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A dog was so faithful that the woman could leave her baby with it and go out to attend other matters. She always returned to find the child soundly asleep with the dog faithfully watching over him. One day something tragic happened.

The woman as usual, left the baby in the “hands” of this faithful dog and went out shopping. When she returned, she discovered rather a nasty scene, there was a total mess. The baby’s cot was dismantled, his nappies and clothes torn to shreds with blood stains all over the bedroom where she left the child and the dog. Shocked, the woman wailed as she began looking for the baby.

All of a sudden, she saw the faithful dog emerging from under the bed. It was covered with blood and licking it’s mouth as if it had just finished a delicious meal.

The woman got angry and assumed that the dog had devoured her baby. Without much thought she beat the dog with a wood to death. But as she continued searching for the”remains” of her child, she beheld another scene.

Close to the bed was the baby who, although lying bare floor, was safe and under the bed where the body of a snake was torn to pieces in what had been a fierce battle between the snake and the dog which was now dead. Then reality dawned on the woman who now began to understand what took place in her absence. The dog fought to protect the baby from the ravenous snake.

It was too late for her now to make amends because, in her impatience and anger, she had killed the faithful dog. How often have we misjudged people and torn them to shreds with harsh words and deeds before we have had time to evaluate the situation?

This is called SIN OF PRESUMPTION Presuming things our way without taking the trouble to find out exactly what the situation really is. Little patience can drastically reduce major lifelong mistakes. Who Are You misjudging right now?. Don’t think what you think others are thinking. Take time to get the whole truth.

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Faith is the substance of the things that you hope for.There are some things in your spirit that will not leave, they basically hunt you. They are things that are in your spirit that are waiting to be manifested in your life.  Some things that are for you, someone else maybe holding on to at this very moment BUT it is yours & it will come  to you when the time is right.

So instead of using your Faith on things that you do not want use it to manifest what you do want. When God speaks to your heart and imparts a dream to you for your life, you will deal with obstacles that have never been a problem to you before. And when all of this begins to happen, we must remember  ”For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.” -Hebrews 10:36.

Patience is the ability to remain steadfast, to continue pressing in and pressing on with a calm assurance and a bold confidence, regardless of the adversity or the length of time that has transpired, knowing that what God has said will surely come to pass.

It is absolutely essential that you have patience in order to receive a promise of God. You will never fulfill the will of God for your life without patience.

Faith and patience are the actual instruments through which the promises of God are received for our lives.

We can have the entire bible memorized but if we regard it only as a story it is no good to us except, as good reading. Faith in the Word of God is life and health.

Let us read the Word of God daily, which will renew our minds and build our faith in all the wonderful promises that our most loving Father, God has for us

Ye shall have EVERYTHING that GOD created for YOU to have….. Receive it, Believe it & Achieve it

So I was watching the Braves play the Nationals last night and kept thinking to myself “Its MY Season”  The things and people that GOD has allowed to cross my path in 2013 I know it can’t be no one but GOD making it ALL Come together.

However be encouraged, you will reap if you continue to do good things. Consistency always pays off. God says we are to be bless so we can be a blessing. So God will always supply you financially, emotionally, and physically so you can continue to be a blessing.

God will bless you with the time and the wisdom to help others. So don’t grow weary in well doing, reap your blessings in doing well, your season is due.

Galatians 6:9-10 (NKJV) “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we don not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith”.

Yoga calms the mind, strengthens the body, and gives you amazing, strong arms! Say good-bye to dumbbells or heavy machinery and welcome in the power of your own body and the ability to hold it up! The yoga practice creates long, lean muscles without adding bulk by teaching you how to control and lift your own body weight. I’ve picked out three of my favorite postures to help you build awareness and strength in your upper body. These postures can be held from a few breaths to a minute. Start slow and build your way up. Remember, there is no rush and the key to a long, successful relationship with your strength is being honest with where you are with it. Some days you’ll feel like a rock star and other days, more like a rock. Either way, you can still practice–just don’t be afraid to adjust.

1) Forearm Plank

• Begin on all fours with your forearms parallel to one another and shoulder-width apart on the floor.

• Curl your toes under and step both feet back until your legs are straight and hip-width apart.

• Stack your shoulders directly over your elbows. Your shoulders, hips, and heels should all be in one straight line.

2) Dolphin Pose

• Begin on all fours. Place your forearms on the mat, shoulder-width apart.

• Curl your toes under and lift your hips up.

