Solrac Music's Compassion Network

Understanding Love

2012-02-16T14:16:00.000-08:00

“What Is Love?”
Reading 1st John 4:16 we can begin to understand how purposeful it is to know how true love accepts us as we are, forgives us, and start each day a new. That is the nature of True Love.

The scripture says, “God is Love.” In that, God knows our every need, because He places his attention on us, our needs and desires, our passions and our actions. With his "Compassion Glasses" on, he knows from divine research who we are and what we need. God never asks us for a kiss, a hug or for sex. We can’t see or touch Him. We do however experience His mighty works. In those works, He takes the best most meticulous care of us daily, even in our most undeserving state. So let us understand “What Love Is.”

We must understand God through His actions. Scripture has it that, "Those who live in love live in him and he also live in us."We are then to allow God to be seen through us, not thinking we can be perfect, but we can be forgiving, and apologetic...We can be giving and appreciative...We can be optimistic and faithfully walking into the new possibilities. To sum it up, “God simply takes care of our wholeness." In him I know iAM correct in concluding Love is T.G.C.O., “Taking Good Care Of”... those people and things in our surroundings... ASKING FORGIVENESS WHEN WE HAVE WRONGED, AND GIVING OUR BEST WHEN WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY. Love is the core, the essence, the functional existence of Compassion?
To serve others is God's command as given by Jesus: John 13:34

It "Just Happened!" Is that weird, or what?

2012-01-06T01:46:00.000-08:00

How many times have you called something 'weird?' Many times, it wasn't that is was weird at all. It may have been that is was simply new or different than you understand. Similar to the way things seem to, 'Just Happen.'

Take this post by my friend Stefanie;

"That which is like unto itself is drawn." Vibrations are always matched. So, as you experience the contrast which inspires the new desire, this new desire, whether it is a strong one or a soft one, is summoning unto itself proportionately. And as it summons, it is always answered. It is the basis of our Universe: When it is asked, it is always given. Humans think they are asking with their words, or even with their action — and sometimes you are — but the Universe is not responding to your words or your action. The Universe is responding to your vibrational calling.--- Abraham

When it's not the attractive desire, but evokes high emotions, and those emotions desire to push it away, the effectual result is still attracted to that desire. That which is focused on and takes the dominant amount of time and emotion is that which comes.

Is that weird, or does it fall in your understanding???

I'd like to know!

The Fruit of my spirit

2012-01-04T07:34:00.000-08:00

Awakened from a dream last night, these words running through my mind, "If the time it takes to be lonely, is only asecond or two, then the time is meant for you only, sharing souls with you." I heard myself speaking these words to you. So ran to my computer to post on Goal Setters of 2012, the Facebook group I joined several days ago.

Excited to be in new company I wrote:

"Liz, thisis great! Thank you for the idea to open a Facebook accountability group andcourage to follow through. Writing goals is the easy part. Detailing what’snecessary to achieve them and the due diligence to make them happen is ofcourse where the work comes in. Once you say it, you have to do it, and havingsomeone to talk with about them helps with focus and perspective. My goal is tocomplete a four part series of the memoirs of my "Compassion Action"mission by 12/12/12, each part per quarter. Steps to take between are dailythought and documentation assignments, paired with effective partnerships andcollaborations for the presentation. There is more detail but all roads lead tosharing information that can help someone else."

Now that I have written my goal for everyone to see, my mission is to bring other artists together who will benefit from the work I have positioned myself to do. First things first, building a collaborative street team is highly important. If you are an artist reading this, please take a moment to complete the survey to your right.

Thank you for visiting today!

Cya soon!

The Qualities of an Exceptional Music Teacher - ArtistshouseMusic

2011-08-18T22:23:00.000-07:00

The Qualities of an Exceptional Music Teacher - ArtistshouseMusic

2011-07-01T12:09:00.000-07:00

Hi friends and associates,

I've been hurt badly this past week. Yesterday I met with and ate the last dinner with a friend, Scott, a day before he celebrated his 50th birthday. Scott said something that really got me thinking, "Expressing ourselves in the time of anger, or hurt feelings is good. It's being honest with ourselves. What we have to be careful of is in that expression, we do not turn ourselves into jerks." What I wondered is, "How do we measure that beyond the simple, 'not to treat others bad along the way,' and 'Should we care how others perceive our expression?"

During the week I did a lot of ranting about how I felt I was treated by Facebook, and people that haven't taken the chance to get to know me on Facebook. The case was simply I was blocked, and Facebook gave me a final warning threatening to close my profile because I requested friends with someone I did not know. I wondered if they ever read my profile. I didn't want to use the "P" word that got so famous in the 60's civil right movement, but I wondered, 'was that the case?"

I went so far as to place an ad giving away $5,000 as pay back.

I consider the $5,000 to be a trade off for sharing "How-To" LIVE IN COMPASSION ideas with youth. Persons awarded put $5,000 in their bank account and the message connects with youth for the higher cause of caring about others. The money would be profit for book sales.That's worth it to me.

My novel is based on a true story I was blessed to witness that demonstrates compassionate youth in action, and the main character expressing her emotions through the hurt she experienced during her efforts to be her best.

For research the link is here: http://www.recordsongs.us/5thousand.htm

What do you think?

Les Paul's 96th Birthday

2011-06-09T17:15:00.000-07:00

Les Paul's 96th Birthday

On Line Product Find

2011-05-16T15:20:00.000-07:00

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If you have an iPhone, or smart phone, you probably know what it is. If not visit and get the reader http://reader.kaywa.com/ download for yourself or your company. It's the new way to share your product with friends, customers and clients.

Try this one:

2011-02-04T06:12:00.000-08:00

Nominate Tony-Carlos for a social media award in the Shorty Awards author category

12 Weeks to Personal Brilliance children and Teen Coaching program

2011-01-27T13:21:00.000-08:00

Sessions have opened and I am excited to present this flier. This, in addition to the complimentary "Clarifying Coaching Sessions," offer much more than is imaginable by simply reading here. Email today for more information! info@artistdevelopmentcoaching.com

Rich. "To Be or Not to Be" and Fighting Yourself For the Answer: Here it is.

2011-01-20T12:35:00.000-08:00

Click the Blog Title, Download the PDF, Study the content:

ACQUIRING AND MANAGING SUCCESS
IN YOUR HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT

Make this book your constant companion until you have
mastered all the ideas contained in it.
At the end is the guide...

YOUR PATHWAY TO SUCCESS

Oscar Peterson - You Look Good To Me

2011-01-15T11:05:00.000-08:00

Greetings, please continue to visit the Blog for this week's FREE MUSIC LESSON. It has been delayed because I am working The Stellar Awards with Verity Records and have been preoccupied with our artist support web site, (Artist Development Coaching, Facebook), (Website: http://www.artistdevelopmentcoaching.com). I will post this weeks' lesson soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this video of Oscar Peterson, one of my favorite artists.

P.M.U. Proper Metronome Usage

2010-12-30T04:27:00.000-08:00

Each tick of the metronome requests your note to be on or between the beat. At some interval of time, you expect your playing to improve because of your metronome usage. Without P.M.U. It is pretty hard to measure any significant progress.

I venture to say the metronome has been viewed as a time keeper. I give you that one, and add that you are a time keeper as well. You, as a musician should by now be versed at keeping time with other musicians. An important process of checking this is to record yourself on several tracks with a count off, but no drums or click track, just the time of your playing. Harmonize with yourself, add a melody and embellishments. Work at it until it feels good.

Proper Metronome Usage will help you tighten up your musicianship discipline as well as your accompaniment timing.

My gift to you Christmas was the start of a year of FREE music lessons for practice, playing and understanding theory for song writing, soloing, (or improvising), and arranging. As an addition to that lesson it is important to mention a few P.M.U. techniques here.

Set your metronome at the required tempo of the piece, or your expected tempo for rehearsal. Play the piece, (song, or lesson), http://networkedblogs.com/cg1K8 After playing the piece twice through,
1. slow the metronome down 15 notches,
2. play the piece once at the slower speed,
3. stop and speed the metronome one notch.
4. play the piece twice through.
5. stop and speed the metronome one notch.
6. continue this process until you have reached five (5) notches past the required or expected tempo.
7. continue this process daily, adding a higher notch each day.

At the end of each week, having applied this technique, you will find yourself a faster, much more precise player. Your sense of time will sharpen, and you will have developed a bulls eye for each targeted note. This type of playing is what many musicians work a life time to achieve, and master musicians learn early on.

Question: do you expect to take a life time to start playing your best?

Music Memory Maxim Christmas Gift

2010-12-26T03:37:00.000-08:00

Good day to you. There, in my statement, "Life is best for me when I give my best," before this Blog post, I had also suggested, "Practice makes "Perfect?" I would like to adjust that statement and encourage that you reach to give yourself your best, in rehearsal, and giving. As you remember, practice makes permanent, please allow me to add, as a foundation, make "Music Intervals" permanent in your music studies.

Click the chart to enlarge

Don't forget to stop at your local music store and pick up a 'chords and scale fingering chart,' and a metronome. It is important that you begin practicing with a finger pattern that facilitates smooth movement from one octave to the next. Review the metronome rehearsal technique I mentioned in my earlier post. It is a standard practice we will use throughout.

Starting on "C," as the tonic, sing along with the interval name of each note. C is 1, D is 2, E is 3, F is 4, G is 5, A is 6, B is 7, and back to 1 as the octave C.

You will notice the chart also has the titles of the number positions related to the major, and chromatic scales. You may know it, please understand, some do not. Stay with me. You will go places musically that you never knew existed. I want to be sure to cover early music principles so that everyone, beginners and the experienced musician reach the goal of understanding, reading, writing, and recording music.

The video recording above has been prepared to accompany the chart. Listen to it with the intent to memorize the sounds in relationship to the distance from each other. We will use these intervals through the year in each study of scales, chords and song arrangements. As I say in the recording, "Listen to these notes. Get familiar with their sound." Compare them with interval moves in songs you are familiar with. Each note is valuable. Remember, rehearse, rehearse and rehearse more. Try them three or four times daily . This may be sufficient to familiarize yourself with the sound. Do what it takes to get the sound of the names and moves in your memory, and I will see you back here next week.

As an added study, you may want to visit my book store and read about one young lady's approach to marketing music. She merited millions.

See: http://tinyurl.com/SongWriterRoyalties

"The Secret Power of True Love."

You Deserve the Best

2010-12-18T06:39:00.000-08:00

Understanding Distance For Closeness.

Good morning! I sat on the side of the bed at 4:00am drinking water through my Starbucks cup and straw thinking, "Should I go work on Pro Tools, or back to bed?" I did neither. I read. What I read made me realize that through all I do, life is best for me when I give my best.

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Thank you for allowing me to give you my best!

Today, I want you to know the best study for understanding motion and mastery of music is the study of intervals. Listen to songs, instrumental melodies and chords, chord sounds, exotic, major and minor scales, key changes, they are all formulated with the use of intervals.

Master hearing them, playing them, singing them, and combining intervals into chords and melodies and you will master any form of music.

I put this chart together for you to study until I see you again next week!

Peace, Love, and the Power of Compassion.

Carlos Merriweather, Music Coach
http://www.artistdevelopmentcoaching.com

Wednesday Memory Maxim: Expect Growth, from Small to Strong

2010-12-08T02:44:00.001-08:00

Practice makes "Perfect?" No, practice makes permanent. Most all old and new musicians understand the challenge of creating unity between the fingers, breath, body motion, linked in with the tempo's pulse. Many hours are spent getting the feeling just right. Dean Earl, (my teacher who played with Charlie Parker) used to tell me, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk all stacked the simple stuff to make that complicated sound. That's where it all begins. So "Expect Growth, from Small to Strong."

The mechanics of playing are set, they are there to learn and once you have them, they never change.

I've heard it said that each song to a musician is like patients to a doctor. He or she fills each new patients charts from scratch. They never assume that because the patient is human, and that they are a doctor, they have an automatic cure. A study of the condition and how it is affecting them is necessary. Even if they have seen very similar symptoms, they do not skip this process.

I've also heard an 80 year old saxophone player say he wakes each morning, sits on the side of his bed, and practices his scales, arpeggios, rhythms, breath and tongue exercises. Each morning a musician rises to life, the goal of mastery must be in front of our spirit.

