Acres of Diamonds

Either heartbreaking or heart warming story. 

A man owned a farm but got tired because of slow pace of success coming in, sold the farm and went around to the world to pursue his dreams....unfortunately he lost everything trying to make his dreams come true. 

Either you're patient and know how to persevere.  To wait and learn from an orchard that it takes a while to be rooted on the ground, that you grow in time, get strong and bear fruits. 

The man who bought the farm tilled it patiently, appreciated its stony nature even bringing with him in his altar those stones which he though was beautiful but clueless of its value and worth.  Until a Pastor came to their house saw, got struck and recognized the stone.  Asked where he got those stones, he proudly showed he got it from the farm he tilled.  Voila, they were diamonds  and De Beers Diamonds was born.

Sometimes what is given us or where we are is actually a gift that God willed for us but we are restless souls and we can't sometimes see the blessing of where we are.  When Abraham was left with the lesser productive land when Lot chose the river banks for his family and pasture, Abraham took it and did not despair for God has has promised that because of his faith he will be prospered more.   Lot suffered setbacks, he and his tribe were captured looted and became slaves but of course Abraham came and rescued them. 

The element of faith should sustain us even when we thought somewhere is a greener pasture .  Because what we have is a gift all we have to do is count our blessings, open our minds and hearts. In life there is always that wanting or longing that somewhere is a greener pasture waiting never realizing that where we are now is as rich as anywhere but then we can see only what we want to see. 

We are blinded by our desires for more, a symptom of our poverty mentality, of lack of, continuously TRYING. We do not seem to understand that we are already given what we need...precisely because we are restless souls...

We need to stop, calm down take stock and feel the blessings...absorb it in our system in our souls that our subconscious would know that we have gifts that we are abundant.  We have to be conscious of this to initiate a shift or a change. 

The state of our minds is the state of our environment We create our environment.. We create our lives because we depend on our own resources  (But should be by faith by God) What we think is the content of our minds, what we think is our thoughts, our thoughts become our words, our words become our actions and our actions define our lives. 

There you can say life or success is not a geography thing. 

We attract what is in our minds no matter where we are.  When we found a friendly place to live, made friends, and some job, then must it be that time where the the essence is to let things flow and  embrace these blessings.  We should  let these blessings grow in us deep in our souls and let them attract the same and not dissipate them with our wandering or uncontented hearts and minds. 

Weary of the blessings that comes or not ready to receive these blessings, we  kicked it out just as it has came in because our mind set is not ready.  Wonder why many lotto winners end up poorer after a little time? Why they squandered their wealth  so easily as it came.  Simple.  Poverty mind attracts the same so all the forces and  elements come in droves to reinforce it. We must learn to keep, hold sit on and protect the blessings for sometime to feel and absorb the energy to get the confidence that we are no longer in need but have enough.  To have an enough feeling translated to thoughts attracts one and the same abundance of blessings.  Good luck

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Ed Rame Ed Rame I believe this and somehow relieved....This can be confusing though if we make judgements and condemn others to sin of their omission like gay relationship and gay love or worse gay sex. Do the believers in Christ among the LGTB should have a ticket with this verse and equally with the many "straight" men and women who do extra marital or premarital sex? But I guess all is fair as long as each one does it for the sake of real love and not lust, permancence not permissiveness. I believe too that marriage is sacred and only for those who would like to start families and have kids together because raising a family is sacred undertaking. So sexual pleasure is not something that should be qualified as animal act because it is beautiful but a biological need that should be satisfied as humans??? Being gay is not a choice never a choice it is just what it is and has physiological needs on its own. Never that it is man made so I believe it is God's creation too. Judgement belongs to God alone, not on man's intrepretation of whatever verse and learning, to accept and respect this diversity not as a malady but as our own individual challenge. How i pity a gay boy or girl tortured by biblical verses against who he/she is. They should experience love on their own by all means and i will venture my own unclear unevolved personal opinion to go ahead experience love but keep your dignity and self respect and go with the partner who would entrust you his /her own sincere being. Not the from one bed to one another's bed existence for these is a bad symptom of someone who never never experienced love and acceptance in life. Tragic how our judgements can over come, destroy and misconstrue love, a gift from God used against His own believers. If we continue using the bible to accuse, judge and persecute anyone then we missed the real value, story, challenge and the inspiration the book is telling us. We can not let our limited minds interprete one as infinite as God, the enormity of the word love beyond our capacity to explain and contain, and the nuances of the writers' thoughts and situations or intentions during those times..Yet as we always say the Bible is timeless and timely. Let it's beauty unfold and see how wonderful it is by letting go of our fears and limitations and let the Infinite BE our own existence.

