WHO IS "THE REAL, THE TRUE, THE LIVING" JESUS?
Just sharing some thoughts on the LIVING Jesus (see https://thelivingjesuschrist.wordpress.com/)
“When (or if ever) you arrive in heaven, let faith, hope and love be the wings that carried you there.”
– as adapted from the inspiring words of Jonathan Edwards, former minister in New England, Massachusetts
“The Greatest Race: Living by (with) faith, hope and love is the highest podium any person can reach, God’s podium that anyone stand on.”
– c
from https://godandformula1.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/on-the-podium-after-the-greatest-race/
“Having pursued the goals, the dreams set before us and run the race with persistence and endurance, after giving it all. Then one day standing on the summit of life, breathing in the pure sweet oxygen of achievement, totally satisfied in running the greatest race, the race of life one that ANYONE can run and win.”
from http://racetothechequeredflag.wordpress.com/ and http://www.godandformula1.wordpress.com
“Trust in the Lord with your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him
and he will make your paths straight.”*
– Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
* and/or “direct our path and make the right way through life for you”
“Faith is a choice.”
from https://whyifollowjesuschrist.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/faith-is-a-choice/
“‘For I know the plans I have for you’, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you’, declares the LORD.”
– Jeremiah 29:11-13
Thank you, Lord
Sharing some Personal Spiritual Thoughts (and Prayers)
by craig
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Submitter’s Note
These are some of the notes (in point form) from thoughts and quotations that I’ve written down and collected over the years*, which may be of interest and get you “thinking” about these “airey-fairey matters”. Hope that these “rather personal” thoughts may be helpful, uplifting and perhaps even inspirational to you too.
Sharing a Few Personal Thoughts* That I’ve Jotted Down Over the Years in my ‘Little Books, my Prayer Diary (and Diaries)’
* some from authors unknown
20th Feb 2011
“Hope is the anchor of the soul”
Look upward and you go within
“I am an ordinary writer inspired by an extra-ordinarily great Spirit.”
– Lindsay M (‘The Prophet’)
I don’t believe in setting goals, but in going after our dreams.
PEACE: Let me be a channel for your peace, empower as many people as possible, advance humanity, try to build global bridges (in some small way… one mind, one life, one heart, one small step at a time).
Don’t limit God. My Grace is sufficient for you. Increase my faith, extend my territory. SURRENDER (total)
“Lord, Let more people experience who You really are. Expand my spirit.”
The highest goal of my ‘little’ life is knowing You.
Be a light of hope to others.
“The full flower that is the hope of the world may be found in the figure and life of Jesus.”
“A life lived in the Spirit of Christ will never die.”
May you see God’s bright light on the road ahead.
Get close to God. SURRENDER to God’s will, but this is NOT passivity. One needs to take ACTION, stepping out in FAITH. TRUST (for greater and ultimate good) and OBEY!
“Let more people experience who You really are. Expand my spirit.”
“Lord, give me dreams to broaden my horizons and help me to reach out to all you have in store for me. Use my little life as a focus for Your endless possibilities.”
“Lord, increase my faith and broaden my horizons for all the rich promises you have in store for me. Reveal Your Honour and Glory”
Shared by craig
About the submitter:
In his various writings Craig strives in some small way to break down social, cultural, religious and economic barriers through “planting, then sowing ideas as ‘seeds of hope'”. He believes that whilst we should celebrate our differences, what we share is way more important than what divides us.
The various books* that Craig “felt inspired to write” are available at: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4http://www.creativekiwis.com/amazon.html and http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/craiglock
Craig is currently writing a new novel, a rewarding tale of faith, hope and especially love
“Faction”, but perhaps even a true story!!!!
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”
– Chinese proverb
“A book is small enough to hold in your hand; but when you read it, the walls fall away and you’re in a room as big as the world.”
“A book, like a dog, is man’s best friend, but inside it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx (I “tink”)
The submitter’s blogs (with extracts from his various writings: articles, books and new manuscripts) are at www.sharefaith.wordpress.com.
www.buildbridgesofunity.wordpress.com www.buildbridgesofunderstanding.wordpress.com
www.breakdownwalls.wordpress.com http://religiousunity.wordpress.comwww.peacepursuit.wordpress.com
http://craigsblogs.wordpress.com + so many others I can’t keep track (obsessive or WHAT!)
