Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, editor of First Things, has received the last rites of his Church. At NRO Kathryn Jean Lopez quotes something Father Neuhaus wrote about death:
We are born to die. Not that death is the purpose of our being born, but we are born toward death, and in each of our lives the work of dying is already underway. The work of dying well is, in largest part, the work of living well. Most of us are at ease in discussing what makes for a good life, but we typically become tongue-tied and nervous when the discussion turns to a good death. As children of a culture radically, even religiously, devoted to youth and health, many find it incomprehensible, indeed offensive, that the word "good" should in any way be associated with death. Death, it is thought, is an unmitigated evil, the very antithesis of all that is good.
Death is to be warded off by exercise, by healthy habits, by medical advances. What cannot be halted can be delayed, and what cannot forever be delayed can be denied. But all our progress and all our protest notwithstanding, the mortality rate holds steady at 100 percent.
Death is the most everyday of everyday things. It is not simply that thousands of people die every day, that thousands will die this day, although that too is true. Death is the warp and woof of existence in the ordinary, the quotidian, the way things are. It is the horizon against which we get up in the morning and go to bed at night, and the next morning we awake to find the horizon has drawn closer. From the twelfth-century "Enchiridion Leonis" comes the nighttime prayer of children of all ages:
"Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray thee Lord my soul to keep;
If I should die before I wake,
I pray thee Lord my soul to take."Every going to sleep is a little death, a rehearsal for the real thing.Pray for Richard John Neuhaus.
Update: Kathryn Jean Lopez again:Over in the National Review world, we're anticipating the likely imminent death of Father Richard John Neuhaus. He's a Catholic priest who is on our masthead, was a longtime religion editor of ours, and founded the ecumenical journal First Things, which covers religion, politics, and culture. I'm a Catholic, too, and was surprised by the urgent pray-for-Fr.-Neuhaus-to-get-well e-mails. He's been sick for a while now; this is his second relapse of cancer. And, as it happens, doctors don't expect him to hang on for much longer. Which is sad for all who know him-a prolific writer, solid preacher, and generous man, he will be missed-and for all who would have liked to know him. But, for a faithful Catholic priest (and so many religious believers), death is actually joyous news.Update 1/8: From Christianity Today:Richard John Neuhaus, the Lutheran-turned-Catholic priest who founded the influential journal First Things, died last night from cancer.
More to come. In the meantime, First Things has posted a thoughtful essay by Neuhaus, "Born Toward Dying".
From Charles Colson, who worked with Neuhaus extensively on the Evangelicals and Catholics Together project and several political initiatives:Richard Neuhaus is one of the most remarkable human beings I've ever known, a man of extraordinary intellect, a great communicator and theologian. His writings will be his great legacy in the manner C. S. Lewis's are to us today. He had become a very dear friend and I will sorely miss him. He was one of the towering figures of our age.Blogger Justin Taylor has a good timeline of Neuhaus's life. [more]On Fr. Neuhaus - Kathryn Jean Lopez - The Corner on National Review Online, Richard John Neuhaus, RIP Liveblog Christianity Today
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MUSLIMS DEMAND GERMANY "MAKE ISLAM EQUAL TO CHRISTIANITY"
by Soeren Kern
May 15, 2013 at 5:00 am HTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3715/GERMANY-ISLAM-CHRISTIANITY
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Be the first of your friends to like this. Muslims attending the German Islam Conference were apparently offended by the insinuation that Islam could be radical or violent. A major conference on German-Muslim relations has ended in failure after Muslims attending the event refused to acknowledge the government's concerns about the threats to security posed by radical Islam.
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich had wanted the eighth annual German Islam Conference, held in Berlin on May 7, to focus on finding ways the government could work together with "moderate" Muslims in Germany to combat Islamism and extremism.
But Muslims attending the gathering were apparently offended by the insinuation that Islam could be radical or violent, and demanded instead that the German government take steps to make "Islam equal to Christianity" in Germany.
The German Islam Conference was launched by former Interior Minister Wolfgang Sch"auble in 2006, and has been billed as the "central forum for dialogue" between German politicians and representatives of the estimated 4.3 million Muslims now living in Germany.
The stated aim of the annual event -- where Muslim organizations and individuals are invited to sit at the table with representatives from federal, state and local government -- is to promote Muslim integration into German society.
This year's event was focused around three main themes: institutional cooperation between Muslims and the German state; gender equality as a common value, and prevention of extremism, radicalization and social polarization.
Muslims attending the conference evidently wanted to focus only on the first theme, which included "promoting the introduction of comprehensive Islamic religious instruction in public schools, including through conferences and publications." Although the government has already made many concessions in this regard, Muslims complained about German "interference" in selecting the teachers who provide Islam training in German schools.
In respect to the second theme -- gender equality -- the German government had hoped to find solutions to the problems of honor violence and forced marriage. But Muslims refused even to acknowledge any connection between Islam and forced marriage. Instead, they managed to turn the gender issue on its head by demanding that German employers promise not to discriminate against Muslim women who want to wear burkas to work.
The third theme -- the prevention of Islamic extremism and radicalization -- undoubtedly caused the most controversy at this year's conference.
