Andre Faria: Than be sure to leave a living will with your wishes.

Being a mother i thought i'd share this.
Jessica was taken from her home and now is with the Angels.
http://pdhomes.net/lit/gjz/SAVE2/JESSICA.HTML

Foxy Lady: That is a lovely tribute to Jessica..thanks for posting it Foxy.

March 24, 2005


“Jesus Slept Here”
by John Fischer

The Last Supper, which Christians celebrate tonight in what is traditionally called Maundy Thursday, has been immortalized in countless paintings and displays and acted out in famous plays, films and musicals. It is significant because it is when our most revered sacrament was first administered. It is also where Jesus gave his final instructions to his disciples, recorded in the Gospel of John and labeled by biblical scholars as “The Upper Room Discourse” (John 13-17). But rarely do we stop to think about that room and how it came to be such a sacred place. It belonged to somebody. Somebody donated it to the cause.

Somebody donated the donkey that Jesus rode in on for the Triumphal Entry, and someone prepared the meal for that famous supper. Think of how many different houses Jesus and his disciples slept in over three years of ministry. Think of how many meals were prepared for them. Think of those who contributed to their treasury so their basic needs could be met. Then there was Joseph of Arimathea who contributed his tomb as a burial place for Jesus, Nicodemus who helped prepare the body for burial, and the women who got up early on Resurrection Day to anoint the body because they could not do it on the Sabbath. All these people served Jesus and His cause, and without them, the work would not have been able to be accomplished. Yet we hear so little about them. Many remain nameless. They are always in the background.

That’s always the way it is with servants, but they don’t mind because it’s not about them. They are serving a higher cause and a greater one than they. Their job is to serve and get out of the way, and they do this with great pleasure. Their reward is in knowing that God sees their work, and in watching what their work has made possible in the lives of others. Servants are bent on pleasing God, and their own needs are minimal.

When you think about the Lord’s Supper, remember that someone set the table, and someone picked up afterwards, just as someone will have prepared the Last Supper celebration you might be experiencing tonight. Ministry doesn’t take place without service, and we are all called to play a part in serving each other. Make yourself ready.

Just wondering if anyone would be interested in bible trivia Print these questions out and see how you do If there is interest i will do more
good luck
1. what was the First commandment in the Bible??
2. Where did Jesus work his first miracle?
3.3.Who was the first priest mentioned in Scripture??
Have fun!!

1 - thou shalt worship no other god but me?
2 - Cana
3 - Moses?

I was sent a free website at where you can hear a great song “Via Dolorosa” plus see a little movie (4 minutes).

I can really recommend it to everyone who loves music!

This is my card for Holy Friday!

I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did!
**Please put your speaker on**

Via Dolorosa

love, ~*Radiant*~

runningwolf: Thank you for this.. I see bumble tried to answer the questions.. perhaps more peeps will do so tonight.. When are you going to provide us the answers? :-)

Radiant 36 9: Bible Trivia Answers
1.Be Fruitful and Multipy Genesis 1:28
2.Cana John 2:1-11
3. Melchizedek Genesis 14:18

Hi Radiant!!! How have you been??
I was HOPEING i would get more people interested in this but i guess not:(((

Happy Easter to all and love in the LIVING Christ,

~*Josetta*~

Today while driving back from a day at Disney Land.. my friends Daughter, Hillary rolled her car killing her 15 year old daughter, Desire.. I would like some prayers tonight to help guide Hillary so she doesn't place blame onto herself for this terrible tragedy.. and some prayers out to the grandmother Shelly, and great grandmother Helen who will both be driving out to be with Hillary. Please help them have a safe journey and comfort their empty hearts at this sad time ..

ScarletRose:My thoughts and prayers will be with Hillary and her family during this sad time.

I will Pray for Hillary and her Family during this Horribel time of tragdy

ScarletRose: I will say a prayer as well.

ScarletRose: OH How sad. Hillary will be in my thoughts and prayers.God Bless
BARB

Just would like to ask if you woulden't mind if you could say a prayer for my father that has just past away this morning. We were not that close, as i had just met my real family about 12 years ago and they all live out east and i'm in the west. Just happy to hear he went swiftly, and without pain :)
Thank You :)

Prayer for Jim Kesley28. March 2005, 13:44:27Modified by Pbarb2 (28. March 2005, 13:46:53)Ogopogo: OH how sorry I am to hear this. One thing you must thank God you were able to meet your father and the rest of your family a short time ago. Oh Lord we pray for you and your family. I know your heart is heavy with sorrow now. We pray that Jim Kelsey had the knowledge of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Comfort the family with the glorious hope of the resurrection and life eternal. Grant them your grace to say with a believing heart: Thy will be done and to know that thy will is good and gracious will even in this present hour. Comfort them through Thy Gospel which promises strength and help to the troubled and the weary.. O Lord forsake them not in this hour for Jesus sake we ask. Amen
God bless you dear friend ..
BARB

Bruno Jesus: I pray several times per day. And yes, I prayer walk for people in the streets. In fact I once went to Harlem to prayerwalk.

