It appears that our current Mayor has taken a peg out of Jenny Shattocks book and turned to fixing stuff that is not broken, and breaking up the concrete at the lake, all around the lake, and putting in new concrete. It was all good for walking and cycling, what it was made for, and would have lasted many years.
Lots of concrete is gone in bits and pieces and its hard to walk around or cycle.
When you grow with your partner, you both have a wounded inner-child within struggling to cope, and as an adult you are given adult situations to deal with in everyday life, of which are a struggle for people who ‘have not grown up’.
By both putting their own pride aside they can both heal one another by seeing the faults of themselves in the other and gently lending a needed ear, comforting, helping, suggesting, nudging, and dealing with each other as each one slips into their old childish state of which they so far have not grown out of.
When we lose the plot an immature harsh society condemns us, shames us, and can call us hurtful names, and we feel horrible for losing the plot, or even worse we may act even worse.
But if we have an understanding mature or partially mature partner in love, we then have someone who takes care of us when we lose the plot, and help us mature from that point on wards, and the immaturity within slowly dies away and the mature (born again) soul is the product of so much care, understanding, empathy and loving.
Immature Parenting produces Immature Children who grow into Immature Suffering Adults who do the same to their own children. The cure and healing is taken care of when we are loved unconditionally. Unconditional love does not pass on shame, does not condemn, does not hurt, in fact:
Love is patient, love is kind.
Love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
Love does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails, and maturity brings us wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, respectful.
Combined together improve digestion, reduce buildup of gas and bloating, protect us from harmful bacteria, etc
Warm Water
Apple Cider Vinegar
Lemon Juice
Ginger
Cinnamon
1 to 2 cups of warm water.
2-3 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice, if you want add finely grated lemon zest.
Stir in 1 tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar (Unfiltered)
Add a few thin slices of fresh ginger or 1/2 teaspoon of grated ginger.
Last a 1/4 teaspoon of ground Cinnamon.
Drink for 10 days, or continue.
– Barbara O’Neill.
Genesis 1:29 states: “And God said, ‘Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.’“. In essence, God is granting humans the use of all seed-bearing plants and trees with fruiting seeds as food. This verse is a key part of the creation narrative in Genesis, providing the foundation for the relationship between humanity and the food supply on Earth. – AI.
When someone tells you that they want you to do something that you immediately don’t want to do, then they offer you money or something else to do it, ask yourself as you are tempted to do the wrong thing, “Is this me?”, “Is this who I want to be?”, “Will this cause me to be ashamed of myself or hate myself?”
If the deed you are being tempted to do is evil, dishonest, devious, sneaky and such, listen to your mind, be mindful as you are tempted to do the deed in question, and ask yourself, “Is this me thinking this or am I being evilly tempted?”
Because, you see, if this thing that you are tempted to do, but you would not have done without the tempted carrot (money or whatever), then it is something that will make you ashamed of yourself (especially after the money is spent), and you will hate yourself, and maybe even make you sick tot he stomach or even suicidal later on.
You see, the temptation is always seen as a nice thing before you participate, money is always something that we assume will make us happy, but in the end, if what we are tempted to do is not who you are then you will regret doing it for the rest of your life, and that tends to bring on mental illness and such.
Now this made me cry 🙁
I had an interesting thought about equality and genders.
The first typists and secretaries were all men.
As time went by women became typists by the millions.
Now with computers men and women are typists 🙂
Entailment refers to a logical relationship between statements where if one statement is true, then another related statement must also be true. It can be understood as a deduction or implication, something that follows logically from another statement. In linguistics, entailment describes the relationship between two sentences, where the truth of one implies the truth of the other. – AI.
They came from places where for centuries, economic development had been hindered because nobles controlled most of the land. Which was passed down by primogeniture and entailment, generation after generation, to the eldest son. — Brooke Harrington.
She recognizes one of the men …, a poor farmer whom Atticus has been helping practically gratis to fight the entailment on his land. — Sara Holdren.
Notice how he allows the children to walk home, alone, in the dark, and yet people still think he is a good man – this is because even though schools and history books show the past as so bad and evil and today as so progressed, children could still walk home int he dark and it was not common that they were attacked or molested.
