Do Not Judge People

  Some people!' snorted a man standing behind me in the long line at the grocery store. You would think the manager would pay attention and open another line, said a woman. I looked to the front of the line to see what the hold up was and saw a well dressed, young woman, trying to get the machine to accept her credit card. No matter how many times she swiped it, the machine kept rejecting it. It's one of them welfare card things,damn people need to get a job like everyone else, said the man standing behind me.
  
 The young woman turned around to see who had made the comment It was me, he said, pointing to himself. The young lady's face began to change expression, almost in tears, she dropped the welfare card onto the counter and quickly walked out of the store with her hand covering her mouth. Everyone in the checkout line watched as she began running to her car. Never looking back, this heart broken woman got into her car and drove way. 

 Several minutes later a young man walked into the store. He went up to the cashier and asked if she had seen the woman. After describing her, the cashier told him that she had run out of the store, got into her
car, and drove away.'Why would she do that?' asked the man. Everyone in the line looked around at the fellow who had made the statement. I made a stupid comment about the welfare card she was using. Something I shouldn't
have said, I'm sorry,' said the man. Well, that's bad, real bad, in fact, her brother was killed in Afghanistan two years ago. He had three young children and she has taken on the responsibility of caring for his children. She is twenty years old, single, and now has the burden of three children to support,' he said in a very firm voice, 'I'm really truly sorry I didn't know, he replied, shaking both his hands about. 


 The young man asked, Are these paid for? pointing to the shopping cart full of groceries. It wouldn't take her card the clerk told him. Do you know where she lives? asked the man who had made the comment.Yes, she goes to our church. Excuse me, he said as he made his way to the front of the line. He pulled out his wallet, took out his
credit card and told the cashier, Please, use my card, PLEASE! The clerk took his credit card and began to ring up the young woman's groceries. Hold on, said the gentleman. He walked back to his shopping cart and began loading his own groceries onto the belt to be included. Come on people, we got three kids to help raise! Everyone began to place their groceries onto the fast moving belt. A few customers began bagging the food and placing it into separate carts. Go back and get two big turkeys, yelled a heavyset woman, as she looked at the man. NO, yelled the man.Everyone stopped dead in their tracks. 


 The entire store became quiet for several seconds. Four turkeys, yelled the man. Everyone began laughing and went back to work. When all was said and done, the man paid a total of $1,646.57 dollars for the groceries. He then walked over to the side, pulled out his check book, and began writing a check using the bags of dog food piled near the front of the store for a writing surface. He turned around and handed the check to the young man. The man said with a comforting voice, she will need a freezer and a few other things as well, he told the man.The young man looked at the check in amazement and said, this is really very generous of you.''No, said the man. Her brother was the generous one. Everyone in the store overheard the conversation between the two men and began to clap. A great example of why we should always be kind and patient. Kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear. May God's many blessings continue to be with you.
 " I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH  CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME " AMEN  GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND MAY   ANGELS BE WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU ALL MAY GO !!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Our Living Battery

The positive and the negative are signs of a cipher that impact the life force of all things. These are intangible and tangible forces. Intangible forces are things which cannot be perceived through any of the five senses. Tangible forces are the reality of the finished phenomenon. Both intangible and tangible forces are the true product of the universe. Yet when we talk about positive things they are good and if we talk about negative things they are bad. It takes both of these intangible and tangible vigors to mold or shape us into becoming who we are. We are designed with these parables in a unique form called experience.

Is negative really as bad as most say? In most cases yes, but without negativity how can one change for the better to develop more genuine habits? Is positive really as good as most say? In most cases yes, but excessive positiveness brings with it an uncontrollable arrogance which leads to selfishness. When you have a harmonic amount of both you will live a tranquil life. You need both, it is an apprenticeship of life, it is a realization of cultivating a mastery toward a fruit bearing life.

We are embedded with negative and positive charges, but one force can definitely overtake the other leaving the host very exhausted. In times of fatigue one must recharge, plug in, or replace the phase in one's life to have a equal amount of positive and negative charges. Everything that lives must go back to the source to find rest and relaxation to start anew.

Suffering is always present with the positive and negative, but the masses need suffering, for embodiment, as an individual, to bestow upon the powers that be, a definite path to edification. Suffering with such negative and positive forces gives an individual an indication of how one is with or without harmony. We must suffer through our atmosphere with earthly and useless thoughts and feelings on the outside to find cleansing and restoration on the inside.

The Moira which a man or woman encounters with blessedness of positive or negative duress is the true result of one's own mental harmony. The trance of the soul induced with God, helps every man, woman, and child, envisage themselves released toward a stimulation of a continuing rhythm. Let a man, woman, or child radically alter their thoughts using positive or negative influences and they will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of life.

In ending, the core attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished endeavors; it falls to the level of its afflicted desires and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.

Self Analysis For Personal Inventory

The best way to actually see the coming of your results is by having someone you truly trust to see you instead of answering the questions by yourself.

