I forget what is behind, and I struggle for what is ahead. I run toward the goal, so that I can win the prize of being called to heaven. This is the prize that God offers because of what Christ Jesus has done. - Philippians 3:13-14

We didn't bring anything into this world, and we won't take anything with us when we leave. 1 Timothy 6:7

Everyone who asks will receive, everyone who searches will find, and the door will be opened for everyone who knocks.- Luke 11:10

The Lord doesn't care about the strength of horses or powerful armies. The Lord is pleased only with those who worship him and trust his love. - Psalm 147:10-11

Spread Light

The world is dangerous not because of those who do harm,
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.

It is up to us to build the world.
To spread the light around us.
To make it a better place.

Live your Live to the Last second

The obituary page had my name and photo in it. It wasn't too good a snap of
me, I thought, as I looked at it absent-mindedly. And then I gave a cry of
terror, "What's my photo doing in the death column?" I remembered, sharp
chest pain last night. I looked around, it was morning but my coffee had not
been made. People were entering the house and walking through the bedroom
door. I walked in and looked on the bed. There I was, all laid out dead.

People stared at me, not many were crying, and some, I noticed, looked
relieved. "Listen," I shouted, "I'm here, I'm okay, I'm not dead." Nobody
heard me. They were all looking at the me on the bed. I walked back into the
sitting room. The coffin had arrived. It was being set up in the center. I
watched them carry my body and put it in.

"I'm not ready to go as yet," I shouted, "I still have work to do. Don't bury
me, before I'm ready!"

I looked around. "Where's my family?," I asked myself. They were in the next
room, weeping. "I'm not dead," I shouted to my wife and children. They
continued to weep. "How can I go before telling you I love you?," I asked my
wife. "How can I go, before hugging you both?," I asked my children. I wept
with them.

The singing was coming from the next room. I walked in as they sang my
favourite songs. There were tears in the eyes of one of the men as he sang.
"But we haven't talked to each other for years, "I said to him. "Why are you
crying? Come on, shake my hand and let's make up." The man continued crying as he sang. He did not see my extended hand.

My dog walked up and smelt my coffin. She didn't seem too shattered I was no
more. "I guess I was too strict with you," I told her, "Come, let me pet
you." The dog yawned as it stretched out and fell asleep.

The singing stopped as the priest came in. He sat next to the man who was
crying and leaned to talk to him. I went close to hear what he was asking.
"Is there anything good," he asked, " the dead man did in his life time?" The
man who was crying shook his head sadly. There was a hush as my wife walked into the room.

"She looks beautiful," I thought. "You look beautiful!," I shouted. She did
not hear my words. She had never heard them before, because I had never said
them.

"God!," I screamed in agony, "A little more time to do all the things I
should have done!" I watched as they lifted my coffin and carried it to the
hearse outside. My dog did not bother getting up from deep sleep. The priest
refrained from saying any word about me. They all understood, there was
nothing good words to say. I turned to say sorry to the man who had the
tears. I turned to hug my children. I leaned over to whisper words of love
into my wife's ears, and then I looked up and cried, "God, one more chance!"

"You shouted in your sleep," said my wife as she gently woke me up. "Did you
have a nightmare?" She looked startled, as I hugged her tight and whispered,

"You're beautiful... !"

thanks to Ranjan Jain

What God has planned for people who love him is more than eyes have seen or ears have heard. It has never even entered our minds! - 1 Corinthians 2:9

Warn anyone who isn't living right. Encourage anyone who feels left out, help all who are weak, and be patient with everyone. - 1 Thessalonians 5:14

Joy In Living

Keep your hearts open to dreams.
For as long as there's dream, there is hope.
And as long as there is hope,
there is joy in living.

Turn to God! Give up your sins, and you will be forgiven. - Acts 3:19

I have rescued you. I have called you by name; now you belong to me. When you cross deep rivers, I will be with you, and you won't drown. When you walk through fire, you won't be burned or scorched by the flames. - Isaiah 43:1-2

I came so that everyone would have life, and have it in its fullest. - John 10:10

We make our own decisions, but the Lord alone determines what happens. - Proverbs 16:33

Love never gives up

- Love cares more for others than for self.
- Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
- Love doesn’t strut,
- Doesn’t have a swelled head,
- Doesn’t force itself on others,
- Isn’t always “me first,”
- Doesn’t fly off the handle,
- Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
- Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
- Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
- Puts up with anything,
- Trusts God always,
- Always looks for the best,
- Never looks back,
- But keeps going to the end.
- Love never dies.”

