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by | 2025/01/01 · 12:05 am

From the beginning, every human heart has craved infinite delight

The Infinite Emptiness

From the beginning, every human heart has craved infinite delight. A dark hungry void gnaws at every human being’s innermost self.

“This infinite emptiness,”

Blaise Pascal declared,

“can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God himself.”9

Yet it is difficult to fathom this simple fact — that our thirst for infinite pleasure is, ultimately, a craving for the creator of pleasure. So, we try to quench our thirst with finite pleasures — another beer, another sexual partner, one more degree, one more dollar, a piece of fruit that promises the knowledge of good and evil. The personal compulsions differ, but the core problem remains the same:

Few people truly believe that God is the source of pleasure. They cannot fathom that there are, in the psalmist’s words, “unbounded joy” and “eternal delight” within the being of God (Ps. 16:11).

This simple fact is, however, clearly acknowledged in the wedding blessings that echoed in Yeshua’s ears at the beginning of his earthly ministry. At every first-century Jewish wedding, the groom’s father or a community leader repeated these words:

Blessed be Adonai our God, king of the universe,

who made the groom and bride to rejoice in each

other—may he give gladness to them as he gave

gladness to his creatures in the Garden of Eden!

Blessed be Adonai our God, king of the universe,

who created joy and happiness, bride and groom,

mirth, song, gladness and rejoicing, love and harmony,

peace and companionship!

Blessed be Adonai our God, king of the universe,

who causes the groom to rejoice in the bride!

The wedding blessings explicitly acknowledge that the delight of the intimate relationship between a wife and her husband — perhaps the supreme expression of pleasure on the planet — is rooted in God. God is, from the perspective of the wedding blessings, the Source of Delight!

If God is “the Source of Delight,” it shouldn’t surprise us that one of the Hebrew prophets’ favorite depictions of God’s relationship with his people was the image of a passionate lover seeking the pleasure of his bride.10 Here’s how two of the prophets described God’s relationship with his people:

You developed, you reached puberty, your breasts appeared, and your hair grew long.… I passed by you, looked at you and saw that your time had come, the time for love. So I spread my cloak over you to cover your private parts and entered into a covenant with you, says Adonai Elohim, and you became mine. Then I bathed you in water, washed the blood off you, and anointed you with oil. I also clothed you with an embroidered gown, gave you fine leather sandals to wear, put a fine linen headband on your head and covered you with silk.… But now I am going to woo her — I will bring her out to the desert and I will speak to her heart.… She will respond there as she did when young, as she did when she came up from Egypt. (Ezekiel 16:7–10; Hosea 2:16–17)

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Praying like the Jew, Jesus – Recovering the Ancient Roots of New Testament Prayer, by Timothy P. Jones, Ed.D.

How did Yeshua (Jesus) pray? What Jewish customs and traditions formed the basis of the Messiah’s prayers? This eye-opening book reveals the Jewish background of many of Yeshua’s prayers. Historical vignettes will “transport” you to the times of Yeshua so you can grasp the full meaning of Messiah’s prayers. Unique devotional thoughts and meditations, presented in down-to-earth language, provide inspiration for a more meaningful prayer life and help you draw close to God. Praying Like the Jew, Jesus is a treasure-trove of information and inspiration. After reading this book, your understanding of God, prayer, and the Bible will be forever changed.

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by | 2021/01/03 · 8:00 am

Where did we come from and who are we?

Having started a new year after one we probably all want to forget very quickly, we do hope soon to come out of the darkness.

At the beginning of all times there was also darkness and void. There was no form when everything came into being. In 2020 lots of things seemed to have lost form and meaning. Suddenly there seemed something wrong with the world. All over the globe people had become frightened by what one president smilingly called the Chinese disease. Many came to wonder:

What has gone wrong with the world? What can we do to fix it? How now shall we live?

2020 was a year that gave us enough time to think. Many were in isolation in their own home or were locked up in a care home. Lots of people suddenly got enough time for themselves and their own family. They got now some time to reflect on the response to the first and most foundational of these questions  –

where did we come from?

and

Where are we going to?

