Month: April 2020 - Healed by His Love

THIS IS A WRITING FROM A VERY HOLY PRIEST … I copied this from a post that I made on social website, but I don’t have the name of the originator, yet it is valuable. God knows who the priest is and may he be blessed!!

The same article can be found on a multiple websites 🙂
Enjoy!

There are things we must carry and handle with extra-carefulness because these things are fragile and once broken, it is not easy to put back together and once some of these things get broken, they can lead to huge damage and destiny wastage.

1. Your Name

Your name is very important and fragile. There are names that stinks in the ears of people simply because, those who bear those names spoilt the name. The way to handle your name with care is to be careful of your doings. Your actions can rubbish your name. A good name can open doors for you & for your children and generations after you.

Carry your name with carefulness. It is a huge asset. Here is one of the quotes written by Shakespeare:

‘Whoever steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name, my enviable reputation Robs me of that which does not enrich him, But makes me poor indeed’.

2: Your heart

Many hearts are broken, shattered, wounded and bitter today. One of the factors responsible for this is becoz many of these hearts’ owners were careless with their hearts. You can guard your heart from being broken and bitter. Run away from people, and things that are bent on breaking your heart. Carry your heart like a crate of eggs. You need a whole heart before you can be said to be fully whole!

3: Your purpose

Your purpose is your destiny. If you don’t handle it with utmost care, it can slip off your hands and gaze and get broken. So many things can come like pressure on this crate of egg of purpose. Discouragement, lack of fund, anxieties, etc. These are things that may want to come like pressure on your purpose to break it. Don’t allow them! Carry it with care. Carry your purpose away from people and things that may want to put pressure on it and break it.

4: Your health

You have only this body as a vehicle that will carry you through your journey of destiny in this life. Handle your health with care. No matter how big your vision is, once you are dead, nobody can really run the vision like you! Fight for your health. Avoid things that can destroy your health. Wealth is useless when your health becomes useless. Don’t kill yourself before your time. Do your best to stay alive.

WE STILL NEED YOU HERE ON EARTH.

Don’t use your FORK, KNIFE, GLASS and your SPOON to dig your grave. Watch what you EAT and DRINK. Don’t eat anything because it is edible and don’t drink anything because it is appetizing. Always pray for divine immunization against sickness and diseases.

5: Your Marriage

SO MANY PEOPLE HANDLE THEIR MARRIAGE LIKE A CARTON OF INDOMINE NOODLE.

Your marriage is fragile. Handle it like a crate of egg.

It must not break! A broken marriage is not easily put back together, because, when a marriage breaks, many things get broken with it. But Remember it takes two to tango, Husband and wife must always carry their marriage like an egg. It must not break!

6: Your words

Your worth is attached to your words. Be careful with words. Once broken, you can’t gather them up again. Many people are careless with their words. They speak violently. They make empty promises and break them. Some say things they later wish they never said. Guard your words. Be careful with your diction.

7: Your eternity

Those who are running up and down to fulfill destiny here on Earth without thinking of their eternity do not belong here! The matter of eternity is not something you should handle with levity. Think about where you will spend eternity. You will die one day. I will also die one day. All that we are and have in this world are vanity upon vanity.

Take the matter of your end very serious. Stop living carelessly as if you have extra life. Don’t live for the pleasure of this world. Have the hereafter in mind in all that you do.

Grace is available.

— sharing this from a holy priest

Isaiah 46:4-5 Even when you’re old, I’ll take care of you.
Even when your hair turns gray, I’ll support you. I made you
and will continue to care for you. I’ll support you and save you. To whom will you compare me and make me equal? To whom will you compare me so that we can be alike?

My hair turned gray when I was 50 which doesn’t seem that long ago. I noticed it growing out on vacation when I had jumped out of the pool and ran into the ladies room and saw my wet hair plastered down in the mirror. I was extremely curious as to what it would look like. So, when I returned home, I went to my hair stylist and asked her to cut it all off! I absolutely loved the color and the cut.

Well, it wasn’t met with much enthusiasm at home. I suppose my spouse didn’t want to face the fact that we were both getting older.

Eventually I went back to coloring it. But, I kept it really short for several years as it was such an easy cut to keep looking nice all the time and not stringy long hair. But, men like long hair. And women with short hair sometimes are judged to be feminists. Incredible how we make first impressions. I used to dress relatively artsy and my pixie cut seemed to me to be youthful and easy to maintain. I never was a person to labor over getting ready in the morning and spending hours in front of the mirror. I have always had a simple efficient routine and perhaps have been blessed with good genes. I used to look older for my age as a teenager, and younger than my age as an adult.

Eventually, I decided to grow out my short cut and also stop coloring it. My hair grew fast, so I became a slave to the beauty salon and by that time in my life, I wasn’t in a position to afford it. But I also loved the look of my gray hair.

My faith conversion began to strip me of many worldly things, I suppose hair dye was one of them. I really loved the way that my gray hair looked anyway. The variation in the color was something that would be hard for a colorist to duplicate.

When I allowed God’s plan for my hair take over … I suddenly noticed just how many people dye their hair. Pretty much ALL women dye their hair. Young women and old women. But I also noticed the women who allowed their gray hair to shine. And many were widows. Which kind of makes sense in a way. Women want to please their husbands and after they depart from this world, they can actually be who God made them to be. I mean, I get it that looking younger can help you “feel” good about yourself. But, I wonder if that is because of the way society disrespects people of age. I saw how people’s perceptions changed because of your hair color. Prejudice exists. And we have become such a visual and sexualized society. Natural beauty is all but shunned.

Our culture has lost respect for gray-haired people. I see this all the time on social media. The term “boomer” now has a pejorative connotation often invoked by younger adults as ad hominem responses when they don’t agree or just want to be shills. It almost evokes rage against the boomer generation. I suppose one could get into the why’s and how’s there is such disrespect for older humans and devaluing their life experiences. Even with healthcare, we see legislation for “complete lives” and support for euthanasia, and assisted suicide, the proliferation and normalization of hospice.

And, I suppose gray hair is a factor in interviewing for jobs and looking for work as a displaced human being. In fact, I know it is a factor. I admit, I used to be cautious about hiring older people when I was in the role of a manager and in my 30’s. But, with age comes wisdom and a mea culpa.

Proverbs 20:29 Proverbs We admire the strength of youth and respect the gray hair of age.

But you know, there is a saying, “To thine own self be true.” and the thought of deceiving a potential employer by dousing my head with hair dye to make me appear to be more youthful, at this point just seems to be ridiculous and vain. I have more energy and creativity than people half my age. It may be a streak of defiance and resistance to conform to the world that I still have … because I want to be authentic at this point in my life. I spent too many years trying to live a life that “society ideologies” wanted to conform me to … and did bend my will for many years.

Proverbs 16:31 Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained in the way of righteousness.

Gray hair and aging is a natural part of life and more people should see it as a blessing rather than a curse. It shows wisdom in age, experiences in life, and gray hair brings respect as well. God will always be with you no matter what age you are.

Psalm 71:18-19 Even when I am old and gray, do not abandon me, O God. Let me live to tell the people of this age what your strength has accomplished, to tell about your power to all who will come. Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God. You have done great things. O God, who is like you?

To God be the glory.

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