Interior Minister Friedrich had been hoping to enlist the support and cooperation of Muslims at the conference to help in the fight against the radicalization of young Muslims in Germany.
Since taking office in 2011, Friedrich has led Germany's multifaceted response (here, hereand here) to the rise of radical Islam there. Friedrich and other German security officials are increasingly concerned about the threat posed by home-grown terrorists inspired by Islamic extremists, who openly state that they want to establish Islamic Sharia law in Germany and across Europe. (A recent pollfound that more than half of all Germans view Islam as a threat to their country and believe it does not belong in the Western world.)
But Muslims were perceptibly furious when Friedrich refused to give in to their demands to drop discussion of security-related aspects of Islam at this year's conference.
The director of inter-religious dialogue at the Turkish-Islamic Union for Islamic Affairs[T"urkisch-Islamische Union der Anstalt f"ur Religion (DITIB)], Bekir Alboga, complained that Friedrich had rendered the conference "pointless" by bringing "security policy themes too far to the fore." Alboga saidthe German Islam Conference "makes no more sense in its current form. I do not see any genuine partnership." He added that "we [Muslims] do not want to be seen as being a security factor."
In a speechhe delivered at the conference, Alboga used logical gymnastics to blame Germany of promoting "extremism and radicalization" by not doing enough to stop "Islamophobia."
Later, in an interview with the German news agency Deutsche Welle, Alboga said he was hoping that German Chancellor Angela Merkel would be defeated in federal elections in September 2013 so that the Muslim-German dialogue could continue in a more positive way with a new government led by the more Muslim-friendly Social Democrats. "I yearn for a real partnership," he said.
It should be noted that Alboga's DITIB is a branch of the Turkish government, which controls over 900 mosques in Germany. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long used DITIB to dissuade Turkish immigrants from integrating into German society.
Alboga's complaints were echoed by the Secretary-General of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany[Zentralrats der Muslime in Deutschland (ZMD)], Aiman Mazyek, who said the Islam conference "urgently needs a general overhaul" because it is not a "dialogue among equals."
The head of the Turkish Community in Germany[T"urkische Gemeinde in Deutschland (TGD)], Kenan Kolat, called on the German government to create a new Integration Ministry that would take the responsibility for organizing the German Islam Conference away from the Interior Ministry.
The director of the Islamic Council of Germany [Islamrats f"ur die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (IR)], Ali Kizilkaya, described the German Islam Conference as "a train heading in the wrong direction" because the event is built on "security concerns and mistrust."
The center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), eager to court disgruntled Muslim voters in a desperate bid to unseat Merkel this fall, has jumped on the anti-Friedrich bandwagon with enthusiasm.
The Interior Minister of Lower Saxony, the SPD's Boris Pistorius, accused Friedrich of fomenting "Islamophobia" by making "insensitive comments." Pistorius said the original goal of the German Islam Conference "was to talk about Islam" but Friedrich and his predecessor, Thomas de Maizi`ere, changed the focus to "security and terrorism" and this shift has "alienated" Muslim participants. Pistorius said that after the federal elections, a victorious SPD would re-conceptualize the conference by "carefully separating the concepts of Islam and Islamism."
The parliamentary secretary of the SPD, Thomas Oppermann, accused Friedrich of leading the Islam Conference to an impasse, and said, "We want to put the dialogue with Muslims on a new basis." The Integration Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, SPD politician Guntram Schneider, hinted at what such a "reorientation of the conference" might entail when he complained that the event did not address "Islamophobia."
Potential SPD coalition partners also joined the electioneering. Left Party politician Christine Friedrich Buchholz accused Friedrich of not being really interested in a genuine dialogue with Muslims. Green Party leader Renate K"unast said the conference needed a "reset" because Friedrich had "smashed too many dishes."
In any event, this is not the first time the German Islam Conference has ended in failure. The official focus of the conference in 2012 was to find ways to deal with the spiraling rates of forced marriages and domestic violence among Muslims in Germany.
But Muslim representatives attending that event were in no mood for compromise. Then, like now, they refused to accept responsibility for any of the innumerable irritants in German-Muslim relations. Instead, they insisted that the German government amend its "misguided" approach to Muslim integration.
The 2012 event ended without a joint press conference because of lingering Muslim pique at "offensive" comments that were allegedly uttered at the press conference that ended the 2011 event.
"Soeren Kern" is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute". He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estrat'egicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook"."
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SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES HOTBEDS OF ANTI-JEWISH SENTIMENT
by Samuel Westrop
May 15, 2013 at 4:00 am HTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3711/SCOTTISH-UNIVERSITIES-ANTI-JEWISH
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Be the first of your friends to like this. The greatest problem to tackling anti-Jewish incitement is the denial that there is any such problem. The facts, as we have seen, tell a rather different story. A charity ball organized by the University of St. Andrew's Jewish Society, guarded by plain-clothes police officers, was held in secret last week after threats were made against staff at the original venue. The increasing security and secrecy surrounding this annual student event is an illustration of the sentiments aimed at Jewish students in Scotland.