There are a limited number of answers at our disposal: We came about by chance (the naturalist contention), we don’t really exist (the Hindu response), or we were spoken into existence by God. Some believe mankind was placed here on earth by extraterrestrials.

For the Christian, the answer to

“Where did we come from and who are we?”

gives a foundation for thinking that no other answer gives. Because we were created, there is value in each person. There is meaning and purpose to every life. There is Someone above and outside our existence who stands over it as authority.

As human beings, all created in the image of God, somehow we all can carry something of God in us, even without knowing it or willing to know. Several people claim Jesus is God because there is written he was in the image of God. They forget that the first Adam was also created in God’s image like all the other human beings, but for sure they are not God, the same way as Jesus is not God.

Last month several Christians celebrated the birth of a man who changed the course of this world. They claim to be his followers though reject many of his words, his teachings and those values as a part of shaping our culture for the future. They look at a King, but forget that he came from the root of another king (King David).

Perhaps this world has gone “buzark” because people living in this materialist world have forgotten those important ethics and values. For centuries people were truthful to the teachings of Jesus, but they were always in the minority because their way of life was based on something not of this world that the world no longer recognizes.

After the darkness and isolation of the CoViD year there is some hope with the upcoming vaccines. Let us also hope more people would come to the realisation that we seriously have to do something to protect the animals and the nature around us. This so maniest coronavirus was a very serious one which had brought the economy and life to a standstill. It was a time to reflect and to think about the way we are treating mother nature.

With the opening of the “Newer Year” we do hope you and our other readers would find the way to make the best out of this life.

Stay healthy & All the best for 2021

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by | 2020/02/12 · 4:17 pm

Sorrow (Poem)

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by | 2018/12/31 · 12:01 am

Coming to the end of 2018

The last day of 2018 presents itself.

Manny forget that there has been a time when there was no time. There was nothing to measure the passage of moments. Everything was in a space without time notation. Everything was empty and void in the darkness.

Only after the Voice of the Unseen spoke there came order in the chaos and everything came into being. The Divine Maker of all things created light and darkness so that time could be measured.

Today one can say

The experience of the passage of time is one of the most foundational experiences of being human. {Is Time Real?}

If we want it or not. The days pass in front of our eyes. We can not stop to become older. All that rest us is to remember past days.

We remember the past, we experience the immediacy of the present, and we imagine the possibilities of the future. {Is Time Real?}

Lots of people shall come together with friends and/or family and shall take moments to remember the previous months. And when the clock ticks 12 all shall bring their best wishes for a new year to those around them and to those further away. The distance may bring other hours, but also there the time comes and goes.

The notion of reality being beyond time has been challenged by different thinkers in different ages. At the end of the year we would like to stand still for a moment and think about that element: T I M E.

And what shall bring us Tomorrow?

> Please find to read: Is Time Real? by Jeff Carreira

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by | 2014/04/23 · 10:21 am

Anxiety’s Hold

Even the greatest moments, calmest actions, most peaceful energy, would be unable to tear it off once it sticks
it winds you up for everything and causes one to just pace instead
Eyes get dizzy from observation of another’s and can assimilate the same hold
Tension continues to escalate and bottling it up only makes the explosion imminent
No one likes it
Some look to escape through things that actually increase it
An insanity I’ve dealt with and still resisting
Depravity of vice while the resuscitation of life simultaneously reacts from one thought and act of will
It’s hell to deal with
I think the void between two lives would be more difficult than this
At least then you could be fascinated by the new journey
Than to continue the same and battle the duality of choosing a side
Or dealing with human ordeals such as quitting smoking or relationships
Decisions can create a hold on you, but when it’s out of nowhere….
The confusion continues the hold

– Shane Engisch

Shane Engisch was born and raised in Michigan. After High school in a small country town she went to college in a city near Detroit. All of her life she has aspired to be many things involving with the arts: Actor, musician, entertainer, martial artist, singer, dancer, but her best and foremost skill (according to her) is writing.

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