.“The world’s smallest and most exclusive bookstore”
Together, one mind, one heart, one life, one small step at a time, let’s plant the seeds, the hope for a better and brighter future
“Many small (yet significant) steps by many ‘ordinary, little’ people will eventually reach their destination.
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Don’t worry about the world ending today… it’s already tomorrow in “little, scenic and tranquil” New Zealand
A “REVIEW” OF ‘THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD’ by Og Mandino
“No other trade or profession has more opportunity for one to rise from poverty to great wealth than that of salesman.”
# Form good Habits: Good habits are the key to all success in life
# Develop good Discipline
# Try to add value to your product and/or service
Failure will never overtake you, if your determination to succeed is strong enough…through “blood, sweat and tears”. Say, “I will persist until I succeed”…
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– basketballer, Michael Jordan
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Article Title: A “Review” of The Book ‘The Greatest Salesman in the World’ (by Og Mandino)
Submitted by:Craig Lock
Category/Key words: ‘The Greatest Salesman in the World’, Og Mandino, book “reviews”, selling skills, sales skills, inspirational books, good books, empowerment, words of upliftment, empowerment and inspiration (enough there now, craig)
Web sites: https://www.createspace.com/3779691/ http://www.creativekiwis.com/amazon.html and http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4
The submitter’s blogs (with extracts from his various writings: articles, books and new manuscripts) are at http://ogmandinobooks.wordpress.com and http://craigsblogs.wordpress.com
Other Articles are available at: http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/user/15565 and http://www.ideamarketers.com/library/profile.cfm?writerid=981
(Personal growth, self help, writing, internet marketing, spiritual, ‘spiritual writings’ (how ‘airey-fairey’), words of inspiration and money management, how boring now, craig
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“We share what we know, so that we all may grow.”
Article Summary:
This is Og Mandino’s first book. It is not only one of the best books on selling ever written, this is one of the best books on LIVING ever written. This is the gripping tale set in ancient Palestine of a little camel boy, Hafid, who becomes the greatest salesman in the world through following the ten scrolls of success.
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A “REVIEW” OF ‘THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD’ by Og Mandino
Submitter’s Note:
I ‘ve been reading this most uplifting book by Og Mandino; so am sharing this short “review” in the spirit of passing on “bits” of the content, in the form of thoughts, quotations, concepts and principles (like the Laws of the Universe). As well as sharing what I feel is the central message of Mr Mandino’s highly inspiring book (first published by Frederick Fell Publishers Inc, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc in 1968).
ISBN 0-553-27757-X
To properly understand my “highlighted” notes, you need to read the book fully …to put them in their proper context.
(Where the pronoun “his” is used in this article, please substitute “her” if appropriate)
Thank you, Mr Mandino and Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc.
Just sharing a few thoughts from Og Mandino’s most uplifting book (and as I share I learn too)…
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A “REVIEW” OF ‘THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD’ by Og Mandino
“No other trade or profession has more opportunity for one to rise from poverty to great wealth than that of salesman.”
# Form good Habits: Good habits are the key to all success in life
# Develop good Discipline
# Try to add value to your product and/or service
Failure will never overtake you, if your determination to succeed is strong enough…through “blood, sweat and tears”. Say, “I will persist until I succeed”…
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– basketballer, Michael Jordan
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
# Visualise: Hold the picture of success firmly in your thoughts, picture it as already being yours, and amazing things will happen.
# NB: Think positively at all times. “The secret of the ages: Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions, strong is he who who forces his actions tc control his mind. Control your emotions. Man’s potential to uplift his life through the proper use of the tools, the gifts he has received from his Creator.”
Always remember,
# Success is a state of mind.
# Count your blessings and live with an “Attitude of Gratitude” with what you already have. GIVE THANKS!
# Proclaim your rarity, your uniqueness
YOU are the greatest miracle in the world!
Shared by Craig Lock (“Information and Inspiration Distributer, Incorrigible Encourager and People-builder”)
“True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.”
To dearest dad, ‘RC’, “the greatest salesman in the world”.
“Death is not a foe, but an invisible adventure”
“Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”
“Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”
– Thomas More
“Success. It is open to each individual to choose the goal and go after it – growth and human essence known as character. Perhaps the ultimate purpose of life itself is the testing of the human spirit, to develop out of it something better, more nearly perfect. For after the sands and the dust of the human body has been buried, only the human spirit is left to go on. Each individual in his or her lifetime is entrusted with a fragment of that human essence, to be a spark of his own existence from birth to death.
