Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it………..

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words. Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?" The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way." I wrote: "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it." Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective? Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have.. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear. The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling… And even more beautiful is knowing that you are the reason behind it!!! After reading this article you really felt touched and you liked the story, I suggest you share it. Remember, this article could change someone’s life. Enjoy your day with a heart of gratitude

God's promises

The car you drive has a large windshield, but only a relatively small rear view mirror. The implication is obvious: What happened in your past is not nearly as important as what is in your future. Where you are going is much more important than where you've been. If you stay focused on the past, you're liable to miss numerous excellent opportunities ahead. Don't let disappointment become the central theme of your life. Quit mourning over something you can't change. God wants to give you a new beginning, but you have to let go of the old before you'll ever see the new. Let that door close behind you and step through the door in front of you. Maybe you've allowed other people to convince you that you're never going to rise higher, that you will never see your dreams come to pass. Don't believe them. When Caleb was a young man, he and Joshua were part of an exploratory spy mission to determine the strength of the enemy before God's people moved into the land that God had promised them. Of the twelve spies, only Caleb and Joshua presented a positive report to Moses. They were all too willing to settle for the second best, to dwell for the rest of their lives right where they were. Unfortunately, that group of negative thinkers never did make it into the Promised Land. They spent the next forty years spinning their wheels and wandering around aimlessly in a desert. By then Caleb was 85 years old, but he hadn't given up on the dream God had placed in his heart. He told Joshua that he was still as strong as he was when the promise first came to him. Caleb went back to the same place and asked god for that mountain to live on. The mountain he claimed had five giants living on it. Surely, he could have found a place less fortified, more accessible, or more easily occupied. Although it is forty years later, he believed until he has seen that promise being fulfilled. That's the kind of attitude we need to have. We give up too easily No, keep pressing forward, and keep believing. Keep yourself stirred up. You've got the gifts, the talents and the dreams. Don't allow complacency to keep you from seeing god's promises fulfilled in your life.

Our Great Restorer!

"Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit." ~ Psalm 51:12
Our God is a God who restores! When you feel all is lost, God's still there, and promises to restore you, but perhaps not in the ways you expect. Never rush it! Human pregnancy takes a full nine months to produce a precious life. Even Jesus spent thirty years to prepare for His earthly ministry. Pace yourself! Your present and future joy depends on it. When you get in a hurry, all you do is set yourself up for regret. It has taken you a lifetime to get to this present moment! Proverbs 28:22 says, "He that hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and considers not that poverty shall come upon him." Slow down!

Reclaiming joy in our life deals with the sources of our joy, as well as the paths we take toward recovering that joy. Remember the song, "looking for love in all the wrong places?" People do the same thing when looking for joy! Often, the "joy" we find brings us the greatest heartache, because we did not consider the source, and it was in the wrong place. Sometimes, we feel our wells have just gone dry!

When we are distressed by the state of our lives, we find ourselves in pathetic condition. We are irritated by even the smallest inconveniences. We rarely laugh. We are quick to snap at people. We flop into bed each night, exhausted. We have no joy in our lives. There is a close relationship between the presence of stress in our lives, and the absence of joy in our lives. Many have given up on joy and presumed a dry religious ritual is the most they can hope for. What would Jesus say to those whose wells have run dry?

Deeper joy is not found in power, position, or possessions, but rather in relationships! We do not relate to God through a religion, but rather through a relationship! Jesus' second greatest source of joy came from giving Himself away for those around Him! His primary joy was His relationship with His Father! You will never get to that deeper joy, unless you decide you are dissatisfied with where you are! Get involved in a relationship with Jesus. Then, pour yourself into someone else, who may need a friend... just like you!

Are you in a hard place today………?

One day, a friend came to me, crying desperately, saying that her present situation was more than she could endure. She had been put in a hard place and wanted an immediate way of escape. Are you in a hard place today? Are you asking yourself, as my friend did, what possible glory God could derive from such a devastating experience? Let me encourage you with the answer I gave my friend. I know it was a word from the Lord because it set her free and gave her the peace she was lacking. I encourage you to use these words as a key to healing in your own hard place. I told my friend, “Just because it’s a hard place, don’t be so sure that God didn’t allow you there for a purpose. You cannot see God’s whole plan now, but be sure that He has a beautiful purpose to unfold. You may not know what He is preparing you for, but you dare not miss it.” Think about how dark a mine is – as dark as the hard place you are now in—yet, it has the capacity to produce the most brilliant of gems. Just like the mining process, our hardest trials can produce our dearest treasures.” We have to thank God, that if mountain was plain we couldn’t climb so far.

