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Do not grow old, no matter how long you live
Knowledge That Matters
We live in a world of knowledge.
This knowledge is so varied and our understanding so limited that we can never grasp more than a very small part of it all. So how do we choose the knowledge that matters? What is the knowledge that grows my usefulness, my hope and peace, my love and care for others and that is always available?
I believe the core knowledge is the fact that we are loved.
Loved freely, deeply, unreservedly and eternally.
Knowing this I am able to live, share and find peace in all situations.
We can also return the love.
Thank you Lord. I love you too.
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I just wanted to say that “Live life…
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You only live once
“You only live once,
but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West
Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Je leeft maar één keer
News photo of Mae West, likely candid, taken by L.A. Times as part of news story. Reprinted in book High Exposure, “Found Photos from the Archives of the L.A. Times.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Why do you do what you do?
Do you recognise this ?
The good intentions at the beginning of each new year?
We make lists of
that which we will never do again
of what we will do more often
of what we will do less often
of that of which we will eat less
or more
of whom we would like to see more often
or less often.
We think about our dreams
and also about the bad luck we had in the past.
We stand still. Just for a moment.
As soon as the bottles are empty, the snow has melted, the wishes for happiness have been distributed, we return to the issues of the day, life zooms by and very quickly the list is forgotten in the bottom drawer.
What would happen if we would read that list again every day?
If we would ask this big question to our reflection every morning :
“why am I doing what I do”,
If we leave that list in the sunlight on our working table ?
What would happen if we would ask ourselves every day, and not only the first day
of the year : why am I doing what I do ?
Let us stand still more often.
A few moments every day.
Look into the mirror.
To dare to ask that one question, to dare to hesitate, to try, to fail, to get up, to choose.
And then to try to live like we réally want to.
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Dutch version: Waarom doe je wat je doet
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What would you do if…?
Lots of people encounter many struggles in life. Some get to learn how to cope with them, others get pulled down so much that they do not see any reason any more to live.
All have good and bad moments in life and whether we’re going through the worst of times or the best of times, history and our own experiences show us that life does go on and that we are just a very tiny atom in it
In this world there are people who, like Ray who grew up in London, moved away and travelled the world, ending up back where he started, are not able to raise their arm but found ways using other parts of their body to communicate or to move things, though at times it may feel for them like they might as well be trying to move the earth.
It is not the Most High Creator Who brings all that badness over us. But it is Him Who give us the opportunity to work around it and to become stronger, if we allow Him working in our midst.
We should not fear man nor fear worldly situations or diseases, but should fear God and come to trust and honour Him, putting our ‘tiny’ hand in His Big Hand, to be carried through life.
There are no rules to how life plays out. We have no control over it. The only thing we have control over is how we face those challenges. We are not so much a product of the challenges placed before us as we are a product of how each of us has faced those challenges. {To Live And Ride With ALS}
Please do find what Bill of Unshakable hope has to say and look how he manages to cope with the terminal disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS or call it “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”.
He does not believe God causes trials and he doesn’t believe we will ever fully understand, at least not in this life.
But, whatever other reasons God has for allowing trials, I discovered two big things that He accomplishes through our trials; He helps us reset our priorities and forms our character. (Obviously He had a lot of work to do on me).
For sure he is not the only one to whom God has a lot of work to do. For the creator of this and some other lifestyle magazines had also to go through two near death experiences before he decided to work more for God. It does not mean, that took all the pain and frustrations away from him, but he gets encouraged by feeling the Hand of God at work in him … and that keeps him going….
One night, about a year before Bill was diagnosed with ALS, he and his wife Mary were up late watching “Nightline” on which Ted Koppel was doing three nights of interviews with retired college professor Morrie Schwartz who also had ALS and was sharing his life-lessons with Ted Koppel just as he had done previously with one of his former students named Mitch Albom who compiled these life-lessons and wrote a best-selling book titled “Tuesdays with Morrie.”
Bill has one vivid memory from watching those interviews
having to rely on his wife + caregivers for virtually all of his needs = helpless he was
Bill turned to Mary and told her
I would rather just go to heaven than live trapped in my own body like him.
a year after making that statement = diagnosed with same “trapped-in-your-own-body” disease
=> hastily-made statement began to haunt + taunt me
=> change view + began trying to do best to live one day at a time <= grace of God in me, urging me to keep going
Hastily-made statements carelessly uttered by healthy people = spoken out of pride = cannot comprehend grace of God <= self-reliant, self-righteous + just plain selfish
Trials cause us to reexamine hastily-made statements we’ve made before the trial, when we so carelessly said what we’d do if this thing or that thing happened to us.
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Preceding articles
Fear in your own heart or outside of it
Fear, struggles, sadness, bad feelings and depression
How to Find the Meaning of Life and Reach a State of Peace
See the conquest and believe that we can gain the victory
When the world rages, let it rage, but let us not fear it
Those steady drips, those small steps!
For those Christians who say they are the Victim
Christians remaining hidden not sharing the gospel
How To Get Started In Sharing Your Faith As a Christian
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Additional reading
- Struggles of life
- Pain and Suffering is inevitable but Misery is optional
- Good and bad things in this world
- Your struggles develop your strengths
- A way to prepare for the Kingdom
- Not holding back and getting out of darkness
- Science, scepticism, doubts and beliefs
- If there is bitterness in the heart
- Emotional pain and emotional deadness
- Evil in this world not bringing us down
- Dying or not
- Life Goes On
- Trouble is coming
- End of the Bottom Line
- A small trouble is like a pebble
- She who sows thistles will reap prickles
- Do not be so busy adding up your troubles
- Do the appropriate for a friend
- A Breath for tomorrow
- Shelter in the morning
- Luck
- Rejoice even though bound to grieve
- From pain to purpose
- Faith because of the questions
- Hope by faith and free gift
- 1 Corinthians 15 Hope in action
- May reading the Bible provoke us into action to set our feet on the narrow way
- You God hold the future
- Gaining Christ, trusting Jehovah
- God is my refuge and my fortress in Him I will trust
- Trust God to shelter, safety and security
- Songs in the night Worship God only
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Further reading
- ALS Awareness Month
- Pesticide Use Linked To Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s & ALS
- Why Me?
- To Live And Ride With ALS (Part ll)
- The Sacred In The Mundane
- The Bread Of Affliction
- I’m Sorry
- Cape and Tights – My Grandmother’s Struggle with ALS
- 2016/05/09/ Repost
- Mother With ALS Paints Again
- Kirkus Review of My Perfect Imperfections
- The Reason I Run, Chris Spriggs – a review
- The Walk
- Army vet starts ‘#22kill push up challenge’ to help other veterans
- One man’s poison is another man’s….
- The Story So Far…
- Can you see it?
- The Woman Behind The Blog
- The Privilege of Growing Old
- How Famous Researchers Work: Stephen Hawking
- Advocates for Rare Diseases
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One night, about a year before I was diagnosed with ALS, Mary and I were up late watching “Nightline.” Ted Koppel was doing three nights of interviews with a retired college professor named Morrie Schwartz. Morrie had ALS and was sharing his life-lessons with Ted Koppel just as he had done previously with one of his former students named Mitch Albom. Mitch later compiled these life-lessons and wrote a best-selling book titled “Tuesdays with Morrie.”
I hate to admit this, but even after seeing the three nights of interviews and reading the book, I cannot remember most of the life-lessons that Morrie taught. But, I do have one vivid memory from watching those interviews; it occurred while listening to Morrie describe his daily routine – having to rely on his wife and caregivers for virtually all of his needs. After hearing how helpless he was…
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