Today starts what I call "Daily Development Duties." Each is placed in a "Memory Maxim." The purpose of "Daily Development Duties" in "Memory Maxims" is to set the stage for the music to come. There will be songs with music of merriment, joy, enlightenment, understanding, peace, unity, camaraderie, brotherhood, hope, compassion, and love. Oh, did I say peace? All of these commitments and feelings will develop as we look daily to our "Daily Development Duties" placed in "Memory Maxims."

Notice how the feet of each child in the picture above seem to make a complete circle. Let us now think of scales as a complete circle. Lessons will get deep, but remember, "It takes the simple stuff to make that complicated sound."

Starting in the key of "C," sing along as you rename each note. C is 1, D is 2, E is 3, F is 4, G is 5, A is 6, B is 7, and back to 1 as the octave C. This is the C major scale. Many know it and some don't. Simple huh? Stay with me, because you may go places you never knew existed.

If you play by ear, stop in your nearest sheet music store and pick up a copy of a note fingering chart for your instrument. Each of us needs a metronome. If you don't have one, pick up one of those as well. If you have a digital recorder, you should have a programmable beat clock in it. Please allow me to say here, what I am sharing and will share, applies to any instrument. Before we finish, you will have organized, or arranged complete band songs with drums, guitars, bass, strings, and horns, and know the relationship of each note. But remember to place "Daily Development Duties" in the "Memory Maxims."

Now set your metronome or digital beat clock to 60. With each tick, sing and play each note, C, D, E, and so on. When you get to C, go back down and up again, this time pass the octave C, go to the second octave up, and back down. Do this until you are comfortable with playing this pattern as a complete circle.

When you're done, reset your metronome or digital beat clock to 65. Play the same pattern until you get comfortable. When you do, reset your metronome or digital beat clock five steps and continue the process until you find it introduces difficulty. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL IT GETS HARD TO PLAY. At this point I suggest that you reset your metronome or digital beat clock back to about two steps. Practice the pattern from this point until it becomes a challenge for you to play.

Your wrists, or fingers my be a bit tender by the end of this rehearsal session, but we are reaching for perfection through "Daily Development Duties" in "Memory Maxims." Remember, "The simple stuff stacked makes that complicated sound. That's where it all begins. So "Expect Growth, from Small to Strong." I will see you next week with another music lesson to put to rehearsal.

"Peace is the Power that Propels People to A Powerful Point in Productivity."

Unit One and The Soul-Rock Movement

I'd like a large order please!

2010-11-03T11:00:00.000-07:00

Hello, I'd like to place an order for the compassion glasses and safety case. Yes, 600,500,000,000 please. We can never see enough of what they show.

I hung up the phone thinking...

‎"I enjoy seeing friends as beings to be respected, appreciated, not holding back kindness and compassion actions. I have less tendency to substitute other thoughts when I view this way."

The closest word related to love is compassion, "Feeling and seeing... life from the view of another, and committing to satisfy the need as a result." When humans, as a majority, can see love as this latest description, world problems will diminish."

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Try it. Click the video to see life through the eyes of another.

The Memory Maxim Series

2010-10-29T21:47:00.000-07:00

The Compassion Network is here to help you get to the other side. Allow me to share an important tool that will help in your journey toward success. The tool is consistency.

To help strengthen your consistency, join me each month as I post (directly or indirectly related to music), a real life proverb with a free music lesson.

Each day in the month I will post a "Memory Maxim," within the category of the proverbial lyric and free music theory lesson, to help you, your children, friends or family along your successful way.

Look for it December 1st, 2010. The "Memory Maxim Series," on Compassion Industry Network Blog. To connect direct now visit us at http://www.artistdevelopmentcoaching.com/

Hope Day

2010-10-04T08:40:00.000-07:00

"Hope"
Honing Optimistic Passion Effectively!

The "Hour of Compassion" is October 10, 2010, at 10:10am.
The "Hour of Love" is October 10, 2010, at 10:10pm.

Send the words, "Love Lives in You!" to ten friends in ten minutes.

Time zones will cause this occur during several hours throughout the day. People from around the world will join together ushering in "The, Age of Hope, Love and Compassion."

Send this message to 10 of your friends today, and join "The Compassion Industry Network" here on Facebook. Then during these time, please take this "Compassion Action."

“Hope Day,” closing observance.

Please join me on the radio at 9:00PM WGTK, http://WGTK970.com and on the internet, “http://www.Frager.com” http://frager.com/?page_id=23 Stan loves having people call in and says, call-in comments and stories make the show. The studio number is 502-571-0970.

Genuine Compassion

2010-09-30T09:18:00.000-07:00

Two levels of "Compassion:"
1. Biological;
instinctive, or involuntary, as in mother to child or family.

2. Conscious Higher Decision:
"Genuine Compassion:"
learned behavior, concerned about others well-being.

Prime Real Estate, “Ready and Available"

2010-09-28T12:19:00.000-07:00

Feelings: Spiritual Real Estate

Prime Real Estate
“Ready and Available"

Feelings: Spiritual Real Estate

The economy is well and highly prosperous in the land of feeling's as real estate. As far as the eye can see, the land is flooded with growling, blood thirsty, teeth dripping angry emotions of plenty. The destroyer seeks to purchase lot after lot, face after face of prime property to use in causing conflict and destruction.

Good conflict causing real estate is easy to manipulate into anger, frustration, jealousy, envy, hate, conceit and lust’s deceptive magnetism. The more of these emotional devices located in the land, the more valuable the property is to the destroyer.

If you find yourself in on the action, foreclosure may be close in sight for you. To avoid foreclosure on your property, look ahead and avoid the action of emotional devices. You will find that waiting until after the action is a bit too late.

How to handle exreme frustration

2010-09-16T15:07:00.000-07:00

You felt it necessary to say what was on your mind to your partner. You did not know how it would be accepted. It happens to each of us at some point in our relationships.

You voiced what was on your heart. It some how found its way to offend your partner. To offend was no intent of your own.

You found yourself defending your statement saying you meant no harm. You took the mental position that, 'it is best not to say similar things at all.'

In my book there is word translated in detail. It may be used in similar situations. The word is "Love." It explains just how to come to peace within yourself and in your relationship. The process applies wide and tall to many forms of relationships. We will discuss these matters on this Blog.

First, may I ask you...

How do you handle situations like this?

The Compassion Industry Network Mission

2010-09-13T23:43:00.000-07:00

Our Mission:

Saturate the core attitude with the Power of True Love.

Mission statement
• To build character through teaching the Power of True Love to all, focusing on students, pre-school through high. To strengthen lives equipping them with the core attitude needed for success, and developing concern for others,

• To establish a Community Help Line, entitled,
“The L.O.V.E. Line,” (Leaders Offering Valued Endeavors),
the line is to facilitate opportunities for young people to connect with their community and do tasks to help neighbors and beautify their environment, (targeting the need, to include the city).

• To create art & redirect its path to positive productivity so as to motivate youth & adult constituents to reassess the value of entertainment in education, and in motivating mind, body, and spirit.

Within this mission:
There is a need for you to stay connected, watching the posts of this blog. Maybe that need is you have a reason to benefit, or contribute by writing responsive posts and comments.

To become one

2010-09-12T20:23:00.001-07:00

One of my wife's friends introduced us to a friend of hers. He is now assembling a wonderful website for us. Our mission is to assist others in the process of strengthening themselves from within. We appreciate his work so very much and can't wait to introduce you to the entire site.

There is a power that lives within that I would like to write about here. This power has been a tremendous help to our becoming one

For over a year now, my wife and I have pretty much lived in two places. Soon we will embark on the challenge of living together consistently. I said challenge, because I'm sure it will bring some obstacles our way. Though that may be a truth farther than I can see right now, one truth I have great experience in has been the challenge of living without my wife.

You see that smile on her face. Take a good look. And that's not some child from a community program, or that she works with sitting on her lap either. That's my nephew in her arms. Rare to his personality, he took to her the moment he met her. I'll tell you a secret, so did I.

The day we met I told her, "You are my wife." We had been dating long distance and writing our communications on line, but nothing hit me like meeting her that day, in person, face to face, getting to know her and the feeling of being with her.

We married three months later.

I had shared my long time belief and the definition I had come to know of "TRUE LOVE," with her. She agreed. We began to live out this love, to explain it, to see it, and be it. I knew it existed all my life though I had never really witnessed it between a couple. I grew up in my circle of influence witnessing family and friends parents argue and make negative jokes about one another in front of their own friends and family. I read all the marriage jokes and witnessed the sitcoms like Archie Bunker, Married with Children, even The Jeffersons. More serious sitcoms children were allowed to watch rarely demonstrated good examples of this love. Shows that did offer good examples aired many years apart, such as in the Huxtables, and the Cleavers.

Few and far between were examples I could get a snippet of an idea of a good relationship. My example of love was how God treated me. As I grew older I began to study the bible more. I noticed , "God is Love," in a portion of a line that seemed to need more explanation, so I took liberty to explain what it meant to me. I took the time to write how it spoke to me. I wanted to have something to base my marriage on years before our marriage. I wanted to be the best husband my world has ever known. My wife say's I'm the best husband she's seen, but I'll let her tell you that. Right now I would like to share the ground work for what has led us 'to become one.' It is the reason I live...

True Love (tru luv) v.
1. To feel the need to encourage and lift others up spiritually, psychologically, financially, in wisdom or action. 2. The unchangeable aspiration that results in a commitment to behave in a lasting effort to serve in ways that are good for, needed by, and in the best interest of other person(s). 3. and one’s self, 4. Altruism. 5. Compassionate Magnanimous Behavior. 6. The desire that converts to the action to prepare one’s self and one’s situation to be of the best optimistic benefit. 7. The Highest Power.

taken from
"Consumine Desire Masters The Secret Power of True Love"

http://amzn.to/MyMusicStory

Hidden Social Crime

2009-11-08T09:37:00.000-08:00

Report:
A team of researchers and myself conducted a study of the world wide social fabric. Our research uncovered a social crime perpetuated daily in the public. This crime is acted out many times during the day. It affects close to half of the world's population, (most all American’s). Unaware, most look into the direction of the crime, many times directly into its face as if it were not there. This invisible crime results when one looks at this crime from the surface. It does not look to be a crime at all. This crime poses as a constitutional right. The behavior is described in the ebook, "The Science of Getting Rich," with the focus on money, not character, and creates a destructive effect: http://thesecret.tv/secret-treasures-ebooks.html#scienceof

The Crime:
Directly, young people are being trained to kill, beat, or hurt each other right under our noses. This crime is promoted as "Freedom of Choice." The crime is impressionistic bane. It is perpetuated on unsuspecting prey and indigenous regions of the United States and the world. This crime is initiated proactively, directly placed in suggestive entertaining material. It is perpetuated as a ‘feel-good’ response.

To simplify: Again, young people are being trained to kill, beat, or hurt each other daily. As a school teacher, this concept is easy for me to see, but the general population will look at it and see nothing wrong.

The process of unsuspected training through the repetition of popular entertainment is the undocumented crime. No, the governments do not acknowledge it as a crime. Only the affects after the behavior of the prey presents the crime. But by this time it is too late. They have already been programmed.

Because entertainment sales were unprofitable in 1927, the entertainment industry discovered and implemented the process of programming.

This process was utilized in creating commercials for product to place on the radio, causing listeners to develop a habit of thinking about the product. As the consumer passed the item in the store isles that had been advertised on the radio, the consumers desire to have it, or do what was announced would take precedence over original reasons the person may have entered the store. They would then pick it up, buy it, and use it. Pavlov proved this theory in his dog/bell experiment.

To this day, we go in a store for one thing, and come out with others.
When young people hear entertainment, they want to be like what they are hearing. "Belief (faith) comes by hearing." Unaware of the psychological effects, those who are void of this knowledge may say, “Oh, stop worrying, its nothing but harmless fun.” All the while their child is being programmed to think in the way of the entertainment he or she is hearing. Anything repeated to the psyche becomes a means of thought process.

After 80 years of entertainment industry perfection, programming has become the tool of choice for product developers, service providers, fleshly enticers, and politicians. The thought of “subliminal” programming is not invisible. It is out right and viewable, listenable, touchable, and doable.

The good thing is, the same tools can be used for good. Just listen to some good Christian music. Do you feel it? Can you see yourself uplifted, and meshing through the words? The fact is, if you are not over 80 years of age, you do not make choices without the influence of programming, (repetitive entertainment). Comment here: http://compassionnetwork.blogspot.com/2008/09/hidden-social-crime.html Join the movement.

