Do you need Me?
I am there.
You cannot see Me, yet I am the light you see by.
You cannot hear Me, yet I speak through your voice.
You cannot feel Me, yet I am the power at work in your hands.
I am at work, though you do not understand My ways.
I am at work, though you do not understand My works.
I am not strange visions. I am not mysteries.
Only in absolute stillness, beyond self, can you know Me
as I am, and then but as a feeling and a faith.
Yet I am there. Yet I hear. Yet I answer.
When you need Me, I am there.
Even if you deny Me, I am there.
Even when you feel most alone, I am there.
Even in your fears, I am there.
Even in your pain, I am there.
I am there when you pray and when you do not pray.
I am in you, and you are in Me.
Only in your mind can you feel separate from Me, for
only in your mind are the mists of "yours" and "mine."
Yet only with your mind can you know Me and experience Me.
Empty your heart of empty fears.
When you get yourself out of the way, I am there.
You can of yourself do nothing, but I can do all.
And I am in all.
Though you may not see the good, good is there, for
I am there. I am there because I have to be, because I am.
Only in Me does the world have meaning;
only out of Me does the world take form;
only because of Me does the world go forward.
I am the law on which the movement of the stars
and the growth of living cells are founded.
I am the love that is the law's fulfilling.
I am assurance.
I am peace.
I am oneness.
I am the law that you can live by.
I am the love that you can cling to.
I am your assurance.
I am your peace.
I am ONE with you.
I am.
Though you fail to find Me, I do not fail you.
Though your faith in Me is unsure,
My faith in you never wavers,
because I know you, because I love you.
Beloved, I AM there.
i am there - james dillet freeman - 1947
--- On Sun, 4/1/09, Edie Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Edie Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Funny ones for Haruna
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, 4 January, 2009, 5:28 PM
"HOBBES:Do you think there's a God?
CALVIN:Well, somebody's out to get me!"
— Bill Watterson
"I talk to God but the sky is empty."
— Sylvia Plath
"God is silent. Now if only man would shut up."
"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."
— John Henry Newman
"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk
"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."
— Stephen King
"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
— C.S. Lewis
"I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything."
"Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty."
— Carl Hiaasen (Strip Tease)
"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa
"The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help."
— Jeanette Winterson (Sexing the Cherry)
"Are you looking for me?
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you will not find me in the stupas,
not in Indian shrine rooms,
nor in synagogues,
nor in cathedrals:
not in masses,
nor kirtans,
not in legs winding around your own neck,
nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me,
you will see me instantly —
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath."
— Kabir
--- On Sun, 4/1/09, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Love without condition
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, 4 January, 2009, 1:13 AM
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Educational Mams. Thanx for sharing. I resolve to give indiscriminate love and to receive chance love.
Haruna.
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 16:58:51 +0000
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Love without condition
To: [log in to unmask]
I give love not expecting any return... knowing that what I give out will be returned to me a thousandfold. I focus my energy on love... and not on the lack of love!
NEVER regret giving love to someone
I continue on the theme of my post yesterday which seemed to ring bells with so many of us.
Why can our world fall upside down when someone to whom we have given so much love and support, simply does not return the love and support to us?
When we give love with condition we are going to experience the painful side of love... when the person we give the love to does not respond in the way we would like them to or is simply not able to reciprocate.
But when we give love without condition... unconditional love or pure love.. we are not after a return or an expectation that we will get the favour returned.
On the contrary, it is a fact of life that many people to whom we give love will not serve our emotional needs. But do not regret giving that love. It makes a big difference whether we learn this or not.
Here\'s the secret. By giving the love we are expressing the love that is within us... our essence... and by putting that loving energy out there we are going to get love back although it is very possible it won\'t be from the people we give it to.
If we are fixated on getting a return from the person or persons we have given the love to then we might not only be disappointed but we might also miss or not appreciate the love that is being given to us by another or others.
But if we are open to giving love and receiving love we might be surprised just how much love is returned to us from all sorts of directions, some of which we might not have expected.