Use common sense and sound judgment! Always keep them in mind. You will rest without a worry and sleep soundly. - Proverbs 3:21,24

I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of his cross, the world is dead as far as I am concerned, and I am dead as far as the world is concerned. - Galatians 6:14

I am poor and needy, but, Lord God, you care about me, and you come to my rescue. - Psalm 40:17

Keep Moving

Life gives answers in three ways.

It says yes and gives whatever you want.
It says no and gives you something better.
It says wait and gives you the best.

If you're committed to your dream,
you will win anyways.

Don't just dream, Live your dream.
Keep moving towards it.

Now all we can see of God is like a cloudy picture in a mirror. Later we will see him face to face. We don't know everything, but then we will, just as God completely understands us. - 1 Corinthians 13:12

No Ordinary People

Walking on the road, you pass so many people. Some look confident, purposeful, well-dressed and well-maintained. But the majority appears so ordinary, wear ill-fitting clothes, unfashionable footwear, have too much fat or too little, nothing remarkable about them, nothing attractive. But yet:

· Someone somewhere eagerly waits for this unimpressive man to come home every evening.

· Someone's entire world turns around the strength of this frail-looking woman.

· Someone's very purpose in life hinges on this brash youngster cutting through traffic.

· Someone knows only the shelter of these old arms each time their world begins to crumble.

· Someone will count hours, minutes, and weep like a child when this pock-marked face alights from a long-distance train.

· Someone will cave in, crack up, and never be the same again if this one person disappears from the face of the world.

There are no ordinary people.

Thanks to Shalini Srivastava

The Lord knows everything we do because he sees us all - Psalm 11:4

Devote Yourself

So many people walk around with a meaningless life.
They seem half-sleep, even when they're busy
doing things they think are important.
This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning.

God blesses those people who depend only on him. They belong to the kingdom of heaven! - Matthew 5:3

Joy Robbers

· Fear of the future

· fear of a health situation

· fear of losing control.

· Fear of being alone

· fear of change

· fear of looking silly

· fear of losing your job

· financial debt

· fear of growing old and

· fear of losing physical attractiveness

· Anger

· Jealousy

· critical attitude

· cynicism,

· Worry and many more.

Run from temptations that capture young people. Always do the right thing. Be faithful, loving, and easy to get along with. - 2 Timothy 2:22

In times of trouble, you will protect me. You will hide me in your tent and keep me safe on top of a mighty rock. Psalm 27:5

Always do the right thing, and you will live; keep on doing wrong, and you will die. - Proverbs 11:19

Answer the phone by LEFT ear
Do not drink coffee TWICE a day
Do not take pills with COOL water
Do not have HUGE meals after 5pm
Reduce the amount of TEA you consume
Reduce the amount of OILY food you consume
Drink more WATER in the morning, less at night
Keep your distance from hand phone CHARGERS
Do not use headphones/earphone for LONG period of time
Best sleeping time is from 10 pm at night to 6 am in the morning
Do not lie down immediately after taking medicine before sleeping
When battery is down to the LAST grid/bar, do not answer the phone as the radiation is 1000 times

The Lord saves the lives of his servants. Run to him for protection, and you won't be punished. - Psalm 34:22

If you look at what you do not have in life;
You don't have anything.

If you look at what you have in life;
You have everything.

“The Lord is good. His love is forever, and his loyalty goes on and on.” (Psalm 100:5)

A friendly smile makes you happy, and good news makes you feel strong. - Proverbs 15:30

Facts

Abraham Lincoln was born in 1808

J­ohn Kennedywas born in 1908

Abraham Lincoln was elected as president in 1860.

John Kennedy was elected as president in 1960.

The name of the PA of Lincoln was Kennedy.
The name of the PA of Kennedy was Lincoln.