This crime is so effective that it causes its victims to reject help they can use to avoid or over come attacks. The feel-good response is admittedly attractive to prey, thus it seduces prey to repeat it, making it easy to become habitual. As a result, the crime is self perpetuating, creating itself in more and more families, communities, and family extensions.

Statistics:
These facts remain, yet you, your family, and mine remain unaware of the dangers, and are affected daily. The statistics tell us that when it began more than 20 years ago it was ignored. Now it generates over $10 billion dollars each year. Its actual customer base is estimated at approximately 45 million between the ages of 13 and 42. This group is estimated to have a $1 trillion in spending power.

Defense:
The best defense is an established developmental way of life. Tell us how to best direct our efforts to lead the way for young people to begin to live a new developmental way of life. Brainstorming possible ways of a new way of life for the affected in the beginning of the solution. Your assistance in brainstorming is needed. Because of the nature of this crime, there will be no threat to you as a result of joining the list. As we are aware of this crime, we do not want to directly place it in general public awareness. That will simply cause the culprits to redirect usage, before we can cause an effect. In effect, we need you to join the effort as a list of mental directors of our efforts RecordSongs is in place to help the young people redirect themselves to positive personal development. Look for yourself at: http://www.recordsongs.us/ Encourage a young person to help redirect negative thinking by promoting their positive music. Artists are encouraged to submit their positive music at http://www.recordsongs.us/register.htm

Your words alone can help. Do more, read about the movement and join in taking new compassion action...

http://www.amazon.com/Consumine-Masters-Memoirs-Dollars-ebook/dp/B0030IM7T6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260892227&sr=1-1

A powerful list of mental mentors will result from your posts on this site: http://compassionnetwork.blogspot.com/2008/09/hidden-social-crime.html
The more post the more effective the solution will be here and http://www.recordsongs.us/register.htm .

Your posts should contain 2 things:
1. Your opinion, and
2. The level of commitment you place on developing solutions.

Please do not minimize the value of the transfer of this information. Share this blog. Allow friends and family members to make their own choice to join. Send the link to this message to as many that are in your contacts folder. The new way of life will begin as multiple responses, mass numbers of people will begin to carry this message, living the new way of compassion at the same time, crowding out the 'hidden crime.'

The process is to surround the problem with opposing views repetitively. The expected outcome is to redirect the addiction from self destruction, switching behavior to personal development. The more participants involved in the new way, the more re-creations of this crime that can be stopped and reformed.

Thank you, and be encouraged, with your help, there will be a stop put to this crime.

Watch the report on "The Shift," then hit the 'back' button to return here and post your comment...

Scary Thoughts

2008-09-03T03:36:00.001-07:00

Sometimes it is simply what we thought that made the situation as bad as, 'we thought it was.' Release the thought, or switch it to another way of looking at it, and you will get a totally different result.

At the local electronics store, the clerk asked one man for his identification before applying his credit card to the charge.

Angry, the man reached in his pocket and pulled out his I.D. and told the clerk, "I am an honest man. I resent you challenging my integrity. You can be sure that if I am going to be treated like this, I will not shop here again." He checked out and left.

Another man walked in the store, after he left. The man brought a product to check out. The clerk asked for his identification.

As he presented his I.D. he replied, "Thank you for asking. If every store would ask, there would be less credit card theft."
The clerk said, "We do it as a protection to our customers."

Today, I have two questions for you:

Are your thoughts welcoming goodness?
Are your thoughts eating you from within your anger?
In the mean time: Click the picture and read on.

Life "IS"

2008-08-25T04:44:00.001-07:00

Your most directed thought is Aspiration,
your Aspiration Is your motivation,
your motivation Is your belief,
your belief Is your peace,
your peace Is your target,
your target Is heaven,
and life Is like hell without it. So direct your thoughts to where you Apire.

Be encouraged,
The master creative force of this universe has wonderful things in store for you as you 'tough through tough times.'

Climbing the Carpet

2008-08-22T07:09:00.001-07:00

My Wonderful Friends,

Today I rediscovered how important it is to focus on what we want to do, what we desire, where we want to go.

I realize there are only twenty-four hours in a day which are not all ours. Because we must give away what would be our time, to work, eating, driving, walking, the rest-room, family love, friends, television, etc, we are very limited in the time we have to do what it takes to get what we want, and where we want to go.

Today my friends, after almost a month of not having access to post the way I had posted earlier, and having the ability now, I was inspired to share with you a movie section from an entire movie that I try to watch weekly to keep my mind programmed toward the target. To help keep my "eyes on the prize."

See for yourself, Click YOUR and VISION.

Have a magnificently motivated day!

Did you know?

2008-07-30T07:57:00.000-07:00

Money is not important, what is in the mind, which penetrates the heart is what's important.

Also, did you know you could infect someone's mind with a song?
Record songs onto a Bacteria- yes Researchers from Pacific ...
Dec 5, 2007 ... Record songs onto a Bacteria- yes Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory can claim to use bacteria as an ipod storage device ...
microarray.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/record-songs-onto-a-bacteria-yes-researchers-from-pacific-northwest-national-laboratory-can-claim-to-use-bacteria-as-an-ipod-storage-device/

Last, but not least "you know" question:
Did you know that if you Google 'recordsongs' there is a site for it at the top of the list?

Sand and Stone

2008-07-22T06:42:00.000-07:00

TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT. DURING SOME POINT OF THEJOURNEY, THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE IN THE FACE. THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING, WROTE IN THE SAND: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.

THEY KEPT ON WALKING, UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS, WHERE THEY DECIDED TO TAKE A BATH. THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN SLAPPED GOT STUCK IN THE MIRE AND STARTEDDROWNING, BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM. AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM THE NEAR DROWNING, HE WROTE ON A STONE: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE'.

THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED AND SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND ASKED HIM, 'AFTER I HURT YOU, YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW, YOU WRITE ON A STONE. WHY??'
THE FRIEND REPLIED 'WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN IN SAND, WHERE WINDS OF FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY, BUT WHEN SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING GOOD FOR US, WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE WHERE NO WIND CAN EVER ERASE IT.

LEARN TO WRITEYOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.'

THEY SAY IT TAKES A MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON, AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM, A DAY TO LOVE THEM, BUT THEN AN ENTIRE LIFE TO FORGET THEM. I JUST SENT THIS TO SOMEONE I WON'T FORGET.
IF YOU DON'T SEND IT TO ANYONE, YOU'RE IN A HURRY AND YOU'VE FORGOTTEN WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE.

TAKE THE TIME TO LIVE! DO NOT VALUE THE THINGS YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE, BUT VALUE PEOPLE YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE! FOR PEOPLE ARE FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN THINGS AND EVENTS.

GET FREE ADVERTISEMENT

2008-07-14T18:07:00.000-07:00

Business, Manager/Owner

Dear Leader,
Because of your kindness, you are able to receive this new Compassion Campaign information with strength.

Today people are busier than ever, so much so, there is little time for family. The rate of debauchery is deliberately destroying youth.
In your humanitarianism, you can share the opportunity to provide books and advertisement for, “Young people to read, and understand the power of Compassion?”

In Robert Kiyosaki’s book, “Cashflow Quadrant,” Robert shares the complete connective thought, that wealth management is, 1. Investing, 2. Saving, and 3. Giving. Number 3, defined is, the untouchable savings account donors withdraw in taxes.

This completed thought, is our effort to help businesses save money, while giving non-profit organizations a way to raise funds. You can make a difference in the life of a young person, $25 at a time.

As you seek to be of assistance, please accept the opportunity to donate to non-profit organizations. Allow us set up advertisement for you.
We will personally provide the service of locating a non-profit organization to make the donation, (if you do not have one ear-marked).
Our services extend to help facilitate the donation, purchase, and advertising process. In the mean time, please view http://www.recordsongs.us/.
This aspect of our book gives young people an outlet to express positive, compassionate music.

Will you share with your staff that members can donate by purchasing copies to give to their related young people. What do you think?

Will reach out to help others that need what we have?
With your yes, I will send you a copy of the book for review as my publisher completes printing.

Please review the site: http://www.recordsongs.us/
In the mean time, please call to schedule a meeting.

Let us hear from you soon,
Thank you for being such a powerful force in our community.

African American Male Teachers

2008-06-18T13:14:00.000-07:00

Black Male Teachers

Do you know any Black males who are seniors in high school who want to go to college out of state for "FREE" ? Several Black Colleges are looking for future black male teachers and will send them to universities/colleges for 4 years FREE.

The 'Call Me MISTER' program is an effort to address the critical shortage of African American male teachers particularly among South Carolina 's lowest performing public schools. Program participants are selected from among under-served, socio-economically disadvantaged and educationally at-risk communities.

The program is a collaboration between Clemson University and four historically black colleges in South Carolina : Benedict College , Claflin University , Morris College and South Carolina State University .

The project provides:
Tuition for admitted students pursuing approved programs of study at participating colleges.
An academic support system to help assure their success. A cohort system for social and cultural support.

Visit <http://www.callmemister.clemson.edu/index.htm for more details and the online application or call (800) 640-2657.

PLEASE FORWARD TO AS MANY FRIENDS, FAMILY CHURCH MEMBERS AS POSSIBLE, SO THAT THEY CAN ALSO SPREAD THE WORD.

Someone Sent This Today?

2008-06-15T12:56:00.001-07:00

Lets call this image, "TAXES."
Compassion of taxes? or is it?

This gives pause for reflection!!
The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let's take a look at New Orleans . It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for $250BILLION to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number, what does it mean?

A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you each get $516,528.
B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.
???????????? Washington, DC .... HELLO!

Are all your calculators broken??
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax
(FUTA)Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Perm it Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),
Liquor Tax,
Luxury Tax,
Marriage License Tax,
Medicare Tax,
Property Tax,
Real Estate Tax,
Service charge taxes,
Social Security Tax,
Road Usage Tax (Truckers),
Sales Taxes,
Recreational Vehicle Tax,
School Tax,
State Income Tax,
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),
Telephone Federal Excise Tax,
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax,
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax,
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax,
Telephone State and Local Tax,Telephone Usage Charge Tax,
Utility Tax,
Vehicle License Registration Tax,
Vehicle Sales Tax,
Watercraft Registration Tax,
Well Permit Tax,
Workers Compensation Tax.

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened?
Can you spell politicians!'
And I still have to 'press 1' for English.
I hope this goes around The USA at least 100 times. (Select, copy, & send.)
What the heck happened?????

Click to Give-FREE MAMMOGRAMS

2008-06-03T20:54:00.000-07:00

There is a breast cancer site that is deserving of your attention.

About the site:

Your click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button helps fund free mammograms for women in need — low-income, inner-city and minority women whose awareness of breast cancer and opportunity for help is often limited. Your click is paid for by site sponsors, and mammogram funding is provided to clinics throughout the U.S. through the efforts of the National Breast Cancer Foundation .

Early Detection: Do You Know The Facts?

How You Can Help In Mere Seconds — Every Day
The Breast Cancer Site provides a feel-good way to help promote awareness of breast cancer and provide free mammograms for women in need every day — through easy and quick online activities.

With a simple, daily click of the pink "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button at The Breast Cancer Site, visitors help to provide free mammograms for women in need. Visitors pay nothing. Mammograms are provided by our charitable partners.

Please remember to click every day to fund free mammograms and give hope to women in need. Every click counts toward the goal of early detection, which allows for the best possible treatment options.
Click the button to read more,
Thanks,
Tony Dollars

The Psycholgy of Music

2008-06-02T17:49:00.001-07:00

Greetings my friends,
Writers from 1920, commercials created for product, and the agreements that were made before many of you were born all affect you now. The good news, you and I have a chance to change the how.

At any time, I welcome you to click on the "R" and return here for the remainder of my report to you. You can also click the title. It will take you to the location of 'THE MOVEMENT.'

I have waited a very long time to tell this story. I appreciate you visiting, giving me the opportunity to share it with you. Your reading, and continual sharing of this information will change the world. I know that's hard to believe that what you see and do here will change the world, but think about it. One person, throughout time has always been responsible for change. You name them.

In the 1920's the process of music promotion developed on a wider scale than ever before. All of a sudden people began making decisions based on what was played in the background of television commercials and voices on the radio. How would you know about many of today's products without the emotionally driving music behind your commercials.

Think of how many things that can be learned, new habits that can be developed, and concepts that can be promoted through the power of commercially produced music.