Rich? Has he or she enriched the life spirit, which was given to them?
Successful?
Has he or she made the spark glow more brightly.”
– Howard Whitman in Og Mandino’s ‘University of Success’.
“Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.”
– Dag Hammarskjold (Swedish former Secretary General of the United Nations, tragically killed in an air-crash)
“If I can throw a single ray of light across the darkened pathway of another;
if I can aid some soul to clearer sight of life and duty, and thus bless my brother;
if I can wipe from any human cheek a tear,
I shall not have lived my life in vain while here.
If I can guide some erring one to truth, inspire within his heart a sense of duty;
if I can plant within my soul of rosy youth a sense of right, a love of truth and beauty;
if I can teach one man that God and heaven are near,
I shall not then have lived in vain while here.
If from my mind I banish doubt and fear, and keep my life attuned to love and kindness;
if I can scatter light and hope and cheer, and help remove the curse of mental blindness;
if I can make more joy, more hope, less pain,
I shall not have lived and loved in vain.
If by life’s roadside I can plant a tree, beneath whose shade some wearied head may rest,
though I may never share its beauty, I shall yet be truly blest –
though no one knows my name, nor drops a flower upon my grave,
I shall not have lived in vain while here.”
– anonymous
About the Submitter:
Craig believes in (and loves) sharing information and insights to try to make some difference in this world: to help and especially encourage people along life’s magical journey to live their dreams and be all they can be… and that brings him the greatest joy. He truly believes in the great potential of people to be all they can be an become. Craig is currently “working” on ‘Endless Possibilities, Far and Great Horizons’ – true inspiring stories of the human condition in overcoming seemingly impossible odds.
Craig’s new book ‘I’ll Do It My Way’: My Story, My Life, My Dream is now available at https://www.createspace.com/3779691
The various books that Craig ‘felt inspired to write’ are available at : http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4 and http://www.creativekiwis.com/amazon.html
The submitter’s blogs (with extracts from his various writings: articles, books and new manuscripts) are at http://ogmandinobooks.wordpress.com and http://craigsblogs.wordpress.com
“The world’s smallest and most exclusive bookstore”
“A book is small enough to hold in your hand; but when you read it, the walls fall away and you’re in a room as big as the world.”
“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”
– Chinese proverb
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
“Together, one mind, one soul at a time, let’s see how many people we can impact, empower, encourage and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials. Change YOUR world and you help change THE world.”
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PPS:
“Success is doing the best you can, in as many ways as you can. It is being just and honest and true – not in a few things,
but in everything you do.
Always look ahead and never look back,
believe you can make all your dreams come true.
Always believe in the best you can be
and have faith in the things that you do.
Forget about the mistakes you’ve made yesterday,
the lessons you learn will prove valuable for today…
Never give up and think that you’re through…
for there’s always tomorrow and a chance to begin brand new.
It is in dreaming the greatest dreams…
and seeking the highest goals…
that we build the brightest tomorrows.
There is no limit to the goals you can attain,
or the success you can achieve…
your possibilities are as endless as your dreams.
Whatever it is that you seek in life,
whatever your dreams and what you hope to achieve,
whatever you try to reach – whatever you plan…
can all be yours – if you only believe you can!”
– Larry S. Chengges
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow. “
– Langston Hughes
MY CREED
“Don’t judge others (as you haven’t stood, walked in their shoes*)
treat everyone with respect (and especially their right to hold certain beliefs)
listen hard and speak less (why we were born with two ears and one mouth)
practice wellness and well-being
play with abandon
don’t take life too seriously (fall in love with yourself and ensure a life-long romance)
laugh (often and especially at yourself)
choose your life path with no regrets
continue to learn (we’re never too old along life’s amazing journey)
appreciate your friends and especially family
do what you love (then you’ll never have to do a day’s work in your life)
and that will ensure success
live generously (not with you don’t have , but with what you DO have) in an attitude, a spirit of gratitude
live with intention and faith
(be bold and unseen forces come to one’s aid)
walk to the edge in total commitment
accept that life is a challenge (huge at times)
so treasure it
then submit to God, the mystery of life, the Ground of All Being
live as if this is all there is.
simply doing your very best and let God do the rest”
– craig (as adapted from and inspired by mary ann radmacher)
“Let not our different beliefs set us apart as human beings, but rather let our shared humanity be what defines and unites us as common citizens of our planet.”
