Boy prays to be like his dad
Boy prays to be like his dad
The Father cried when he heard his son's prayer... And his prayer had wings it never had before...
Read the whole anecdote with intention...
Richard Dawkins long run
Richard Dawkins, Biologist, specificaly Zoologist, talks about God as a an Atheist, an Expert in Religion. He is sure that God does not exist. But he does not probe it. He sees however any religion as a threat to his militant atheism, as an enemy of reason. How can anyone probe that?
As anyone who could be sure my father didn't exist would be wrong, Richard Dawkins is mistaken. His certainty about God's not-existence is a flaw. The probe itself is the existence of the universe, that goes back to the big bang and the first point with infinite mass and zero extension... That origin takes us back to the main doubt: what put that there? What originated all that? The enemy of reason is not faith but doubt.
In one of his televised programmes, inside a Catholic Church, while the Mass is going on, Dawkins asks a communicant whether he can probe he has received God as soon as he received Communion. The person, feeling manhandled, answered that he could not. Dawkins infers satisfied that the whole fact is an enemy of reason.
Many times we suspend reason for various actions like kissing to say goodnight. We do not doubt our love, we just assume it. But we wouldn't be ready to present all the probes of paternity at the time of kissing our father to wish him goodnight.
Many people will join Dawkins in their road to shout the non-existence of God. In my oppinion the more they shout, the more they will awaken other consciences, starting by theirs. And the more they treck along that road the more they'll ask how long to arrive... and the most important question they will have to face is where are we arriving to.
Forrester Ladder and Zest for God
Forrester Ladder and Zest for God
At the heart of Social Technographics is consumer data that looks at how consumers approach social technologies – not just the adoption of individual technologies. We group consumers into six different categories of participation – and participation at one level may or may not overlap with participation at other levels. We use the metaphor of a ladder to show this, with the rungs at the higher end of the ladder indicating a higher level of participation.
We assume that there are many people in their quest to find the truth about themselves: where they come from, what the purpose of their lives is, where they are going to... They are, knowingly or not, trying to find the lead towards their Creator. Some of them do it contiously, others rather not. Most probably, an advance hypothesis would be that those touched by the grace who are already seeking to find God, are already past the ladder's step beyond the point of being mere spectator. They are already contributing in the network social sites, or beyond that using RSS, and criticising blogs, even creating their own blogs (that would give them a margin of just 13% of the total).
Comment: For example, 13% of US online adult consumers are "Creators" meaning that they have posted to a blog, updated a Web page, or uploaded video they created within the last month. I would fall this group because of this blog. I'm also a user of services like flicker so would be a "Collector" as well. But I'm also active on social networking sites like facebook, so I am also a "Joiner". Lastly, while I enjoy reading environmental blogs like Treehugger, I'm mostly a "Spectator" when it comes to that content area, although I occasionally add a comment here and there.
The value of Social Technographics comes when it's used by companies to create their social strategies. For example, in the report we look at how Social Technographics profiles differ by primary life motivation, site usage, and even PC ownership.
Eight Strategies to Say No
One of the most essential skills that a freelancer can have is the ability to say “no”.
Without that skill, you will be overloaded with requests and assignments, and continuously overworked and missing deadlines, the quality of your work will slip, and you will take on assignments that you don’t enjoy and that don’t pay enough for the time you spend on them.
By saying “no”, although you might feel that others will feel offended or hurt (and it’s possible), you are also sending a strong message that you value your time, that you have priorities, and that you also respect the person to whom you’re saying no, as you don’t want to commit to something and then do a lousy job or not do it at all.
Should you say “no” to everything that comes your way? (...)
Eight Strategies to Say NoTen ill effects of co-habitation
Review lists ten ill-effects of cohabitation
In a recent Irish Times survey 74% of women said they agreed that it was “a good idea for couples to live together for a period of time before they decide to marry.”
No reasons were given for this view, but the September issue of the US Catholic journal, New Oxford Review, carried a review of research on the ill-effects of cohabitation.
Dr A Patrick Schneider II began with Chuck Colson’s remark that “cohabitation is training for divorce,” then listed “Ten Facts” from the research. He reported that in the US:
In a recent Irish Times survey 74% of women said they agreed that it was “a good idea for couples to live together for a period of time before they decide to marry.”