You are here because of the word, 'COMPASSION.'

After many years, compassion has changed my life, gave me a new direction, and hasn't allowed me to be the same since. Compassion developed in my heart and mind through consistent exposure to positive message music from artists like Earth Wind and Fire, Marvin Gaye, D. J. Rodgers Hope Music, the stories of Harry Chapin, Shirley Ceasar, and many other gospel, and positive artists.

I have written a book to demontrate the effects of music of a large number of people. My publisher has been gracious to agree to publish it. In the mean time, can you imagine how wonderful if the season of positively motivational music would return? You are reading this because you are meant to read it. You are meant to become part of the change. You are meant to help usher in the new trend of positive message music. You say, "I wish I knew how!"

You have the know how in your hand. Click "THE MOVEMENT." Encourage young artists to submit their positive songs to the site. Then buy the book read it, and give copies to the youth in your environment.
The mission is COMPASSION. It is more than a feeling, it is an ACTION.
Please be a traffic cop redirecting negative music to positive expression.

Thank you for reading this,
Tony

Life can pass you fast!

2008-05-28T11:10:00.000-07:00

Don't let life pass you without getting the full benefit from it.

Click this picture,

watch the movie,

and learn what could just pass you by.

Live in Peace!

2008-05-18T17:35:00.000-07:00

Jesus formed His EverLasting Dream into a command.
Then He verbalized it saying,
"You must love one another,
as I have loved you." John 13:34

Not our goals, nor harm intended,
Not a building, nor preacher heavy winded,
Not a mission, with vision short extended,
Nor a schedule, which is well attended.

None of these really matter at all.
Feats big or small, when comes the final call,

This question stands over ranking ‘t’all,
"Did we live Christ's Dream for all?"

Mrs. Shirley Goodnest and Marcy

2008-05-11T07:49:00.000-07:00

A mom was concerned about her kindergarten son walking to school. He didn't want his mother to walk with him. She wanted to give him the feeling that he had some independence but yet know that he was safe.

So she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbor if she would please follow him to school in the mornings, staying at a distance, so he probably wouldn't notice her.

The neighbor said that since she was up early with her toddler anyway, it would be a good way for them to get some exercise as well, so she agreed.

The next school day, the neighbor and her little girl set out following behind Timmy as he walked to school with another neighbor girl he knew. She did this for the whole week. As the two walked and chatted, kicking stones and twigs,

Timmy's little friend noticed the same lady was following them as she seemed to do every day all week. Finally she said to Timmy, "Have you noticed that lady following us to school all week? Do you know her?"

Timmy nonchalantly replied, "Yeah, I know who she is."

The little girl said, "Well, who is she?"

"That's just Shirley Goodnest," Timmy replied, "and her

daughter Marcy."

"Shirley Goodnest? Who the heck is she and why is she following us?" "Well," Timmy explained, "every night my Mom makes me say the 23rd Psalm with my prayers, 'cuz she worries about me so much. And in the Psalm, it says, 'Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me all the days of my life', so I guess I'll just have to get used to it!"

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

May Shirley Goodnest and Marcy be with you today and always.

I know you smiled! I sure did!

How to use your IRS Rebate Check:

2008-05-07T15:06:00.000-07:00

As you have heard, most of us will be getting a rebate check to stimulate the economy. If we spend the money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China. If we spend it on gasoline, it will go to the Arabs. If we purchase a computer, it will go to India. If we purchase fruits & vegetables, it will go to Mexico, Honduras, & Guatemala. If we purchase a good car, it will go to Japan. If we purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan. None of which will help the American Economy. We need to keep that money here in America. the only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it at Yard Sales and HealingMusicEnterprises.com/products.html since those seem to be the only businesses left in the U. S.

Here's a Referral

2008-04-30T09:44:00.000-07:00

http://recordsongs.blogspot.com/

The Mind Miracle

2008-04-28T20:39:00.000-07:00

Today I have decided to post the writing of an author who has overcome close to soo-uh-sahyd-l thoughts.

Below, the author has listed ten points to remember. he says correct thinking involves 1-2 thought, a thought process uninfluenced by 1-4 thought. The list isn’t meant to be conclusive, only a sample of one way to look at things. There have been edits to the article, but please read on...

"IT'S THE WAY YOU THINK".......

1. Consider emotions, don’t make emotions the determining factor of a decision. Look at what emotions have done. They almost destroyed my life. Of course it isn’t smart to make a decision solely on them.

2. Identify the different views of the mountain when looking at a feeling. This is covered under the headings, “The View of the Mountain,” and “Types of Thought.” This is a very important concept, part of the package of ideas that allowed me to overcome the emotional scars. I feel invigorated when I think about this concept.

3. Identify what influences your thought. View the sky inside your mind. Make sure you know why you think what you think, and feel what you feel.

4. Remain diligent. I’m not saying be paranoid about thoughts, rather try to keep an open mind and always consider other views. To be fixed on one way of thinking is a sure sign that you may have to re-evaluate your position, both in terms of thoughts, and issues in the outer world.

5. Distrust assumptions. Remove the clothes from the king. An assumption can be a road block. Assuming things will be a certain way and not examining to find out the actual facts is always a danger. Make sure you know why you believe what you believe.

6. Nothing within can harm you, unless you let it. Analyze condemnation and find its source. Never condemn yourself for a thought. Gain power over thoughts by examining them and finding out why they exist. I freed myself from thoughts by loving them.

7. You can not free yourself from a thought by avoiding it. Just like in #6, don’t avoid thoughts, examine them.

8. Use anger like a tool. Don’t let anger use you. Anger is like fire. Use anger to your advantage. Don’t burn the house down. Be smart with anger. The proper use of anger was one of the concepts that helped save my life. Don’t forget what was written about anger under the heading, “The Metal Weight.” Without anger, I couldn’t have gotten far.

9. Keep the light burning and believe in yourself. Remember that self improvement pleases God. Find meaning in your thoughts, because meaning is there.

10. Look at alternatives and choose the most advantages. In the outer world there are always different choices. In the mind, there are always different ways of looking at the same thoughts. The more choices and the more ways you can identify, the more opportunity to make smart choices exists. Take time to choose the best way of looking at things. Make the smartest choices.

To learn more, visit: http://www.themiracleinsidemymind.com/

Installing Love

2008-04-28T06:41:00.001-07:00

Tech Support: Yes, how can I help you?

Customer: Well , after much consideration, I've decided to install Love. Can you guide me through the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready. What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are Running?

Tech Support: What programs are running?

Customer: Let's see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.

TechSupport: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer Disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off?

Customer: I don't Know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased. I loved this!

Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, "Error - Program not running on internal components." What should I do?

Tech Support: Don't worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the "My Heart" directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running. One more thing before We hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.

Customer: Thank you, God.

Please send have everyone you know come read this today.

This is a test

2008-04-27T19:30:00.000-07:00

When an antioxidant stops free radical damage, it does so by lending the free radical (an unstable molecule) an electron, thus making it stable. However, once it has done this, the antioxidant becomes useless. Alpha-lipoic acid can contribute electron after electron to free radicals and used up antioxidants without becoming useless itself. This process allows other antioxidants, such as vitamins C & E to be more potent by lasting longer.

What does the L-ACID do for diabetics using it?

Christ's Dream

2008-04-25T06:39:00.000-07:00

Jesus formed His EverLasting Dream into a command. Then He verbalized it saying, "You must love one another, as I have loved you." John 13:34

Not our goals, nor harm intended,
Not a building, nor preacher heavy winded,
Not a mission, with vision short extended,
Nor a schedule, which is well attended.

None of these matter at all.
Feats big or small, when comes the final call,
This question stands ranking over ‘t’all,
"Did we live Christ's Dream for all?"

Be your best so that you can help others be theirs.

Watch Oprah's Compassion

2008-04-23T11:17:00.000-07:00

She does everything so well!

Click on the picture then click on the site to watch how she activates the compassionate action of "PAYING IT FORWARD."

She is wonderful!
She is "True Love" in action!

I apologize

2008-04-23T02:29:00.000-07:00

I apologize
Milan Ford

I've been wanting to write to you for some time now.
Every time I would try, I never seem to find the right words to say.

We pass each other every Sunday. Sometimes even during the middle of the week.
But for some reason, I just don't feel like we are as close as we once were.

I'm sure there are a number of reasons for that. Both of us probably share some of the blame.
But I felt like it was my time to apologize for a few things that may have driven us apart.

I apologize.
For that time one of my ushers told you that seat was reserved for our "special guests."

I apologize.
For those times I said our evening services would end at 9pm, but ended at 10:30pm.
(I realize how difficult that can be with children that still have to get up early for school.)

I apologize.
For that time you called one of my leaders for prayer and never received a call back.

I apologize.
For sometimes being way too critical on how you choose to dress for service.

I apologize.
For those times it seems like I'm always asking for some kind of financial assistance.
(I realize how you and others give so faithfully. I just wish there were more like you.)

I apologize.
For the times I may have appeared interested more in gaining new members, than serving and being a disciple to those members (like you) who were already coming.

I apologize.
For that time your friend (the one you invited to come visit on last Sunday) got screamed at by one of my parking lot leaders for going the wrong way. She really didn't know.

I apologize.
For those times you had questions about some of my messages and were afraid to ask.

And I (Really) Apologize....
For the times you've felt I place too much emphasis on my pastor. I admit sometimes I allow things to get a bit carried away.

I can't imagine how many other things I may have done to make you feel the way you do. I never meant to disappoint you and want you to know how important you are to me.

If there is anything the last few years have taught me, is that I desperately need to make some changes. I realize I've picked up a pretty bad rap. So much so I was just about to quit.

I was just about to throw in the towel when I read in Ephesians 5:25, that that Christ loved me, and gave Himself for me (despite my many shortcomings).

I figured if Christ could love me, with all that I've done in the past, there may still be hope for the two of us. Although I can't promise everything is going to be perfect, I know that together, we still can do some great and awesome things.

I hope you will consider forgiving me and working alongside me.
We have so much to do.

Thanks for taking the time to hear me out.

Love,
The Church

Milan Ford is a 12-year leader (and survivor) of college and student ministry within the local church. He currently serves as Content Editor for Streaming Faith and as the author of "The Pew View" (www.thepewview.com), a blogspot for church ministry leaders.

The Light in the forest

2008-04-22T17:47:00.001-07:00

Did you know the in the whole universe what you say and do, how people repond to you, the decisions you make to do, what you call improve, all matter the most to someone special to you. If you do not know who that person is, or how to find them through the forest, how will you search?
May I suggest that you simply shine your light on all the trees, big or small, with leaves or none at all. They will be there, cheering you on, loving your light. Because to them, everything you do is right.
Click picture

The Compassion of Ben Franklin

2008-04-21T13:21:00.001-07:00

Do you wonder what Ben Franklin has to do with compassion?

Read his autobiography!

Ben Franklin had his share of hardships as a slave, he himself was the embodiment of the desire for compassion and freedom. During his development through and beyond his hardship, Ben documented many advisatory writings that are not only good for us to read, but the United States of America found his wisdom to be part of the guidance it needed to thrive to success.

See: The Autobiography of Ben Franklin, and The Writings of Benjamin Franklin By Benjamin Franklin:

Some titles were:

To Sir Alexander Dick January, 1772

To Mrs Jane Mecom January 13 1772

To the Committee of Correspondence in Massachusetts January 13 1772

To Samuel Cooper January 13 1772

To James Bowdoin January 13 1772

To Dr Joshua Babcock January 13 1772

To Thomas Cushing January 13 1772

To Samuel Franklin January 13 1772

To Ezra Stiles January 13 1772

To Mrs Deborah Franklin January 28 1772

To Anthony Tissington January 28 1772

To Mrs Sarah Bache January 29 1772

To William Franklin January 30 1772

To John Foxcroft February 4 1772

To Dr Thomas Bond February 5 1772

To Cadwallader Evans February 6 1772

To Dr Richard Price February u 1772

To Noble Wimberly Jones April 2 1772

To Thomas Cushing April 13 1772

To M Le Roy April 20 1772

To Joseph Priestley May 4 1772

To Mrs Deborah Franklin May 5 1772

Ben Franklin was always trying to help take progress to the next level. You may also notice, the year 1772, it's a very special year.