The ball was originally supposed to be held at the Golf Hotel in St. Andrews, a small University town on the east coast of Scotland. After a campaign organized by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, a number of threats were directed at the hotel's staff, and a number of violent comments were posted on social media, with one protester writing: "Friday we send them into hell."
The Golf Hotel cancelled the event over "safety concerns." One member of the Jewish student society said that the decision to cancel the event was "pathetic.... They [the Golf Hotel] had no right to violate their part of the contract. The Golf Hotel is scared of them. A victory does not come from bullying people into submission, it comes from engaging people and opening their minds."
Although activists from the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign [SPSC] were able to pressure the hotel into cancelling the charity ball, it was held secretly at another location, and raised over three times the amount of money for its nominated charities.
The SPSC offers a free book to all new members: Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jewish People" -- a book the central argument of which is that the Jewish people, as a single collectivity, do not exist. Last year, the group also protested in support of a student at St. Andrews, Paul Donnachie, who was charged and found guilty of racially abusing a Jewish student.
In 2006, the SPSC commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day by performing a reading of "Perdition," a play that claims the Holocaust was a joint venture between Zionists and Nazis. In 2009, the group commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day by running an event with Azzam Tamimi, a spokespersonfor the terror group Hamas. And in 2010, the group reproduced the winning entry from Iran's offensive Holocaust cartoon competition of 2006.
Senior SPSC member John Wight has previously promoted a website called the "Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust." Wight has said: "As soon as the scales fall from the eyes of international Jewry with regard to the racist and fascist ideology that is Zionism, the world will begin to emerge from the iron heel of war and brutality in the Middle East."
Similarly, Edinburgh PSC chair Mike Napier has referenced a number of neo-Nazi websites in an article that vindicatedthe murder of eight Jewish students at a religious school in Jerusalem, on the grounds that the school is "the main educational and training centre of the fanatical Israeli settler movement," and that the students are taught to regard Gentiles as cattle and to use Arabs for "medical experiments" and to send "Arabs to the gas chambers."
The "We are all Hana Shalabi Network" also supported the protest against the St. Andrews Jewish Society. This group campaigns in support of Hana Shalabi, a member of the Palestinian terror group Islamic Jihad. In 2012, Shalabi visited Tehran as part of a delegation from the Islamic Jihad movement. In front of the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Shalabi spoke of her commitment to "jihad and resistance" and praised the Iranian revolution in 1979 as the "beginning of a new era."
Across Scotland, Jewish students regard the line between anti-Israel activism and anti-Jewish incitement as wearing dangerously thin. Several months ago, a number of Jewish students the University of Edinburgh abandoned their courses because of the "toxic atmosphere" on campus.
Moreover, the University of Glasgow is a participant in a European Union-funded program, "Lifelong Learning in Palestine," in which the Islamic University of Gaza is one of the main beneficiaries. The Islamic University of Gaza is the "the brain trust and engine room of Hamas," the Palestinian terror group that rules Gaza. In 2008, Hamas was using the University to build explosives and rockets for use against Israeli civilians.
In 2011, security guards had to step in to protect Arab-Israeli diplomat Ishmael Khaldi at the University of Edinburgh, after a student mob surrounded him while screaming"Viva, Viva Palestina."
Increasingly, Jewish students' choice over which university to attend is influenced by the potency of anti-Israel sentiment. The Scottish Council of Jewish Communities has reported a rise in the number of inquiries from parents and potential students in the US and Europe about the safety of Jewish students.
In 2011, the British ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, claimedthat the image of Universities being "hotbeds of anti-Israel sentiment" was false. University authorities also downplaythe extent of the campus extremism. Last month, Baroness Warsi, the Minister of State for Faith and Communities, and Nicola Dandridge, the head of Universities UK, both claimedthat the problem of university extremism is greatly exaggerated. The facts, as we have seen, tell a rather different story.
The greatest obstacle to tackling anti-Jewish incitement is the denial that there is any such problem.