– me
Article Title: Sharing Some More Uplifting Thoughts (from My Collection)
Shared by: Craig Lock
Category (key words):
Web sites: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4 and http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007IX0MNW
The submitter’s blogs (with extracts from his various writings: articles, books and new manuscripts) are at http://craigsblogs.wordpress.com
Other Articles are available at: http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/user/15565 and http://www.ideamarketers.com/library/profile.cfm?writerid=981
(Personal growth, self help, writing, internet marketing, spiritual, ‘spiritual writings’ (how ‘airey-fairey’), words of inspiration
Publishing Guidelines:
All my articles may be freely reproduced. If they help and encourage others “out there in any way” , then we’re very happy.
“We share what we know, so that we all may grow.”
A collection of uplifting thoughts that I’ll will post in an Amazon e-book (not another one, craig!), as I collect and jot them down instead of collecting stamps or bottle-tops!
20th March 2012
MY CREED
“Don’t judge others (as you haven’t stood, walked in their shoes*)
treat everyone with respect (and especially their right to hold certain beliefs)
listen hard and speak less (why we were born with two ears and one mouth)
practice wellness and well-being
play with abandon
don’t take life too seriously (fall in love with yourself and ensure a life-long romance)
laugh (often and especially at yourself)
choose your life path with no regrets
continue to learn (we’re never too old along life’s amazing journey)
appreciate your friends and especially family
do what you love (then you’ll never have to do a day’s work in your life)
and that will ensure success
live generously (not with you don’t have , but with what you DO have) in an attitude, a spirit of gratitude
live with intention and faith
(be bold and unseen forces come to one’s aid)
walk to the edge in total commitment
accept that life is a challenge (huge at times)
so treasure it
then submit to God, the mystery of life, the Ground of All Being
live as if this is all there is.
simply doing your very best and let God do the rest”
– craig (as adapted from and inspired by mary ann radmacher)
“Let not our different beliefs set us apart as human beings, but rather let our shared humanity be what defines and unites us as common citizens of our planet.”
* “Until you walk a mile in another man’s moccasins you can’t imagine the smell.”
“For I know that the plans I have for you”, says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster (evil), to give you a future and a hope.”
“Then you will call upon Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me with all your heart. I will be found by you”, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 29:25 (11-13)
“It is always darkest before the dawn”
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”
– Og Mandino
The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete…it’s not victory but combat…not to have vanquished but to have fought well…not winning but taking part.”
― Pierre de Coubertin (French Educator, primarily responsible for the revival of the Olympic Games in 1894. 1863-1937)
“There are so many challenges waiting for you to accept:
the challenge of a new opportunity
the challenge to beat yesterday’s record
the challenge to compete against yourself
the challenge to grow personally, a little more each day.
“We must set out to do a good job,
irrespective of race, and do it so well
that nobody could do it better”.
– Martin Luther King, Jnr.
“If a man is called to be a street-sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well
that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper
who did his job well.”
– Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I want to write the way Gilles Villeneuve drove and slid his blood -red Formula One Ferrari… with wild enthusiasm, a sense of abandonment and youthful exuberance, yet also with the artists craft of a Stirling Moss, a Jim Clark, and especially an Ayrton Senna, living on the razor-blade edge of life.”
“One of the greatest powers in the world is a positive idea”
“The principles you live by create the world you live in.”
“Those who say it’s impossible, should stand aside and make way for those who say: ‘With the right will, commitment, dedication, persistence, courage and especially faith, one sunny day IT’ IS POSSIBLE’!
– craig
“As we live and move and have our being, so from this vision, we can create heaven in our own lives… and perhaps even heaven on earth.”
– craig (as inspired by the words of Felicia Searcy)
Man is a great wall builder
The Berlin Wall
The Wailing Wall of Jerusalem
But the wall most impregnable
Has a moat
flowing with fright
around his heart
A wall without windows for the spirit to breeze through
without a door for love to walk in.”