Compassion for you

2008-04-20T06:37:00.000-07:00

Did you know?
Sports drinks were first designed for use by the University of Florida’s football team—the Gators—to prevent cramping and dehydration caused by hot weather and physical exertion. Hence, the name Gatorade was given to the drink.

If I asked you this . . .

2008-04-18T11:58:00.000-07:00

. . . will you agree, the 6th and 3rd questions
in that order are our

"MOST POWERFUL TOOLS?"

Consider this story . . .

. . . A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. What food might this contain?'
cccccccThe mouse wondered - - -he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, The mouse proclaimed the warning 'There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!' The chicken clucked and scratched, 'Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.'

cccccccThe mouse turned to the pig and told him 'There is a mousetrap in the house The pig sympathized, but said, I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers.' The mouse turned to the cow and said 'There is a mousetrap in the house! The cow said, 'Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose.' So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap . . . alone.

cccccccThat very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient. But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock.

cccccccTo feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

cccccccThe mouse looked upon it all from His crack in the wall with great sadness.

cccccccSo, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember ----when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

cccccccWe are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT AND LET THEM KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE. REMEMBER. . . EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON One of the best things to hold Onto in this world is a FRIEND

Life Application:

2008-04-16T21:18:00.001-07:00

What Is Compassion?
We had offered you a poll to learn your thoughts and feelings toward those things you feel are important. What is important to you? We have learned an already obvious lesson. What is important to one person may be far from what is important to another.

The lesson goes much deeper than that surface derivative we found here. The deeper lesson says, “A majority of people do not have the same definition for what they feel should be simple to understand.” Which deepens the lesson still, into the fact that communication assumptions made to target certain expectations, but miss the mark, end many times causing confusion, and even discontentment. That end is the ingredient for arguments.

Out right wanting control over another is one sure way to arguments. But simple missed communication from good intentions should be looked at from a deeper, heart felt perspective.

From the poll we asked: “WHAT IS OUR MOST POWERFUL TOOL?"

You answered:
1. Money: 2 (8%)2. Intimate commitment: 12 (50%)
3. Leadership: 3 (12%) Control over others: 0 (0%)
4. Credit score: 0 (0%)5. Concern for others in action: 7 (29%) (this is not a military question).

When we placed the word tool in this poll, we meant it to say, “What are the strongest things we have available that allow us to adjust life’s results to obtain the best optimistic outcomes?”

A tool: a wrench, an eyebrow pencil, a remote control, a mailbox, these are all tools, things we use.
Had I taken the time to explain even more I would love to have seen the different results. It is very important to get your feed back.

Maybe I should let you know that what you say here will have an effect on millions of people within the next 365 days as my publisher releases the book to the same effect.

These answers will not be there, but they open understanding as to how a majority of people think and feel about these matters. Knowing this provide us with the opportunity to give you better options, better product, and better information.

I want to stay right here on this subject over the next few days to read your comments. Please do what ever it takes to get in and share your comment. What you say is going to make a difference in what happens in society and how society will change over the next ten years.

Again, your thoughts are important.

Please share them.

Take care,

Tony

Let us consider these things

2008-04-14T11:13:00.001-07:00

"Where is the balance?"

1. Money: 2 (8%)
2. Intimate commitment: 12 (50%)
3. Leadership: 3 (12%)
Control over others: 0 (0%)
4. Credit score: 0 (0%)
5. Concern for others in action: 7 (29%)
(not a military question)

Up from a nap!

2008-04-13T17:45:00.000-07:00

Click: to see if you agree compassionately?
It's funny how you don't know time is moving while you sleep, but at times, as soon as you awake you may be startled to learn that more time has passed that you had hoped for.

I just rose from a nap and thought time had passed for me to finish work.

Thank goodness time had not passed for me to get it done.

This was a sign of the time:

"Responsibility"

1. Plan and schedule (program alarms, mention plans to others, what ever we do, insure not to miss necessary times).

2. We are responsible for everything we have charge of. No excuse will will turn back the time giving us another opportunity.

3. Be thankful for the time we have to accomplish anything. It is our most valuable gift from God. Without it, what would we have? How we handle our time is our gift back to God.

Live in Love and Peace,

Tony

Please take a moment to click the link below

2008-04-08T22:50:00.000-07:00

Master Mind

"Lightening in a Bottle"

Is there really a "Common Sense?"

2008-04-07T13:17:00.000-07:00

What do tests tell you...?

...How smart you are ?
Click to:
take the test

What does it mean anyway?
Click to:
Learn what your score means.

There is a funny thing

2008-04-06T19:01:00.001-07:00

It happens every time there is a significant need. There will be a significant abandance. After the abandoning of the issue, or need, someone notices the hurt because it touches close to home. When that noticing happens, it is too late to cause a healing, so many people have already been harmed.

After such time the only next best thing is prevention. Those who would abandon, those who would be hurt by participating in the prevention process have the opportunity to work in prevention as well as help heal the hearts of those who would be hurt in the future.

There is a before, and there is an after.
There is the hurt, and there is the responded hurting ones.

the funny thing is, those who would rather not hurt, who would feel the pain, or whose children would feel the pain tend to be the ones who wait until the pain hits close to home before they do something toward prevention.

Which are you, and why?

Ideas anyone?

2008-04-02T08:05:00.000-07:00

Please take a moment here to make suggestions, comments, or obsevations. I greatly appreciate any writing you choose to submit here.

Thank you so much!

The words may have been misleading

2008-04-01T19:14:00.000-07:00

I do apologize for the mix up.

When I wrote, "Concern for others in Action," it was not meant as a reference to the soldiers.

"Concern for others in Action," was meant as a reference for persons in need of help.

"Concern for others" was meant to frame the question, "Do you care?"

Writing "In Action" meant to frame the statement, "Involved in helping other people." In the direction of "Pay It Forward."

Again I do hope you can forgive my cloudy writing. If so, now may we begin our discussion?

WHAT IS YOUR OPINION?

2008-03-31T10:47:00.001-07:00

Please Consider the poll before we talk

2008-03-30T19:08:00.000-07:00

What IS our most powerful tool?
You said...
Money 2 (8%)
Intimate commitment 12 (50%)
Leadership 3 (12%)
Control over others 0 (0%)
Credit score 0 (0%)
Concern for others 7 (29%)

Take a look at the picture above, then reconsider each response applying it to the development of each individual, (yourself).

Can we really do that?

2008-03-29T06:51:00.001-07:00

Sometimes I wonder if I really make a difference in what I am thinking, or hurting about. I think most people feel the same. Only time will tell if our efforts are effective toward change. The more effective consideration is the effort we give ourselves.

I heard it said, "Thoughts become things." "What a man thinketh, so shall he be." and "What a person thinks about, they attract more of that to themselves."

With all the reading, exposure, and experience of my "Now" times, I have come to conclude that these sayings are lasting because of the power in their truth.

I know that is hard to absorb because it is easy to look at another and say, "I didn't make them do that." True, we don't make other people do what they do, or say what they say. But the more we focus on that, the more power we give to that thought, the more time we are giving to accumulating those thoughts, and the less time we have to focus on those good and positive thoughts of our own. Remember time is a gift to us, what we do with it is our gift back.

My uncle used to tell me, "The same time you spend thinking on what someone else did negative is time you could have been spending on what you can do positive."

Then I heard some church folk say, "Don't let NO ONE steal your joy." When it all comes down, where you allow your thoughts to settle is all up to you. The reality is, the more you think a thing, the more you are building a habit of thinking that thing.

My question is,
"If thinking it doesn't feel good, why art thou giving it so mucheth timeth?"

PORK CHOPS

2008-03-26T17:54:00.000-07:00

In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.

The mother tiger, after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.

After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only 'orphans' that could be found quickly were a litter of weanling pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops??
Take a look...

Now, please tell me one more time......
Why can't the rest of the world get along??

Heart Monitor

2008-03-26T10:37:00.000-07:00

If you could do anything you wanted, having the money to do it, paying anything it costs, making it last as long as needed, afterwards owing no one for it, what would it be?

Heart test

2008-03-25T07:59:00.001-07:00

If you could have anything you want, without having to pay anything, keep it as long as you like, and owe no one anything for it, what would it be?

Just a few more days

2008-03-23T23:01:00.000-07:00

The numbers are amazing!! There are only a few more days before we start our discussion about "Our Most Powerful Tool." If you haven't voted, please take the time to look to your left, scroll down to the poll, and vote your choice. Then come back in a few days to follow the discussion.

"Environmental Love"

2008-03-21T13:49:00.000-07:00

Participating in The green challenge will give you the experience that real love is actually not a desire, but a giving.
Try it, Mother Nature will love you for it.
Just click "The Green Challenge!"

"Law" of "Attraction"

2008-03-19T17:22:00.000-07:00

Can you explain "The Law of Attraction?"
Read below. It is the beginning of understanding the law.
We will talk more about this later.
Much Love and Peace to you,
Tony

"Anything" repeated to your psyche ...

2008-03-17T10:43:00.000-07:00

Hi, I hope you are having a wonderful day. I don't want to be the barer of bad news, so please think of this as good news.

Those things that have been bothering you, those things that you say you want to get away from that you have been seeing, doing, or being, over and over again, your mind has developed a habit of recreating them. For the lack of a better way to say it, they have created addictive thoughts attracting you to them, and them to you.

If your dad picked at the details of what you wore constantly, so that after a while you felt bad, guess what. You will do the same. Not only will you do the same, you will do things that cause similar type of "Picking with you," to happen.

Addiction is just the easiest way to say how these chemicals in the mind work with electicity in and around us to create things and situations. These are some of the things that are important for us to know and understand as we endeavor to delve into understanding "FAITH."

Search yourself, and please don't be to hard on yourself when you realize that you've been there before. What you see happening here, is the same thing you saw happen there, only from a different person, or situation, at a different time. Then go into yourself and recognize how you contributed, what you did, the habit you acted out of to make it happen. Then be about the business of designing a schedule for yourself to create a new habit that gets you beyond that which you are seeing again and again.

If you don't deliberatly design a schedule to pull your time and attention away from creating the same behavior, it will never go away, as it never does.

Looking at the problem, and finding out all this wonderful "STUFF'" about "WHY," is great. But if you don't do anything about it, what good does it do but serve as a means to plant in you deeper, the habit, or the need for it to keep happen again and again.

I hope that didn't hurt too bad. Sgare this with someone you know may be seeing the same things over and over that they need to get beyond. It's all about compassion, and it starts within us.

Click here for more on personal development...

A quote from my mother, "If you don't want people to say what they been saying about you, or do what they've been doing to you, then don't do those things that will cause them to say or do those things."

Remember, "Words cut both the speaker and hearer."

Peace and Encouragement to you,
In the mighty "POWER OF COMPASSION"

What IS our most powerful tool?

2008-03-15T09:38:00.000-07:00

Next to this post is a voting "POLL" What IS our most powerful tool?

Please cast your vote.

In the days it expires I would like us to communicate on those topics.

It is important that we place our minds on those topics and give rise to that which is to have priority.

Be at peace

Judge! or "Not to Judge," that is the question.

2008-03-14T13:14:00.000-07:00

I had to share this email with you. I hope you can see what it is, if you have not recieved a copy.

Breakfast

McDonald's

This is a good story and it is true, please read it all the way through until the end! After the story, there are some very interesting facts!):

I am a mother of three (ages 14, 12, 3) and have recently completed my college degree. The last class I had to take was Sociology.

The teacher was absolutely inspiring with the qualities that I wish every human being had been graced with.

Her last project of the term was called, 'Smile.'

The class was asked to go out and smile at three people and document their reactions. I am a very friendly person and always smile at everyone and say hello anyway. So, I thought this would be a piece of cake,
literally.

Soon after we were assigned the project, my husband, youngest son, and I went out to McDonald's one crisp March morning.

It was just our way of sharing special playtime with our son.

We were standing in line waiting to be served, when all of a sudden, everyone around us began to back away, and then even my husband did.

I did not move an inch... an overwhelming feeling of panic welled up inside of me as I turned to see why
they had moved.

As I turned around I smelled a horrible 'dirty body' smell, and there standing behind me were two poor homeless men.

As I looked down at the short gentleman, close to me, he was 'smiling'.

His beautiful sky blue eyes were full of God's Light as he searched for acceptance. He said, 'Good day' as he counted the few coins he had been clutching.

The second man fumbled with his hands as he stood behind his friend. I realized the second man was mentally challenged and the blue-eyed gentleman was his salvation.

I held my tears as I stood there with them.