The times we live in today are painted as the times of enlightenment, and the past painted as darkness and bad times, but as this movie shows, it was safe for children to walk home alone, back in those times. Also, people listened to the children, and their conscience got tot hem.
Who Owns Your Mind?
You physically own your Brain, but since your Mind is spiritual, then your Mind/Thoughts can be influenced by various sources.
Science and foolish mind Doctors with their limited thinking and lack of understanding, and their disbelief in God and Evil, tell us that what we think or what we have come in to our Minds must be from only ourselves. This foolish thinking has been the cause of many suicides and negative thinking, also non-godly thinking and so on.
The way I have trained my mind to deal with this is to always be Mindful of what comes-to-mind, and consider it first, and also be very Mindful of what other people tell me, especially if they are pushing me in a direction that i don’t understand of I have personal doubts about.
I fully am aware that evil thoughts are not natural human thoughts thus if you have an evil thought, Narcissistic thinking, want control over others and such, you are being influenced by people who are influenced by Evil or you yourself are unknowingly influenced/pushed by Evil.
Consider Hitlers evil control over millions of normal everyday simple folk.
There is a movie where Jesus is being judged and when the people watching are asked if they want Jesus dead, you can see the people chanting for Jesus to be executed on the cross, with evil demon’s whispering in their ears to do it. That is, how it is done. Because science and Mind Doctors have brainwashed us into thinking that all thoughts are our own, if we have an evil thought put in to our minds we assume that we are thinking those evil thoughts.
I knew a popular Psychic who at one stage worked in a Prison as a guard. He told me that a man had hung himself in his cell, and he (the psychic) got there first and saw a spiritual figure on the physical mans body as the man hung. The guard got the man down and asked the man why he tried to kill himself, and the man said that in his mind over and over again he heard his thoughts telling him to kill himself, that it was time to give up, time to die, so he tried to hang himself.
I knew people who told me, and I read this in books, how that when people have a party that spiritual beings hang around waiting for people to get drunk, and when they get drunk the Humans are Spiritually-Weakened, and the hovering spirits enter a weakened body and then do something violent with that person’s body, or have sex with someone (when a person is possessed by a spirit that spirit then feels what the body feels, such as sex), or steal etc, and when the person who was possessed for just that night wakes up the next day he or she has no idea what happened at all. Many people go to parties and the next day they have no idea what they did at the party, and that is because for that duration they were pushed out of their body and didn’t-experience what happened.
There are rape cases where the young men who raged at the party got so off-his-face that the next day he remembered nothing of what happened the night before, but he gets arrested and spends 10 years in prison for something that he has no knowledge or recollection of at all.
Back in the 1800’s, and back to the beginning of the human race, parties with alcohol and drugs (they have always had recreational drugs of some sort) were referred to as The Devils Playground. Tell modern people this and they laugh at evil, Satan ad God, and they go get drunk again.
When you want to do something and you fear doing it, and it is a great thing or what God needs you to do, you can guarantee that your mind will be full of thoughts and overthinking about why you should not do it, why you should fear it, why you should be worried and anxious about it – because Evil does not want you to do it.
It is not true human nature to do evil, remember that, nor to fear.
We were created to be strong willed, courageous, and face it, Satan’s goal is to make you fail, hate God, hate yourself, hurt others, and drive you away from anything good that God wants you to do.
Trust what you know that is good, and don’t follow the negative or evil thoughts that come to mind.
When we get our Hi-Vis for work they are simple basic hi-vis. So what I do is add pockets to them, and I did this last night, I put two pockets at the front on the bottom on each side of a hi-vis. These pockets are designed to be too top loading pockets that are also two side loading pockets meaning that I can put stuff int he tops of them and my hands or something else in the sides.
Sometimes I put an inside pocket in as well to hold the security on-call phone.
Last night I put two of these pockets on a Hi-Vis, looks great.
I am still learning the Bamboo Martial Art that I have been doing for weeks now. It is an excellent course and a lot of repetition, but I told myself to just keep going, step by step, refusing to give up, and even when I feel that I don’t want to practice I still do it, and then I don’t regret it.
