GRATEFULNESS

We have to be gratefull to God for what we have and stop to think about what we don't have and want. We have to stop to look back at our past and try to bring back what we had and was taking from us or we lost.

Be gratefull for your life, your family, friends, for the roof of your had, for what you have, for the food on your table and the clothing that you wear.

While we are complaining or argueing about our "situations", in others part of the world like, India, Indonesia, Ethiopia...., have people begging, dying, without food and watter, nothing to wear, sleeping on a dew, with nobody to help, to confort them telling that "everything will be all right". People without HOPE !!!!!!!!

So, each time that you think that you suffer for anything, situation or a person, think of these brothers and sisters from so far, and the situations that they are right now.

Stop ........ think and be thankfull to God.

JESUS LOVES YOU .....

GOD WANTS US TO FLY

Sometimes God does with us like the eagle does with her nest. The eagle makes an
unconfortable nest, where the nestling exercise their wings 'till it's time to fly. The nest is unconfortable so the nestling don't wanna stay more than they need. They feel unconfortable, so..they will fly on the right time. Same thing God does w/ us. He takes us out of our confortable zone, when is time to us to get to a new level in our lives. He does that not cause we are bad or a kind of punishment, it is cause everything that happens in our lives are a kind of test that we need to pass. We stay in a position, learning (confortable), and later we have to show what we did learn going to some kind of trial (test), to make us come out of that confortable zone, applying what we learned. If we don't pass, we go to the start position again, if we pass, we get confortable for a little while again, 'till the next turn....growing and growing, 'till where He wants us to be,...

THE PENCIL

The Pencil Maker took the pencil aside, just before putting him into the box. "There are 5 things you need to know," he told the pencil, "Before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best pencil you can be."

"1 : You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in Someone's hand."

"2 : You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but you'll need it to become a better pencil."

"3 : You will be able to correct any mistakes you might make."

"4 : The most important part of you will always be what's inside."

"And 5 : On every surface you are used on, you must leave your mark. No matter what the condition, you must continue to write."

The pencil understood and promised to remember, and went into the box with purpose in its heart.
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Now replacing the place of the pencil with you....

Step Up..!!
One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well..
The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer looked down the well, and was astonished at what he saw.

As every shovel of dirt hit his back, the donkey did something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed, as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off!

The Moral:
Life...

Isaiah 40:31
"But they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."


Did you know that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks?

The eagle 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 high above the storm.

While the storm rages below, the eagle is soaring high above it, gliding with ease.

The eagle does not escape the storm, it just simply uses the storm to lift it higher.

It rises on the winds that bring the storm into its world.

When the storms of life come upon us -- and all of us will experience them -- we can rise above them by setting our minds and faith toward God!!!

The storms do not have to overcome us.

We can...

SURRENDER







"Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause

is disregarded by my God"?

Do you not know?

Have you not hesrd?

The Lord is the everlasting God, The Creator of the ends of the earth.

He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;

but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not gro weary, they will walk and not be faint.



Isaiah 40:27-31







Hold on....put your faith, your hope on him. He knows verything. Let him guide you. Say to him: Here I am Lord, I surrender my life, my desires unto you...let your perfect will be done, not mine.



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An old poem describes a woman walking through a meadow, meditating on nature.While strolling about, she came upon a field of golden pumpkins. In the corner of the field stood a majestic, huge oak tree.



She sat under the oak tree musing on the strange twists in nature,which put tiny acorns on huge branches and huge pumpkins on tiny vines. She thought to herself, "God blundered with Creation! He should have put the small acorns on the tiny vines and the large pumpkins on the huge branches."



Nodding off, the woman stretched out under the oak tree for a nap.A few minutes after falling asleep, a tiny acorn bouncing off her nose awakened her. Chuckling to herself, she rubbed her nose and thought, "Maybe God was right after all!"



Things should not always be as we want it to be..



God knows better!



"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. - Isaiah 55:8

Honor and majesty are before Him;Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary." Psalm 96:6



He is worthy to be praised, Not because what He can do but because of who He is.

Look up to him. Don't look the circunstances around you.

Sometimes feels like we r in the middle of the storm. Around is everything turning down, the wind blowing so strong that you can't see a thing. In the eye of it is perfectly callm, no sound.....but you can see the hurrycane or twister rotating around you, but it can't touch you in the middle.

You are protected. Maybe the storm has a reason to come over you, maybe it doesn't, what is matter is that if God let it happened it is that He has a reason...to teach us, to makes us grow, to give us a direction, I don't know, but one thing that I know is....if He, the God Almighty has a reason, so there is no problem, cause He knows what is good or not for us. He is our Aba Father, our Everything and He loves us...