No reasons were given for this view, but the September issue of the US Catholic journal, New Oxford Review, carried a review of research on the ill-effects of cohabitation.
Dr A Patrick Schneider II began with Chuck Colson’s remark that “cohabitation is training for divorce,” then listed “Ten Facts” from the research. He reported that in the US:
Our High Priest
An image of the EucharistAt the crisis of a battle in the War a vital communication between a certain division and Army battle headquarters went dead. Somewhere the enemy shells had cut the wire and it was absolutely essential to get it repaired at once. Only one signalman was available in the divisional staff dugout at the moment and he went out to find the break and join it. In a few minutes the messages began coming through again. An hour later the man had still not returned and a party went to look for him. He was found lying beside the line, holding together in his hands the two broken ends, with a great shell wound over his heart from which he had bled to death.
There follows a comment on this shocking story...
Global Warming Great Swindle
Nobody likes to be deceived. Much less if it is dressed as a Scientist. That's why many look at Al Gore with scepticism.
Courage from Communion
The Eucharist gives us strength / - Soldier's heroism due to the EucharistThere follows another example of the strengh that comes from the Communion...
A French army officer recalls how he was taking part in the bitter fighting on the heights of Notre Dame de Lorette, 1915.
Courage from CommunionWhat is the best quality for a Teacher
If you ask the main problem teachers face many would answer the absolut lack of knowledge. That is a wrong answer, since the teacher is there to solve that lapsus. No. The problem nowadays comes from the family and shows in the disregard for whatever happens inside the classroom; disruption of activities is constant and teachers find it extremelly difficult to fullfil any teaching plans. Actually, surviving school life for a professional teacher is not easy in the least, due to all sorts of violence...
Today we would like to ask an experienced teacher what the best quality for a teacher is.
The answer comes straight from the heart of a Saint. This is a short video taken from a public -however intimate- meeting held in Spain with Saint Josemaria, Founder of Opus Dei.
Hear it from the "horse's mouth" as it's commonly said...
Best Teacher's Quality...
The pigs of the farm don't pray (grace at meals, human respect)
Being afraid to pray in public
The train was crowded. There were several people trying in the compartment to fit their boxes into their layers. I doubted whether to say my three hail Maries kneeling down, spreading my arms in cross shape or just pray them quietly in my bed. The six bunk-beds were slowly getting filled. While I was struggling with my thoughts my stout mate brought out a small carpet, spreaded it on the ground and started worshipping Allah towards what he tought it was the orientation to the Mecca. I was flabbergasted at the sight.
Immediatelly I came down from my bunk bed, I knelt down and I prayer my Three Hail Maries of the Purity out loud... with my arms in the sape of cross, as my mother had taught me.
Immediatelly I came down from my bunk bed, I knelt down and I prayer my Three Hail Maries of the Purity out loud... with my arms in the sape of cross, as my mother had taught me.
Assuming so many things in the First World.
Letter to Electric Power Authority in a Developing country (Nigeria)
They do it with style and irony. They are great. Don't miss the contribution...
COMPLAINT ABOUT YOUR SERVICES
I am writing to you with a deep sense of humility and gentleness. I consider this a great opportunity to communicate with an entity as awe-inspiring as yourself. Firstly, I bring greetings to you from residents of my area in Lagos.
As a dutiful citizen, I consider this letter as part of my civic responsibilities. Great countries comprise of citizens who are alive to their responsibilities. As a famous musician once said, "Ask not what your country can eat from you but what you can eat from your country."
I have benefited immensely from this country; therefore I have decided to give back.
I want to bring to your notice some strange occurrences which have been happening in my area. I want to sadly inform you that in the last 2 weeks, electricity has been stable. In other words, we sleep and wake up with electricity, we go to work and come back and electricity is still running. This is a terribly new and I must add DANGEROUS development in the lives of residents of my area. This is something we are not used to. This is too much electricity for us to handle. In the first week of constant electricity, I started acting strangely. (...)
They do it with style and irony. They are great. Don't miss the contribution...