The name of the President after Lincoln was Johnson.
The name of the President after Kennedy was Johnson.

Both Lincoln and Kennedy were shot in the back
Of their heads, in front of their wives on a Friday.

Booth, Who shot Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Oswald, who shot kennedy, was born in 1939.

Booth who assassinated Lincoln at the theatre and ran to the car.
Oswald who assassinated Kennedy in the car and ran to the theatre.

Both Booth and Oswald were from the same town and
Both died before they were brought to the court.

Don't let sin rule your body. Give yourselves to God, as people who have been raised from death to life. Make every part of your body a slave that pleases God. Romans 6:12-13

Triple filter?

One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?"

"Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything, I'd like
you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."

"Triple filter?"

"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my friend,
it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say.
That's why I call it the triple filter test."

"The first filter is TRUTH. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are
about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..."

'All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not.
Now let's try the second filter, the filter of GOODNESS. Is what you are
about to tell me about my friend something good?"

"No, on the contrary..."

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but
you're not certain it's true. You may still pass the test though, because
there's one filter left: the filter of USEFULNESS. Is what you want to tell
me about my friend going to be useful to me?"

"No, not really."

"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true nor
good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"

Friends, use this triple filter each time you hear loose talk about any of
your near & dear friends.-

You can't depend on anyone, not even a great leader. Once they die and are buried, that will be the end of all their plans. God made heaven and earth; he created the sea and everything else. God always keeps his word. Psalm 146:3-4,6

“Look! I have been standing at the door and I am constantly knocking. If anyone hears Me calling him and opens the door, I will come in and fellowship with him and he with Me” (Revelation 3:20).

Important Quotes

Love : the special feeling that makes u feel warm and wonderful.
Respect : Treating others as you would like to be treated by them.
Appreciation: to be grateful for all the good things that life has to offer.
Happiness: Complete enjoyment of each moment.
Forgiveness The ability to let things be as they are, without anger.
Sharing: The joy of giving with out the thought of receiving.
Honesty: The quality of always being true.
Integrity: The purity of doing what is right , no matter what.
Compassion: The essence of feeling other's pain, while easing their heart.
Peace: The reward for following the most important qualities of life.

Have a Wonderful day!!!!!!

Forget about the days
when its been cloudy, but
don't forget your hours in the sun

Forget about mistakes
that you can't change now, but
don't forget the lessons
that you've learned

Forget about the times
you've been defeated, but
don't forget the victories you've won

Forget about misfortunes
you encounter, but
don't forget the times
your luck has turned

Forget about the days
when you've been lonely, but
don't forget the friendly smiles you've seen

Forget about the plans
that didn't seem
to work out right, but...

Don't forget to Always Have A Dream

Keep Smiling

Have a Wonderful day!!!!!!

We humans are merely grass, and we last no longer than wild flowers. Flowers and grass fade away, but what our God has said will never change. - Isaiah 40:6,8

If you think you can

If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't;
If you want to win but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost;
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in a state of mind.

Life's battles don't always go
to the stronger and faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins
It the man who thinks he can.

A Time to Think
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-Mother Teresa

"Success is just not making money, a good name and fame, but also standing firm after failure with more energy, spirit, enthusiasm & courage to face what's next." Krivi Z. --- India

"Fear is an illusion. Make your own reality and step up to any challenge, no matter how great. Unless you fall, you will never gain the strength to stand; keep moving. And if you ever fall, look up, my hand will always be there." Lee B. --- New Jersey

I am the Lord, and I lead you along the right path. If you obey me, we will walk together, but if you are wicked, you will stumble.
Hosea 14:9

The Lord is there to rescue all who are discouraged and have given up hope.

Don’t go about looking for your reason to live or finding the purpose of your existence. The only reason to be alive is to enjoy life. And enjoy all that you do in life.

Life is all about choices. Good or Bad; Right or Wrong; Your destiny will unfold according to the choices you make.

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”

Thanks to Usha Shreedhar and Raja Shanmugam

This was a speech made by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anna Quindlen at the
graduation ceremony of an American university where she was awarded an
Honorary PhD.

