Chatting with God

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I've missed the blogging-world for a time,but Hi again and I wish you enjoy your reading:

Chatting with God
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God : Hello. Did you call me?

Me: Called you? No.. who is this?

God : This is GOD. I heard your prayers. So I thought I will chat.

Me: I do pray. Just makes me feel good. I am actually busy now. I am in the midest of something.

God : What are you busy at? Ants are busy too.

Me: Don't know. But I cant find free time. Life has become hectic. It's rush hour all the time.

God : Sure. Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets you results. Activity consumes time. Productivity frees it.

Me: I understand. But I still can't figure out. By the way, I was not expecting YOU to buzz me on instant messaging chat.

God : Well I wanted to resolve your! fight for time, by giving you some clarity. In this net era, I wanted to reach you through the medium you are comfortable with.

Me: Tell me, why has life become complicated now?

God : Stop analyzing life. Just live it. Analysis is what makes it complicated.

Me: why are we then constantly unhappy?

God : Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday.You are worrying because you are analyzing. Worrying has become your habit. That's why you are not happy.

Me: But how can we not worry when there is so much uncertainty?

God : Uncertainty is inevitable, but worrying is optional.

Me: But then, there is so much pain due to uncertainty..

God : Pain is inevit! able, but suffering is optional.

Me: If suffering is optional, why do good people always suffer?

God : Diamond cannot be polished without friction. Gold cannot be purified without fire. Good people go through trials, but don't suffer. With that experience their life become better not bitter.

Me: You mean to say such experience is useful?

God : Yes. In every terms, Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Me: But still, why should we go through such tests? Why can't we be free from problems?

God : Problems are Purposeful Roadblocks Offering Beneficial Lessons (to) Enhance Mental Strength. Inner strength comes from struggle and endurance, not when you! are free from problems.

Me: Frankly in the midst of so many problems, we don't know where we are heading..

God : If you look outside you will not know where you are heading.Look inside. Looking outside, you dream. Looking inside, you awaken. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides insight.

Me: Sometimes not succeeding fast seems to hurt more than moving in the right direction. What should I do?

God : Success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you. Knowing the road ahead is more satisfying than knowing you rode ahead. You work with the compass. Let others work with the clock.

Me: In tough times, how do you stay motivated?

God : Always look at how far you have come rather than how far you have to go. Always count your blessing, not what you are missing.

Me: What surprises you about people?

God : when they suffer they ask, "why me?" When they prosper, they never ask "Why me" Everyone wishes to have truth on their side, but few want to be on the side of the truth.

Me: Sometimes I ask, who am I, why am I here. I cant get the answer.

God : Seek not to find who you are, but to determine who you want to be. Stop looking for a purpose as to why you are here. Create it. Life is not a process of discovery but a process of creation.

Me: How can I get the best out of life?

God : Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear.

Me: One last question. Sometimes I feel my prayers are not answered.

God : There are no unanswered prayers. At times the answer is NO.

Me: Thank you for this wonderful chat.

God : Well. Keep the faith and drop the fear. Don't believe your doubts and doubt your beliefs. Life is a mystery to solve not a problem to resolve. Trust me. Life is wonderful if you know how to live. "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that took our breath away! "


p.s:Thanks for your comments on the last post
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Your Perspectives

I'm excited to know your perspectives about me.
please feel free in writing anything.

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A Question
Martin Buber
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“Where is the dwelling of God?” This was the question with which the Rabbi of Kotzk surprised a number of learned men who happened to be visiting him. They laughed at him: “What a thing to ask! Is not the whole world full of his glory?” Then he answered his own question: “God dwells wherever people let him in.”
And wherever people let him in, there is redemption...



Only Then
Romano Guardini
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Thomas appears to have been a realist - reserved, cool, perhaps a little obstinate. He wanted proofs, wanted to see and touch. Then again, it might have been rebellion deep within him, the vainglory of an intelligence that would not surrender, a sluggishness and coldness of heart. In any case, he got what he asked for…in that state of unbelief which cuts itself off from everything, that insists on human evidence to become convinced. But nothing that comes from God can be proven like 2 x 2=4. It must touch one; it is only seen and grasped when the heart is open and the spirit purged of self. Only then can it awaken faith.
On seeing and believing.


(by the way,I'm excited to know your perspectives about myself.please feel free in writing your thoughts.)

Today's Quote:
"The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity." -Victor Charles

Bigger fish

Am I so small,

that I may be served up proper

for the bigger fish?

Dressed as a poor man,

an appetizer dish.

Dressed as a rich man,

would truly be my wish,

so I may delay being eaten

by the bigger fish.

I’m not exactly Jonah

or the old man in the sea.

Perhaps more like Captain Ahab

If time has its way with me.

Consumed by times indenture,

like plankton in the sea.

I am nether a mackerel,

nor a sea anemone.

Perhaps I am the middle fish,

as bigger fish would see.

Richard A. Chapman

Today's Quote:
"What we do in Life, Echos in Eternity." ~Gladiator

A Guest for today's post!

I have a very darling,kind,merciful,powerful,great,almighty,...friend.You all know him,his name is GOOD! & his nickname is God! I love Him with all of me.