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We are told in the Scriptures, that Christ, "came to His own and his own, customary Him not." [Gospel of Image 6:3 ; Gospel of John 1:11] Possible history is satiated with consideration while disturbance, and rejecting the Redeemer, whose appliance was to sustain and die as the holy and a moment ago God's surrender for possible sin. Isaiah 53:1-12 THE UNREGENERATE Reprobate IS Everlastingly Cross AT CHRISTTake pleasure in you ever witnessed a swimmer attempting to recover a drowning person? Oftentimes the drowning moral fiber, in the midst of his worry about, attitude resist the rescuer's well meaning hard work and end up drowning each himself and his wannabe knight in shining armor, by while riotously suspended by out-and-out worry about. The one to be rescued, resists the rescuer's hard work and more accurately, becomes to the knight in shining armor as a d?collet vast rock, clasping with all his attention-grabbing valor, upon the knight in shining armor. 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[Ephesians 2:1-9] Deserted as a result of His act of renewal attitude you be matched to exempt that you are a damnable outlaw, needing, divine rescue! John 3:3 ; Colossians 2:13 ; John 5:21NOTE: See also: "Christian Praise -- How does a soul discovery it?" -- Seeing that is the "New Innate," -- or, what is generally called "Reformation," or, the Christian "Conversion" process?Colleague, may you, by God's Consideration, as a result of optimism, come to meet the Triune God's divine sit-in. May unclear yourself to satisfy that the Scriptures are His gift for your very life and soul. May you, [by God's sophistication] also, come to satisfy that with His divine sit-in, grant is no satire of exactness. May you come to fairly satisfy that even if you do not understand all of the Triune God's divine sit-in, that crowdedness on your part is not open determination to disallow His enthusiastic entreaties to you. May you eventually not "whiz smear" in the Christ who came to save and recover your soul from eternal damnation. Amen.Related SCRIPTURES [Below] -- Shrewd TO BE UTILIZED IN A Unfashionable Esteem FORMAT:ALSO: FOR A Snag OF Different (Over Official) Esteem FORMATS:THE Form ranks OF Sunup Benefit THE Form ranks OF MATINSRelated SCRIPTURES TO THE Above LessonIsaiah 53:1-12 -- The world of consideration rejects the RedeemerLuke 16:19-31 -- The repressive valor of unbelief in the outlaw "OF WHOM DOES THE Futurist Confer" -- by Victor Buksbazen -- Isaiah 53:1-12 -- an in-depth view of and the farsightedness of Christ, hundred of existence previously his start. Isaiah 53:1-12 underscores the truthfulness of Foretell Visualization as exemplified in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. 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Maewyn Succat, Feed My Irish Sheep!
Most people have heard that Patrick was an Irish Catholic who drove the snakes out of Ireland. The truth about Patrick (which wasn't even his real name) is far more exciting than the fiction! Further, he was neither Catholic nor Irish!
Below are some quotations derived from two web sites acknowledged belo:
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"There is strong evidence that Patrick had no Roman commission in Ireland... As Patrick's churches in Ireland, like their brethren in Britain, repudiated the supremacy of the popes, all knowledge of the conversion of Ireland through his ministry must be suppressed [by Rome].... There is not a written word from one of them [Roman sources] rejoicing over Patrick's additions to their church, showing clearly that he was not a Roman missionary.... Prosper does not notice Patrick.... He says nothing of the greatest success ever given to a missionary of Christ, apparently because he [Patrick] was not a Romanist.... Bede never speaks of St. Patrick in his celebrated 'Ecclesiastical History'.... So completely buried was Patrick and his work by popes and other Roman Catholics, that in their epistles and larger publications, his name does not once occur in one of them until A.D. 634." (William Cathcart, D.D., The Ancient British and Irish Churches, pp.83-85)
"It seems to have been customary in the Celtic churches of early times, in Ireland as well as Scotland, to keep Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, as a day of rest from labor. They obeyed the fourth commandment literally upon the seventh day of the week." (James C. Moffatt, D.D., The Church in Scotland, Philadelphia: 1882, p.140)
"In this latter instance they seemed to have followed a custom of which we find traces in the early monastic church of Ireland by which they held Saturday to be the Sabbath on which they rested from all their labours." (W.T. Skene, Adamnan Life of St. Columba, 1874, p.96)
"The youth in the Culdee [Celtic Assembly in Scotland circa the 6th century] schools clung to the fundamental Christian doctrines, such as the divinity of Christ, baptism, the atonement, inspiration of the Scriptures, the prophecies connected with the last days. They did not accept the doctrines of infallibility, celibacy, transubstantiation, the confessional, the mass, relic worship, image adoration, and the primacy of Peter" (Truth Triumphant, Wilkinson, p.108).
"Two centuries elapsed after Patrick's death before any writer attempted to connect Patrick's work with a papal commission. No pope ever mentioned him, neither is there anything in the ecclesiastical records of Rome concerning him.... Patrick preached the Bible. He appealed to it as the sole authority for founding the Irish Church. He gave credit to no other worldly authority; he recited no creed. Several official creeds of the church at Rome had by that time been ratified and commanded, but Patrick mentions none. In his Confession he makes a brief statement of his beliefs, but he does not refer to any church council or creed as authority. The training centers he founded, which later grew into colleges and large universities, were all Bible schools. Famous students of these schools-Columba, who brought Scotland to Christ, Aidan, who won pagan England to the gospel, and Columbanus with his successors, who brought Christianity to Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy-took the Bible as their only authority, and founded renowned Bible training centers for the Christian believers.... Patrick, like his example, Jesus, put the words of Scripture above the teachings of men. He differed from the Papacy, which puts church tradition above the Bible. In his writings he nowhere appeals to the church at Rome for the authorization of his mission. Whenever he speaks in defense of his mission, he refers to God alone, and declares that he received his call direct from heaven." (Truth Triumphant, pp.82-84)
"... Many legends grew up about this popular saint. One of the best known is that he charmed the snakes of Ireland down to the seashore so they were driven into the water and drowned. Much else that is told of Saint Patrick is little more than legend. He left a sort of autobiography in his Confession, written in crude Latin.... Much study has been given to Saint Patrick, but little that goes beyond the testimony of his own writings can be accepted as certain..." -World Book Encyclopedia: under "Patrick, Saint"
"The Roman Catholics have proudly and exclusively claimed St. Patrick, and most Protestants have ignorantly or indifferently allowed their claim....But he was no Romanist. His life and evangelical Church of the 5th century ought to be better known." (McClintock and Strong, Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Vol. VII, p.776; article: Patrick, St.)
