Saturday, January 28, 2012

Show Me How To Love

Dear Heavenly Father..
Please show me how to love..

Teach me how to love, for I obviously do not know how..
Teach me how to expand my light into the life of another
Remove the barriers to my soul, the walls which  stand in front of my heart,
my commitment to loneliness, my resistances to joining..
I do not seek love, dear LORD, for I know it is all around me

And I know You  love me for who I am
I seek instead the healing of my resistances to it, the strengthening of my spirit..
That I might learn to love, to love well, to love  fully, to love deeply.
When my true love calls, dear Lord....please keep my ears open..
Let me not shut down.
Let me not forsake him.
Let me always remember that his call to love him is my call to love You.
Thank You, LORD.. In the name of Yeshua..
Amen.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Never Take For Granted

When Someone Really Loves You, They Will Accept You For Who You Are With Your Flaws And All, And Will Still Want You In Their Life.
This Is Not To Say That They Won't Push You To Be A Better Person, And To Think Bigger, And Dream Bigger Than You Already Do, But They Will Never Disrespect You Or Want To Change The Person That You Are At Heart As Well. 
When Someone Is Able To Love You And Be There For You Despite How Moody You Can Get, How Hard You Are To Handle, And Seeing What A Mess You Can Be At Times, You Probably Should Hold On Tight To Them, Because In This Day And Age People That Love Other People At Their Worst Are Hard To Come By.
Though We All Have Flaws, And Some Of Us Are Probably Worse Than Others, We Must All Make An Effort To Be Easy To Be Loved.
Love Requires Us To Work At It, Not Only At The Relationship, But On Ourselves As Well.
Never Take For Granted Someone Who Is Willing To Stick Around While You Are Nowhere Near Reaching Your Potential In Life.
Have A Blessed Day..

Friday, January 20, 2012

New Love

This. Is. Brilliant. --> Old Love dies, you hurt, and  you go through it. Then...usually out of nowhere, New Love finds you. You weren't even looking. It. Found. You. 
And you're thinking HOW did you find me?! I had the best hiding spot in the whole house! 
Sometimes it's a new person, or maybe a new craft. Point is, you thought you couldn't see Love without your Old Love. But you find out the world moves on outside of it, and then all of a sudden you are fine. 
Sure, blindness, error, betrayals, tarnishing, weariness happen. Jaded happens. But the best ones..they come out kicking and fighting and believing.
I'm smiling now..

Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Perfect Days

You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening.
You don’t recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you’re right in the middle of it. 
The day you commit to something or someone. 
The day you get your heart broken. 
The day you meet your soul mate. 
The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. 
Those are the biggest days. 
The perfect days.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Idleness

Today is about dealing with idleness. Idleness is about not working or not in use, running without applying power, passing time aimlessly. Being idle happens between stages in your life. You can be in-between jobs, relationships, or dreams. You feel like you’re living to same day over and over like in Groundhog Day. It’s difficult to sit idle without going mad. It becomes incredibly difficult to keep your spirit up. 

So how do you deal with idleness in your life? Find a plan for the next stage. When there’s a lull in my schedule, I always keep busy by planning the next stage of my life. I’m always looking for future homes. I create business places for future business. I create a life plan for myself so I’m not drifting through life aimlessly. 

The best thing about idleness is that it gives you an opportunity to truly think about what you are & you are going without pressure. Some of the best ideas come when I’m not under duress, or some crazy timeframe. It’s hard to maintain and think creatively when you’re grindin’. Grindin’ is when you implementing your ideas, idleness is when you conceptualize them. 

So today: thank God for the idle times. It gives you a rare opportunity to think without pressure about what you really want in your life. 

O Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you for the idle times because they help me to organize my thoughts and dreams. Allow me to stay focused and mindful while on the path of righteousness. In the name of Yeshua Hamasiah. Amen.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Sunday, January 1, 2012

New Year in Winter? You decide..

 January (Janus) The Roman god..

JANUS is the Roman god of gates and doors (ianua), beginnings and endings, and hence represented with a double-faced head, each looking in opposite directions. He was worshipped at the beginning of the harvest time, planting, marriage, birth, and other types of beginnings, especially the beginnings of important events in a person's life. Janus also represents the transition between primitive life and civilization, between the countryside and the city, peace and war, and the growing-up of young people.

