As you listen to the beautiful and inspiring song by Kari Jobe called ‘Everyone needs a little’, may your spirits be lifted up. I also found this lovely quote by Erin Majors: ‘A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle’. It is so true of people and of life. There certainly is hope for the hopeless. Even the smallest candle will radiate its light in the biggest dark room because candles work best in the dark.
We are all meant to be…..
The hardest thing in life is learning NOT to trust in yourself but learning to trust in God. We are born human and therefore have a human nature that puts our trust and confidence in things, people and ourselves. When I had a burn out and sank into clinical depression, my world crashed. Everything I had worked for was dashed to the ground. I now realize that we cannot trust ourselves to sustain us and we certainly cannot put our…..
The other day I received a phone call from a very shocked and distressed person. He had just been car-jacked. It happened in broad daylight in a busy street. He said it happened so fast that people around did not realize what was taking place until he was left stranded on the street.
I cannot explain the emotions that must have overtaken him because I was not in his situation. But I do know someone very close to me who…..
One of the most challenging things in life is when we face disappointment. Unfortunately life does not always turn out the way we want. When confronted with disappointment, how we face it determines how we will overcome it. Some people become ostriches and just bury their heads in the ground. Some people become martyrs and challenge it full on. Some people bottle it all up, only to find that it becomes like a cancer and eventually erupts in some form,…..
People who live with constant criticism develop a feeling of condemnation. This is like a heavy burden upon your shoulder and you go about your day and your life wearing that stamp upon your body. It’s like an ugly tattoo. People see it and go, ‘uh!’ when you grow up being condemned by those who are closest to you, those who are meant to love and support you, it is very hard to shrug it off.
A person who has…..
Why worry?… Worry uses up a lot of energy – negative energy that could be spent much more profitably. We know that worry is Faith in reverse gear! So why not look at things from the right perspective?
Since we know that 90% of the things we worry about does NOT happen, shouldn’t we be refocusing out thought pattern? You may say, ‘Well, it’s my nature to worry’. Then I say, ‘Put that old nature to death’. It is destructive…..
Linda Pearl Ramnath
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