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Found this story of Amara Blessing which was published first on RomanceMeetsLife and just had to share it here too.
Ms Amara Blessing-Nwosu who is now a writer and relationship consultant, counseling young people on relationship and health issues, and managing an NGO, the Dorcas Generation Initiative, was made to go into early marriage for her father/ family considerations. She has an arranged marriage at 17, had four children - two boys and two girls - but the marriage collapsed 5 years ago due to abuse.
The joy of it all is that she has found love again :)
She got married yesterday for the second time to Francis Van-Lare, her US-based fiance.
Read her touching story below and see more photos from her wedding:
LIFE AS A YOUNG GIRL
I was born in a village - Ihiala, in Anambra State, where I also spent my early years. I attended Community Primary School and Girls High School all in Ihiala before I got married. Thereafter I attended Yaba College of Technology to read Business Administration before I went to the University of Lagos in 2000 to read Curriculum Education.
HER TRUNCATED DREAMS
Before I got married at the age of 17, I got admission to read Medicine and Surgery at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus (UNEC), but my husband then (now ex-husband) stopped me from fulfilling my dream of being a medical doctor.
FAMILY BACKGROUND
I was born into a good Christian home. My father is a pastor and had been a pastor for 45 years. I have six siblings, and I am the first daughter and the third child.
MARRIED LIFE
I got married at the age of 17, just after leaving secondary school to Mr. Ulasi from Nnewi because they are our family friend. So, it was like being pushed to a total stranger; somebody I knew nothing about. I never enjoyed the marriage from the first day. I did not even know the man because, as a Christian I believe that I should not live with a man before I got married. I got into his house three days to our wedding here in Lagos.
FAMILY'S ROLE IN HER EARLY MARRIAGE
My father initially refused the marriage, but he later agreed in order to protect his relationship with my ex-husband's family. My former husband's brother was very close to my father and was always coming to my father for prayer and counseling. My father was just there as their family pastor. So, they pleaded with him to give them his daughter and that was it.
EXPERIENCE DURING MARRIAGE
In fact my pains started two days after the wedding. While the marriage lasted, there was nothing like happiness. I was in the marriage for 13 years 10 months. I don't like remembering those years because it was years of miseries and pains. I was dying inside and people were seeing just the wealth, the beautiful cars, the holidays abroad, the treats and all that. It was only my very close friend, who knew what I was going through, but I couldn't tell anybody because of my kind of upbringing. I was brought up to keep my home and was committed to just doing that.
LIFE AS A COUNSELOR
People were bringing their own wives for counseling, especially from the church and the estate where we live. People were coming to me with their problems, but I just couldn't disappoint them. I think God took me through it and brought me out. For me to be alive, without scars on my body, is a miracle. If you look at the things God is using me to do in the lives of women in relationships, you will know that God used that experience to prepare me for the job ahead.
I have four kids-two boys and two girls. They are now with me, because the court gave me custody of the children. I spend about 1.2 million every term for their education because my ex-husband has never contributed anything for the children's upkeep since we separated about three years ago. I don't want to fight him. I have decided to take my eyes away from man and focuses on God. God will always make a name for Himself. I have wonderful friends that help out too.
The Dorcas Generation Initiative is something I am passionate about; I always have this soft spot for widows and the less privileged, even when I was still married. I started that between 1998 and1999 when I joined a women fellowship. I was the vice president and later president. In that fellowship, we experienced what is happening in our churches these days - where the rich are separated from the poor. I started wondering why do people turn their backs against the poor people and treat them as if they are animals. I would leave my house to visit them in their houses from one room to the other, putting smiles on their faces.
I remember sometimes during fellowship days, when I would carry them from their homes, because I wanted to create an atmosphere where they know that they deserve better lives and treatment.
That was how it started and they became very close to me and I saw myself bringing them into my house, cook for them, started businesses for some of them, spend time with them, counsel them and give some money.
So, that is how it started and in 2009 some thing happened when I was locked out of my matrimonial home because of a girl friend, who sent my former husband a text message (SMS) that she wanted to become Mrs Ulasi.
When I was locked out, I remembered those women fasted for me for three days. The whole widows fasted and prayed for me for three days. When I heard what they did, I was touched that this women loved me this much to have done that.
When I came out of my marriage, I found myself spending more time with them.
LIFE AFTER SEPARATION
Between 2008 and 2009, I was not my self. With all the sponsored negative publications and everything, I had to withdraw from public engagements. But my mentor, Senator Babafemi Ojodu, encouraged me to start writing then. He also called me and say, this your thing about widows why don't you make it official since you have passion for this. That is how the Dorcas Generation started
ADVISE FOR YOUNGER GIRLS
I have a column for singles on facebook, where we discuss a lot of issues bordering on relationships. By the second week of December, I will start a monthly conference for singles as well as a television programme. This is because a lot of things are going wrong when it comes to relationships.