One tradition states that he came from Thessaly and that he was welcomed by Camese in Latium, where they shared a kingdom. They married and had several children, among which the river god Tiberinus (after whom the river Tiber is named). When his wife died, Janus became the sole ruler of Latium. He sheltered Saturn when he was fleeing from Jupiter. Janus, as the first king of Latium, brought the people a time of peace and welfare; the Golden Age. He introduced money, cultivation of the fields, and the laws. After his death he was deified and became the protector of Rome . When Romulus and his associates stole the Sabine Virgins, the Sabines attacked the city. The daughter of one of the guards on the Capitolian Hill betrayed her fellow countrymen and guided the enemy into the city. They attempted to climb the hill but Janus made a hot spring erupt from the ground, and the would-be attackers fled from the city. Ever since, the gates of his temple were kept open in times of war so the god would be ready to intervene when necessary. In times of peace the gates were closed.
His most famous sanctuary was a portal on the Forum Romanum through which the Roman legionaries went to war. He also had a temple on the Forum Olitorium, and in the first century another temple was built on the Forum of Nerva. This one had four portals, called Janus Quadrifons. When Rome became a republic, only one of the royal functions survived, namely that of rex sacrorum or rex sacrificulus. His priests regularly sacrificed to him. The month of January (the eleventh Roman month) is named after him (Janus).
Janus was represented with two faces, originally one face was bearded while the other was not (probably a symbol of the sun and the moon). Later both faces were bearded. In his right hand he holds a key. The double-faced head appears on many Roman coins, and around the 2nd century BCE even with four faces.

Winter - December, January, February
Spring - March, April, May
Summer - June, July, August
Autumn - September, October, November

Winter
During the winter months the current year ends and a new year starts. The days are shorter and often very cold. Sometimes the precipitation will fall as sleet and snow, and quite often we wake up in the morning to frost and ice on the floor. Winter is usually cold and wet, however it does differ in other parts of the world.

Now above Notice it states WINTER months ends the year and A new Year starts! The only problem with that is Dec.31st is New Year's Eve one of the winter months to end the year and Jan.1st is the New Year Day, a 2nd of one of the winter months to end the year. 
However why would we observe that month as the beginning when all things are practically dead? The answer is above the worship and rememberence of Janus who was honored and given a month to be named after him.

Spring
It's simple to know when spring is arriving. The sun rises in the earlier hours of the morning and sets later on in the afternoon. The days get slightly warmer. Spring Flowers start to appear, birds start building their nests and the farmers deliver new-born lambs. Weather in spring is very varied. Some days it may be cold enough to snow, and some days it is warm enough to play out in the garden. Spring months can also be awfully windy. Weather varies though in spring, worldwide.

Summer
Summer is something we usually all look forward to. The days become both warmer and longer, the sun shines, and the school holidays provide us plenty of time to go out and enjoy ourselves. Although sunny weather is very fun and we can spend more time outside, the sun's rays can harm our bodies. There are some things you need to do to protect yourselves. You shouldn't ever look straight at the sun because it will damage your eyes. Additionally, you have to protect your skin from the suns rays so that you don't get sunburned. Summer weather can vary, but if we are lucky, June, July and August will bring some warm sunny days.

Autumn
Autumn is a season filled with change. Days become shorter and, although it is often warm and sunny during the daytime, it can be cold at night. In Autumn, leaves fall off the trees and hedges. Additionally, Autumn can bring strong winds and a lot of rain.

Happy New Year! That greeting will be said and heard for at least the first couple of weeks as a new year gets under way. But the day celebrated as New Year's Day in modern America was not always January 1.

ANCIENT NEW YEARS
The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. In the years around 2000 BC, the Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible cresent) after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring).
The beginning of spring is a logical time to start a new year. After all, it is the season of rebirth, of planting new crops, and of blossoming. January 1, on the other hand, has NO astronomical NOR agricultural Significance. It is purely arbitrary.

The Babylonian new year celebration lasted for eleven days. Each day had its own particular mode of celebration, but it is safe to say that modern New Year's Eve festivities pale in comparison.
The Romans continued to observe the new year in late March, but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization with the Sun.
In order to set the calendar right, the Roman senate, in 153 BC, declared January (Janus) 1 to be the beginning of the new year. But tampering continued until Julius Caesar, in 46 BC, established what has come to be known as the Julian Calendar. It again established January 1 as the new year. But in order to synchronize the calendar with the sun, Caesar had to let the previous year drag on for 445 days.

THE CHURCH'S VIEW OF NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS
Although in the first centuries AD the Romans continued celebrating the new year, the early Catholic Church condemned the festivities as paganism. But as Christianity became more widespread, the early church began having its own religious observances concurrently with many of the pagan celebrations, and New Year's Day was no different. New Years is still observed as the Feast of Christ's Circumcision by some denominations.