The young lady at the counter asked him what they wanted.

He said, 'Coffee is all Miss' because that was all they could afford. (If they wanted to sit in the restaurant and warm up, they had to buy something. He just wanted to be warm).

Then I really felt it - the compulsion was so great I almost reached out and embraced the little man with the blue eyes.

That is when I noticed all eyes in the restaurant were set on me, judging my every action.

I smiled and asked the young lady behind the counter to give me two more breakfast meals on a separate tray.

I then walked around the corner to the table that the men had chosen as a resting spot. I put the tray on the table and laid my hand on the blue-eyed gentleman's cold hand.

He looked up at me, with tears in his eyes, and said, 'Thank you.'

I leaned over, began to pat his hand and said, 'I did not do this for you. God is here working through me to give you hope.'

I started to cry as I walked away to join my husband and son. When I sat down my husband smiled at me and said, 'That is why God gave you to me, Honey, to give me hope.'

We held hands for a moment and at that time, we knew that only because of the Grace that we had been given were we able to give.

We are not church goers, but we are believers.

That day showed me the pure Light of God's sweet love.

I returned to college, on the last evening of class, with this story in hand.

I turned in 'my ! project ' and the instructor read it.

Then she looked up at me and said, 'Can I share this?'

I slowly nodded as she got the attention of the class.

She began to read and that is when I knew that we as human beings and being part of God share this need to heal people and to be healed.

In my own way I had touched the people at cDonald's, my son, instructor, and every soul that shared the classroom on the last night I spent as a college student.

I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn:

UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE.

Much love and compassion is sent to each and every person who may read this and learn how to

LOVE PEOPLE AND USE THINGS - NOT LOVE THINGS ! AND USE PEOPLE.

There is an Angel sent to watch over you. In order for her to work, you must pass this on to the people you want watched over.

A Box of gold*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*With a secret inside that has never been told*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*This box is priceless but as I see*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Today I share thistreasure with thee*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*It's the treasure of friendship you've given me.*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Send this to everyone you consider a friend!

Leslie

FINANCIAL BLESSINGS

2008-03-13T06:43:00.000-07:00

After you read this, please click the title:

God is the biggest help in the World. I claim it for you - now claim it for me. God has more than a thousand ways to provide for us, that we know nothing about.

Here is your financial blessing! It's a simple prayer, you got 30 seconds?Don't sleep on this...Someone recently read this for the first time and received exactly enough for a $0 balance on all credit cards.If you need a financial blessing, continue reading this e-mail.

Heavenly Father, most Gracious and Loving God, I pray to you that you abundantly bless my family and me. I know that you recognize, that a family is more than just a mother, father, sister, brother, husband and wife, but all who believe and trust in You.

GOD, I send up a prayer request for financial blessing for not only the person who sent this to me, but for me and all that I have forwarded this message on to. And that the power of joined prayer by those who believe and trust in you is more powerful than anything.!

I thank you in advance for your blessings. God, deliver the person reading this rightNow from debt and debt burdens. Release your Godly wisdom that I may be a good steward over all that you have given me GOD, for I know how wonderful and mighty you are and how if we just obey you and walk in your word and have the faith of a mustard seed that you will pour out blessings.

I thank you now Lord for The recent blessings I have received and for the blessings yet to come because I know you are not done with me yet. Amen

Please: TAKE 60 SECONDS to think about the manifestation of this blessing in someone elses life, and send this message to many on quickly.

Within hours, you will have caused a multitude of people to pray to God for each other. Then sit back and watch the power of God work in your life for doing the thing that you know He loves.

Peace, Love, and Blessings....Have Faith
Don't forget to click the title

That's not high enough!!

2008-03-12T08:46:00.000-07:00

Think on those things up high!!! I had to say it again. I know what happens when we see things we've seen before. As the old folks used to say, "We get to smart for our own britches."

There is so much more to you than you can imagine. There is a will, a place you are suppose to get to in your life, and a certain way of doing things that only you can do to get you there.

This day I am saying again: Think on those things up high!!! Listen to your heart tell you stories of desire to lift you from where you are to where it needs you to be. Then pray, get up, and focus on that direction God has given you. Use your will power to "Stay focused" on the course of your destiny.

Now soar in "THE MIGHTY POWER OF LOVE!"

Think on those things up high!!!

2008-03-10T08:47:00.000-07:00

Listen to your heart tell you stories of desire to lift you from where you are to where it needs you to be. Then pray, get up, and focus on that direction God has given you. Use your will power to "Stay focused" on the course of your destiny.

This is to you with love,

Tony Dollars

A Friend Asked for Help Today!

2008-03-09T09:26:00.000-07:00

Actually, I met her through another friend. Now we are all just friends the way I see it. I saw a number on my caller ID that I was not familiar with, and decided to check and see who it was. When I called she said her name, and I immediately became excited with joy that it was her. She has never done anything for me except be one of the sweetest persons I know. That has kept her memory at the top of my list of people to appreciate. Why am I telling you this…well…some formulas work when you understand their application.

Birth Verse

2008-03-08T14:53:00.000-08:00

Everyone has one!

Email the link below to all your friends

after you learn what your own birth verse is.

COMING SOON!

2008-03-06T11:27:00.000-08:00

http://compassionambassador.com/ will soon be a wonderful place for youth interaction and activity for the purpose of compassion. So please,

"KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE & EAR OUT FOR ADVERTISEMENTS!"

"Calling All Angels"

2008-03-05T08:55:00.000-08:00

Greetings to all friends of compassion;

As I promised yesterday, after a short conversation with the song writer for the end theme of the movie, "Pay It Forward," here are the lyrics.

The song is #9 click here; click: "CALLING ALL ANGELS." She also provided me with the following information to share with you. Here she speaks to you:

"I am called Issa now. 'Calling All Angels' can be linked to at myspace. http://www.myspace.com/janesiberrysheeba
I can be linked to at http://www.myspace.com/issalight or http://www.issalight.com
all the best,
issa"

There is an email list there. If you would like to know more about all the new Issa (Jane Siberry) music being completed, please feel free to contact her using this method. www.myspace.com/issalight

Email:

Date: Mar 4, 2008 1:05 AM

Subject: Can we post your song?

RE: yes,

Body: Please feel welcome to put up the words. This song has a life of it's own.

I wrote the song “Calling all Angels.” They used it in the movie. Here are the words for it - they say it better than I could.

People can link to the song at the jane siberry myspace.
all the best,
issa

CALLING ALL ANGELS

Santa Maria, Santa Teresa, Santa Anna, Santa Susannah, Santa Cecilia, Santa Copelia, Santa Domenica, Mary Angelica, Frater Achad, Frater Pietro, Julianus, Petronilla, Santa, Santos, Miroslaw, Vladimir and all the rest

a man is placed upon the steps, a baby cries, and high above the church bells start to ring and as the heaviness the body oh the heaviness settles in, somewhere you can hear a mother sing

then it's one foot then the other as you step out onto the road, how much weight? how much weight? then it's how long? and how far? and how many times before it's too late?

calling all angels, calling all angels
walk me through this one, don't leave me alone
calling all angels, calling all angels
we're cryin' and we're hurtin,' and we're not sure how this goes

and every day you gaze upon the sunset, with such love and intensity
it's almost... it's almost as if, if you could only crack the code, then you'd finally understand what this all means

but if you could... do you think you would, trade in all the pain and suffering? ah, but then you'd miss, the beauty of the light upon this earth, and the sweetness of the leaving

calling all angels, calling all angels
walk me through this one, don't leave me alone
callin' all angels, callin' all angels
we're tryin,' we're hopin,' we're lovin,' we're hurtin,'

we're cryin,' we're callin,'
because we're not sure how this goes

"Oprah's BIG GIVE is FANTASTIC!"

2008-03-04T07:45:00.000-08:00

But you can create your own, "BIG GIVE." It is ok to see what others are doing and like it. Go ahead; check out Oprah’s “Big Give.” (click) Now think about how you will create your own, “Big Give” You simply need to understand the process of “Pay It Forward.”

Go back to the day the blogs talked about writing your plans in (click) "NATIONAL KINDNESS WEEK" and get started. View the following page for help getting started: "Repetition Makes You Good" Take your time, think of people to help, and ideas of ways to help, and write them down. Then remember the key phrase Trevor said in the movie toward the end, “Never give up.”

Never give up until your help is rejected. Not when you are frustrated, not when they are different than you expect, not when most of your friends are questioning you, or putting them down. Only give up when they do not want help. Nevertheless, stand in the wings waiting for your opportunity to jump in and do His will.

We really can "CHANGE THE WORLD" we live in.
Tomorrow, the song writer for the song "Calling all Angels" in the movie "Pay It Forward" shares her lyrics with you. Until then,
Live in Peace & Love,
Tony

Can we really "CHANGE THE WORLD?"

2008-03-03T07:32:00.000-08:00

In these times of what seems to be, "Every person for them-selves," I have learned that some people actually care about the well-being of people. People actually care about others outside of their extended family or relationships.

If you are one of those people, I would like you to help me conduct a test.

This test will prove to the doubters that our faith working together can actually “Change The World.” This is only the beginning, please continue to visit and participate in the compassionate behavior projects through-out the year. At the end of the year, we want to invite you to one of the most fantastic events you have witnessed in a life time.

For now, please simply

Copy the title of today's blog, and
Send it to 3 people asking each one to send it to 3 people.

If the people you send it to send it to three more people, (Granted each person reads the details), before we realize there will have been 4, 782,969 people contacted by email who have the details on how to “Pay It Forward,” click here (Visit these and please come back daily).

This is just one of the processes of the new COMPASSION CAMPAIGN, of the remaining year to come.

Please stay tuned!

Thanks,

Tony

Visit these and please come back

2008-03-02T22:20:00.000-08:00

I hope you have a wonderful day!

I am so thankful to you for visiting!

Let's begin to change the world, let's "Pay it foward!"

http://www.payitforwardfoundation.org/book_news.html
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In the power of Love, & Compassion,

Tony Dollars

Click to see this "Tribute"

2008-02-29T08:05:00.000-08:00

Producer Stephen "Static" Garrett Dies.

Click to see this "Truth"

2008-02-28T17:56:00.000-08:00

Can anyone tell me when is "Compassion Day?"

Email Friends

2008-02-28T00:11:00.000-08:00

THE WORLD IS IN NEED OF
the
"TRUE LOVE RENAISSANCE."

Copy what you see. Send it to all your friends. Then scroll your mouse over all the words, and in the mighty power of compassion, click everything, and come back, and click some more.

Commemorate the kick off of the

"TRUE LOVE RENAISSANCE."

Tony Dollars
-----"Memoirs of Tony Dollars"-----

Someone sent this to me

2008-02-27T09:09:00.000-08:00

Now it’s mine to share it with you. Please read it with you in mind.
I have rearranged it to extend my love to you!

Dear Tony Dollars,

Sometimes it seems like the only reason you were put on earth was to work. Your hard work, however, will soon pay off. You will see a significant boost in your career, especially concerning projects you've been working on for a while.

Are you on the right path? Are you making the right decisions? Know your purpose in life.

Live in your complete destiny, illuminate the way, and keep taking meaningful steps toward your life goals. Act out your life and peek your future of joy and success.

Know that you are loved

Repeating The Mission

2008-02-26T04:38:00.000-08:00

I know our mission, but every now and again, I want to make sure I repeat our mission, so that you will get to know and understand our mission.
Our mission is to saturate our core attitude with the Power of True Love.

I call it the, "TRUE LOVE RENAISSANCE."

The Mission Statement
• To build character through teaching the Power of True Love to all, focusing on students, pre-school through college. To strengthen lives equipting them with the core attitude needed for success, and developing concern for others,

• To establish a Community Help Line, entitled,
“The L.O.V.E. Line,” (Leaders Offering Valued Endeavors),
the line is to facilitate opportunities for young people to connect with their community and do tasks that help neighbors and beautify the environment, (targeting the need, to include the city).

• To create art & redirect its path to positive productivity so as to motivate youth & adult consituents to reassess the value of entertainment in education, and in motivating mind, body, and spirit.

Within this mission: (once you understand this, click the title)
There is a need for you to stay connected, watching the posts of this blog. Maybe that need is you have a reason to benefit, or contribute.

Click Here after you read this!

2008-02-25T09:40:00.000-08:00

Repetition Makes You Good

Your Secret: You can get good at anything! Simply do it over, and over. After a while, it becomes a habit. Before you even consider the fact that you have developed a habit, you have gotten good at doing that thing you haven't even thought about.