He's always there for everyone who calls him,he's got a great personality & of course a good sense of humor.
Let's get more acquainted with him:


God says thus to him that loves him, and serves him faithfully: "Go and consider the sands of the sea, O my servant, how many they are. Wherefore, if the sea should give you one single grain of sand, would it appear small to you? Assuredly, yes. As I, your creator, live, all that I have given in this world to all the princes and kings of the earth is less than a grain of sand that the sea would give you, in comparison of that which I will give you in my paradise."


"Not only has God created man, as I say, but he created him perfect. He has given him the whole world; after the departure from paradise he has given him two angels to guard him, he has sent him the prophets, he has granted him the Law, he has granted him the faith, every moment he delivers him from Satan, he is fain to give him paradise; no more, God wills to give himself to man"


"Every man, for that he has need, works everything for his own use. But God, who has no need of anything, wrought according to his good pleasure. Wherefore in creating man he created him free in order that he might know that God had no need of him; Verbi gratia, as does a King, who to display his riches, and in order that his slaves may love him more, gives freedom to his slaves.
God, then, created man free in order that he might love his Creator much the more and might know his bounty. For although God is omnipotent, not having need of man, having created him by his omnipotence, he left him free by his bounty, in such wise that he could resist evil and do good. For although God had power to hinder sin, he would not contradict his own bounty (for God has no contradiction) in order that, his omnipotence and bounty having wrought in man, he should not contradict sin in man, I say, in order that in man might work the mercy of God and his righteousness. And in token that I speak the truth, I tell you that the high-priest has sent you to tempt me, and this is the fruit of his priesthood.' The old men departed and recounted all to the high-priest, who said: 'This fellow has the devil at his back, who recounts everything to him; for he aspires to the kingship over Israel; but God will see to that."

"The judgment day of God will be so dreadful that, verily I say unto you, the reprobates would sooner choose ten hells than go to hear God speak in wrath against them. Against whom all things created will witness. Verily I say unto you, that not alone shall the reprobates fear, but the saints and the elect of God, so that Abraham, shall not trust in his righteousness, and Job shall have no confidence in his innocency. And what say I? Even the messenger of God shall fear, for that God, to make known his majesty, shall deprive his messenger of memory, so that he shall have no remembrance how that God hath given him all things"

"Faith is a seal whereby God sealeth his elect: which seal he gave to his messenger, at whose hands every one that is elect hath received the faith. For even as God is one, so is the faith one. Wherefore God, having created before all things his messenger, gave to him before aught else the faith which is as it were a likeness of God and of all that God hath done and said. And so the faithful by faith seeth all things, better than one seeth with his eyes; because the eyes can err, nay they do almost ways err; but faith erreth never, for it hath for foundation God and his word. Believe me that by faith are saved all the elect of God And it is certain that without faith it is impossible for any one to please God. Wherefore Satan seeketh not to bring to naught fastings and prayer, alms and pilgrimages, nay rather he inciteth unbelievers thereto, for he taketh pleasure in seeing man work without receiving pay. But he taketh pains with all diligence to bring faith to nought, wherefore faith ought especially to be guarded with diligence, and the safest course will be to abandon the "Wherefore," seeing that the "Wherefore" drove men out of Paradise and changed Satan from a most beautiful angel into a horrible devil."

Mother's Love

One calm,bright,sweet,sunshine
day,an angel stole out a heaven and came down to this old world,and roamed field
and forest,city and hamlet.Just as the sun went down he spread his wings and
said:"Now my visit is out,and I must go back to the world of light.But
before I go,I must gather some mementos of my visit here."
He looked
into a beautiful flower garden and said,"How lovely and fragrant these flowers
are".He plucked the rarest roses and made a bouquet and said,"I see nothing more
beautiful and fragrant than these;I will take them with me."
But he looked a
little further and saw a bright-eyed,rosy-cheeked baby,smiling into its mother's
face.And he said,"Oh,that baby's smile is prettier than this bouquet;I will take
that too."
Then he looked just beyond the cradle and there was a mother's
love pouring out like the gush of a river toward the cradle and the baby.And he
said,"Oh,that mother's love is the prettiest thing I have seen on earth;I will
carry that,too."

With the three treasures he winged his way to the
pearly gates,and lit just on the outside and said,"Before I go in,I will examine
my mementos."And he looked at the flowers and they had withered.He looked at the
baby's smile and it had faded.He looked at the mother's love and there it was,in
all it's pristine beauty.
He threw aside the withered flowers and faded
smile,and wing his way through the gates and led all the hosts of heaven
together and said,
"Here is the only thing I found on earth that would keep
its beauty all the way to heaven-It is a mother's
love."

Today's Quote:

I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are. ~William Wallace~

BUDDHA

Buddhism is one of the world's great religions.Its founder was Gautama,who lived from 563 to 483 BC.He was rich,yet he wassad for he knew the world was full of suffering.So he gave away his riches,and spent many years trying to find the answer to the world's unhappiness.
He taught that there are eight 'paths' to the *nirivana*,or perfect peace.For this he was called Buddha,meaning"Enlightend One",and today millions of Buddhists follow his teachings.

Today's Quote:
"Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness." unknown author