During the Middle Ages, the Church remained opposed to celebrating New Years. January 1 has been celebrated as a holiday by Western nations for only about the past 400 years.

NEW YEAR TRADITIONS
Other traditions of the season include the making of New Year's resolutions. That tradition also dates back to the early Babylonians. Popular modern resolutions might include the promise to lose weight or quit smoking. The early Babylonian's most popular resolution was to return borrowed farm equipment.
The Tournament of Roses Parade dates back to 1886. In that year, members of the Valley Hunt Club decorated their carriages with flowers. It celebrated the ripening of the orange crop in California.
Although the Rose Bowl football game was first played as a part of the Tournament of Roses in 1902, it was replaced by Roman chariot races the following year. In 1916, the football game returned as the sports centerpiece of the festival.

The tradition of using a baby to signify the new year was begun in Greece around 600 BC. It was their tradition at that time to celebrate their god of wine, Dionysus, by parading a baby in a basket, representing the annual rebirth of that god as the spirit of fertility. Early Egyptians also used a baby as a symbol of rebirth.

Although the EARLY Christians denounced the practice as pagan, the  popularity of the baby as a symbol of rebirth forced the Church to reevaluate its position. The Church finally allowed its members to celebrate the new year with a baby, which was to symbolize the birth of the baby Jesus. This is how they mainly get a person if you need to sell it attach Jesus Name to it!
The use of an image of a baby with a New Years banner as a symbolic representation of the new year was brought to early America by the Germans. They had used the effigy since the fourteenth century.

FOR LUCK IN THE NEW YEAR
Traditionally, it was thought that one could affect the luck they would have throughout the coming year by what they did or ate on the first day of the year. For that reason, it has become common for folks to celebrate the first few minutes of a brand new year in the company of family and friends. Parties often last into the middle of the night after the ringing in of a new year. It was once believed that the first visitor on New Year's Day would bring either good luck or bad luck the rest of the year. It was particularly lucky if that visitor happened to be a tall dark-haired man.
Traditional New Year foods are also thought to bring luck. Many cultures believe that anything in the shape of a ring is good luck, because it symbolizes "coming full circle," completing a year's cycle. For that reason, the Dutch believe that eating donuts on New Year's Day will bring good fortune.

Many parts of the U.S. celebrate the new year by consuming black-eyed peas. These legumes are typically accompanied by either hog jowls or ham. Black-eyed peas  and other legumes have been considered good luck in many cultures. The hog, and thus its meat, is considered lucky because it symbolizes prosperity. Cabbage is another "good luck" vegetable that is consumed on New Year's Day by many. Cabbage leaves are also considered a sign of prosperity, being representative of paper currency. In some regions, rice is a lucky food that is eaten on New Year's Day.

TOASTING
One of the most venerable New Years traditions is the champaign toast at midnight to ring in the new year. Toasting can be traced back to the ancient Romans and Greeks who would pour wine, to be shared among those attending a religious function, from a common pitcher. The host would drink first, to assure his guests that the wine was not poisoned. Poisoning the wine was a fairly common practice in ancient times, designed to do away with one's enemies. In those days the wine was not as refined as it is today so a square of burned bread (toast) would be floated in the wine bowl and then eaten by the last person to drink. The bread was put there to absorb the extra acidity of the wine in order to make it more palatable. Eventually, the act of drinking in unison came to be called a toast, from the act of "toasting" or putting toast into the wine.

NOISEMAKERS AT MIDNIGHT: The idea of making deafening noise is to drive away the evil spirits who flocked to the living at this climactic season with a great wailing of horns and shouts and beating of drums. This is why at the stroke of midnight we hear the deafening cacophony of sirens, car horns, boat whistles, party horns, church bells, drums, pots and pans - anything that serves the purpose of producing a devil chasing din. NOW THEY SOUND OFF GUNS!
  

(Exo 34:14)For thou shalt worship NO OTHER god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
(Exo 34:15)Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

My Promise

Lord, You know my heart and all my desires, and the secret things I'll never tell.
Lord, You know them well..

Though I may be young, I see and understand that at times like sheep we go astray and things get out of hand..

Because I have seen the suffering that loneliness can cause
When we choose to give our love away without a righteous cause..

So I promise to be true to You, LORD..
To live my life in purity as unto You
Waiting for the day when I hear You say: Here is the one I have created just for you..

Until then, O Lord, I will be content
Knowing that true love will come someday
It will only come from You

So help me, LORD..