1. Have I achieved the goal(s) which I established as my objective for this day, month, and year?
2. Have I delivered the best of myself to which I was capable, or could I have improved any part of myself?
3. Have I delivered myself in the greatest possible quantity of which I was capable?
4. Has the spirit of my direction been harmonious, and cooperative at all times?
5. Have I practiced procrastination to decrease my efficiency and if so, to what significant extent?
6. Have I improved my identity, and if so, in what ways?
7. Have I been persistent in pursuing my plans through to fruition?
8. Have I reached understanding promptly and definitely on all occasions?
9. Have I allowed any one to instill a form of fear to decrease my performance?
10. Have I been over-cautious or under-cautious?
11. Has my relationship with my associates in work been pleasant or unpleasant? If unpleasant, has the fault been partly or wholly mine?
12. Have I misused any of my energy through lack of concentration of effort?
13. Have I been open-minded and sympathetic in connection with all problems?
14. In what way have I improved my ability to minister kindness?
15. Have I been excessive in any of my habits?
16. Have I expressed openly or secretly any form of arrogance?
17. Has my conduct towards my associates, friends or family been such that it has induced them to respect me?
18. Has my attitude and my choices been based upon guesswork or true accuracy of investigation and thought?
19. Have I followed the manner of tithing my time and income and have I been guarded in these budgets.
20. How much time have I devoted to inactive achievement and did I learn from the experience?
21. How may I re budget my day, and change my habits so I will be more productive during the coming of the month and year?
22. Have I been guilty of any leadership or management which was not approved by my conscience?
23. In what ways have I gave of myself more value and better value than I was paid for?
24. Have I been cruel to anyone, and if so, in what way?
25. If I had been the consumer of my own supply for the year, would I be satisfied with my acquisition?
26. Am I in the right business, and if not, why not?
27. Has the consumer of my labor been satisfied with the service given?
28. What is my present respect on the bottom-line definitude of success? 

Please comment if this Questionnaire has helped you in a small or big way. Thank you !     

The Secret of Life-Blood

4"But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 5And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man. -Genesis ch.9 (NIV) 33How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways. 34On your clothes men find the lifeblood of the innocent poor,though you did not catch them breaking in. -Jeremiah ch. 2 (NIV)

"LIFEBLOOD." What does this word really mean? Yes, the author did use verses from the Bible because the word has a very true meaning behind it. To some these are just words. To others they may be the blood that courses through each individual's veins. Or maybe, just maybe, one might have to go into a thought process to harness and bring forth the very nature of the backing of what this word really is. This word is a commonality, a very true essence of what all things living is made up of on the inside looking outward. We all share this common trait being a man, woman, or child. It does not matter of color, race, background, sexual orientation, or whatever you as the reader can conjure up. It is an ever knowing and seeing birthmark, that it is always noticeable; whether on the inside or on the outside. All have induced it or prevented these words to carry forth that which is attainable to all.

The most vital movement that all things living feel is HOPE; the LIFEBLOOD, the eternal elixir of the soul. Hope is a dream, an ambition; a belief toward unseen things to come into the spirituality of the one who demands the deed done. Hope is a true reflection of Faith. These two are a circle of a continuance of every given life on earth. Hope and Faith are one in the same with different meanings but more similarities than most think. We develop these awesome feelings and carry them with us from the time of birth to the end of our days. We lose sight of them when our lives seem to be going the way we want, but when the disaster hits, we call upon them to act in our place of need, but it is usually to act in the place of our wants.

Hope is the authentic lifeblood that causes the perseverance of an individual's hunger towards a triumph. In the author's opinion Christianity is the basis of faith and hope no matter how many people try to stray many away from the quintessence. Hope is the circulatory system that gives life a fresh restart of a new day miracle. The "odd one out" as some say, hope, differs from what is ordinary because of its origin in everyone and how everyone uses it to there advantage or handicap.

In the realization of one's pursuit in making life livable, life is hope and hope is life. Life is very willable when hope is present in the willer. Life belongs to hope because hope brings action to life, sort of the ying and yang principle of Chinese philosophy. Hope is the light in the darkness of life because hope gives days upon asking from the self within. Hope gives every living soul a small gain to build strength toward a colossal event in breath.

Finally, hope is the faculty of one's mind. Hope is the everlasting angel that never gives up on the soul believer. It can destroy a clouded vision that has been cursing the holder of burdens to loosen the heavy load of deceit. It gives power to the weak minded, it gives understanding and sympathy, it shows attachment to the weary hearted, and relinquishes the discrimination sought out towards others. It gives birth to the new era of the quest of finding the new I AM in YOU.

We Are All Made From the Inside Out

Mind evolves on ideas, and ideas express themselves through our thoughts, our words, and our deeds. Just as the earth and its involvement in revolvement, we also have a negative and a positive pole which either turns us the right way or the wrong way. What I mean about the right way and the wrong way is that we usually turn to the outside source for our incoming of things, but turning to the outside source of what is already made, that started from the inside; is like recreating a creation. Everything on the outside is a symbol that started on the inside and manifested itself to be because of an inner idea.

