about Vanessa. Therefore, I will probably not be posting updates until then.

I was not aware of this board since had not scrolled down far enough to see it so I am just now posting this here.

She was born today at 6 pounds 11 ounces. I do not know her length. She was born by C-section today. That was the good news part of this message.

Now, for the bad news part. She has only 2 sections instead of 4 sections to her heart and her heart, spleen and liver are on the wrong side and there is also something going on with her kidneys. When my father told me this, he also told me that Andy (my son) mentioned that there might be a chance that the heart could be fixed with or without a heart transplant - not sure about this, needless to say, I will be doing a bit of research on the Internet today about this.

are with you!

Gentlegiant101:

bouncybouncy: Thank you!

Gentlegiant101:

Gentlegiant101: Anytime were here for you.

Gentlegiant101:  Close to my age.  I'm about to be 55.  Well, in March.  Hope you're doing well.