"I'm a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don't ever
confuse the two, your life and your work. You will walk out of here this
afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be hundreds of
people out there with your same degree: there will be thousands of people
doing what you want to do for a living. But you will be the only person alive
who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life.
Not just your life at a desk or your life on a bus, or in a car, or at the
computer. Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not
just your bank accounts but also your soul.

People don't talk about the soul very much anymore. It's so much easier to
write a resume than to craft a spirit. But a resume is cold comfort on a
winter's night, or when you're sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you've
received your test results and they're not so good.

Here is my resume: I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never
to let my work stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer consider
myself the centre of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am
a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows mean what
they say. I am a good friend to my friends and they to me. Without them,
there would be nothing to say to you today, because I would be a cardboard
cut out. But I call them on the phone, and I meet them for lunch. I would be
rotten, at best mediocre, at my job if those other things were not true.

You cannot be really first rate at your work if your work is all you are. So
here's what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a manic
pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger pay cheque, the larger house. Do
you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm
one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast?

Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a
breeze at the seaside, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed
hawk circles over the water, or the way a baby scowls with concentration when
she tries to pick up a sweet with her thumb and first finger.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love
you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone.
Send an email. Write a letter. Get a life in which you are generous. And
realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business
taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to
spread it around. Take money you would have spent on beer and give it to
charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a big brother or sister. All of you want
to do well. But if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be
enough.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes. It is
so easy to take for granted the color of our kids' eyes, the way the melody
in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy
to exist instead of to live.

I learned to live many years ago. I learned to love the journey, not the
destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is
the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world
and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and
utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had
learned. By telling them this Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the
fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the back yard with the sun on your face. Learn
to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness, because if you do, you
will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived."

Please make me wise and teach me the difference between right and wrong.

Be care while using your mobile phone

When you try to call someone through mobile phone,don't put your mobile
closer to your ears until the recipient answers. Because directly
after dialling, the mobile phone would use it's maximum signalling power,
which is: 2 watts = 33dbi, Plz Be Careful, Message as received (Save your brain)
Please use left ear while using cell (mobile), because if you use the
right one it will affect brain directly. This is a true fact from Apollo medical team.

How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?

To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone:

* # 0 6 #

A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset.
Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. when your phone get stolen,
you can phone your service provider and give them this code.
They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief
changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.

You probably won't get your phone back, but at least
you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either.

Hidden batterypower

Imagine your cell battery isvery low, you are expecting an important call and you don't have a charger.

Nokia instrument comes with a reserve battery.

To activate, press the keys

*3370#

Your cell will restart withthis reserve and the instrument will show a50%increase in battery.

This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time AND...

Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have remote keys?

This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone:
If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call
someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone.

Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person
at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end.
Your car will unlock.

Saves someone fro having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away,

and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).

EMERGENCY

The Emergency Number worldwide for**Mobile** is112

If you findyourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency,

dial 112

and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you,

and interestingly this number 112can be dialled even if the keypad is locked.

**Try it out.**

Scanner shows unborn babies smile

A stress-free womb could prompt a smile from an unborn baby

Babies can smile, cry and blink before birth, a doctor says.

Advances in ultrasound scanning have allowed doctors to see that babies in the womb exhibit facial expressions as a reflex in preparation for birth, obstetrician Stuart Campbell said.

It was previously thought babies learned to smile after birth by copying their mothers.

Since 2001 Professor Campbell has captured images of babies smiling, using a revolutionary 4D scanner.

"They make breathing movements inside the uterus, but there is no air, and they blink, but there is no light, so it seems they are making preparations for birth," he said.

Babies do not normally smile after birth until they are about six weeks old.

I don't think people realise the range of facial expressions you get inside the uterus, or indeed that babies blink Professor Stuart Campbell Obstetrician

"This may indicate the baby's calm, trouble-free existence in the womb and the relatively traumatic first few weeks after birth, when the baby is reacting to a strange, new environment," Prof Campbell said.

"I don't think people realise the range of facial expressions you get inside the uterus, or indeed that babies blink.

"With 2D scanning you can see the eyeballs rolling, but now with 4D scanning it is quite clear that they are opening their eyelids, and that is in a very dark environment, so it must be a reflex.