We are all made from the inside out. We separate ourselves from each other because we tend to look on what has been already made on the outside of each other. Most of us live on the outside of things which will always bring to us destruction. To live on the outside is to exemplify everything on the outside with personal worth, an excessive desire to keep everything or hoard symbols, resenting others successes, holding anger towards someone because of situations that have happened, having a general want or desire for something and putting everyone and everything else aside, to consume only for self for self gratification, and being apathetic towards all living things.

We now are belonging to the age of instant gratification. This in itself is not good because of the facts that represent themselves that our wants exceed our needs in our own lives toward living. We are starting to depend on the outer circumstances of life first rather than the inner kingdom of God. Each victory starts on the inside of us all for outer accomplishment, we cannot live outside first then expect a revelation to commence. Every victory will strengthen us until the time will come when we will no longer have to say "I hope or believe, but that I know". When you know something it starts on the inside and becomes a sensation of a sure thing and that all you have to do is to think positively into it and wait for the results to come into the outer. A creation of things to come for oneself takes time, just as a baby is formed from a seed. The things that you endeavor will come to pass, but you must have a tranquil mind, and a simpatico heart.

Life is given to all from all. We must realize that life is not fundamentally physical, but mental and spiritual. We are not dealing with a condition but with the causes. We do not see life, we only see what life does. This is called a condition. More blatantly we live in the outer world of effects and in the inner world of causes. The things we deal with, in itself, are never limited, but we often are, because we only draw to ourselves in what we believe. Our only limitation is our unbelief of inner self, we are our own inheritance of how and what we want to become and occupy. Do not blame God for your limitation, blame your perception. To have good come into your life, you have to become good-natured. This is very hard to do for many because many become discouraged and give-up, this in itself is a sign that you cannot do life by yourself, but with God all things are possible.

Life Like a Blueberry Pie

***Crust*** 

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus extra for rolling 

8 Tbsp (1 stick) unsalted butter, very-cold, cut into 1/2 inch cubes 

1/2 teaspoon salt 

1/2 teaspoon sugar (increase to 1 1/2 teaspoons if for a sweet recipe) 

2 to 4 Tbsp ice water, very cold

***Filling*** 

3 pints of blueberries, cleaned and stems removed 

2 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice 

1/4 cup all-purpose flour (for thickening) 

1/2 cup sugar 

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 

2 Tbsp unsalted butter, cut into small pieces

***Egg wash ingredients*** 

1 egg 

1 Tbsp milk

You see from above that this is the start of a recipe, a recipe to make blueberry pie. When you look at all the necessary ingredients from up above we have a basis or a foundation to start from, but no directions to follow. This is the test of times and a challenge has begun.

In life according to a blueberry pie, there is no beginning, no bullet points, and no number one. To most of us we do not no what to do, it begins to become a harum-scarum situation. The only way out, to put a cease, or to say "enough is enough", is to start somewhere, but where? It does not matter because you might fail a hundred times or a thousand times, but as long as you start somewhere, you will start your direction to something more beautiful and more amazing, but you have to start.

We all have a shadow and we can never escape from it, no matter where you stand or jump, from a modest youth to a developed adult, our shadow is their. All of us have to go through life failing, because we are waiting for the time to be right to start something worthwhile. The time will never be just right, you have to stand, and work with whatever tools you have at your command throughout your given life. You will be found having broken tools, refurbished tools, tools that just did not work, and tools that continue to never fail. With these tools, you cannot hoard them for yourself; only for you, because these tools are really not yours, they are there to be used generously and to be given or passed on to someone else to use and for their purposes in life.

Everyone has a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions. If you need facts or information from other people, to enable you to reach decisions, as you probably will in many instances in your life; acquire these facts to begin your knowledge. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and your mouth closed. Those who talk too much do little else. If you talk more than you listen, you not only deprive yourself of many opportunities to accumulate useful knowledge, but you also disclose your plans and purposes to people who will take great delight in defeating you, because they envy you. Remember that every person that you associate with is, like yourself, seeking the opportunity, so tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it because your deeds, not your words, are what count the most.

Life is is like a blueberry pie because we tend to look on the outside for our answers. The outside of a blueberry pie is a dark-brown beautiful sugary crust of wholesomeness, but the truth is is that the outside has already been formed and finished, so basically how can you answer your question when the answer has been answered? What I do know is that to answer your answer to your life's questions can be found on the inside of yourself, in your mind. You see like a blueberry pie, it starts with the blueberries and the blueberries are in the inside of the pie not on the outside of the crust. Just like you and everyone else, all beauty of one's beginning starts on the inside; a start of creation and develops to the outer crust; a ending called materialization. Thank you for your time and thank you for reading.

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