This is how the universe works. What we give, we receive a thousand fold.
Every thought we think, every act we do is creating our reality... our future, in fact.
So every moment we give out love we are creating a loving future for ourselves.
But we need to be aware that we might be wasting our energy on the person who is not reciprocating, the person who does not wish to get close to us, the person who does not want to be our friend.
Far better to take the advice of Mother Teresa and love that person anyway... realising what is going on for them is all about them and was never about us. It is their path to reject the love and support we give them...Allow them the freedom to make their own choice and if they are meant to come back to us then they will. If not, then it is not meant. But it doesn\'t take anything away from you. More a statement about their own lack of good judgement, I would suspect.
Instead of focussing all our energy on the hurt and disappointment because this person is not meeting up to our expectations of them, better to focus energy on those people who do not reject our love, who do wish to get close to us and do want to be our friends.
Why focus all our energy on the door that has closed rather than divert it to the door that has just opened?
Why wait for the phone to ring, the text message to be returned.. when we could be making a phone call or texting someone who will respond, will treat us in the way we want to be treated.
And it does go back to what has been stated earlier... it is all about the other person. Allow others freedom and resist the urge to control them. If they are meant to be your friend, your romantic partner or whatever then they will come back to you. If not, allow them the choice to make a seemingly unwise decision. It is their path and it takes nothing away from you.
You are a loving, kind and wonderful person and just because another person cannot see it or appreciate it takes nothing... takes nothing at all... away from you.
So dear and special friend... realise just how magnificent you are.. give love without condition... be pure love.. and realise that the love you give out will be returned to you a thousand fold. There is no other way.
By good friend Nick
--- On Thu, 1/1/09, Edie Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Edie Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [>-<] HAPPY 2009
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, 1 January, 2009, 10:10 PM
I put on my lens of love, I see myself others and the world, through the eyes of love. It matters not that others might not do this, it only matters that I do my best to be the love that I wish so much to see in the world. I therefore wish for a world peace and understanding between nations, I also wish Africa will someday be liberated from war and all those deterrence to success ward success sickness poverty, hunger etc. I also pray for peace in the middle east between the Palestinian and Israelis. Edi
Nick Ralls wrote;
ON this first day of 2009 may we see ourselves, others, our community and the world at large through the LENS OF LOVE
When we wear our rose colored spectacles, doesn't life become more bearable, more meaningful and more purposeful?
This does not mean that we should ignore the suffering, the poverty and the warfare that still goes on in the world.. On the contrary we turn our LENS of LOVE to those people, praying that they might be given some freedom in their lives and visualizing white healing light engulfing those trouble spots. If we can do something practical our loving hearts will guide us to do this... if we are not in a position to take direct action then our prayers, our attention to heal also benefits.
But in our own lives the LENS OF LOVE will show up the good within people when so often it is so easy to see the bad, to focus on the bad and react to the bad.
Let us try to elevate those around us.. to help them become more loving...to help them live the best vision they might have of themselves even if they are stuck or afraid to change.
How do we elevate people? Through being gentle with them, through being kind to them and being there for them! That is all.
People don't need or want you to interfere in their lives... they have been controlled enough already!
What they seek from you is your healing presence, to show them you care, to give them your attention and to allow them to know it is always safe to come to you because you will listen to them without judgment or impatience.
They say that when we listen we often take in only 25 to 50 per cent of what is said.
Let us resolve to really hear people... hear their wishes... hear their aspirations... hear their fears...
To do this we need to be really present, living in the moment rather than allowing our mind to drift off in another direction trying to sort out some other concern.
So when we connect with people, let us try to give the other person 100 per cent of our loving attention... and in doing this we might encourage others to do the same for us.
So dear and special friend... on this first day of 2009 I wish for you to put on your lens of love to focus more on the love you wish to see in the world by being that love but most of all, to pour love onto yourself like never before. There is nothing wrong with us. We are doing the best we can so let us continue with this throughout the year and surely the reward will worthy for the good of human nature.¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html
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