September 3, 2008
The Area Manager,
NEPA,
Lagos
Dear Sir,
NEPA,
Lagos
Dear Sir,
COMPLAINT ABOUT YOUR SERVICES
I am writing to you with a deep sense of humility and gentleness. I consider this a great opportunity to communicate with an entity as awe-inspiring as yourself. Firstly, I bring greetings to you from residents of my area in Lagos.
As a dutiful citizen, I consider this letter as part of my civic responsibilities. Great countries comprise of citizens who are alive to their responsibilities. As a famous musician once said, "Ask not what your country can eat from you but what you can eat from your country."
I have benefited immensely from this country; therefore I have decided to give back.
I want to bring to your notice some strange occurrences which have been happening in my area. I want to sadly inform you that in the last 2 weeks, electricity has been stable. In other words, we sleep and wake up with electricity, we go to work and come back and electricity is still running. This is a terribly new and I must add DANGEROUS development in the lives of residents of my area. This is something we are not used to. This is too much electricity for us to handle. In the first week of constant electricity, I started acting strangely. (...)
The lier must remember his lies.
The lier must remember his lies.
Here we offer a joke to remind us to tell the truth and remember all what we say. The story is called never lie to this robot...
One day Kyle's dad brought home a robot. The robot was special in that it could detect a lie and would slap the person who lied on the face.
Kyle returned late from school that day and his dad asked him, "Son why are you late from school?
" Kyle answered, "Dad, we had extra classes today". Much to his astonishment the robot jumped up and slapped Kyle on his face. (...)
One day Kyle's dad brought home a robot. The robot was special in that it could detect a lie and would slap the person who lied on the face.
Kyle returned late from school that day and his dad asked him, "Son why are you late from school?
" Kyle answered, "Dad, we had extra classes today". Much to his astonishment the robot jumped up and slapped Kyle on his face. (...)
Just a Professional Drama Teacher, please.
Looking for a not sexually oriented teacher.
Choosing a heterosexual head of actors for the Drama School.
My dream has always been to gather a few children from the streets and to extract their hidden diamonds. That's not so easy. I have to find people with hidden diamonds...
I began with a drama group, ten in all. Later on another group of voices, most of them beautiful. Seven in total. Later on a group of seven magicians were added to the group of talents. Among all of us would build a show: Alfambra has got Talent.
To find enthusiastic Teachers would be critical. I found a very good voice master. Also I recruited a wonderful "Dumbledore" for my Magic school. But I had no luck with my Drama Head. My First teacher, a professional Clown, was unable to handdle my first kid actors (12-13 year old boys). My second Drama teacher happened to be a homosexual, sexually active and kid-oriented -of course, I didn't know about it!. So we were on our toes from the on-set. And the first day, when unnecessarilly he told the boys to undress, he was fired. No joke. My soul is at stake, and my future as a citizen. (...)
My dream has always been to gather a few children from the streets and to extract their hidden diamonds. That's not so easy. I have to find people with hidden diamonds...
I began with a drama group, ten in all. Later on another group of voices, most of them beautiful. Seven in total. Later on a group of seven magicians were added to the group of talents. Among all of us would build a show: Alfambra has got Talent.
To find enthusiastic Teachers would be critical. I found a very good voice master. Also I recruited a wonderful "Dumbledore" for my Magic school. But I had no luck with my Drama Head. My First teacher, a professional Clown, was unable to handdle my first kid actors (12-13 year old boys). My second Drama teacher happened to be a homosexual, sexually active and kid-oriented -of course, I didn't know about it!. So we were on our toes from the on-set. And the first day, when unnecessarilly he told the boys to undress, he was fired. No joke. My soul is at stake, and my future as a citizen. (...)
Man awaits death when his problem is that his collar is too small
Simple diagnosis
Two ideas:
Firstly to stress the need to choose the right doctor;
Secondly: to realise that a second oppinion is necessary when the diagnostic is extreme. (...)
Firstly to stress the need to choose the right doctor;
Secondly: to realise that a second oppinion is necessary when the diagnostic is extreme. (...)
The Commodore's Prayer
Here you have one of the most beautiful pieces of Prayer and of Literature. Used on many occasions by Saint Josemaria Escriva:
The Commodore's Prayer
Lord you know better than I do that I am growing old, unless you take me up with you. I pray not to become too locuacious a person, and above all, that I don´t acquire the disastrous costume of always giving my oppinions upon any matter and on any question.