There was a girl who fell in love with a man. She really wanted his attention but he hardly noticed her at all. She was going to counseling and she had low self esteem.
After some time and confidence growth she decided to give him clearer signals of her liking him. Finally the man asked her to be his steady girlfriend. She was very happy, and it showed in all that she did, it was all that she wanted and all that she imagined that could make her happy.
He rang her up for their first date, and she turned him down. In fact she turned down all his offers to go out and spend some time together.
Why?
She adored him. Her love was very strong and if given half the chance she would have been wonderful for him and he for her.
She was terrified of him rejecting her. She thought that once he got to know her that he would discover that she was inadequate and what she was really like, and he would be displeased with her and then reject her. She couldn’t deal with him rejecting her.
By refusing his love she made him move on, she made him reject her.
She made her rejection fears come true.
A low self-esteem can have us destroying opportunities before we get a chance to find out if the opportunity will make us truly happy. We can reject blessings because we don’t believe that we deserve them.
Rejection by other people can make us feel inadequate, unworthy and below other people. So we sometimes set up our own lives so that we avoid being rejected. We can tell lies to ourselves pretending that we are protecting ourselves from future harm, but in reality we are destroying our future happiness. By doing this we also destroy opportunities that come our way.
Confidence in ourself can have us making good life choices and meeting people without fears.
People who don’t believe in themselves don’t believe in opportunities for themselves.
People who avoid things can tell themselves lies to convince them that they are doing the right thing. In the end the simple fact is that they are frightened of rejection and being emotionally hurt.
Please believe that you are worthy of the blessings that come your way. Accept them gracefully, humbly and kindly, because to get them shows that you are worthy and loved by others who care enough to give love, affection and care towards you.
If it comes your way and it is a good decent thing that will bless you then please don’t refuse it. It could be the very thing that will turn your life around to new beginnings and a new happiness that you have never imagined before.
Your destiny lies in your accepting your worth as a child of God and a person who has a good strong part to play in the world. Be humble, decent, good and kind, show your charitable love everywhere you go. And do the decent thing, accept who you are, what you are, and that as life goes on with your courage and talents and acceptance of your worth life will get much better for you.
All the best from James M Sandbrook.
Self-esteem
(Wikipedia)
is a term used in psychology to reflect a person’s overall emotional evaluation of his or her own worth. It is a judgment of oneself as well as an attitude toward the self. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs (for example, “I am competent,” “I am worthy”) and emotions such as triumph, despair, pride and shame.
Smith and Mackie define it by saying “The self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, is the positive or negative evaluations of the self, as in how we feel about it.”
Self-esteem is also known as the evaluative dimension of the self that includes feelings of worthiness, prides and discouragement.
One’s self-esteem is also closely associated with self-consciousness.
Self-esteem is a disposition that a person has which represents their judgments of their own worthiness.
The pasts mistakes can be like little-dark whispers in your ear. They delightfully cause doubts and fears and they want you to stay away from the promises & good life with God. We need to stop that whisper (the negative thoughts) by keeping happy positive thoughts in our head, and looking back is a lesson and not a torture to make us feel negative about the future. It is your choice which future you choose…
It is your choice which future you choose, a happy one blessed by God or what you have been used to, the past.
Psalm 118, verse 5: I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
The future can be such a joy but you can very easily destroy the good times with worry, doubts and fears. Everytime (if you let them) you try to make that positive step that will bring you the happiness that you want, these whispered doubts start up their conversation in your ear telling you why you cannot do this and your past is the weapon that feeds that doubt with fuel.
John Chapter 8, verse 32: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Jesus spoke a good truth of love and much more.
Think of the blessings that you have had and whether you will be with good loving forgiving people in the future. Turn the negative to a positive and focus on the positives of the past and the unwritten joys of the future to come. You know what you did wrong, there is nothing to worry about if you don’t go back to that life. Concentrate on the future with the right [people.