• Straighten your legs and walk as far as you can toward your hands, keeping your shoulders directly over your elbows.

• Relax your neck and gaze just slightly forward.

3) Plank + Side Plank

Plank

Kathryn Budig is the creator of Aim True Yoga and co-founder of Poses for Paws. She has been featured in Yoga Journal, Women’s Health, The New York Times, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of the Women’s Health Big Book of Yoga. She teaches regularly online at Yogaglo.com.

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For much  of the last forty years, ever since America  ”fixed” its race
problem in the Civil Rights and  Voting Rights Acts, we white people have been
impatient with African Americans who continued  to blame race for their
difficulties. Often we  have heard whites ask, “When are African  Americans
finally going to get over it?

Now I  want to ask:

“When are  we White Americans going to get over our  ridiculous obsession
with skin color?

Recent  reports that “Election Spurs Hundreds’ of Race  Threats, Crimes”
should frighten and infuriate  every one of us. Having grown up in
“Bombingham,” Alabama in the 1960s, I remember  overhearing an avalanche of comments
about what  many white classmates and their parents wanted  to do to John and
Bobby Kennedy and Martin  Luther King.

Eventually,  as you may recall, in all three cases, someone  decided to do
more than “talk the  talk.”

Since our  recent presidential election, to our eternal  shame we are once
again hearing the same  reprehensible talk I remember from my boyhood.

We white  people have controlled political life in the  disunited colonies
and United States for some  400 years on this continent.

Conservative whites  have been in power 28 of the last 40 years. Even
during the eight Clinton years, conservatives in  Congress blocked most of his
agenda and pulled  him to the right. Yet never in that period did I  read any
headlines suggesting that anyone was  calling for the assassinations of
presidents  Nixon, Ford, Reagan, or either of the Bushes.  Criticize them, yes.

Call for  their impeachment, perhaps. But there were no  bounties on their
heads. And even when someone  did try to kill Ronald Reagan, the perpetrator
was non-political mental case who wanted merely  to impress Jody Foster.

But elect  a liberal who happens to be Black  and we’re back in the sixties
again. At this  point in our history, we should be proud that  we’ve proven
what conservatives are always  saying — that in America anything is
possible,  EVEN electing a black man as president.

But  instead we now hear that school children from  Maine to California are
talking about wanting to  ”assassinate Obama.”

Fighting  the urge to throw up, I can only ask,  ”How long?”

How long  before we white people realize we can’t make our  nation, much
less the whole world, look like us?

How long  until we white people can - once and for all -  get over this
hell-conceived preoccupation with  skin color?

How long  until we white people get over the demonic  conviction that white
skin makes us superior?

How long  before we white people get over our bitter  resentments about
being demoted to the status of  equality with non-whites?

How long  before we get over our expectations that we  should be at the
head of the line merely because  of our white skin?

How long  until we white people end our silence and call  out our peers
when they share the latest racist  jokes in the privacy of our white-only
conversations?

I believe  in free speech, but how long until we white  people start making
racist loudmouths as  socially uncomfortable as we do flag burners?

How long  until we white people will stop insisting that  blacks exercise
personal responsibility, build  strong families, educate themselves enough to
edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard  enough to become President of
the United States,  only to threaten to assassinate them when they  do?

How long  before we start “living out the true meaning” of  our creeds,
both civil and religious, that all  men and women are created equal and that
“red and yellow, black and  white” all are precious in God’s sight?

Until this  past November 4, I didn’t believe this  country would ever
elect an African American to  the presidency. I still don’t believe I’ll live
long enough to see us white people get over our  racism problem.

But here’s  my three-point  plan:

First, everyday  that Barack Obama lives in the White  House that Black
Slaves Built, I’m going to  pray that God (and the Secret Service)  will
protect him and his family from us white  people.

Second, I’m  going to report to the FBI any  white person I overhear
saying, in  seriousness or in jest, anything of a  threatening nature about
President Obama.

Third, I’m  going to pray to live long enough to see America  surprise the
world once again, when white people  can “in spirit and  in truth” sing of
our damnable  color  prejudice,

“We  HAVE  overcome.”
It takes a  Village to protect our  President!!!

By: Andrew M.  Manis: When Are WE Going to Get Over It?
Andrew M.  Manis is associate professor of history at Macon  State College
in Georgia and wrote this for an  editorial in the Macon Telegraph.

Andrew M.  Manis: When Are WE Going to Get Over It?

