Do you really believe? (courtsey : mail)

It's in doing our best that we usually fail. To be truly right with God, and right in our faith...
No man can know God without God's own help.
No man can truly have saving faith in Jesus Christ without God's help.

God sees and understands our pain, the confusion. He feels the sorrow and loss. But He has an answer that extends far, far beyond our imagination...into a distance that has absolutely no horizon.
When things go wrong for us, we may question God...GOd why me? why this happend to me? well, GOD has a better plan for you and me.
God knows us and our future better than us.He does everything at the right time. JUST believe in him. He is right there next to you to help you.....

Some Powerful Statements...

As I was reading the Bible, the other day, I came across some powerful statements about LOVE...so tell me what you think about it...and remember keep smiling and keep loving...

"Do not wait until others are good enough to love. Love them now."

" Loving has nothing to do with being right."

" If you do not like what you are getting, look at what you are giving."

" We cannot force anyone to love. We all learn love by being loved."

" The question love asks is what can be given, not what can be received."

" People need love the most when they deserve it the least." (amazing)

" To love is a decision to be made every waking moment."

" People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."

" The words you speak and how they are spoken reveal your love."

" Outward appearances should not affect our love."

" Love does not involve your control of others or allowing others to control you."

" Showing new mercy and compassion is a daily challenge of our love."

" When you are loving you willingly admit when you are wrong."

" Where love lives there is no room for hate or revenge."

" When your desire is to love others, you live with a great sense of purpose."

"Your love can break through the hardest of hearts. "

" Everyone yearns to be loved unconditionally with no strings attached."

" To love another, start by walking in his or her shoes."

" Whenever you say you are too busy to love, you are really too busy to live."

" Forgiveness is the greatest and most loving gift of all."

" When your love is strong, you have the strength to love even those who hate you."

" It is easy to love in the good times. It is loving in the difficult times that counts."

" Fear is what stops us from living. Love sets us free to enjoy life to its fullest."

" To love sometimes requires taking risks."

" Those who love spend no time criticizing or judging others."

" Humility is a key characteristic of those who love."

" Anger is often used for attention. Love never seeks attention."

" The way out of most mental prisons is choosing to love and to forgive everyone."

" Love without hypocrisy or ulterior motive. Love simply for the joy of loving others."

The Awesome Power Of Love.....

(courtesy some mail some1 sent me)

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of four to eight year olds, "What does love mean?

The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think:

"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.
So my grandfather does it for her all the time,
even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love."

Rebecca- age 8
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"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth."

Billy - age 4
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"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."

Karl - age 5
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"Love is when you go out to eat and give
somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs."

Chrissy - age 6
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"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."

Terri - age 4
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"Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK."

Danny - age7
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"Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss"

Emily - age 8
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"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen."

Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)
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"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,"

Nikka - age 6
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"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, and then he wears it everyday."

Noelle - age 7
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"Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends
even after they know each other so well."

Tommy - age 6
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"During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore."

Cindy - age 8
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"My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night."

Clare - age 6
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"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken."

Elaine - age 5
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"Love is when Mommy sees? Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says she is handsomer than Brad Pitt."

Chris - age7
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"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day."

Mary Ann - age 4
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"I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones."

Lauren - age 4
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"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." (What an? image)

Karen - age7
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"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean
it, you should say it a lot. People forget."

Jessica - age 8
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And the final one --

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four-year-old child whose next-door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his? Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, Nothing, I just helped him cry"

LOVE......(courtesy the Bible)

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophesy and can fathom all wisdom and all knowledge,
and if I have a faith that can move mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give all that I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,
but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, 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.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.

But where there are prophecies, they will cease;
where there are tongues, they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
But when I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror;
then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part; then I shall I know fully, even as I am fully known.

And know these three remain:
faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is LOVE ;-)

Unfolding The Rosebud

It is only a tiny rosebud

A flower of GOD's design
But I cannot unfold the petals
With these clumsy hands of mine

The secret of unfolding flowers
Is not known to such as I
GOD opens this flower so sweetly
When in my hand they fade and die

If I cannot unfold a rosebud
This flower of GOD's design
Then how can I think I have the wisdom
To unfold this life of mine

So I'll trust in Him for his leading
Each moment of everyday
I will look to Him for His guidance
Each step of this pilgrim way

The pathway that lies before me
Only my Heavenly Father knows
I'll trust him to unfold the moments
Just as He unfolds the rose