ScarletRose: Sorry to hear that hon...I will include her in my prayers!

Pbarb2: Thank you Barb :)

Ogopogo: My heart goes out to you! Prayers have been said for you and your loved ones. God bless,

~*Radiant*~

Radiant 36 9:

Thank You Radiant :)

Ogopogo: Thank you honey.. and I am so sorry to hear about your father earlier today.. My prayers are with ya! *kissie~kiss*

ScarletRose: geeeeeeeeeeeeee tanks

Ogopogo: we should take this to another board .. hehe.. we are getting lol

*wonders if he will be able to find me*

Heimataerde
non nobis, domine, non nobis, sed nomine tuo da gloriam

Heimataerde and the forbidden being.

In the dead of night the wiedergänger sneaks out of his grave to give
eternal life and to create a new religion.

Under the protection of Heimataerde

Heimataerde promises shelter for the Wiedergänger and provides means for
his reincarnation. It is in the Heimataerde where he rests in the
daytime hours; it preserves him from decay and hides him from the
deceiving clarity of light. But his former templar comrades and the
Master Superior claim the Heimataerde too, and know of this weak spot of
the traitor.


The eternal fight for Heimataerde

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love,
I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers,
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,
but have not love,
I am nothing.

The Heimataerde is in the centre of the fight between good and evil.
Visions of power and light, without shade or mercy want to triumph over
mortal love and sin. Who can tell the right side, when the day of decision comes?

ANTICHRIST: shouldn't this be at the Music board?

Pedro Martínez:It is also there. It is about the Templar Order's mythology.

note by whatdidyousay: edited to tone it down. This is the Thoughts and Prayers Board. The rules state above that this is not to be a place for discussion or arguments.

Bottom-Up Worshiper
by John Fischer

Christ is the visible image of the invisible God… He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together. (Colossians 1:15 & 17)

Last week we noted the faith of Templeton Prize winner, Charles Townes. I’ve run into an additional source of praise and worship from yet another renowned physicist who believes in God. His name is Sir John Polkinghorne, and he has been honored for his remarkable achievements in mathematical physics by being appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in England. He was part of the team that discovered the quark (the most fundamental particle of matter yet discovered). He has since left his post at Cambridge to study theology and serve as an Anglican priest. The title of one of his lectures is “The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-Up Thinker.”

I love that title. It makes me think about a different angle on worship. Often when we think about worship, we think about something lofty. We think of God in the heavens, and how He reaches down to us here below. It’s definitely top-down worship. We look up to see Him; we lift our hands, trying to meet Him reaching down to us. We start with God and we remember how He has worked throughout history, and how He has invaded our lives with His love. That’s top-down worship. It starts with God and seeks how a belief in Him colors the decisions and details of our lives. This is definitely one aspect of worship but not the only one.

Worship is also bottom-up. We can start by observing our world, our lives, and our history and begin to find God’s hand in all this. This is what you would expect from a scientist. Scientists begin with observation at the most basic level. They start with particulars and try and build conclusions or theories based on those particulars. For a scientist to believe in God (especially one who helped discover the universe’s most fundamental elements) means he started by observing the universe from the ground up, and based on all the particulars he gathered, God become his final conclusion. There was no other way for him to correlate all the facts that have been gathered by all the scientists over all time.

I would like to encourage you to be bottom-up worshiper. Such a person would be finding God everywhere, not just waiting for church or the worship music to start. God makes sense of our everyday lives. Everything from ground up holds something about God and something that can point us to Him. It’s a matter of opening our eyes and realizing that when it comes to worship, class is always in session.


John Fischer is the Senior Writer for Purpose Driven Life Daily Devotionals. He resides in Southern California with his wife, Marti and son, Chandler. They also have two adult children, Christopher and Anne. John is a published author and popular speaker.

Send Thy peace O Lord, which is
perfect and everlasting,
that our souls may radiate peace.

Send Thy peace O Lord, that we
may think, act and speak harmoniously.

Send Thy peace O Lord, that we
may be contented and thankful for
Thy bountiful gifts.

