This is my challenge for the first month of 2011: Read daily one chapter of the book of Proverbs of Salomon and comment on it. 31 chapters, 31 Days.
Join by posting your favorite verse(s) and tagging me and your friends along in FB, twitter, etc. By the way, I'll be reading mostly from The Message version.
Day 1
to understand what life means and where it's going;
A manual for living, for learning what's right and just and fair; To teach the inexperienced the ropes and give our young people a grasp on reality. There's something here also for seasoned men and women, still a thing or two for the experienced to learn— Fresh wisdom to probe and penetrate, the rhymes and reasons of wise men and women.
Proverbs 1 MSG (emphasis added)
Oh wow! who hasn't felt like they don't understand what life means some time or which direction to take? A manual for living? Are you kidding me! I gotta find out. And yea, who hasn't thought some people REALLY need a gras on reality? I think I do some times.
God—the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
This requires humbleness and recognizing there's someone higher than us. We're not gods, we're so fragile as humans and we are a small tiny dot in the library of earth and the universe history. Maybe we can learn something if we humble a little, and we can start by paying attention to some of those things our parents taught us.
Pay close attention, friend, to what your father tells you; never forget what you learned at your mother's knee. Wear their counsel like flowers in your hair, like rings on your fingers.
That's it for day 1. Next post should be shorter I think.
Many times I wish things run faster, at the speed of my thoughts I wish all my dreams would come true as I dream of them Many other times I wish things would run in slow motion Some moments are so cherished I wish they could be slowed down Like watching rain in slow motion, so wonderful
It feels like life runs so fast and so filled with youth and energy So many things I want to do, people I want to meet, places I want to go Ahh... I'm so full of life yet it seems I can't get all of it and I'm missing out.
Wings to fly and it seems I can't take off for good Watts to rock but what else I plug into? Wheels to run but why are there so many stop lights ahead? Where's the freeway?
Rhythm, rhythm Maybe I could learn from my own teaching As I said to a friend The key is keeping the rhythm Not faster, not slower Just the right beat The beat the master sets
"I have observed something else under the sun. The fastest runner doesn't always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn't always win the battle. The wise sometimes go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don't always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being in the right place at the right time." —King Salomon
Ya hace ratos que no escribia algo aquí, pero gracias a Dios q tengo un tiempo libre y pues quiero hacer algo que me gusta mucho: compartir. Trataré de hacerlo lo mas compacto posible y se que sus comentarios agragarán lo que haga falta de decir.
Esta mañana mientras corria (si, estoy tratando de ejercitar periodicamente aunque todavia no se note) estaba escuchando una cancion de Hillsong. Sus letras para mi son de mucha inspiracion y reflexion pues hablan verdades de la Biblia, y como ustedes saben es la verdad la que nos hace libres. Asi que aqui les va mi mejor traduccion de la corta letra de esta cancion:
El mismo poder que conquisto la tumba vive en, vive en mi. Tu amor que al mundo rescato vive en mi, vive en mi
Realmente, ¿como podemos ver nuestras circunstancias a la luz de estas verdades? ¿Que cambiaria hoy o esta semana si puedo empezar a ver cada situacion y verme a mi mismo a la luz de esta verdad? Creo que algo tiene que cambiar, ¿no?
So it's been a while since I don't write a blog -or something like it- I'm not even sure the specifics on this one but I know it's always been good to be able to get my thoughts out into words when something's on my mind.
Yesterday I saw this movie called The Ultimate Gift.The movie is good and we watched it at the church's youth groups last night.I think I really like the fact that the movie even though it wasn't a movie produced by Christians for Christian -I know, I should have said a Christian movie but such term is not correct for me- it really spoke to me about the way God is working in my life.
Ok, so I guess you can never trust or believe in someone unless you are truly and open and honest with others... so being said that:I think my walk in life (walk in the Lord for those spiritual readers) truly took a dramatic turn when I was doing an internship in Tennessee with a youth ministry and I came across this book called Wild at Heart.This book talks about the way God created a man (at his image) and what those characteristics of God himself (as a man) we -men- posses and the process God takes males to bring them from boys, to men.So I do believe God's been transforming me into the man he created me to be.Or you can see it as finding my true self, place in this world, destiny, vision, etc.Part of the process of becoming a true man -not a chump or a sissy for sure! - is facing difficult situations, how else could we grow? And oh man, you ask me if I haven’t faced difficult trials the last two years and a half of my life.Definitely the biggest one was coming back from the US and leave behind, let’s just say a lot of my dreams and coming to a place where I have been struggling to keep them alive.So I guess I finally reached my point: keeping my dreams alive.
You know, I think I’ve really put off many of my dreams or maybe I should call them desires and I’ve learned or decided to just go with the flow and with what I have at my reach.If it was up to me I’d probably be in Australia studying at Hillsong College, huh, pretty interesting no?But let’s say that’s would mostly be a dream with not much vision actually.
Haven’t you noticed dreams sometimes come in weird or unexpected ways?Well, I really can’t say my dreams are dead, let’s just say they have become a hybrid version, more like androids I’d say, they have evolved –if you like the term.I’ve become a High School teacher, not that it has been my dream but it’s certainly something that really goes along the path I know have to follow and which involves one of the three things I feel called to in life: Teaching, Music and Ministry (TMM, yea, not TMNT sorry)
I’m getting musical preparation and this pretty much amazing music academy and finally I feel I’m moving forward again in developing my musical gift.I’m also serving in this amazing church ministry, the teenager’s class on Sundays.So it all sounds pretty good huh?Yea, it is, it’s just the way away everything fits together what makes it… crazy sometimes and still missing some of the things I left behind when I came back from the US. So yea, my dreams aren’t dead but I don’t think they are fully alive yet and that’s a tough place to be.
So by this end of this week and I was just… ready to give dreams for dead –don’t make me explain that- but I found their still alive in that weird state I mentioned, not what I would expect them to be or how I’d expect them to be but this movie reminded me that God’s working in my life in ways I don’t completely understand but HE’s at work and HE’s up to something good for sure. I know his ultimate gift is a glorious one.
Here some quotations that have really spoken to me, I hope their self explanatory and shoot me a comment!
You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
"You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.
"You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.
"You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.
"You're blessed when you care. At the moment of being 'care-full,' you find yourselves cared for.
"You're blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.
"You're blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That's when you discover who you really are, and your place in God's family.
This is a research homework. It will be worth 15pts. You have to research the following topics and provide 3 examples for every topic except with the paragraphs -1 for each type. Copy-paste papers will automatically receive a zero (0) grade
CAPITALIZATION
PUNCTUATION • The Comma • The Period • The Semicolon • The Colon • Quotation Mark
PREPOSITIONS
• The use of prepositions
CLAUSES • What is a clause? • Types of clauses
PHRASES • What is a phrase? • Types of phrases
SENTENCE • What is a sentence? • Types of sentences
PARAGRAPHS • What is a paragraph? • Types of paragraphs
Due Date:
Section A: July 9th Section B: July 9th Section C: July 7th
A one week extension might be granted for the students that bring more than 75% of the paper done on the due date. Please inform students in other sections about this website.
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