Reflex

Smiling, however, cannot be interpreted as preparation for birth but may be a reflex, Prof Campbell said.

He said: "What's behind the smile, of course, I can't say, but the corners turn up and the cheeks bulge ... I think it must be some indication of contentment in a stress-free environment."

The 4D scanner, which produces detailed 3D images that move in real time, has shown that babies start making finger movements at 15 weeks, yawning at 18 weeks and smiling, blinking and crying at 26 weeks.

A one-hour consultation with 4D ultrasound scanning at the Create Health clinic where Prof Campbell pioneered its use, costs £275.

The images show the delightful reality of the humanity of the unborn baby Julia Millington Pro-Life Party

The Pro-Life Party reacted immediately to the images by claiming it strengthened their arguments against abortion.

Pro-Life spokeswoman Julia Millington said: "The images show the delightful reality of the humanity of the unborn baby.

"We cannot believe that anybody could continue supporting abortion when they see these extraordinary pictures."

Courtesy : BBC News

Have faith in God, who is rich and blesses us with everything we need to enjoy life.

“I don’t understand myself at all, for I really want to do what is right, but I can’t. I do what I don’t want to - what I hate…When I want to do good, I don’t; and when I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway….It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong…So you see how it is: my new life tells me to do right, but the old nature that is still inside me loves to sin. Oh, what a terrible predicament I’m in! Who will free me from my slavery to this deadly lower nature? Thank God! It has been done by Jesus Christ our Lord. He has set me free” (Romans 7:15,19,21,24,25)

Very Beautiful..... Rain!!

Thanks to Aakriti Rana

She had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful red haired, freckle faced image of innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over the top of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to hit the earth it has no time to flow down the spout. We all stood there under the awning and just inside the door of the Wal-Mart. We waited, some patiently, others irritated because nature messed up their hurried day. I am always mesmerized by rainfall. I got lost in the sound and sight of the heavens washing away the dirt and dust of the world. Memories were a welcome reprieve from the worries of my day.

Her voice was so sweet as it broke the hypnotic trance we were all caught in, "Mom, let's run through the rain," she said. "What?" Mom asked. "Let's run through the rain!" She repeated. "No, honey. We'll wait until it slows down a bit," Mom replied. This young child waited about another minute and repeated: "Mom, let's run through the rain." "We'll get soaked if we do," Mom said. "No, we won't, Mom. That's not what you said this morning," the young girl said as she tugged at her Mom's arm.

"This morning? When did I say we could run through the rain and not get wet?" "Don't you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you said, 'If God can get us through this, he can get us through anything!" The entire crowd stopped dead silent. I swear you couldn't hear anything but the rain. We all stood silently. No one came or left in the next few minutes.

Mom paused and thought for a moment about what she would say. Now some would laugh it off and scold her for being silly. Some might even ignore what was said. But this was a moment of affirmation in a young child's life. A time when innocent trust can be nurtured so that it will bloom into faith. "Honey, you are absolutely right. Let's run through the rain. If GOD let's us get wet, well maybe we just needed washing," Mom said. Then off they ran. We all stood watching, smiling and laughing as they darted past the cars and yes, through the puddles. They held their shopping bags over their heads just in case. They got soaked. But they were followed by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the way to their cars. And yes, I did. I ran. I got wet. I needed washing.

Circumstances or people can take away your material possessions, they can take away your money, and they can take away your health. But no one can ever take away your precious memories...So, don't forget to make time and take the opportunities to make memories everyday. To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.

Hell and Heaven

Thanks to Ashok Soota and Satyaranjan Mohanty

A holy man was having a conversation with God one day and said, "Father, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like." So God led the holy man to two doors.

He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew, which smelled delicious and made the holy man's mouth water.

The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles that were strapped to their arms and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful. But because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths.

The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering. God said, "You have seen Hell."

They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same as the first one. There was the large round table with the large pot of stew which made the holy man's mouth water. The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here the people were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking.

The holy man said, "I don't understand."

“It is simple" God said. "It requires but one skill. You see they have learned to feed each other, while the greedy think only of themselves."