The root of being Happy, Healthy, Wealthy and Holy is simply to be LOVING.
This is the sequence... If you are LOVING person, this means you are a GIVING, FORGIVING and THANKSGIVING person. If you are doing these three , you are certainly happy. If you are a happy person, you would certainly be healthy, and if you are healthy , you are already wealthy, and since you are loving person you are on your right path to holiness.
So there you have it guys. Just LOVE and you'll be happy, healthy, wealthy and holy!
This is why Jesus summarized the 10 Commandments to LOVING GOD and LOVING others and ourselves! That is the only way!
I love you all!
God bless!
Monday, June 28, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Enjoy What You Have
Being happy is being present in the present. You wonder why this time you are in is called present? It's simply because indeed a present to be still present in the present. Are you still with me?
But, there is another requisite to being happy in the present. Ask me what? Okay, the key to happiness is to be present in the present and "Enjoy What You Have".
If you are focused on what you do not have, you will miss the opportunity to enjoy what you have. Many people fall to this trap simply because they are driven by envy as they look on what others have that they do not.
I came across this man from China by the name of Peng who has a half body. This was shared by my brother from the USA and I would like to share with you, so you would be inspired to be thankful for what we have.
Happy reading...
Next time you start feeling sorry for yourself, think about this story. This guy could have chosen anger for his loss, but instead he made so much more of himself with less than what he started with. The human will power. Amazing choice in attitude. Its wonderful.
"Half Man - Half Price Store"
The Story of Peng Shuilin
In life we keep complaining about what is or why we don't have.
Half the time we seem dissatisfied, though full-bodied and free to choose. Fat people say,"I want to be slim." Skinny people say,"I want to be fatter."
Poor people want to be rich and rich are never satisfied with what they have.
PENG Shuilin is 78cms high. He was born in Hunan Province, China. In 1995, in Shenzhen, a freight truck sliced his body in half.
His lower body and legs were beyond repair.
Surgeons sewed up his torso. Peng Shuilin, 37, spent nearly two years in hospital in Shenzhen, southern China, undergoing a series of operations to re-route nearly every major organ or system inside his body. Peng kept exercising his arms, building up strength, washing his face and brushing his teeth.
He survived against all odds. Now Peng Shulin has astounded doctors by learning to walk again after a decade.
Considering Peng's plight, doctors at the China Rehabilitation Research Centre in Beijing devised an ingenious way to allow him to walk on his own, creating a sophisticated egg cup-like casing to hold his body, with two bionic legs attached.
It took careful consideration, skilled measurement and technical expertise. Peng has been walking the corridors of Beijing Rehabilitation Centre with the aid of his specially adapted legs and a resized walking frame.
RGO is a recipicating gait orthosis, attached to a prosthetic socket bucket. There is a cable attached to both legs so when one goes forward, the other goes backwards. Rock to the side, add a bit of a twist and the leg without the weight on it advances,
while the other one stays still, giving a highly inefficient way of ambulation.
Oh so satisfying to 'walk' again after ten years with half a body!
Hospital vice-president Lin Liu said: "We've just given him a checkup; he is fitter than most men his age."
Peng Shuilin has opened his own bargain supermarket, called the Half Man-Half Price Store.
The inspirational 37-year-old has become a businessman and is used as a role model for other amputees.
At just 2ft 7ins tall, he moves around in a wheelchair giving lectures on recovery from disability.
His attitude is amazing, he doesn't complain.
"He had good care, but his secret is cheerfulness. Nothing ever gets him down."
You have a whole body. You have feet.
Now you have met a man who has no feet.
His life is a feat of endurance, a triumph of the human spirit in overcoming extreme adversity.
Next time you want to complain about something trivial, don't.
Remember Peng Shulin instead.
But, there is another requisite to being happy in the present. Ask me what? Okay, the key to happiness is to be present in the present and "Enjoy What You Have".
If you are focused on what you do not have, you will miss the opportunity to enjoy what you have. Many people fall to this trap simply because they are driven by envy as they look on what others have that they do not.
I came across this man from China by the name of Peng who has a half body. This was shared by my brother from the USA and I would like to share with you, so you would be inspired to be thankful for what we have.
Happy reading...
Next time you start feeling sorry for yourself, think about this story. This guy could have chosen anger for his loss, but instead he made so much more of himself with less than what he started with. The human will power. Amazing choice in attitude. Its wonderful.
"Half Man - Half Price Store"
The Story of Peng Shuilin
In life we keep complaining about what is or why we don't have.
Half the time we seem dissatisfied, though full-bodied and free to choose. Fat people say,"I want to be slim." Skinny people say,"I want to be fatter."
Poor people want to be rich and rich are never satisfied with what they have.