The way we are, what we have, and the mindset to make the choices we make has been developing over years of repetition. The good news is:

“WE CAN CHANGE!” “EVERYTHING!!!” (Change: from here, to desire.)

Well, almost everything, we CAN change our minds at least. In some cases, we can even change our appearances.

When it comes to mental choices, we must first recognize the need change. Like building a business, first find a need, and fill it. In the process of researching ways to change, you will want to make it affordable for you to make the change.

Mental choices or “Mind-Sets,” in effect: our likes, dislikes, turn-ons, turn-offs, things we are particular about, and things (or people), we don’t care much for are all mental and cause us to make physical choices. They even cause our bodies to behave certain ways. They release chemicals inside of us that we feel as emotions. These emotions make us think we should make that choice. This emotional behavior or habit is based on repetitive exposure.

Think about it, being wealthy, poor, investing, or simply spending and wanting more, even being happy with what you have and who you are, all are products of your repetitive exposure. In other words, it all started because you saw it repeated somewhere then started repeating it yourself.

You can change from depression, financial bondage, hatred, being too picky, not being selective enough, unorganized, unplanned, or any other behavioral pattern that is not producing the results you need. Find the need and fill it. Build a new “Mind-Set.” A mind set consists of a system, a corresponding thought process. Which means you may think, “I don’t like reading much, so I may not do so well in school.” Or, if you didn’t do well in school in the past, you think you may not do well now. Even, “If I like it, I should buy it, (or do it).”

Building a new mental state on mind, a new “Mind-Set,” is like building a business. Knowing there is a need comes first, the desire to fill that need builds from there. In the process of research, you will want to make it affordable for you to conduct business. You don’t need a college you simply need a schedule.

I propose the following first steps to create a “Change Sheet”:

On the second page of a new note book, draw a line down the middle.
Make preparation to answer yourself, (Two spaces of lines)
Write down things about you, you would like to see changed. (left side)
Write how you may approach the change. (right side)
Write the cost of that approach on the second line. (left side)
Write a length of time you want to see the change. (right side)
Under each change you want, repeat steps 5, and 6.

It is highly important to see the change you want before you can be the change. After the change is written, it becomes more real in your mind.

With your “Change Sheet” complete, go back to the first page and create a check list. You will use this check list to acknowledge completing or at least creating a habit toward your goal.

Turn to the page after your “Change Sheet” and start writing your “Success Plan.” Your “Success Plan” is a set of numbers. These are times you will put in place the things you know you need to do to create the change you need.

I like to write every half hour of the day and assign it to some activity. Then I don’t want to be so stuck in my mind that I allow myself to get frustrated when I don’t fill each time slot with its’ particular prescription. I simply add them to the next day. Be careful of that because requirements can pile up easy.

Some references to help change your “Mind-Set,” are:

Books: (The bible, The Cashflow Quadrant, Success through Positive Thinking, the E-Myth… the list goes on. (Keep visiting here for more.)
Councilors: (Click the title) a few more, Robert Kiyosaki, & Alice Cash.
Colleges: (you choose, http://www.universityofsantamonica.edu, http://www.indwes.edu, http://www.berkleemusic.com/school/courses, have fun doing more research on your own).

Life offers a list that is literally “Lattitude Unlimited.”

These are all for the purpose of compassion.

Now to you I leave

Peace & Love

Repetition Makes You Good

2008-02-24T10:01:00.000-08:00

You can start to like anything you do over, and over again. After a while, it becomes a habit. Before you even consider the fact that you have developed a habit, you have gotten good at doing that thing you haven't even thought about. Your Secret

The way we are, what we have, and the mindset to make the choices we make has been developing over years of repetition. The good news is:

“WE CAN CHANGE!” “EVERYTHING!!!” (Change: from here, to desire.)

Well, almost everything, we CAN change our minds at least. In some cases, we can even change our appearances.

I propose the following first steps to create a “Change Sheet”:

On the second page of a new note book, draw a line down the middle.
Make preparation to answer yourself, (Two spaces of lines)
Write down things about you, you would like to see changed. (left side)
Write how you may approach the change. (right side)
Write the cost of that approach on the second line. (left side)
Write a length of time you want to see the change. (right side)
Under each change you want, repeat steps 5, and 6.

It is highly important to see the change you want before you can be the change. After the change is written, it becomes more real in your mind.

With your “Change Sheet” complete, go back to the first page and create a check list. You will use this check list to acknowledge completing or at least creating a habit toward your goal.

Some references to help change your “Mind-Set,” are:

Books: (The bible, The Cashflow Quadrant, Success through Positive Thinking, the E-Myth… the list goes on. (Keep visiting here for more.)
Councilors: (Click the title) a few more, Robert Kiyosaki, & Alice Cash.
Colleges: (you choose, http://www.universityofsantamonica.edu, http://www.indwes.edu, http://www.berkleemusic.com/school/courses, have fun doing more research on your own).

Life offers a list that is literally “Lattitude Unlimited.”

These are all for the purpose of compassion.

Now to you I leave

Peace & Love

Growth

2008-02-23T01:57:00.000-08:00

Planting a seed is a wonderful thing.

It's pretty much like starting college, getting a new job, opening a business, raising a child, cultivating a relationship, acquiring new knowledge, or getting deeper in spiritual awareness. They all take precious time, must be specially nurtured, and suffer when there is a lack of attention.

A spirit of compassion is preeminent in ushering in the best possible results in either case. At times, I am sure we have made a mistake or two, or three, (thousand). Our creator could have acted without compassion during those times we forgot ours.

Were you at a lost for words when the window clerk got your order wrong at the chicken eatery? Did you not want to ram your car past the line of traffic in anger when you were pressed for time on the way to work? Oops, I forgot, you forgot to remember your compassion during those times.

What about when the little person wanted to wash your car windows, or pump your gas? You could have expressed how important it is to get an education, pointing out the amount of money earned may depend on the amount of education obtained in their time of employment. You could have given them a dollar to promise they will pursue a good education. Instead, you told them you did not have time. The funny part is, when you reached your destination, you were early.

Anything you do repeatedly becomes a habit.

Why not use those trying times to practice compassion.

Just as a doctor practices, a habit of healing may grow on you.

Content

2008-02-21T06:47:00.000-08:00

Have you ever thought of yourself as the container?

Walk through the isles of the grocery store. Just about everything you will purchase is in a container. There is an average height to each category. Most weight varies, again, according to categories they average out.

How many different products can you purchase in a grocery? How many variations of these products are there?

If the old saying is true, �Strength comes in numbers,� then if a company has a good variety of products you like, you will pretty much stick with them. Am I right?

Human nature desires to be treated fairly, to get what is expected, and to enjoy it once we have it.

The strength in numbers theme is exactly right when it comes to humans and compassion.

There are many variations of humans. The more humans that are of the same brand the more that brand has to offer society.

Our company founder and C.E.O. wants to buy you out. His purchase plan is True Love. The service satisfies your deepest needs. The benefits extends to eternity. Your contract is simply compassionate behavior.

He has an unbroken standing record of the most satisfied customers, the happiest managers, and the most enthusiastic workers। The administrative staff has never changed. I think you�ll like them, but you�ll have to get to know them for yourself. You can read about them in the bible.

Come on over.

Don�t forget to Write Your Progress Plan!

"Pay it Forward"

2008-02-20T17:11:00.000-08:00

In the earlier posting a wonderful friend of mine from school mentioned, "Pay it forward."

This is a wonderful movie! It brought tears to my eyes.

It is a movie that, in my view point the world needs to see! A strong understanding of. "Don't wait until it's done for you before you do it for others," concerning random compassionate acts of kindness are what we need to paste or staple on to the fabric of society.

This action of giving unrequested kindness only happens after you have something to give.

This series of postings from February 14, 2008 to now, are what we will focus on concerning gathering, growing our own crops, so that we will have abundance in our store house to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Please see the vision,
write it down,
and lets continue to help each other grow.

In the mighty power of Compassion,
Tony Dollars

National Kindness Week

2008-02-19T05:49:00.000-08:00

This week, you must be unusually kind to people you know and meet.

Question: is that kindness transferable into the next week?

Last week I asked you to prepare yourself to be lifted up. It is so in line with National Kindness Week. Being kind to yourself is the first good thing you should do.

Questions to Consider:

Where, are you currently positioned?
Employee - Self-employed - Business owner - Investor
What are your DREAMS to change your position?
What does being financially free mean to you? What do you want to be, do, and have? What would you be doing with your time and resources as you acquire your dreams?
What are your GOALS
Write what you will accomplish in 6 to 12 months? How much cash will you make on monthly basis from your acted plans?
WHAT IS STOPPING YOU?
Identify what is slowing you down, or holding you back. Will you achieve your dreams if you keep doing what you’re doing now?
WHAT IS THAT COSTING YOU?
Are you losing money by missing opportunities? How do the road blocks affect your relationships? How do the negative consequences of those roadblocks make you feel? Are you ready to change? Are you ready to commit your time, energy, and resources to achieve your dreams?
When you have taken the time to think through and respond to the previous items, please answer the following questions, in a simple sentence or two:

· Why do I want these dreams? Why are they important to me?
· Why am I waiting to write my future?
· How will writing my vision help me?

Reminder: The pleasure of our creator is that we be lifted up to a higher place. As you write your plan, you are acting out one of the kindest acts for your time.

In return I will outline a plan structure here that should help you get going, as it makes it easier to facilitate.

Please stick to visiting here daily. I will watch for your comments and requests, and answer accordingly. Hopefully I will post something that will help you build your vision to the place it needs to be.

The next step is in you, write it down.

In the Mighty Power of Compassion,
Peace

Saturday, Sunday, & Monday

2008-02-15T07:58:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I asked you to prepare yourself to be lifted up.
The pleasure of our creator is that we be lifted up to a higher place. Then the scriptures tell us "The Power Is Within." 1 John 4:16

As you write your plan, I will share information here, in business plan style, to help make it easier to facilitate. Please stick to visiting here daily. I will watch for your comments and requests, and answer accordingly to help build your vision to the place it needs to be. It all starts with my request to you.

That request is this. I would like you to spend the following three days creating a vision with a value excusive to you and your family. Look back at some of the businesses and services that were molded into the time of the past. See if one looks like it could be carved into your vision.

Take a pad with you where ever you go, (especially to church, that's the place we all should take notes!). Write down your bits and pieces of ideas. Place the general need in the blog, or simply acknowledge that you have created some writings you feel enthusiastic about.

The key thought is, “You must be compassionate in your creation, thinking of how it will help others.”

I will write more on this as I get more comments on the subject.

The focus for the following three days is this:

Get creative in helping people help you.

Show people you love them.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

2008-02-14T16:44:00.000-08:00

There are many memories that are associated with this day.

Can I ask you to do me a favor?

Back when America was in its' personal development stage, families worked together creating their own businesses, farms, and services. These were entities unique to each individual family. Those businesses, farms and service they developed created a value with an identity all its' own. If you wanted ‘Ice Cream,’ you would go visit the Borden family. If you wanted a ‘package’ delivered, you would call Mr. Jim Casey. If you wanted sausage, you would pick up a package of ‘Jimmy Dean.’ (I had to bring it up to date for some of you.)

What is it about you, or your family that other people could use?

Remember; in an earlier post, I wrote about Mr. Johnson, of Johnson and Johnson products? He said, “Develop a product or service people need. Then make it easy for them to get it. Pretty soon you will be making more money than you can count.” That’s what these people did.

My request is this. I would like you to spend the following four days creating a vision with a value excusive to you and your family. Look back at some of the businesses and services that were molded into the time of the past. See if one looks like it could be carved into your vision.

Take a pad with you where ever you go, (especially to church, that's the place we all should take notes!). Write down your bits and pieces of ideas. Place the general need in the blog, or simply acknowledge that you have created some writings you feel enthusiastic about.

The key thought is, “You must be compassionate in your creation, thinking of how it will help others.”

I will write more on this as I get more comments on the subject.

Get creative in helping people help you.

Show people you love them.

Life can be hard

2008-02-13T06:12:00.000-08:00

Have you ever noticed how some people are extremely happy no matter what, and others are always down no matter what happens?

At some point, if we are truly compassionate, we should wonder what's really going on.