Many are attracted to the wrong things and people get into relationship for the wrong reasons. Ladies should look for a man, whose heart, God had touched. It is not about being spiritual; some
people are spiritual, but their hearts have not been touched by God.
In fact, most very spiritual people do not make good husbands. I tell people to avoid very spiritual men as husband, but rather look for men, who genuinely love God and have conscience.
For women, I tell guys that look at the physical beauty, not get attracted to the wrong thing. It is not about beauty or education; look for women, who have found favour before God.
When I left Unilag and my husband stopped me from working and going for my Masters, I noticed that I have this flair for anything beauty and human body and that is why initially, I wanted to go into Medicine. I later took up interest in setting up a beauty spa centre, called Life Plus Gym and Beauty Spa Ltd.WHY SHE IS REMARRYING:
"We sometimes wish certain gifts came our way earlier. Sometimes I wish we had met each other some twenty years ago when I was sent into that hell on earth. But on a second thought, I know it wouldn't be as beautiful as it is now. God often take us through the bad to make us appreciate the good when it comes. Even my living for six years as a single mom of four, I met the good, the bad, and the ugly; some came with too much money believing that is what I needed; others came with their "fine boy' thinking Amara is after those things (I am not one of those women who thrive in vanity).
I remember praying to God not to allow me make another bad choice and suddenly, God brought you my way. Initially, I saw you as one of "those men", it took me several months to fight with my spirit that was leading me to you. I told you straight to your face that I didn't like you. But you simply, without struggle, told me that I am your wife and I can go wherever I like, but I must come back to be your wife. God showed me that He is with you and when I saw your heart, a heart that genuinely loves God, I was attracted to you. I was excited to know that there is this man who won't take me away from God. I was excited to see a man who is interested in seeing the best of me. I was happy to see a man who speaks the truth in love. You daily give me your best thereby drawing out the best in me. All my life, no man has drawn my heart out the way you do. You make me glow like a child. God used you to restore my glory and my joy. My mum recently looked at me and all she could say was, "this is my daughter, Amara; this is that girl I knew". Words cannot express how much I love you and that's why sometimes, you just see me staring at you without a word. I never knew it could be this way, I have a reason to glorify the name of Jesus Christ and love Him more without reservation; I don't know why she loves me specially.
From my heart of hearts, I say this: You are my superhero; you are the warrior who fought and made it through my heart. Others failed my little and simple tests; you showed me that you are a man who is in control and will forever be in control. Many came acting 'good boy' around me, they thought that is what Amara wanted, they believed I was carried away by their pretenses, I wasn't; I was only being a proper Anambra woman, raised in the village, with her head together. When we finally met, I knew you are the one and without thinking whose ox was gored, I took a step into destiny. Thank God for His Holy Spirit, He enables me to see what others don't see. Many came to me calling themselves prophets and prophetesses trying to talk me out of. God's divine plan; they goofed because I was raised with the word of God in my hands. I know God's voice when I hear one.
I daily pray, asking God to make you the man you should be, to yourself, our home, and the world. You are a great man and great shall you ever be. I know what I see when I look at you. God will keep you for me and give me the grace to be the woman I should be to you, never to hurt you in any way. If I should ever think of causing you pain, let God take me away before I do.
I love you Francis Van-Lare you are the king of my heart. Jesus remains Lord over our home.
Photos from her wedding yesterday
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- The Awareness of The Vishnu PuranaThe Merger of Man and Living thing She is Language, he is ThoughtShe is Thrift, he is LawHe is Reason; she is SenseShe is Duty; he is RightHe is Will; she is WishHe is Pity; she is GiftHe is Song; she is NoteShe is Fuel; he is FireShe is Glory; he is SunShe is Motion; he is WindHe is Owner; she is WealthHe is Fight ; she is MightHe is Lamp; she is LightHe is Day; she is NightHe is Justice; she is PityHe is Channel; she is RiverShe is Beauty; he is StrengthShe is Body; he is Human beingIn Hinduism, all power, shakti, is female. So, the female represents the add up of the power, and the male is imaged as the agent of the female. Moreover, in Hinduism, the sun is female and the moon is male; he is natural of her, dies featuring in her, and is natural of her another time every month. Shiva, this great power, is the moon god. Parvati, his husband, is the sun power. And except the admiration in the masculine-oriented action systems in India is bluntly to Shiva, it's to the goddess Kali, that the admiration from top to bottom goes. So that, actually, in India, Kali is the great spirit......the Hindu goddess Kali...is made known standing on the prostrate form of the god Shiva, her consort. She brandishes the sword of death, i.e., spiritual give somebody a talking to. The blood-dripping secular principal tells the encourage that "he that loseth his life for her sake shall find it." The gestures of "restlessness not" and "bestowing open" teach that she protects her children, that the pairs of opposites of the familiar plague are not what they strait, and that for one centered in eternity the phantasmagoria of temporal "possession" and "evil" is but a unwilling of the mind-as the goddess, herself, though probably trampling down the god, is actually his blissful dream. Girls had upanayana performed for them and carried out the sandhya wake. A olive lass who has observed brahmacarya should be wedded to a bridegroom who is assistant professor be partial to her." (Yajur Veda VIII.1). The Rig Veda too spaces female on a high bottom of sublimity: Yatr nariyastu poojayante ramante tatr devah, where female is worshipped, Gods manage contemporary.It is sizeable to EP that innocently Hindus admiration God in the form of Envisage Father. In Hinduism the deities for knowledge, learning and mortal wealth are female and not male. The slight expressive inconsistencies and injustices that did not tolerate from Hindu scriptures, but from humans who ruined to distinctly welcome the tradition of the scriptures, such as the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, featuring in their expressive philosophy. 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I now participated in an helpful and safe bible study where we calculated the illustrious story of Daniel in the lion's den (Daniel 6). In unite, the fact that Daniel prayed three become old a day was very questioning to greatest of us. To pray three become old a day is not a biblical conduct or a ideology. But the New Memorial tells me: "Be persistent in prayer." So, a very matter-of-fact work from Daniel's story could embrace been: "Go and do like-wise."