Send Thy peace O Lord, that amidst
our worldly strife, we may enjoy Thy bliss.

Send Thy peace O Lord, that we
may endure all, tolerate all, in the thought of
Thy grace and mercy.

Send Thy peace O Lord, that our lives
may become a Divine vision and in Thy light,
all darkness may vanish.

Send Thy peace O Lord, our Father and Mother,
that we Thy children on Earth may all
unite in one family.

prayer for peace - pir-o-murshid inayat khan - 1921 ±

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This ritual is One.
The food is One.
We who offer the food are One.
The fire of hunger is also One.
All action is One.
We who understand this are One.

traditional hindu blessing

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PLease pray for the husband and family of Terri. She passed away a few hours ago. Whether right or wrong prayers are in need now for Terri's husband and her family. God BLess
BARB

TONPA LA MED SANG GYAY RINPOCHE
KYOBPA LA MED DAM CHHO RINPOCHE
DRENPA LA MED GEDUN RINPOCHE
KYAB NAY KON CHHOK SUM LA CHHOD PA BUL


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To the precious Buddha, unsurpassable Teacher,
to the precious Dharma, unsurpassable Refuge,
to the precious Sangha, unsurpassable Guide,
to the three Jewels, the sources of Refuge, I make this Offering.

tibetan buddhist - mealtime prayer

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Pbarb2: Aww, thank you for posting about Terri.. God bless her and give her peace. She is with Jesus now.. I pray for her parents and all her loved ones.. In Yahweh's Son's Precious Name - AMEN

Praying that all those who loved Terri may be comforted by Gods Love and Faithfulness - In Jesus' Name - AMEN

Copyright: Brian Doerksen

This song is the end of a long journey for me. I have longed to see how we can incorporate more 'laments' in our modern worship experience for years, but writing a lament that congregations can sing together, seems to be much tougher than writing songs of joy!! In my opinion, there are so many reasons we need more laments in our corporate worship. The Psalms are full of them and Gods people have sung them for several millennia!! Today, real people need a safe place to express their pain and grief, and still know they are accepted and loved by God and His people! For the broken-hearted and those who are grieving, singing only 'happy songs' can leave them on the outside looking on. I have included this song to this project for allos us who are going through tough times, yet still we want to come and worship because there is no other place where we can find true comfort. Like the Psalms, our laments can honestly express our pain and our questions, and can still have an expression of hope as well. In Psalm 13, the word "but" looms large! Its maybe the hinge word of the Psalm and our song. This is who we are; this how we feel, but , in light of all that, I will still trust in You O God.


Psalm 13 (How long O Lord)

How long oh Lord will You forget me
How long oh Lord
Will You look the other way

How long oh Lord
Must I wrestle with my thoughts
And every day
Have such sorrow in my heart

Look on me and answer
Oh God my Father
Bring light to my darkness
Before they see me fall

But I trust in Your unfailing love
Yes my heart will rejoice
Still I sing of Your unfailing love
You have been good
You will be good to me

My prayers go out to Pope John Paul II whose condition was "very grave" after he suffered cardiocirculatory collapse and septic shock.. quoted from a Vatican spokesman today.

May the Lord touch him with His healing hand and speak Truth and comfort to his loved ones and his followers around the world.

Vatican: Pope's condition 'very grave'

and my prayers go out to the millions of believers who loved this Pope during the 26th years of his reign over the Catholic Church and all the other admirors of him during the time Karol Jozef Wojtyla reigned as Pope John II. I heard on a CNN report that the Pope wanted us not to be sad, but to rejoice...

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me. "My Grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefor I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Pope John Paul II 1920~2005

May the Lord our God be with Pope John Paul II in his rest. And may the Cardinals choose his sucessor wisely. The Pope was a good man, and a devout servant of God. Let Our Lord watch over his flock in his absence.

Assailed by afflictions, we discover Dharma
And find the way to liberation. Thankyou, evil forces!

When sorrows invade the mind, we discover Dharma
And find lasting happiness. Thankyou, sorrows!

Through harm caused by spirits we discover Dharma
And find fearlessness. Thankyou, ghosts and demons!

Through people's hate we discover Dharma
And find benefits and happiness. Thankyou, those who hate us!

Through cruel adversity, we discover Dharma
And find the unchanging way. Thankyou, adversity!

Through being impelled to by others, we discover Dharma
And find the essential meaning. Thankyou, all who drive us on!

We dedicate our merit to you all, to repay your kindness.

words of my perfect teacher - gyalwa longchenpa