– OSWALD MTSHALI, Soweto (South African) poet
from ‘My Traitor’s Heart’ by Rian Malan (published by Vintage 1990)
“Let us tear down the walls of our hearts in order to tear down the walls of concrete”
– Fouad Twal (top Roman Catholic official in the Holy land and Palestinian citizen of Jordan)
“You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.”
“Power is worth nothing, while you stand as an enemy to the people.”
Heed those words, President Bashar al-Assad!
“It was always seems impossible….
until it gets done.”
– Nelson Mandela
“Instead of the limits of borders (of countries and of our minds) let us and our leaders expand our sense of possibility… and together let’s look at building bridges to distant horizons, far and great. Lord, help us all lift our eyes a little higher.”
– craig
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They already somehow know what you truly want to become.”
“For me, God is a Creative Presence (far greater and deeper than my own consciousness). A Presence that I can experience on earth and allows me to be all that I am able to become.”
– craig
“When you were born,
you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.”
– Indian saying
Thanks, dearest mom, your spirit will live on…forever
craig
“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums.
The world would mould men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behaviour, but Christ can change human nature.”
― Ezra Taft Benson, 27th President of the US
Hope gives one a dream.
YOU be the spark that light that lights the flame of hope in others
The Story of the Four Candles
The Four Candles burned slowly.
Their ambiance was so soft you could hear them speak…
The first candle said, “I Am Peace, but these days, nobody wants to keep me lit.”
Then Peace’s flame slowly diminished and went out completely.
The second candle said, “I Am Faith, but these days, I am no longer indispensable.”
Then Faith’s flame slowly diminished and went out completely.
Sadly the third candle spoke, “I Am Love and I haven’t the strength to stay lit any longer.”
“People put me aside and don’t understand my importance
They even forget to love those who are nearest to them.”
And waiting no longer, Love went out completely.
Suddenly…
A child entered the room and saw the three candles no longer burning.
The child began to cry,
“Why are you not burning? You are supposed to stay lit until the end.”
Then the Fourth Candle spoke gently to the little boy,
“Don’t be afraid, for I Am Hope, and while I still burn,
we can re-light the other candles.”
With shining eyes, the child took the Candle of Hope
and lit the other three candles.
Never let the Flame of Hope go out.
With Hope in your life, no matter how bad things may be,
Peace, Faith and Love may shine brightly once again.
“We are choosing hope over fear, unity over division, a new vision for the world. And so it is the triumph of life over death, of love over hate, of light over darkness …”
“As we live and move and have our being, so from this vision, we create heaven in our own lives… and perhaps even heaven on earth.”
– craig (as inspired by Acts 17:28 and the words of Felicia Searcy)
When (or if ever) you arrive in heaven, let faith and love be the wings that carried you there.”
– as adapted from the inspiring words of Jonathan Edwards, former minister in New England, Massachusetts
“The Greatest Race: Living by (with) faith, hope and love is the highest podium any person can reach, God’s podium that anyone stand on.”
– craig
Having pursued the goals, the dreams set before us and run the race with persistence and endurance, after giving it all. Then one day standing on the summit of life, breathing in the pure sweet oxygen of achievement, totally satisfied in running the greatest race, the race of life one that ANYONE can run and win.
craig 11/11/11
From It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007IX0MNW
And now as I move into the next part of this journey, I know that it will soon be time for me to take my hands off this book and let it find a life of its own.
The various books* that Craig “felt inspired to write” are available at: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4 and http://www.creativekiwis.com/amazon.html
THESE THOUGHTS MAY BE FREELY PUBLISHED
“For I know that the plans I have for you”, says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster (evil), to give you a future and a hope.
“Then you will call upon Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me with all your heart. I will be found by you”, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 29:25 (11-13)
Article Title: Sharing Some More Uplifting Thoughts (from My Collection)
Shared by: Craig Lock
Category (key words): 
Web sites: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4 and http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007IX0MNW
The submitter’s blogs (with extracts from his various writings: articles, books and new manuscripts) are at http://drmartinlutherking.wordpress.com/ www.buildbridgesofunity.wordpress.com www.buildbridgesofunderstanding.wordpress.com
www.breakdownwalls.wordpress.com www.religiousunity.wordpress.com www.ishallnothatebook.wordpress.com + www.iwillnothate.wordpress.com and http://craigsblogs.wordpress.