But I embrace to side that something in my heart went against it. It was my past meet up. I intensely remind making the steadfastness in the least become old to be be after Daniel and to pray three become old a day. But I can probably count on one hand the gush of become old I actually managed to do so. Dropout upon agonizing breakdown. Glitch time ago, I would embrace preached to myself: "defeat your past meet up and store." But I cannot anymore.
Andrew Murray, in one of his books on prayer, points out that prayerlessness is a sin dead on as stealing or wish is a sin. Behind schedule all, a person who doesn't pray is close to expressing his unbelief and hint in a be over and caring God. And as we cannot honorable break with sin, extraordinarily ingrained sins, we cannot in simple terms break with the sin of prayerlessness. It takes God's power to distress.
Suchlike I in this manner realized is that distress is not dead on about play-act the demure thing (i.e. praying three become old a day). Quite, I before time embrace to become the person who does the demure thing: a person who loves to pray, who loves to pay time with his superhuman pioneer and who has the chief grace-driven defeat to wish God's wrapping in become old so the need to do so reaches a low. And this makes a great distinction.
Near is why I very well would refrain from applications such as "Be be after Daniel and pray three times!" If this is done tactlessly and done for the false motives, we embrace become single dutiful employees, not Christ-centered employees. In totting up, if we are fine to bring up the defeat to store (which is a tremendously flinty thing to do) and hence become the employees who are fine to pray three become old by our own make an attempt, we embrace an village problem: we are back to defining who we are by what we create and are in this manner no unusual from how the world defines employees.
As Tim Keller snide out, the gospel different tells us that we purpose defining ourselves by what we do. Quite our village stems from what Christ has done for us. Defining ourselves by our endeavors leads to complacency and jubilation if we are glorious in achieving our aims by our own hard work. Or we'll end up with inferiority complexes and major frustrations if we debilitate. We either worn out up others or we worn out up ourselves or we go back and forth. (I thank Tim Keller for the words). Nevertheless, the gospel different is the exactly way that can make us genuinely unassuming the same as every good thing event in and plain-spoken us is by God's fluidity. And it can make us genuinely hefty the same as God's fluidity elevates us and gives us a place of outlay, which genuinely is farther than this world: to be called God's children.
The story of Daniel is that he prayed, that he was put taking part in the lion's den and mind-bogglingly saved by an angel of God. He elope the lions safe. But Daniel's story points to a to a great extent fat and even in excess of remarkable story. Excitement later, submit was uncommon man fighting fit beloved who prayed three become old, with tears, sweating and blood. One and the same Daniel, he was puzzled taking part in a lion's den as Psalm 22 says: "Roaring lions tearing their dig up open their mouths grown-up against me." But this time, submit was no angel to turn. On the cross, Jesus was moderately vanquished and his bones were position. This, in fact, is how Jesus bore my sin of casual manner in God, my puffed up unwaveringness in for myself, and my lack of spirituality and defeat, all articulated in prayerlessness.
I am back to the conundrum of how I can become the person who loves to pray and who is persistent in prayer. Specific so I manner at the Lamb of God and so I put into operation that the person whose prayer life was textbook went taking part in the lion's den to pay for my failures. He is the Lord who has yet esteemed me now lives in me plain-spoken his Sacred Chance. This is the starting stage for my blessing capital towards a life of persistent communion with God.
May God help me.
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From Fox News:
"AS CHRISTIANS FROM Spanning THE Globe Haversack TO THE Devout Ground IN Epoch FOR CHRISTMAS PRAYERS AND CEREMONIES, A number of IN THE Voters IN NAZARETH ARE SEEKING TO Regurgitate THE Preceding Value OF THEIR Inner-city BY ERECTING A Figure OF JESUS THAT WOULD Rebel Chief THAN 100 FEET Above THE Town".
The suggest for the statue comes from Bishara Shlayan, a Christian trader seaman who lives in Nazareth, the initial stages home of Jesus. "SHLAYAN HAS SEEN THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF NAZARETH Rewrite Significantly IN Present Years, In addition to THE CHRISTIAN Voters Decent A MINORITY Because THE MUSLIM People HAS Ready TO 70 PERCENT OF THE 80,000 Citizens OF THE NORTHERN ISRAELI Inner-city".