PENG Shuilin is 78cms high. He was born in Hunan Province, China. In 1995, in Shenzhen, a freight truck sliced his body in half.
His lower body and legs were beyond repair.
Surgeons sewed up his torso. Peng Shuilin, 37, spent nearly two years in hospital in Shenzhen, southern China, undergoing a series of operations to re-route nearly every major organ or system inside his body. Peng kept exercising his arms, building up strength, washing his face and brushing his teeth.
He survived against all odds. Now Peng Shulin has astounded doctors by learning to walk again after a decade.
Considering Peng's plight, doctors at the China Rehabilitation Research Centre in Beijing devised an ingenious way to allow him to walk on his own, creating a sophisticated egg cup-like casing to hold his body, with two bionic legs attached.
It took careful consideration, skilled measurement and technical expertise. Peng has been walking the corridors of Beijing Rehabilitation Centre with the aid of his specially adapted legs and a resized walking frame.
RGO is a recipicating gait orthosis, attached to a prosthetic socket bucket. There is a cable attached to both legs so when one goes forward, the other goes backwards. Rock to the side, add a bit of a twist and the leg without the weight on it advances,
while the other one stays still, giving a highly inefficient way of ambulation.
Oh so satisfying to 'walk' again after ten years with half a body!
Hospital vice-president Lin Liu said: "We've just given him a checkup; he is fitter than most men his age."
Peng Shuilin has opened his own bargain supermarket, called the Half Man-Half Price Store.
The inspirational 37-year-old has become a businessman and is used as a role model for other amputees.
At just 2ft 7ins tall, he moves around in a wheelchair giving lectures on recovery from disability.
His attitude is amazing, he doesn't complain.
"He had good care, but his secret is cheerfulness. Nothing ever gets him down."
You have a whole body. You have feet.
Now you have met a man who has no feet.
His life is a feat of endurance, a triumph of the human spirit in overcoming extreme adversity.
Next time you want to complain about something trivial, don't.
Remember Peng Shulin instead.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Instant Gratification or Long Term Rewards
Long lasting happiness is sometimes hiding behind an instant surge of happiness... Like the story of Esau and Jacob sons of Isaac. Bro Bo narrated the story of Esau giving up his rights as first born to Jacob to a bowl of red bean soup!
Many times many of us are guilty of choosing an instant gratification over a long term sense of enjoyment or true happiness. We fall for what is immediately graspable in front of us vs what is in store somewhere from afar.
What are the common temptations: Sex, Money, Fame, and Power.
We are surely familiar with situations where people are getting married because the bride is on her way. Couples enjoying sexual relationship prior matrimony. Enjoying the pleasure and suffering in remorse and frustrations later on.
We also know of some people falling into the trap of having instant money, sacrificing their dignity, and their name. Familiar with "kotong" cops? Or the "kotongressmens"? Even in the private companies, this happens. Many people fall for instant money making ventures versus a disciplined approach to safe and wise saving and investing. Gusto lagi instant (always like instant).
Some people resort to paying off anything just to be famous. Instantly rising to stardom and eventually fading away like a shooting star. This one is for showbiz folks.
And lastly, many people specially in government will do everything to be in power or stay in power. Guns, goons, and gold are employed to ensure they win the coveted post.Yes, they often-times succeed, but the question is, do they really become truly happy for the long haul?
The ploy of the devil is make us blind to what lies beyond. It is the devil that urged Esau to exchange a bowl of soup for his rights. It is the devil who tempts us to grab what is an instant gratification versus what is good for the long term.
Thus, we need to always pray and discern the choices we make. It is only with the guidance of the Holy Spirit that we will be able to see clearly between instant gratification and long term reward.
God bless.
Many times many of us are guilty of choosing an instant gratification over a long term sense of enjoyment or true happiness. We fall for what is immediately graspable in front of us vs what is in store somewhere from afar.
What are the common temptations: Sex, Money, Fame, and Power.
We are surely familiar with situations where people are getting married because the bride is on her way. Couples enjoying sexual relationship prior matrimony. Enjoying the pleasure and suffering in remorse and frustrations later on.
We also know of some people falling into the trap of having instant money, sacrificing their dignity, and their name. Familiar with "kotong" cops? Or the "kotongressmens"? Even in the private companies, this happens. Many people fall for instant money making ventures versus a disciplined approach to safe and wise saving and investing. Gusto lagi instant (always like instant).
Some people resort to paying off anything just to be famous. Instantly rising to stardom and eventually fading away like a shooting star. This one is for showbiz folks.
And lastly, many people specially in government will do everything to be in power or stay in power. Guns, goons, and gold are employed to ensure they win the coveted post.Yes, they often-times succeed, but the question is, do they really become truly happy for the long haul?