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I am too BLESSED to be stressed & too ANOINTED to be disappointed.

Winners MAKE Things Happen-

Losers LET Things Happen

22.03.12 Treyvon Martin

I would like to extend my very deepest sympathies to the family and other loved ones of murdered teenager, Treyvon Martin. I am very sad today (and am certain the whole of Ireland is) to learn of poor Treyvon’s terrifying ordeal and horrified by the fact his known and named and admitted killer has not been arrested, despite the crime having taken place a month ago. This is a disgrace to the entire human race.

For those out there who believe black people to be less than pure royalty, let me inform you of a little known, but scientifically proven, many times over, FACT. Which after reading, you will hopefully feel both very stupid and very sorry. For you dishonor your own mothers and grandmothers.

EVERY human being on earth, no matter what their culture, creed, skin colour, or nationality, shares one gene traceable back to one African woman. Scientists have named it ‘The Eve Gene’. This means ALL of us, even ridiculously stupid, ignorant, perverted, blaspheming racists are the descendants of one African woman.

One African woman is the mother of all of us. Africa was the first world. You come from there! Your skin may be ‘white’.. because you didn’t need it to be black any more where you lived. But as Curtis Mayfield said.. “You’re just the surface of our dark, deep well”. So you’re being morons. And God is having the last laugh at your ignorant expense.

If you hate black people, its yourself you hate. And the mother who bore you. If you kill or wish ill on black people, its yourself you kill and wish ill on. As well as the mother who bore you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it. Despite seeing every day, all your life, how you and your country would be less than wonderfully functioning and inspiring to the world, without the manifold and glorious contributions made by the descendants of African slaves, who did not by the way actually ask to go to America and leave their future families there to be disrespected for eternity.

What are you doing hating yourself by hating your brothers and sisters who daily show you nothing but inspiration and love, despite having NOTHING, in their own country? Despite having barely a chance of anything, because of racism. Despite being granted no ‘permission’ for proper self-esteem.

These beautiful people continue to believe in and even manifest Jesus Christ better than you do. That alone could stand as the greatest reason your racism is blasphemy, were it not for all the other reasons.

These people you hate and fear ARE the body of Christ, just as we all are. Every child, woman or man. And they know it. Maybe thats why you cant bear to look at them. Because you see Jesus Christ and you cant stand the light.

Stop this ridiculous and uneducated attitude. You would be dead without black people. Think of all the greatest music ever composed. The greatest songs. The greatest inspirational heroes.. Muhammad Ali, Mandela, Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, Soujourner Truth, Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Curtis Mayfield. So many absolute angels, sent from God.

Without the inspiration of these people many millions of so-called ‘white’ people, including myself would not have had the strength to pay the price of life.

And black youth in America. I’m talking to you here too. I love you. So I don’t mean to sound cross, I’m just being a mother.. Why are you killing each other? Why are you hating yourselves? You are the most important people God ever sent to this earth, every man, woman and child among you! Don’t let uneducated people win and take your self-esteem or your esteem for each other, and make you kill each other. over guns, drugs, bling, or any other nonsense.

You are now entering YOUR version of a sort of civil rights movement and you’re gonna see history being made in what has certainly the profoundest potential to become THE most wonderful country on earth. Because soon ALL ‘isms’ and ‘sits” will end. including racism, as the people of the earth begin to understand, we are all one.

We came from one mother. We are all brothers and sisters. And we CAN get beyond this ILLUSION of separateness. With prayer and love. It CAN change. It WILL change. And YOU guys (young people of all kinds) are the ones who are gonna GENTLY change it. And you know where it starts? With MUSIC.

Don’t be guided by rap. Gangsta or otherwise. Sure.. enjoy it.. adore it.as I do.. but realize this.. rap ain’t about your civil or spiritual rights, baby boys and girls. It.. along with most music nowadays.. is about falsenesses and vanities. Bling, drugs, sex, guns and people-dissing. Its giving you the message you ain’t ‘good enough’ if you don’t have bling and ting.. and money. Or if you’re not what it deems ‘sexy’.

(This is true of all popular music not rap alone. I know. Its tragically true of all popular youth culture the world over).

Poor Curtis Mayfield must be crying all day and night ALL day and night in heaven, every day and night.. To see what has been so successfully achieved by those who sent guns, drugs, and bling to squash the civil rights movement. Now you all don’t have to be murdered by racists any more.. you’re murdering each other FOR them! And your parents and grandparents are left crying.

