Helpless Love

Posted on August 4, 2012 by admin

Helpless Love
Once upon a time all feelings and emotions went to a coastal island for a vacation. According to their nature, each was having a good time. Suddenly, a warning of an impending storm was announced and everyone was advised to evacuate the island.

The announcement caused sudden panic. All rushed to their boats. Even damaged boats were quickly repaired and commissioned for duty.

Yet, Love did not wish to flee quickly. There was much to do, Love wanted to make sure everyone was helped before leaving. But as the clouds darkened, Love realised it was time to leave. Alas, there were no boats to spare. Love looked around without success.

Just then Prosperity passed by in a luxurious boat. Love shouted, “Prosperity, could you please take me in your boat?”

“No,” replied Prosperity. “My boat is full of precious possessions, gold and silver. There is no place for you.”

A little later Vanity came by in a beautiful boat. Again Love shouted, “Could you help me, Vanity? I am stranded and need a lift. Please take me with you.”

Vanity responded haughtily, “No, I cannot take you with me. My boat will get soiled with your muddy feet.” Continue reading →

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Chip’s Cholesterol Story

Posted on August 4, 2012 by admin

Chip

If Chip can do it so can you!


I have always been an active person. As far back as I can remember, I ran around the neighborhood, climbed trees, biked, hiked…anything to use all the energy I had. Sports in grade school turned into cross-country in high school, which pushed me to being a gym rat in college, which then formed my love to run 5 and 10k’s every other weekend. As far as diets go, I ate for fuel and leanness. I ate what I perceived as a healthy diet. I was a well-oiled machine, consuming the same meals day-in, day-out for years: cereal in the morning, peanut butter and banana on whole wheat bread for lunch, and salad and lean meats for dinner along with a few whey protein shakes (with milk) throughout the day. I was getting my nutrients and burning calories. I considered myself to be healthy. I could push through hard workouts and extreme temp road races, so I must have been completely healthy, right?

Wrong. While I had my body going in the direction I wanted, my heart was going the opposite way. The past four years of physicals had revealed my heart health (lipids, cholesterol) to be heading down a dark path. I was in the 200’s in my 20s; could that be right? Each year told the same story, and it was getting worse. While the 210 cholesterol count stayed the same, my LDL (bad cholesterol) was rising and my HDL (good cholesterol) was way below normal…half of what is recommended. I wasn’t completely surprised; both my dad and grandfather have high cholesterol. I assumed I was genetically destined to have high cholesterol too and that I was doing the best I could. My physician pushed harder each year to take the pharmaceutical approach, but I turned them down each time. I hate the idea of taking pills. I always told them the same thing about how I felt human body is amazing and already has all the tools needed to last a lifetime. Continue reading →

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What Would You Like Them To Say?

Posted on August 4, 2012 by admin

Funeral

What would you have your loved ones say at your funeral?


Three friends die in a car accident and they go to an orientation in heaven. They are all asked, “When you are in your casket and friends and family are talking about you, what would you like them to say?

The first guy says,”I would like to hear them say that I was a great doctor of my time, and a great family man.”

The second guy says, “I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and school teacher which made a huge difference in our children of tomorrow.”

The last guy replies, “I would like to hear them say … Look, He’s Moving!

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Miracle In Aurora?

Posted on July 28, 2012 by admin

On the night of July 19th 2012, in the city of Aurora, a man walked into the midnight showing of Batman, and began shooting. That night 12 people lost their lives and many more were injured. Amongst the injured is Petra Anderson with a truly remarkable story. Somehow her story has become buried in the mass of details emanating from this incident. Four shots hit her and one went through her brain. Yet the bullet through her skull caused minimal damage. How is that?

Unkown even to Petra Anderson she had a birth defect that created a small tube like cavity in her brain. This cavity was filled with fluids and was free from brain tissue. Miraculously, when she was shot, the bullet smashed through her skull and entered her brain at the same exact spot where this defect was. The bullet was able to pass through this channel of fluid and go from one end of the brain to another without hitting any tissue or any blood vessel. Her neorosurgeon had this to say:

“It would be hard to create a path similar to this where it goes all the way from the front to the back and misses every single blood vessel, doesn’t bother any of the major structures, and leaves her able to talk and move everything and not be paralyzed or dead. Never in my entire career have I seen a case where a bullet has traversed the entire brain like this and not caused severe damage or death.”

Related links:
Petra Anderson story on NBC
Ways to donate money to victims of shooting
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Footsteps

Posted on July 28, 2012 by admin

FootstepsDeep in his slumber, one night a man had a very real, yet surreal dream. He dreamt that he was walking along the beach with God. As he looked up at the sky, he saw all the scenes of his life flash by along with two sets of footprints: one set for himself, and another for God.

After all the scenes had flashed before him, he looked back at those footprints and noticed something quite disturbing: At the most difficult times in his life, he saw only one set of footprints.

This deeply troubled the man, so he turned and said to God: “You said that if I had faith in you, then you would always walk with me through thick and thin. In looking back, I see that during the most painful times there is only one set of footprints. Why did you leave me when I needed you the most?”

“I love you my son, and would never leave you. It was during those times when you suffered the most that I carried you!”

Too often when we make ourselves the center of our lives, the drama around us intensifies. It appears to us, in such moments, that the Divine has abandoned us. The truth is that that it is the gentle coaxing of Divine energy that carries us through such times. When we get too engrossed in our egos we abandon the Divine, yet the grace of Divine energy never leaves us and is always there for us to access and return to its fold.

“He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.” -Albert Schweitzer

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