Other Articles are available at: http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/user/15565 and http://www.ideamarketers.com/library/profile.cfm?writerid=981
(Personal growth, self help, writing, internet marketing, spiritual, ‘spiritual writings’ (how ‘airey-fairey’), words of inspiration
Publishing Guidelines:
All my articles may be freely reproduced. If they help and encourage others “out there in any way” , then we’re very happy.
“We share what we know, so that we all may grow.”
A collection of uplifting thoughts that I’ll will post in an Amazon e-book (not another one, craig!), as I collect and jot them down instead of collecting stamps or bottle-tops!
20th March
MY CREED
“Don’t judge others (as you haven’t stood, walked in their shoes*)
treat everyone with respect (and especially their right to hold certain beliefs)
listen hard and speak less (why we were born with two ears and one mouth)
practice wellness and well-being
play with abandon
don’t take life too seriously (fall in love with yourself and ensure a life-long romance)
laugh (often and especially at yourself)
choose your life path with no regrets
continue to learn (we’re never too old along life’s amazing journey)
appreciate your friends and especially family
do what you love (then you’ll never have to do a day’s work in your life)
and that will ensure success
live generously (not with you don’t have , but with what you DO have) in an attitude, a spirit of gratitude
live with intention and faith
(be bold and unseen forces come to one’s aid)
walk to the edge in total commitment
accept that life is a challenge (huge at times)
so treasure it
then submit to God, the mystery of life, the Ground of All Being
live as if this is all there is.
simply doing your very best and let God do the rest”
– craig (as adapted from and inspired by mary ann radmacher)
* “Until you walk a mile in another man’s moccasins you can’t imagine the smell.”
“For I know that the plans I have for you”, says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster (evil), to give you a future and a hope.
“Then you will call upon Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me with all your heart. I will be found by you”, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 29:25 (11-13)
“It is always darkest before the dawn”
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”
– Og Mandino
The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete…it’s not victory but combat…not to have vanquished but to have fought well…not winning but taking part.”
― Pierre de Coubertin (French Educator, primarily responsible for the revival of the Olympic Games in 1894. 1863-1937)
“There are so many challenges waiting for you to accept:
the challenge of a new opportunity
the challenge to beat yesterday’s record
the challenge to compete against yourself
the challenge to grow personally, a little more each day.
“We must set out to do a good job,
irrespective of race, and do it so well
that nobody could do it better”.
– Martin Luther King, Jnr.
“If a man is called to be a street-sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well
that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper
who did his job well.”
– Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I want to write the way Gilles Villeneuve drove and slid his blood -red Formula One Ferrari… with wild enthusiasm, a sense of abandonment and youthful exuberance, yet also with the artists craft of a Stirling Moss, a Jim Clark, and especially an Ayrton Senna, living on the razor-blade edge of life.”
“One of the greatest powers in the world is a positive idea”
“The principles you live by create the world you live in.”
“Those who say it’s impossible, should stand aside and make way for those who say: ‘With the right will, commitment, dedication, persistence, courage and especially faith, one sunny day IT’ IS POSSIBLE’!
– craig
“As we live and move and have our being, so from this vision, we can create heaven in our own lives… and perhaps even heaven on earth.”
– craig (as inspired by the words of Felicia Searcy)
Man is a great wall builder
The Berlin Wall
The Wailing Wall of Jerusalem
But the wall most impregnable
Has a moat
flowing with fright
around his heart
A wall without windows for the spirit to breeze through
without a door for love to walk in.”
– OSWALD MTSHALI, Soweto (South African) poet
from ‘My Traitor’s Heart’ by Rian Malan (published by Vintage 1990)
“Let us tear down the walls of our hearts in order to tear down the walls of concrete”
– Fouad Twal (top Roman Catholic official in the Holy land and Palestinian citizen of Jordan)
“You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.”
“It was always seems impossible….
until it gets done.”
– Nelson Mandela
“Power is worth nothing, while you stand as an enemy to the people.”
Heed those words, President Assad!
“Instead of the limits of borders (of countries and of our minds) let us and our leaders expand our sense of possibility… and together let’s look at building bridges to distant horizons, far and great. Lord, help us all lift our eyes a little higher.”
– craig
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They already somehow know what you truly want to become.”
“For me, God is a Creative Presence (far greater and deeper than my own consciousness). A Presence that I can experience on earth and allows me to be all that I am able to become.”