Go back to strong black musical guides who left you information in the 60s and 70s. when they were living through the civil rights struggle. Curtis Mayfield. The Impressions. Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson. Sing back the Holy Spirit ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, as those artists did.

Forget bling. Forget “Get Rich Or Die Trying”. That is an evil message. Evil my dears is only life backwards. Turn it the right way up. With music. The messages American black youth are being given through music are not about the spiritual and therefore strong and conquering but PEACEFUL making of YOUR country into the wonderful place it secretly is and can be.. BECAUSE OF YOU, and BY YOU!!

You know not how you are adored, appreciated, valued, loved, cried for,smiled for, prayed for, all over the world. You know not how much inspiration and uplift-ment of heart you give to millions just by your presence on earth.

These musical guides will give you self-esteem. When you have self-esteem you can achieve anything. You can stand in the street as many did yesterday and change your country peacefully and with song. Chant down Babylon as the Rastas say. Rastafari will also give you self esteem. Investigate it.

You will notice, my beautiful sons and daughters, when you study, as you must, footage of all civil rights gatherings, how singing and music and sound and voice and the Holy Spirit were all employed and were so much part of the energy which moved things along.. just as running was in the South African gatherings I saw on tv in my own childhood, which inspired me to survive my own horrors.

What you listen to musically and whether or not you employ the Holy Spirit’s highest will for your life is whats gonna make you transcend all you’re having to suffer (the worst of which is low self-esteem.. or esteem based upon material ‘success’ or ‘sexiness’)) as a result of being the descendants of people who didn’t ask to be stolen and leave you where you are. Delete bling. Get conscious with your music. Demand conscious music from your artists. Go back to the artists who left you proper guidance.

This is some serious stuff and we (all manner of musical artists) are too silent on matters of enormous spiritual importance. Lemme ask you.. Jayzee and Eminem et al. Why was it always the black people only worked in the post rooms of record companies, which was always in the basement? Why was it that as each floor went up the skins got paler till it was fuckin ghosts at the top? And all us artists.. even me.. said nothing? Those buildings (record companies) always struck me as being a microcosm or painting of America, racially speaking. Christ almighty.. if its like that in the music business how is anything ever going to change?

We, musical artists are too silent on important stuff. And it is our job to be the gate-keepers of truth. ALL the people of this earth must come together eventually and see that we are one. ALL artists must stand up. Black, white, yellow, green, pink, fucking polka dot.. and be a light in these times.

The world is going to shift massively this year.. spiritually speaking. Musical artists are to be a massive part of that shift. Get up, lets all of us. And light Jah fire.. and BE lights.

Where’s the fire gone from music? Where is the love? the oneness? The knowing that music CAN and WILL move things in the right spiritual direction without hatred or violence? We must box clever. Sing the devil to sleep at your feet. Thats what Curtis teaches. He is the master of ALL musical masters. forget, forget, forget and forget again bling and guns and drugs and the worship of fame and money. Its time to wake up. We KNOW the power of music. Why aren’t we using it to change anything important?

Musicians all over the world should now gently demand this child’s killer be arrested immediately and the family of Treyvon Martin be immediately apologized to upon bended knee. Frankly. I myself would like an apology! America is a country I love and adore. what this man has done is un-American in the most horrific extreme.

Him not being arrested is extremely embarrassing and does absolutely NOT paint the true picture of of a country and a people who for the 90% majority are the kindest, most loving, intelligent, and wonderful people you could know.

Please.. ALL Americans should deplore this crime. As should ALL people of ALL nations. And deplore the fact this man has not been arrested. All Irish people should do the same. And I ask that we here in Ireland should express through our American embassy that we would like to see this man arrested this very minute. Because racism is not acceptable. Nor is vigilantism. And this was very clearly in no way at all a case of self-defense.

I leave you with some lyrics of Curtis Mayfield’s which I feel are appropriate for this situation. I am certain Curtis would have wanted to contribute to discussion on the issue of Treyvon’s murder and the condition of young black people in America today.. so here goes.. the song is called This Is My Country.. from the album of the same name.

Some people think we don’t have the right to say its my country before they give in they’d rather fuss and fight than say its my country I’ve paid three hundred years or more of slave-driving sweat and welts on my back This is my country

Too many have died in protecting my pride for me to go second class We’ve survived a hard blow and I want you to know that you must face us at last And I know you will give consideration shall we perish unjust or live equal as a nation?

This is my country.

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