You should never doubt your worth. In my eyes, in God’s eyes you are worth every breath you have ever had and should never think that because of past mistakes that you are not a lovely person. like I know that you are. We have all been tarnished by temptations and the trap that keeps us in that temptation. We all have had to learnt to give the addictions/temptations/weaknesses a solid boot and remake our life and although it is hard thinking of the hard past, the new future changes that you make to your life can be felt as an adventure (especially if you have the right people sharing your new future with you).
We are all special, each and every one of us. Each one a jewel, a soul, and a piece of clay to be moulded. Start moulding your life like a clump of clay, for the positive and remove those negatives of the past. Use the past as that special guide that you need. The past is an object of measurement that you can use to show you not what to do because you have now learnt from it and want a better future.
Psalm 23, verse 6: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Galatians Chapter 5, verse 22/23: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
All the best from
James Martin Sandbrook.
29th of April, 2011.
If the world makes you sick you can always follow God!
You do have options.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
2017
When children grow up they have their life installed into their soul, parents teachings, school teaching, and experiences.
I watched an episode of Happy days and the father and mother were concerned about Joanie and Chachi were going to go on a date. Mr Cunningham said to his wife (something like…) that they had taught her the best that they could, given her a good decent upbringing and now it was up to her to choose what she wanted in her life and whether she would behave on the date with Chachi. Chachi was always over affectionate towards Joanie, and Joanie’s parents had seen this. But Mr Cunningham had come to the wise conclusion that the girl as a young adult had to experience this test and the parents had to step away and let her go. Joanie behaved, and that meant that Chachi had to behave.
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I have seen young adults in church speak about how all their lives they were taught to be Christians by their religious parents, but even though they did the motions, obeyed and were good, they didn’t know if they had really come to God in their hearts or were just simply following the rules of their parents. In fact many go astray for some years or for life as young adults because they didn’t truly believe in God. Sad as that is, this was their journey and life to live, we cannot live it for them. Even Jesus was not able to save and convince everyone. Since Jesus couldn’t get through to people what chances do you think that you have of convincing family or friends to follow Christ.
Wise advice: “Do your part, then depart!”
Meaning do the best that you can do, and then get out of the way to let the person decide his or herself what they really want in life. You did your best, that is enough, you cannot do more than what you could, but we must let them make up their own minds.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
29th of April, 2017.
Despite the technical hurdles and the spacecraft’s age, Voyager 1 and 2 continue to send valuable data from beyond our solar system. Their ongoing mission offers a unique opportunity to deepen our understanding of interstellar space — knowledge that no other spacecraft has been able to provide so far.
My parents were staunch atheists, mother a feminist, father a chauvinist, both had no idea what love was, and the mess that I made of my life was because I had no idea how to love, who to love, and all I did was put myself out there and got screwed over again and again, and honestly the sex just wasn’t worth the hell i paid to have it.
This modern society is materialistic and not formed of love, and that is why we have billions of people who have no idea what love is, but they all know how to have sex, so they assume from the movies and TV that love is sex and good times (for a while between two people, like getting a sexual fun high for a few years), but that is a result of materialism, a false sense of being loved and having love, and then it all goes to hell and one thinks that love is bad and refuses to give themself to another because they are afraid of being hurt again.
What is wrong is that decades ago people sold out to the love of money and lost contact with what genuine spiritual love is.
People just throw themselves out there and vultures take them and destroy their hopes and dreams and leave a bone picked miserable soul lying on the ground stunned, shocked and ever so unhappy wondering, “If this is love I want nothing to do with it. I am never going to do this ever again.” so they don’t, but in being like this they will one day come across the special one, but they have refused to receive or give love from the heart anymore, so when they meet that special one they are so much a toxic materialist themself (just like the one who originally screwed them over) that they cannot recognise true love when it come their way.
2018.
If stress is really getting you down try to remember that Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day. You and me, our minds were meant to be free, happy, enjoying life and spreading goodness wherever we go and sometimes it takes some time for God to put everything together to help you – and sometimes God is waiting on you to make the positive move to change your life. 2011.
Sometimes we wonder “What is hope?” My news for you is that you, we, are the hope – the hope for the world to come to Christ, to learn of a better lifestyle, Salvation, to learn to be better more loving people, to learn of forgiveness and love as God loves us. We are the hope, it is us who are to be the example that will show the worldly what hope is – you are the hope that the world needs to see! God is love!
