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Why We Should Crave For Spiritual Things Than Material Things
Many dream of becoming a millionaire and they want it quick, because it is made to understand that without money or wealth, there wouldn't be any success in life. Thus, the love for money and the chase for wealth go on without ceasing, bringing crime, greed, misery and death to our homes.
When the great teacher, Jesus Christ, was tempted by Satan, "If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread." He answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.' Jesus' answer indicates that human beings need also spiritual food.
What is spiritual food by the way? Just like we need physical food for physical strength, we need spiritual food for spiritual strength. Why spiritual strength necessary for man? At every moment we need spiritual strength to fight bravely against fear, doubt, worry, jealousy and imperfection. Also spiritual strength helps us to endure daily trials and tribulations, without thinking of ending your life in the deepest crisis.
Evidently, there is no doubt that many people lack spiritual strength to fight some of these unseen forces and immoralities, drifting them into the tunnel of darkness. The Buddhist, Spiritual leaders and Yoga teachers, can tell you the significance of spirituality, because when we pray and meditate, we crave for spiritual things, by reading the scriptures, without much desire for material things. After all what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? We came with nothing into the world and we leave with nothing.
Spiritual strength is acquired through daily prayers and meditation. It gives one the ability to liberate himself and to manifest the Divine on earth. Many rich people even though have thousands of friends, due to the lack of strength in the heart; they still feel lonely and insecure. It is very hard to forgive sometimes when someone hurts you, but we must try to forgive, because forgiveness brings unexpected showers of blessing.
I have said it over and over that 'Whatever happens to me benefits me.' Prayers, meditation, the lessons and whatever I've gone through in my life, have given me the knowledge and wisdom to raise a happy family, to avoid crime, being a drug addict or trafficker and keeping me from going to jail. This makes me feel like a millionaire even though I've no penny in my pocket.
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Author Melinda De Ross' Touch Of Poetry
How can I write a blurb for poetry? It's like trying to describe in words the simple, yet so complex beauty of Giaconda, or relate the impressiveness of Michelangelo's frescoes from the Sistine Chapel. Poetry can only be read, enjoyed and, if the artist is an accomplished one, understood. Just savor the words!
The questions of an inquisitive philosophical mind, its visions on life, love and the mysteries of the Universe.
Melinda De Ross (real name Anca-Melinda Coliolu) lives in her native Romania with her husband and a couple of rude parrots. She attended Law School and got her degree but worked as a journalist for several newspapers, polishing her writing skills.
It never occurred to her that she wanted a career as an author until she began writing, as therapy to get perspective on a crucial part of her life.
Melinda was a professional target shooter for a decade, winning multiple National Championships. She was breaking records in her teens until health issues forced her to give up the sport.
Out of that heartbreak, Rendezvous with Faith – her first novel – started taking shape and so began her career as a Romantic Suspense author.
Melinda has always been a fan of writers like Diana Gabaldon, Nora Roberts and Sandra Brown. Currently she weaves romance into tales laced with the paranormal and occult. Her interests in yoga, philosophy and a large range of other disciplines give her work depth and color.
Other books by Melinda De Ross include:
–Rendezvous with Faith (initially published under the title Rendezvous with Hymera);
-Unabridged;
-Mirage Beyond Flames;
–Dante's Amulet;
-Chronicles of The Blood Countess;
-Be My Valentine;
-A Touch Of Poetry.
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If Churches Are Being Converted To Drinking Pubs, Then Let Muslims Build Their Mosques
An English church converted to drinking pub, whilst the government spends millions of pounds fighting against teenage pregnancy and alcoholism.
The whole world is complaining and protesting against the building of mosques in Europe and America because they think it's one of the measures to prevent Muslims from dominating mankind. However, if we live in a world of few Christians and millions of atheists, putting down a church or converting a church to a drinking pub, is a grave mistake. Islam is a religion that reveres Allah, thus; there is no Islamic country that would convert a mosque to a drinking pub. This is what everyone should know.
The church is the temple of God, where devoted Christians and those who believe in God often worship, besides the church serves many purposes by playing an important role in the society. Even though not everyone believes in the existence of God, the church has transformed and changed millions of lives in our society today.
I quite understand when Jesus couldn't control his anger when he entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves because his father's house of worship has become a den of thieves and gamblers. Matthew 21:12.
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Jesus did that because the temple must be kept holy and not a place for undesired purposes. In such a crucial period whereby the youths want to experience the freedom the world offers, which has led to the increase of crime, immorality, drinking, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, and suicide, conversion of churches to drinking pubs, should have been discouraged by any serious and intelligent leader who appreciates and cares about human life.
How can leaders and heads of churches continue to disrespect God, by converting churches to drinking pubs, when they are desperately fighting to save teenagers from alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicides? Looking for a church to worship God in any European country I visited, was one of my priorities because it is not only the body that needs food but the spirit as well. This the secret to the peaceful and happy life in Africa, in the midst of poverty and diseases.
The Buddhist, Monks and those following Yoga activities, will explain the reason one needs spiritual food, sometimes leading to the search of spiritual food, instead of material things. Churches in Europe have the best architectural designs and interior decoration, but many times they are completely empty. One only sees people in the church when there is marriage or the coffin of the dead to receive his or her last prayers.
Teenage drinking is one of the social problems costing Britain a fortune.
Despite the countless roles of the church in the community, including the support of families, providing moral foundation and community awareness necessary for the success of the community, leaders continue to mess the society with vain selfish political ideas. I don't blame Muslims requesting to build mosques, because they have seen the weakness and the stupidity of such leaders, by continuing defiling God, inviting teenagers to succumb to drugs and immorality.
In Hungary sold consecrated church now serves as a night and stripping club, while others are been demolished. Apart from the conversion of churches to drinking pubs in Britain, certain churches have been turned into mosques, while in Cyprus the former St Nicholas Cathedral is now the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque.
In the Netherlands, award-winning architects recently turned a former Dominican church in Maastricht into a bookshop, with a reading area and Café in the apse. We shouldn't expect the world to be a better place in this condition and we shouldn't expect our children to abstain from morally and destructive activities because that's what politicians, some parents and some head of churches gone astray, have planted.