– craig
“When you were born,
you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.”
– Indian saying
Thanks, dearest mom, your spirit will live on…forever
craig
“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums.
The world would mould men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behaviour, but Christ can change human nature.”
― Ezra Taft Benson, 27th President of the US
Hope gives one a dream.
YOU be the spark that light that lights the flame of hope in others
The Story of the Four Candles
The Four Candles burned slowly.
Their ambiance was so soft you could hear them speak…
The first candle said, “I Am Peace, but these days, nobody wants to keep me lit.”
Then Peace’s flame slowly diminished and went out completely.
The second candle said, “I Am Faith, but these days, I am no longer indispensable.”
Then Faith’s flame slowly diminished and went out completely.
Sadly the third candle spoke, “I Am Love and I haven’t the strength to stay lit any longer.”
“People put me aside and don’t understand my importance
They even forget to love those who are nearest to them.”
And waiting no longer, Love went out completely.
Suddenly…
A child entered the room and saw the three candles no longer burning.
The child began to cry,
“Why are you not burning? You are supposed to stay lit until the end.”
Then the Fourth Candle spoke gently to the little boy,
“Don’t be afraid, for I Am Hope, and while I still burn,
we can re-light the other candles.”
With shining eyes, the child took the Candle of Hope
and lit the other three candles.
Never let the Flame of Hope go out.
With Hope in your life, no matter how bad things may be,
Peace, Faith and Love may shine brightly once again.
“We are choosing hope over fear, unity over division, a new vision for the world. And so it is the triumph of life over death, of love over hate, of light over darkness …”
“As we live and move and have our being, so from this vision, we create heaven in our own lives… and perhaps even heaven on earth.”
– craig (as inspired by Acts 17:28 and the words of Felicia Searcy)
When (or if ever) you arrive in heaven, let faith and love be the wings that carried you there.”
– as adapted from the inspiring words of Jonathan Edwards, former minister in New England, Massachusetts
“The Greatest Race: Living by (with) faith, hope and love is the highest podium any person can reach, God’s podium that anyone stand on.”
– craig
Having pursued the goals, the dreams set before us and run the race with persistence and endurance, after giving it all. Then one day standing on the summit of life, breathing in the pure sweet oxygen of achievement, totally satisfied in running the greatest race, the race of life one that ANYONE can run and win.
craig 11/11/11
From It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007IX0MNW
And now as I move into the next part of this journey, I know that it will soon be time for me to take my hands off this book and let it find a life of its own.
The various books* that Craig “felt inspired to write” are available at: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4 and http://www.creativekiwis.com/amazon.html
The submitter’s blogs (with extracts from his various writings: articles, books and new manuscripts) are at http://drmartinlutherking.wordpress.com/ www.buildbridgesofunity.wordpress.com www.buildbridgesofunderstanding.wordpress.com
www.breakdownwalls.wordpress.com www.religiousunity.wordpress.com www.ishallnothatebook.wordpress.com + www.iwillnothate.wordpress.com and http://craigsblogs.wordpress.
“Instead of the limits of borders (of countries and of our minds) let us and our leaders expand our sense of possibility… and together let’s look at building bridges to distant horizons, far and great. Lord, help us all lift our eyes a little higher.”
– craig
THESE THOUGHTS MAY BE FREELY PUBLISHED
“For I know that the plans I have for you”, says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster (evil), to give you a future and a hope.
“Then you will call upon Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me with all your heart. I will be found by you”, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 29:25 (11-13)
“Together, one mind, one heart, one life at a time, let’s march into a bright new tomorrow”
“Life is God’s novel. Let him* write it.” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
* ???
“Here was a light behind the despair, beyond the darkness. At first a flicker of an ember, just a tiny pin-prick of dawning possibilities. Then burning slowly, brightly and bigger, a glimmer, a candle in the blackness of despair, which gave off just enough of a glow (luminescence?) to light a path. And so show the rest of us the way ahead… a path to endless possibilities…from the darkness into the eternal light.” as adapted (slightly) from Rian Malan’s powerful words in ‘My Traitor’s Heart’
From “It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn”
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007IX0MNW
“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.”
– Hebrews 12: 2
Hope gives one a dream.
The same Spirit that made the world is in YOU, but first it has to be activated
“But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”
(Romans 8:11)
“But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”
(Romans 8:11)
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