Proverbs Chapter 13, verse 12: Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
We are the spark the world needs to shine goodness. We are to give hope to the lost and lonely, those in despair need us, those suffering need us, we are the hope. We are to show people what hope is. We are to show them that we once were failures, the lost, and the failed – God showed us hope through someone else – that hope came in the form of another human being or a writing that a human being wrote, or even from the Holy book.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13, verse 13: And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; …
We are to continue the work or hope for the worldly who don’t know hope yet. So let your faith shine, your love, share your caring, show your neighbour that you can offer them hope in abundance and goodness – goodness that your neighbour didn’t know existed. Goodness that they have never experienced. Goodness that they have never seen or even dreamed. Be that example – shine that light of hope in the clouds of darkness that envelope our planet.
Hope is something we expect to happen in such a way that we are strongly sure will happen eventually. We have a hope that God will use us in such a way that we can be useful for Him and for people – working for God is working for humankind and the world. We should rest our souls in hope, hope in God and the future.
Be inspired to fill a need. They need us, but they don’t know this yet – show your love, give them hope, shine for them and inspire them with your life, your family, your loving ways. Show them the real message – the one about Jesus, love and life.
Think of how you used to be. Remember wandering this planet by yourself, feeling bad emotions like arrogance to cover your fears, scared when you were alone, crying what seemed like endless tears, wondering where your knight in shining armour has gone and knowing that he will never come from the worldly people. Remember all those sad lost lonely emotions. Now look around you at the lost and do them a favour by doing your part to bringing them to the Truth of life, to reality, to a better life.
Ever since becoming a believer in God I have had some very hard times but they are always less (in my mind) than in those dark days in the wilderness when I didn’t know God, I can handle the attacks so much better now because God teaches us how to grow and have inner-strength. Lets live and show others how to live in the arms of Christ! Remember the true message of compassion and love.
All the best from
James Martin Sandbrook.
28th of April, 2011.
When I was a teenager I went to the shop with a sister who was with her boyfriend. He had lots of money and loved to let everyone know it and he brought things for my sister to impress her. She loved it. They asked me to walk to the shop with them this particular day and as a young teenager I thought it would be fun and maybe he may buy us an ice cream or something.
Halfway to the shop one of them said something about buying something from the shop and I said something like, “Oh goody.” and he got nasty and sarcastic about me being there only to scrounge and suck up for his money and what he could buy. I did an instant mental rerun of my behaviour and mentally listened to what he said and was deeply ashamed of myself and angry that I had lowered myself so low.
I continued to walk to the shop with them and back home. My sister probably offered me some of what they bought but I had instantly changed and vowed deep within that I would never do this ever again – I has instantly built a boundary without realising it. My youthful humbleness allowed me to see the foolish behaviour I had and that I needed to change immediately, and I suppose to some degree my self-belief (pride?) was deeply hurt because this person I had just displayed myself as was not who I wanted to be. The experience deeply humbled me and changed me in this way instantly.
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I watch people today, especially the likes of politicians on TV, they act so shamefully, they act foolish and childish, and they are reported as foolish and childish but they never change. They have accepted that this is worthy behaviour and their pride refuses to let them understand that they are being unproductive and not making good choices for the country, people etc.
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Prideful people cannot be changed because they don’t believe that they need to change, and they feel that if people don’t like how they are (no matter how foolish, toxic or even narcissistic the prideful person is) then it is the people that are fools, at fault, blind to the ways of the prideful person etc.
Humble people can be changed by themselves because they know that they are fallible, make mistakes, do foolish things, they know that they don’t know everything and are not perfect.
Pride keeps us from seeing the truth about our own selves and humbleness keeps us aware that change is always needed and we are willing to change for the better of our own soul.
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Being humble is a part of being truly free. Being prideful is being blind to ones true worth and being unable to feel compassion or empathy for strangers. The public need to note this at election time.
Humble people change for the better.
Prideful people stay stubbornly the same and demand that the world changes for them, this is how dictator narcissist types are made, from foolish pride and having power entrusted to them.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
2019.