The ploy of the devil is make us blind to what lies beyond. It is the devil that urged Esau to exchange a bowl of soup for his rights. It is the devil who tempts us to grab what is an instant gratification versus what is good for the long term.
Thus, we need to always pray and discern the choices we make. It is only with the guidance of the Holy Spirit that we will be able to see clearly between instant gratification and long term reward.
God bless.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Where does True Happiness Comes From
Many people search far and wide for happiness.
True happiness can only found from within. It is not in the world. It is in our hearts of heart. Unfortunately, it is by human nature that we seek what is in the outside before we look what we have from within. Some people resort to the pleasures derived from what the world offers: wine, sex, casino, movie, telenovela, food, and many other diversions which indeed gives off some sense of happiness, but just a fleeting, short lived kind of happiness.
True happiness is not found from what we take, buy , acquire, receive.... but from what we give.
Thus, true happiness does not come from the outside but from our heart.
So how do we find true happiness in our heart? If what we do mundanely like eating, watching movie, and many others are done in the name of love, then we will find happiness. Think about it, if what we do is founded always in love, it will make us truly happy people. When we drive our car or ride in a bus and is traveling to our destination, we just sit and relax, pray, admire the beauty of God's creation and blessings, rather than curse due to traffic, we will be happy rather than grumpy for we evoke love from within.
You also wonder why sex between married people is called making love? This is precisely a gift for couples to express their deepest love for each other and in the process of doing so, makes them happy, truly happy and bond them even more closer. You cannot claim the same is happening between couples who are not in love though they tag it as making love as well, as it is purely a sex act rather than love. Pleasure is indeed derived, but is only instant and is replaced immediately with remorse, guilt, fright, but not true happiness.
Most sources of happiness from the outside cost money. What comes from within is free! What we get from the world is limited and time-bounded, what is within is limitless and has no time limits.
It's what Jesus has been preaching over and over....Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind and love one another as yourself.... That is where true happiness comes from. It is from within. It is what we give off rather that what we take.
Try it now and stay on it. It's challenging, and I myself cannot claim I have perfected it, but the more we practice it, the more we get happier, truly happier!
God bless!
True happiness can only found from within. It is not in the world. It is in our hearts of heart. Unfortunately, it is by human nature that we seek what is in the outside before we look what we have from within. Some people resort to the pleasures derived from what the world offers: wine, sex, casino, movie, telenovela, food, and many other diversions which indeed gives off some sense of happiness, but just a fleeting, short lived kind of happiness.
True happiness is not found from what we take, buy , acquire, receive.... but from what we give.
Thus, true happiness does not come from the outside but from our heart.
So how do we find true happiness in our heart? If what we do mundanely like eating, watching movie, and many others are done in the name of love, then we will find happiness. Think about it, if what we do is founded always in love, it will make us truly happy people. When we drive our car or ride in a bus and is traveling to our destination, we just sit and relax, pray, admire the beauty of God's creation and blessings, rather than curse due to traffic, we will be happy rather than grumpy for we evoke love from within.
You also wonder why sex between married people is called making love? This is precisely a gift for couples to express their deepest love for each other and in the process of doing so, makes them happy, truly happy and bond them even more closer. You cannot claim the same is happening between couples who are not in love though they tag it as making love as well, as it is purely a sex act rather than love. Pleasure is indeed derived, but is only instant and is replaced immediately with remorse, guilt, fright, but not true happiness.
Most sources of happiness from the outside cost money. What comes from within is free! What we get from the world is limited and time-bounded, what is within is limitless and has no time limits.
It's what Jesus has been preaching over and over....Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind and love one another as yourself.... That is where true happiness comes from. It is from within. It is what we give off rather that what we take.
Try it now and stay on it. It's challenging, and I myself cannot claim I have perfected it, but the more we practice it, the more we get happier, truly happier!
God bless!
Monday, February 22, 2010
Be Wealthy...Firstly on Your Mind!
Money is the root of all evil... this is usually what we normally hear from people who have a wrong religious mindset about money. It is actually the LOVE of money that is the root of all evil and not money itself.
Money is neutral. It is not evil, it is not filthy, and and it wont bring us to eternal damnation! If money is in the hands of bad people, it will be used for bad purpose. But if it is n the hands of good people then it will be used for greater glory of God!
Thus, I submit to T. Harv Eker and to Bro Bo's thesis that first thing we need to do to really be wealthy is to expand our mind wallet so we can attract more money to come into our lives. But I just want to add... not to go to the extent that all we think about is how to make money.