Free me from the mania of being willing to organise everybody´s affairs; that I may not take a long time to refer countless details about things; give me wings to arrive to the conclusion.
A letter written in anger
Not sending a letter written in anger Lincoln's advice to a politician Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, had some trouble with a major general who accused him in abusive language of favouritism.
When Is a Man Educated
When he can look out upon the universe, glorious and terrible, dark
and luminous, with a sense of his own littleness in the scheme of
things, and yet have faith and courage.
When he knows how to make friends And keep them. And above all,
When he can keep friends with himself.
When he can look an honest man or a pure women straight in the eye.
When he loves flowers, can hunt birds without a gun and can feel
the stir of forgotten joy in the laughter of a little girl.
When he knows that hoeing corn is as honorable as playing golf. (...)
and luminous, with a sense of his own littleness in the scheme of
things, and yet have faith and courage.
When he knows how to make friends And keep them. And above all,
When he can keep friends with himself.
When he can look an honest man or a pure women straight in the eye.
When he loves flowers, can hunt birds without a gun and can feel
the stir of forgotten joy in the laughter of a little girl.
When he knows that hoeing corn is as honorable as playing golf. (...)
Sayings about prayer
Sayings about PrayerSome quotations suitable to illustrate teaching
Prayer is the language of one burdened with a sense of need. It is the voice of the beggar, conscious of his poverty, asking of another the things he needs. Not to pray is not only to declare there is nothing needed, but to admit to a non-realisation of that need. E.M.Bounds
To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all-seeing, within you. Theophan the Recluse
God has left certain things open to prayer — things which will never be done except as we pray. Stanley Jones
If we would return to apostolic practice — waiting upon the Lord for apostolic power — we could then go forth to apostolic possibilities! Ravenhill
The people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones that do. The Apple Advert
When we are one with God’s love, we own all things in him. They are ours to offer him in Christ his Son. For all things belong to the sons and daughters of God and we are Christ’s and Christ is God’s. Thomas Merton
It continues...
The people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones that do. The Apple Advert
When we are one with God’s love, we own all things in him. They are ours to offer him in Christ his Son. For all things belong to the sons and daughters of God and we are Christ’s and Christ is God’s. Thomas Merton
It continues...
Prayer is the language of one burdened with a sense of need. It is the voice of the beggar, conscious of his poverty, asking of another the things he needs. Not to pray is not only to declare there is nothing needed, but to admit to a non-realisation of that need. E.M.Bounds
To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all-seeing, within you. Theophan the Recluse
God has left certain things open to prayer — things which will never be done except as we pray. Stanley Jones
A life for a Party
We don't always realize that children are persons and not OPTIONS. Therefore many times we might be choosing "things" (beautiful things, though) instead of the joy children bring.
On a hard note, abortion is a very tough choice; there, selfishness prevails.
Read the following short story, illustrating this thought...
The Stranger
The Stranger
At Christmas time there was a man who looked so out of place, as people who rushed about him at a hurried sort of pace. He stared at all the Christmas lights, the tinsel everywhere, The shopping center, Santa Claus, with children gathered near.
The Mall was packed with shoppers who were going to and fro, some with smiles and some with frowns and some too tired to go. They rested on the benches or they hurried on their way, to fight the crowd for purchases to carry home that day.
The music from a stereo was playing loud and clear of Santa Claus, and snow men, and a funny-nosed reindeer. He heard the people talk about the good times on the way, of parties, fun, and food galore, and gifts exchanged that day.
"I'd like to know what's going on," the man was heard to say, "There seems to be some sort of celebration on the way. "And would you tell me who this is, all dressed in red and white? And why are children asking him about a special night"? (...)
The Mall was packed with shoppers who were going to and fro, some with smiles and some with frowns and some too tired to go. They rested on the benches or they hurried on their way, to fight the crowd for purchases to carry home that day.
The music from a stereo was playing loud and clear of Santa Claus, and snow men, and a funny-nosed reindeer. He heard the people talk about the good times on the way, of parties, fun, and food galore, and gifts exchanged that day.
"I'd like to know what's going on," the man was heard to say, "There seems to be some sort of celebration on the way. "And would you tell me who this is, all dressed in red and white? And why are children asking him about a special night"? (...)
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