CHARTING MY COURSE………..

In a hectic world full of confusion, it is easy to feel as if you are going around in a revolving door, but not quite sure where you’re going or how to get there. As your day winds down, you may find your mind still racing with responsibilities and problems, reeling with thoughts of today’s business and tomorrow’s necessities. You may tell yourself, “I’ve got to figure this out. I’ve got to find a way. I’ve got to...“ Stop! Let the Lord chart your course! It’s not, “What I’ve got to do, but how will the Lord lead me through this?” He has the only perfect plan to chart your course past confusion. As David put it: Open my eyes to see wonderful things in your Word, I am but a pilgrim here on earth: how I need a map – and your commands are my chart and guide” (Psalm 119:18, 19, TLB). Open your eyes to His wonderful plans for peace in place of confusion, planned direction in place of dead-ends. He alone is your Chart and Guide. Check the “map” of His Word regularly to keep your charted course. Daily path finding through your Bible eliminates the frustration of trying to find your own way. You can truly rest when, having checked your course through God’s Word, you set your sight on His perfect path.

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The Thread Mill……..

As you face what should be a good rest is your mind racing instead, thinking of adding still more responsibilities tomorrow to your already overburdened workload? If you have entered into a “workaholic” pattern...running on a treadmill of projects...it will sooner or later catch up to you. Your mind will cease to function rationally, hindering progress and fruitful results. If eventually your body is worn to its limits by the incessant work cycle, physical and emotional collapse is inevitable, and spiritually you will dry up so that God seems distant and unrelated to your frenzied life. There is an old saying, “When the devil can’t make you bad, he makes you busy!” If he can’t render you inactive, he destroys your effectiveness through overwork. Step into the rhythm of God’s will. Do what He wants you to do when He wants you to do it! Ask God to still your mind and spirit and make you an open channel for His redirection of your priorities. Examine your efforts and objectives. Have they been yours or God’s? Are you driving yourself or is the Holy Spirit leading you gently into those things He would have you do? “In all your ways know, recognize and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths; (Proverbs 3:6 AMP). Be open to God’s will today. Seek His guidance and He will clearly show you what His plans are and give you contentment, making each day complete in Him.

Wait on the Lord…..…..

Those that wait upon the Lord look to Him in sincerity and humility for wisdom and strength, and then patiently await His guidance. Strength is expended in service for the Master but there are always new supplies of grace and vitality available from Him who knows no weariness. One of the most magnificent sights of the wild is an eagle soaring in the sky, higher and higher, with seemingly little effort and it knows when the storm is approaching long before it breaks. It will fly to some high spot and wait for the winds to come. When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm. While the storm rages below, it is soaring above it...... The eagle does not escape the storm; it simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It rides on the winds that bring the storm......"Similarly, the child of God who draws his strength from above is enabled to go ever onward and upward, always reaching new heights of achievement. But those who wait on the LORD, Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31

Meaning behind the trade mark of gramophone…………

The trade mark on a gramophone record produced by his Master's Voice Gramophone Company depicts a dog sitting before an outmoded gramophone, enraptured by the voice reproduced by it. A great musician who composed songs and sang then himself had a dog as his constant companion. When he suddenly died one day, the dog, unable to hear the master's voice, languished in grief and would not eat any food for days together. No one could coax the dog to shake off its sorrow and eat. At last someone took a record of one of the departed musician's songs and played it on the gramophone. At once the dog came running and listened with rapt attention to its master's voice. It shook its tail to express its joy, This made the Gramophone Company adopt the emblem now so well known all over the world. When you pass through pains and perils, unable to hear the voice of God, and deprived of his guidance, you become very much dejected. Be not dismayed! The Lord speaks to you in a still small voice to let you know that He is still with you. He knows the pressures you had to pass through, but He will make use of you. You will hear Him speak so in the depths of your hearts. "He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world" (1 John 4:4).