How do we suppose to expand our money mindset? Simple, just think that money is good, money is what we need to be bale to help more people, money must be saved and invested for our future, money is going to bring us to heaven. Be truly wealthy...wealthy people who does not get attached to their wealth but use their wealth for the greater glory of God!
Be truly wealthy and you can be truly happy!
Money is neutral. It is not evil, it is not filthy, and and it wont bring us to eternal damnation! If money is in the hands of bad people, it will be used for bad purpose. But if it is n the hands of good people then it will be used for greater glory of God!
Thus, I submit to T. Harv Eker and to Bro Bo's thesis that first thing we need to do to really be wealthy is to expand our mind wallet so we can attract more money to come into our lives. But I just want to add... not to go to the extent that all we think about is how to make money.
How do we suppose to expand our money mindset? Simple, just think that money is good, money is what we need to be bale to help more people, money must be saved and invested for our future, money is going to bring us to heaven. Be truly wealthy...wealthy people who does not get attached to their wealth but use their wealth for the greater glory of God!
Be truly wealthy and you can be truly happy!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Add "L" into Your Marriage
Marriage is a balance of many aspects and priorities. It is a never ending cycle of ups and downs much like a roller coaster ride.
In my own 25 years of marriage with the same woman, I finally got to realize that the surest way to increase the gap of separation and animosity is by increasing your level of competition.
One area you compete in is who earns more. The man of the house must stand his ground that this is his turf. He is the bread winner. Thus, the husband must ensure his wife will not earn more than he does.
Who wins if I win, or she wins? What's the point? Does it make both of you happy?
What's my solution to bridge the gap is simple. You LOVE your spouse , that is why you married him or her. The purpose of which is not to COMPETE but to COMPLETE. Go back to that purpose. Add that "L" which is LOVE back to your marriage and you'll see happiness and blessings coming back.
God bless!
In my own 25 years of marriage with the same woman, I finally got to realize that the surest way to increase the gap of separation and animosity is by increasing your level of competition.
One area you compete in is who earns more. The man of the house must stand his ground that this is his turf. He is the bread winner. Thus, the husband must ensure his wife will not earn more than he does.
Who wins if I win, or she wins? What's the point? Does it make both of you happy?
What's my solution to bridge the gap is simple. You LOVE your spouse , that is why you married him or her. The purpose of which is not to COMPETE but to COMPLETE. Go back to that purpose. Add that "L" which is LOVE back to your marriage and you'll see happiness and blessings coming back.
God bless!
Monday, January 18, 2010
The First Miracle Of Jesus!
Are you married and you want to be truly truly happy...extremely happy? Love. That's the formula LOVE.
And where should you experience this firsthand and most frequently? Of course at home with your spouse and family.
Why do I say this? The very first miracle of Jesus is the changing of water into wine at the wedding in Cana.
And not just another wine. The best wine .. Imagine ordinary water in a big jar filled to the brim, and not just one , but many. Get the picture. It is a graphic portrait of a huge, overflowing blessings to a couple that shares LOVE. love shared between HUSBANDS and WIVES.
Why LOVE? Mother Mary told the attendants before Jesus performed His first miracle that is not even in His time yet, "just do what Jesus tells you"... And in all that Jesus proclaim and preach...bottomline is always LOVE. That is what He is telling the newly weds in Cana, that is what He is telling the crowds, and His disciples, that is what He is telling us... just LOVE.
And when we love one another most especially our spouse, the miracle starts to happen. The blessings starts to flow and it is overflowing filled to the brim like the wine they had on that wedding in Cana.
So, after reading this blog... go to your spouse side, give him or her a tight hug and a kiss! You'll immediately feel the miracle starts to happen!
God bless!
And where should you experience this firsthand and most frequently? Of course at home with your spouse and family.
Why do I say this? The very first miracle of Jesus is the changing of water into wine at the wedding in Cana.
And not just another wine. The best wine .. Imagine ordinary water in a big jar filled to the brim, and not just one , but many. Get the picture. It is a graphic portrait of a huge, overflowing blessings to a couple that shares LOVE. love shared between HUSBANDS and WIVES.
Why LOVE? Mother Mary told the attendants before Jesus performed His first miracle that is not even in His time yet, "just do what Jesus tells you"... And in all that Jesus proclaim and preach...bottomline is always LOVE. That is what He is telling the newly weds in Cana, that is what He is telling the crowds, and His disciples, that is what He is telling us... just LOVE.
And when we love one another most especially our spouse, the miracle starts to happen. The blessings starts to flow and it is overflowing filled to the brim like the wine they had on that wedding in Cana.
So, after reading this blog... go to your spouse side, give him or her a tight hug and a kiss! You'll immediately feel the miracle starts to happen!
God bless!
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