Helping People grow!
One day a child playing with a valuable vase got his hand stuck in it and couldn’t get it out.
Before resorting to breaking the vase, his father said, “Son, relax, just open your hand and pull it out.” To their astonishment the little guy said, “I can’t. If I do I’ll drop my penny.” A lot of us are just like him, so busy holding onto something of little worth that we can’t accept what God offers! Let go! Let God show you the way! – Author Unknown.
Lost Keys:
This man had a hole in his jeans pocket. He was leaving church and all others had left earlier, it was late in the evening and it was dark.
After he had locked the church door he put the keys into the pocket with the hole in them, he had forgotten about the hole.
As he walked along in the dark he heard a “ching” sound as the keys hit the ground. By now he was close to a hedge. For the next fifteen minutes in the dark he searched for his keys. He couldn’t find them.
Then in frustration he rested on his knees and then remembered God. He thought of the verse, “Trust in the Lord with all thy Heart” and he closed his eyes and prayed a desperate prayer. He also wondered why he hadn’t prayed in the first place, and then he thought of other times when he should have prayed but he thought he could get by just as well on his own. After he finished his prayer he opened his eyes, and looked right in front of him and in the grass under the hedge was his keys shining in the moonlight. Gratefully he picked them up.
In his hurry to get home he put the keys in his pocket, and then gathered the things that he had put down to search for the keys, and then rushed to the car. What he heard next stopped him stunned in his tracks. “Ching”
Yes he had put his keys back into the same pocket that had the hole in it. In exasperation he put everything down and frantically searched for the keys again. After some minutes it hit him that he was making all the same mistakes over again. He had allowed himself to be lured into being too relaxed and had put the keys back into the pocket with the hole in it (Lesson not learned), and then he had lost control (Lesson not learned), allowed his mind to get fogged up (Lesson not learned) and he went back into a panic again (Lesson not learned).
On his knees once again, he prayed for a second time. And he opened his eyes to see the keys not far from where he was kneeling, shining in the moonlight in the grass ahead. This time he slowly got up thanking God as he went. He carefully picked up the keys (now that he saw the value of being patient and using self control) and he put the keys in the pocket without the hole and he made a mental note to get the hole in the other pocket mended.
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Then with the new trial and lesson firmly learned and in his head he picked up his things and walked calmly to the car and drove home, grateful that it was all over. Lessons learned, God thanked, a better life, and he was very grateful. Amen!
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
Oxygen is a natural way to calm yourself.
That is why it is important in childbirth. Some suggestions for opening the lungs when sick or a smoker, and for calming the soul:
Sit in a chair, with your back straight and your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor. Breathe in your nose deeply until it is nearly uncomfortable, and then exhale out your mouth in a long regular comfortable way.
When you breath fill your lungs and this practice will open the pores of your lungs, especially those clogged from smoking, colds etc.
By doing this for about 5 minutes a day you will expand your lungs and keep the pores for breathing open. Many people who lack exercise or smoke drugs and cigarettes have lungs that don’t open wide or are clogged and therefore cannot get enough oxygen and this leads to hyperventilation, shortness of breath and early anxiety as the body panics for wanting more regular oxygen etc. ○
Walk for 6 to 8 paces (what is comfortable for you) and while doing so intake a long slow inhaling of oxygen through the nose as comfortable as possible.
Then exhale for 6 to 8 paces out your mouth.
Many claim, as I do, that this can relax a person for a long-time, some say all day, some say half a day, but whatever it really does help.
For instance if you are going for a job interview a 10 minute walk like this (before the interview or on the way to the interview) breathing carefully inhaling and exhaling will help keep you calm for your interview. Keep this up and you will find it a wonderful helpful calming exercise. If you get to 8 paces and do it with speed it is very healthy for you as well.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
Friday, April 21, 2017 .
Hugs of Encouragement.
Lets see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out.
How many people will you hug today?
How many times will you share a smile, a kind word, or a pat on the back?
How many time stoday will you demonstrate – by your words and your actions – that you are a caring soul?
When you feel happy and secure, you may find it easy to share kind words and heartfelt hugs.