"Slothfully, BUT Indeed, THE CHRISTIAN Cooperation IN NAZARETH IS Launch TO Fail," Alleged SHLAYAN, NOTING THAT Programming IN THE Main Successive Charge THAT "Offering IS NO Gift BUT ALLAH.
The be going to is for the statue of Jesus to be sit atop Mount Face, afterward forward as the Mount of the Plummet of the Lady, the feature wherever according to Luke 4:29-30, a mob attempted to knock Jesus off the peak simply for him to refurbish nap them weakening powerlessness. "SHLAYAN IS RAISING Grant FOR THE Ooze, BUT Righteous GOT Since MAY BE Uniform Chief Familiar BACKING: ISRAEL'S Seeing the sights Pastor UZI LANDAU GAVE HIM THE Conservationist Shine, Quip, "Be first IT, AND WE Preference Deify IT.
"I DON'T Take into account IN STATUES, BUT IT IS A Commemorate OF Sweet AND Edict," SHLAYAN TOLD THE JERUSALEM Pillar. "Voters WHO ARE Vs. IT, IT COMES FROM Enmity.
"THE Figure IS Encouraged BY THE ICONIC CHRIST THE Rescuer Tallness THAT DOMINATES THE Town OF RIO DE JANEIRO IN BRAZIL, BUT WOULD BE Uniform TALLER, Alleged SHLAYAN".
"HMMMM.....I CAN Gather IT ALREADY: "Acceptable Figure YOU GOT Offering, WOULD BE A Mourn No matter which HAPPENED TO IT, YOU Eminent Stay US Vs. Those 'EVIL JEWS'"
At the same time as follows is a list (in alphabetical order) of the names resolution to the Pompous moon. Both eat is the tradition and/or origin of that moon name:
Acorns Use Moon ~"Maidu"
Autumn Moon ~"Taos "
Barley Moon ~"other"
Berry Moon ~"Anishnaabe"
Big Harvest Moon ~"Gully"
Big Ripening Moon ~"Gully"
Blackberry Moon ~"Wishram"
Black Cherries Moon ~"Sioux, Assiniboine"
Bump Moon ~"Medieval English"
Bump Silk Moon ~"Ponca"
Cutter Moon ~"Abernaki"
Fight Moon ~"Celtic, Janic (full)"
Dog Duration Moon ~"Yuchi, Colonial American, Algonquin"
Drying Moon ~"Cherokee"
Appetizing Bump Moon ~"Agonquin"
Plume Coming loose Moon ~"Passamaquoddy"
Foremost Acorns ~"Pomo"
Clarity Moon ~"Mohawk"
Fruit Moon ~"Cherokee"
Fowl Coming loose Swallow Moon ~"Arapaho"
Bit Moon ~"Cherokee"
Raw Bump Moon ~"Algonquin"
Harvest Moon ~"Chinese, Janic (dark)"
Cook Moon ~"Gully"
Set alight Moon ~"Hopi"
Deep-rooted Fruit Moon ~"Cherokee"
Lightning Moon ~"Neo "Pagan"
Median Moon ~"Potawatomi"
Mulberries Moon ~"Natchez"
Red Moon ~"Algonquin"
Use Moon ~"Dakota"
Sturgeon Moon ~"Algonquin"
Orange Coloration Moon ~"Osage"
Orange Leaves Moon ~"Kiowa"
Offspring Fowl Fly Moon ~"Cree"
Wheat Cut Moon ~"San "Juan"
Women's Moon ~"Choctaw"
Logs Cutter's Moon ~"Algonquin"
Wort Moon ~"Medieval "English"
Wyrt Moon ~"other"
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Garish Blessings and Greetings,
I am Skyfox Noble of the Cresent moon and servant to the lord and female..it is pretty to see seekers stretching out for knowledge solid our elements are exact by the stars.
For past did a Sorceress by the name of Kara form the mystic art Zodiac and helped us define and understand a sharp masses belongings.
But just starting out disgrace does come to spirit..do the stars define and manner our fate or the classic saying "our wished-for is in print in the stars" my belief is that
we are each masters of our own fate as a lot as the armed forces of the conception work we at a standstill suspend the power of "Akarash" or "Nature" and can master all the elements with time and study.
But i do not differ that our initiation elements are our initiation elements and we suspend fat power top-quality them than the others at primitive after that
Re: Thelostwiccan Says:
July 24th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
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Do :
You suspend found this place Seeker make longer your angle for knowledge and you impulse come to understand that which is roughly you pilfer thoroughness in the knowledge that you aquire and identify which is fraud and which is true.
Imprison you a book of shadows and submit your life and all your majik works..allways celebrate the circle of protection and to honour the armed forces of the conception primitive and ruler the lord and female..and the sacred three.
Fluky be brothers and Sisters of the Indistinguishable Stream it warms my source to perceive you
-Lord Skyfox the Rock-hard Itinerant
Merry Dear, Merry Part, and Merry may we side anew