The Force is with us 2016

What really constitute success? Knowledge, wisdom, good timing, right time right place good connections, grit and endurance, patience, talent, experience, expertise, pure luck or great planning or all of the above. I believed all of the above are good tools in making an undertaking well undertaken. It helps brings out the best in whatever we do. But in life there are no guarantees as to make us success or failure. It's a fickle world filled with illusions or Ecc1.1 Vanity of Vanities. Looking at a perspective of magic, it gives a different take, a different way to look at life. Or from the eyes of a child Mat 19:14. The veils and walls in our eyes are tremendous handicaps. It makes it impossible to know what's beyond our mind's composition. Like our acquired education, experiences, values, our culture and the environment we have embraced Ecc1:16-17. Ecc1:18 Much wisdom is much sorrow and he who stores up knowledge, stores grief. Although I am not trying to be religious or leaning to any structure of belief, a lot of books pertaining to life would just be folly if we admit that through our own efforts we can create life or make it flow according to our will. It's just that there are tons of wisdom emanating from the bible to guide us or that can enlighten us. There is that greatest Will that kind of direct all these which seemed to be as coincidences that occurs quite wonderfully. We thought we did but we are just a part of the greater system that works for a greater good. Our unawareness stems from our own attachment to what we know, to our own knowledge and wisdom. These attributes are in themselves limiting if we have to use it to gauge life. As life, it is life and has its own life coming from Life and we are just witnesses. We are indeed made to enjoy life. But first let us empower ourselves by disempowering our minds. Let us have humility to recognize the great power that is in us. We are a part of the greater complex of an understanding that has come to be labeled according to different mind disciplines. It is the Universe, The Spirit, The God, The Allah. We have to face our own humanity, our own mortality that we are significant insignificants in the fulfillment of a great process occurring each moment. An opportunity to experience life as it is minus our own biases and fears. Minus our own worries and our stressed being. An opportunity to BE without trying to own the world. Less is more; less of ourselves, less of our ego, less of our pride. We are like a vessel that when so full of ourselves, the real thing can never possibly fill us up. We forever condemn ourselves to our own limitations that leads to our own frustrations of failed expectations. To empower ourselves, let us relinquish our worldly pride and personal belief that we can create a truly meaningful life. Mat6:33 would be a great guide. Only God can. He is in us. The Force is in us...We just have to silence our minds and let that The Force rule over us. We have to lay our down defenses for actually our own enemy is our limitations or fears to cross our set of beliefs. Open up the walls and let us get strength from our faith.. This is where we should put our grit and focus, our endurance and patience, our talents and awareness of the moment. Have the moment and enjoy it. It is the only thing that is real. Yesterday is gone tomorrow is nowhere but this very moment is where we are in convergence with the Force. Let's make 2016 a milestone, let us make this our success story to know that the Force is in us.

A lot of times I hear that we should have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I try to understand it as it maybe confusing for how can one mortal have a relationship with God. The relationship is not possible for we are unequal entities. But then as God gave Jesus Christ to be the way the truth and the light, I understood that it can start with obedience in the carry your cross and come and follow my way thing. It is a life leaning, surrendered and centered to Him. Stripping ourselves with our own will to His will is actually our only possible way to be in relationship with Him. It might seem mind boggling but the more we are entwined with our acts and thought on our own the farther we are from Him. God's ways are too way far from the way our thoughts are made especially the influences surrounding us. Isaiah 55:58 For my thoughts are nothing like your thoughts says the Lord.. And my ways are far beyond anything you can imagine For just the heavens are higher than the earth so my ways are higher that your ways and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts.... Love is the key as Jesus said that's is why to forgive is divine. With forgiveness we free ourselves from the entanglement with the negative energy or sin. So that loving one another is the only way for us to grow spiritually to access and achieve the truth and life. The worldly influences has actually veiled, warped, blocked, walled or separated us from achieving Mat 6:33 Seek yeah first the kingdom of God and all His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. Successful materially is not the center but a great deceiver. Jesus is the center. It can be possible though if it will be according to His will and in His time and it is a bliss. In fact it is just a bonus for his purpose and reason not according to ours for by then we work not for ourselves but for the Kingdom. Material success takes a different meaning. We then become a part a co creator with Him as we now have a living relationship with Him being now a real part of the vine as being the branches that bears those fruits that others will partake. Like Comment Share Jason Lee, Manman Legaspi, Thelma Calabio and 26 others like this. Comments Isidric M. Panganiban Isidric M. Panganiban Personal relationship with Jesus means: 1. Knowing Him (That Jesus died on the cross to pay for your sin, so that you don't have to) 2. Welcoming Him to come into your heart (Repentance: change direction; from walking away from Him to walking with Him ...See More Unlike · Reply · 5 · August 17 at 12:17am Aida P. Montajes replied · 1 Reply Bobby Fernandez Bobby Fernandez That is true Ed. Unlike · Reply · 1 · August 17 at 12:56am Matthew John Matthew John God's desire for love from us isn't primarily for His benefit, but for ours. One of His deepest desires is that we know His love, and somehow when we take action to love Him, it's then we discover just how much He loves us. God wants us to love Him, n...See More Unlike · Reply · 1 · August 17 at 1:15am Anna Puno Anna Puno Soooooo enlightening!!! Unlike · Reply · 1 · August 17 at 6:53am Ed Rame

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The 150 beads of the rosary represents the 150 chapters of the Book of Psalms. During that period, there are few among the n multitudes can read or have a copy of the bible. So instead the rosary was improvised to embody the thoughts of the Book of Psalms in each chapter to each bead. Charles D'Souza's photo.