But when you are discouraged or tired it may seem difficult to encourage anyone (including yourself).
Anna Quindlen correctly observed, “Love is not leisure, it is work.”
So even in those days when the dog bites or the bee stings you should be quick to do the “work” required to give – and receive – love.
After all the world still needs all the hugs it can get … especially yours.
Love is a fruit in season and within the reach of every hand. – Mother Teresa.
– Hugs.
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The Importance of Having Hope
Hope is what motivates us and keeps us going through the hard times. We dream of something better than we presently have, pushing us further.
There is no person alive that isn’t filled with dreams, goals and ideals. These things are a part of life and human nature. We all have the inbred desire for a good life. Hope is vital to the life of every person. Without hope, there is nothing to plan or look forward to; therefore, no reason to live.
The definition of a dream is ‘hope’; an inspiration; an aim. Every human being dreams, the dreams differ greatly from person to person, some being small while others unrealistically large. Whatever the case is, it gives us something to look forward to, for example dreaming about becoming a rich executive helps us to focus on doing well at school to achieve this goal, so without these dreams our lives would be empty and pointless.
Dreams are what make us what we are. Everyone has a different dream and these dreams are what influence our whole lives. Without hope a person has no motivation. There would be no point in going to school or getting a job, since no one would hope of having a career or family. Hope is what motivates us and keeps us going through the hard times. We dream of something better than we presently have and it is a dream like having a successful job and a family, that motivate us to succeed in achieving our goals.
“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” Said Orison Swett Marden. Any person that has achieved something great had a dream first. A famous and obvious example is Martin Luther King who said, “I have a dream!” It was that dream that changed the way people thought and made them stop and think. If he did not dream he never would have stood up for what he believed in and never aimed to change things. This is exactly why we need dreams – to have hope and to aim to change our present situation for the better.
Dreams change as we get older and some are less important then others, but however trivial or small the dreams are, they are still important since it brings some sense into our lives, giving it some sort of purpose. Without these dreams our lives would be empty.
– Brandi Caskey. Life Coach.
June 04, 2011.
People who know not love have a pen and paper type of love, they don’t feel it so much (if at all), although they can act it out and do the things that project love because it gets them places in life and makes other people feel happy. Their love is of the mind and not their spiritual heart.
They can only pass on their limited unfruitful version of love.
They cannot give you love from the spiritual heart, they cannot care for you with genuine love, and they cannot have empathy or feel what is troubling you. They can learn of love from a book and that is as far as it goes because it does not sink into their souls, and that weak surface version of love is all that they can share, give and receive.
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Treu, honest, genuine love can only come from people who know Love, are love, care with love and are good, decent people.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
and our dreams for the future change with this loving
acceptance from that someone who believes in us unconditionally.
To be understood, accepted, loved and cared for. Ahh life.. 🙂
All the best from
An apology needs repentance first –
The turning over of a new leaf or otherwise said as a deep regret for what one has done in the past and a sad heart that will fix wrongs done. The obvious change of character will be a result of repentance and apologies. If the person continues to do wrong then there is clear, obvious evidence that there was no real regret, a lie was used to get back into your good books so that you can be taken advantage of all over again.
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Repentance, which literally means to turn, is the activity of reviewing one’s actions and feeling contrition or regret for past wrongs. It generally involves a commitment to personal change and the resolve to live a more responsible life. – Wikipedia.
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An apology without repentance is a lie.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
31 August 2016.
Feeling Unwell!
Feeling sick, being physically sick, can all be reactions to something else, something that your mind and body are trying to reject, adjust or change, that we may be trying to force upon ourselves because of pressures from others.
Learn to listen to your body, feel its reactions to the world, friends, family, sense your feelings, likes and dislikes, and then adjust your life accordingly.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
Friday, September 8, 2017 at 10:11pm UTC+12.
I’m an open book, but your pre assumptions about the things around you cloud your vision and doesn’t allow you to see me as I am, I am a victim of that too, the only difference is that I have accepted it and I’m using my knowledge to help me move forward and and I’m waiting for you to join me, so that together we can create a beautiful world.
– Philipose John.
September 6, 2012
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