The process of hiding is easy for the subconscious mind. Though you see the face, you may never know what is hurting inside. After time and time again of instance after instance of hurt, mishaps and pain, the side of the human mechanism that wants so bad to be happy creates an accelerated sense of joy that covers all the deep embedded pain inside. The person will seem extremely happy on the outside; all the while inside they are hurting.

As I writing this, I could suggest taking time to find out the core of the problem. Maybe that's not our job. Maybe our job is to help direct the person to acknowledge the core of the problem within them, and our job is to help find a cure. We need simply to listen to those quick, short, soft spoken cries for help.

Some have said that I am extra sensitive for a man. Let me tell you, I am all man, (if you wondered).In my case, growing up, people have seemed very insensitive to me. My sensitivity is my subconscious forming my personality into the need for a smile, a greeting, an offer of assistance, a life partner, someone to stick closer than a brother.

Look around you. The persons that seem to be down no matter what have very similar issues, they simply aren’t interested in hiding them. They are not so afraid of your criticism as are those who hide behind a smile.

In either case, I wonder how many of us will ever get to the point in maturity to recognize as the pastor of my childhood used to say, “If you find yourself wanting to say something about someone, put yourself in a position to help them. If you are not willing to help, don’t say a word.”

Life can be hard if we allow it to be.

Compassion takes mature people and expands their territory.

Please forgive me!

2008-02-12T16:37:00.000-08:00

There was a saying that I used to think was wonderfully applicable to anything that comes between us and success. Mind you, not withholding moral applications, the phrase coined by Malcolm X simply stated we should accomplish our goals, "By any means necessary."

As I view the past few days in retrospect, I have not posted to this blog. I have let you down. I apologize. I hope you will forgive me.

I walked to the store yesterday in the freezing cold. It seemed to get colder each step. On my way back from the store, hands freezing stiff holding four bags, two held by each hand, I thought, "I could have checked my blog at the library."

The whole story behind my missing is I had to move. If you remember, there wasn't a rush, just a health risk or danger to me. During the time I packed, bummed rides, and toted boxes, I have been off line. That is no excuse. I could have gone to the library at least and worked on my postings. If I would have been more compassionate, making sure you had new blogs to read I could have at least wormed my hands.

Now I understand even more compassion's multiplied purpose.

Stay in Motion

2008-02-07T06:05:00.001-08:00

Dreams do come tru,
one step at a time.

Standing in the motion of Life

2008-02-06T06:34:00.000-08:00

Life doesn't stop. Whether we are watching television, at work, sleeping, or simply sitting listening to the quiet whispers, life is moving on. The harsh reality is, "Life will go on with or without our participation."

"I Wish."

Do you say this to yourself?

It's kind of like speaking the desire for a dream to become reality. I worked in a factory once. The owner (Robert) had spent over $250,000 setting up the building and machinery. There was no profit for two years. He hired trainers, managers, and workers. He bought raw material and more equipment.

I earned around $10 an hour working for Robert. All while Robert was paying mortgage, Lights and gas bills, equipment fees, and salary, he was hoping to see some kind of profit materialize, still, no profit. Robert was getting deeper and deeper in a financial hole that seemed he would soon be unable to climb out of.

While traveling from Mexico on the airplane one evening Robert struck up a conversation with the guy sitting next to him. He told the guy all about his near financial death experience, and the guy told him about his company. It was during that conversation that they knew there was good in being open for conversation and being open to help one another other. They agreed to search for answers for the needs of one another.

Robert left the terminal happy to go back to work the next morning. This time he was going to work with a rejuvenated spirit to accomplish a new goal. Roberts had developed an unprofitable corn and floor product making factory. His new goal was to create chips that dip and have no holes. My job from that day forward was to search the conveyer belt for chips with holes as they speed past me. I enjoyed the eye and hand coordinated target practice of picking chip with holes out. I got good at it. The remainder of the chips would fall into a plastic lined box on the floor at the end of the belt. The chips with holes sold to farmers for pig slop.

The following year Robert’s unprofitable corn and floor product making factory turned a profit. The profit happened because of the compassion he showed a friend he made on an airplane ride. That year Robert made over $18,000,000. The following year Robert’s company earned approximately $42,000,000.

Robert had a dream. Instead of Robert saying, “I Wish,” Robert got busy making his dream happen. He never gave up hoping one day he would find the right formula. Instead of waiting for something to happen, Robert began moving forward making his dream happen. Along the way, he met the owner of a national restaurant; compassionately changed his format to fit the needs of his new friend’s dream, and the rest is history.

Two sayings I will leave with you.

My mother used to say, “It’s a sin to wish. Work for what you want.”

Mr. Johnson of ‘Johnson & Johnson’ products said, “If you find a way to provide people with what they need, the people will be happy to pay for it.”

A third saying, “Do it with Compassion.”

Mold-N-Time - Time Passing or Time Standing

2008-02-04T22:09:00.000-08:00

Time stands still for no one.

I slept on the second floor growing up. The steps and my floor was hard wood. Under the steps leading to my room was the basement. The walls were concrete and brick. If someone walked up stairs while you were in the basement washing clothes you could hear them from where ever you were in the basement, it echoed load and clear.

Every morning that I slept past my alarm mother would use the heel of her high heel shoes to bang the bottom step. The noise was quick, solid and loud. It was made louder by the back-up singing echo from the basement.

Heart pumping fast, I would jump up, hoping she would stop. But she only stopped the noise as I showed myself out of the bed. Saying, "Yes maam," just wasn't good enough for her.

While pounding the steps she would shout, "Get up! Don't sleep your life away!"

Sometimes we can get involved in things of time and forget what we were doing, thereby giving way to the unproductive behavior that plagues so many of us in the world today. Though sleep is good to us, Proverbs 10:4 & 12:24 encourages us to be dilligent, while Proverbs 20:13 & 24:33 warns against too much sleep.

This past weekend wasn't one where I slept past any time beyond 8:00, (late for me but early for some). But I apologize for taking a pause allowing this blog to go several days without my sharing the information I have been blessed to gather. The time was well spent witnessing God work extending love, learning the wisdom of my future wife of forever. In her magnificent wisdom, she has coined a wonderful phrase from experiences that simply says, "All I have gone through is worth being here."

Some would say, "The time passing is just that, time passing." If you never get anything I express here as valuable in your life, I do hope you take this page and attach it to your heart.

The truth is,
Time passing isn't time just passing, as clay time molds days into lasting,
strong and solid, mush and messy, sloppy wet or gripped and steady,
shapes we mold are ours to keep, so take your time, it's joy you seek.
Time passes teaching you mold master, do not too fast avoid disasters.
Lessons learned in the span of a week, bring forth fruit of a mighty tree.
Let time pass or make it last, the choice is yours to do just as God asks.
Be bold, be strong and brave, endure that storm, know that you are saved.
Thank God for His glory in all things, let your heart be at peace as it sings,
praise be to God for this peace of mind, for I have learned through Him,
that I am blessed abundantly in His own time.

Value Time

2008-01-31T21:40:00.000-08:00

They say time is money and money is time. What are your thoughts about that? Is it that if you have more time you will have more money?

I like to think,

"Time is God's gift to us, what we do with it is our gift back to him."

Every morning I get up I think, "What can I learn today?" So I turn on the television and look for a minister teaching preferably Joyce Meyers, Creflo Dollar, Paula White, Kevin Cosby, T. D. Jakes, or the engineer turned preacher, Joel Olsteen. (Wow that must mean he's a pretty smart guy).

Once I've got my head full of about an hour and a half of TV ministry, I'm ready to move into my day.

Next I think, "What do I need to work on for progress toward the plan today." Then I get to work on my computer. I think about the things I need to do to make my words to you as meaningful as possible. But before I actually get to work, I answer emails. I feel I spend too much time emptying junk mail. This is time that could be used to make progress.

In the grand scheme of things, there are 24 hours in a day, or so they say. We DO NOT have 24 hours with which to do anything. There are many things to consider that affects hour daily hours. Once we address these things, we can then begin planning to use our time to the best of our ability.

Remember, God gave everybody the same amount of time.

"What are we doing with our time?" is the question. Things to consider:

The process I call it the "24 hour theory"

1. Eating time accumulated during the day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

2. Travel time accumulated.

3. Time at work, (or school).

4. Time to get to work, (or school).

5. Time preparing for work, (or school).

6. Time to get home from work, (or school).

7. Time to relax from the day.

8. Snack time accumulated.

9. Phone time accumulated.

10. Time shared with loved ones, accumulated

11. Television time accumulated

12. Daydreaming time accumulated.

13. Time for God, (prayer and meditation).

14. Rest room time, (showering, teeth cleaning, disbursing, nose blowing).

Think you have more time than money? I have assembled the matching process for you to consider. Match the smallest measurement of clock time, to the smallest measurement of pocket money. One penny equals one second.

60 seconds X 60 pennies = .60¢

.60¢ X 60 minutes = $36.00

$36.00 X 24 hours = $864.00

$864.00 X 365 days in a year = $315,360

$315,360 is the minimum wage value of our time.

Value: are we really putting valued use to that time.

Can I really complain about not having enough time in a day when I spend an hour and a half watching television ministers speak about a scripture that took a total of 4 minutes to read?

I prayed asking God to give me 48 hours every day, so I can get many things done, and have time left over for the things I want to do the following days.

I looked around and noticed the message God painted with many lives.

"If I gave you 48 hours each day, people all over the world will complain to me, saying they have too much to do during their days. Listen to me my son. Use the time I have given you now wisely. By doing this you will show me that you have learned to value time. As you learn, to value time, I will minimize the pressures of getting the must things done by allowing you to enjoy your time with them. If you never learn to value time, you will live a life full of 'not enough,' 'complaining,' and 'poverty.' I gave the time to you. It is your choice to use it wisely."

Trembling and nervous after God allowed me to see this message, I became afraid of what God would think of me. The fear of allowing time to get away over took my soul. I feared giving God the impression that I do not value time.

Determined to rid myself of the fear, and win God's approval, I committed from that day forward, to plan and execute deeds that achieve progress. To show God I appreciate time He has given me, and for my own emotional comfort, I commit to "Value Time," using it to praise Him, plan progress, and implement the plan, and share "Love."

Birthday Greetings

2008-01-30T05:43:00.000-08:00

WOW! Another year to celebrate! Another year to be thankful for!
Another year to hope for the highest and work to achieve it!

God is good and his mercy is ever lasting. 'King David'
Speak those things as though they were. 'Paul'
Faith without works is dead. 'James'
Those who live in love live in God and God lives in you. 1 John 4:16

Today is my celebration of birth day. This is the day that I look forward to each year. I look at my life in retrospect to measure progress I have made, and the benefit I have been to others.

One year I was blessed to watch a documentary of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Dr. King was sharing a plan, starting a new organization. The video crew had prepared a chocolate cup cake with one burning candle placed in the center. As the camera man filmed the walk, the picture was of the cup cake leading the way down the hall. The camera stopped at a closed door to the room in which Dr. King was working. A hand reached in front of the camera and knocked on the door.

Dr. King opened the door with a chalk stick in his hand. Diagrams were shown on the blackboard. The camera scanned the room of approximately five people. It was his birthday.

Looking at the cup cake, then up at the camera man, Dr. King smiled then said seriously, "I told you all not to do that. I don't need this. But thank you so much!" He took the cake, placed it on the table, and went back to work.

The videographer closed the door and explained, Dr. King had warned them he was convinced that partying simply wastes time that could be used for progress. He said as wonderful gifts, he would appreciate any work accomplished toward making progress with plans that have been established. His perscription to celebrate his birthday was planned and executed progress.

Today I ask you. Please consider these words. If you desire to join in my birthday celebration, please be effective in some area that has been planned, discussed, or established. Make progress.
In that way you will be a blessing.

Thank you so much for reading these blogs!

May God bless you to move forward.

Thought for TO-DAY

2008-01-29T11:44:00.000-08:00

There are four blessed looks:

Look back and thank God.
Look forward and trust God.
Look around and serve God.
Look within and find God!

'I asked God, 'How do I get the best out of life?'

God said, 'Face your past without regrets.
Handle your present with confidence.
And prepare for the future without fear!

'Without God, our week is:

Sin-day
Mourn-day
Tears-day
Waste-day
Thirst-day
Fight-day
Shatter-day

So, allow Him to be with you every day!

'Life is short, so

Forgive quickly.
Believe slowly. Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably.
And have a wonderful journey!'

GOD BLESS!!!!

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