Wednesday 23 May 2012

Compiled Encouraging Posts from Tumblr

Posts from my Tumblr Account: thepeasmaker.tumblr.com

When Jesus said "Love them like I loved them", He didn't mean just those who fit into our idea of lovable. He meant those who are broken. Those who are scarred. Those who no one else will touch. Jesus meant love them all. We don't get to pick and choose. http://jesusiswhatthisworldneeds.tumblr.com


Ladies, wait for a good, strong, Christ following man who will protect and encourage you; don't settle for just some boy. Guys, wait for a woman with a pure heart and honest passion for God who will build you up; don't settle for just some girl.http://heisincontrol.tumblr.com


Jesus is not my boyfriend.
I’m sorry but I just don’t like the phrase, “Jesus is my boyfriend.” Just no.
http://godmoves.tumblr.com/
Praise God even when you dont understand what He's doing.
We have to realize—our mistakes aren’t that powerful. Our mistakes aren’t too big for God. He’s not up in the heavens shaking His head saying, “I never dreamed they would do that. They’ve ruined My plan.” No, God knew every mistake we would ever make. He knew every wrong turn, and He’s already prepared a new route. He already has your detour figured out.

Scripture says that God knows the end from the beginning. If you’ve made some mistakes, the good news is that He has already planned a way to get you back on track! Just come to Him with an open and humble heart. Let Him wash you clean and make you new. Your mistakes aren’t bigger than God. He loves you and has a good plan in store for you! 
http://spiritualinspiration.tumblr.com 



You matter to me, to your friends, to your family. Don’t ever feel like you’re worth nothing because you are so much more. You are not the mistakes you’ve made. Learn to forgive yourself, because God forgives you. Accept His love and grace, strive to be a better person.  http://ayoxannna.tumblr.com

Tuesday 15 May 2012

14 More Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent

Original article by: Haley

Earlier this year, Bill DeMain introduced us to 15 Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent. Now that you’ve integrated those into your vocabulary, here are 14 more.


1. Shemomedjamo (Georgian)

You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it? The Georgians feel your pain. This word means, “I accidentally ate the whole thing.”

2. Pelinti (Buli, Ghana)

Your friend bites into a piece of piping hot pizza, then opens his mouth and sort of tilts his head around while making an “aaaarrrahh” noise. The Ghanaians have a word for that. More specifically, it means “to move hot food around in your mouth.”

3. Layogenic (Tagalog)  <- Proud to be PINOY!

Remember in Clueless when Cher describes someone as “a full-on Monet…from far away, it’s OK, but up close it’s a big old mess”? That’s exactly what this word means.

4. Rhwe (Tsonga, South Africa)

College kids, relax. There’s actually a word for “to sleep on the floor without a mat, while drunk and naked.”

5. Zeg (Georgian)

It means “the day after tomorrow.” Seriously, why don’t we have a word for that in English?

6. Pålegg (Norweigian)


Sandwich Artists unite! The Norwegians have a non-specific descriptor for anything – ham, cheese, jam, Nutella, mustard, herring, pickles, Doritos, you name it – you might consider putting into a sandwich.

7. Lagom (Swedish)

Maybe Goldilocks was Swedish? This slippery little word is hard to define, but means something like, “Not too much, and not too little, but juuuuust right.”

8. Tartle (Scots)

The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can’t quite remember.

9. Koi No Yokan (Japanese)

The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall into love.

10. Mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego)

This word captures that special look shared between two people, when both are wishing that the other would do something that they both want, but neither want to do.

11. Fremdschämen (German); Myötähäpeä (Finnish)

The kindler, gentler cousins of Schadenfreude, both these words mean something akin to “vicarious embarrassment.” Or, in other words, that-feeling-you-get-when-you-watch-Meet the Parents.

12. Cafune (Brazilian Portuguese)

Leave it to the Brazilians to come up with a word for “tenderly running your fingers through your lover’s hair.”

13. Greng-jai (Thai)

That feeling you get when you don’t want someone to do something for you because it would be a pain for them.

14. Kaelling (Danish)

You know that woman who stands on her doorstep (or in line at the supermarket, or at the park, or in a restaurant) cursing at her children? The Danes know her, too.

Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/102722#ixzz1uzPINP00

Thursday 10 May 2012

OBAMA's support for... what?!

May 11, 2012

YAHOO NEWS: Gay marriage, Obama and the fierce urgency of now: Why did he do it this week?

Even now, during the closing months of his first term, Barack Obama remains a curiously elusive political leader. That is why the abrupt conclusion to his evolution on gay marriage, announced Wednesday in an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts, is one of the most fascinating moments in his presidency. Glib theories about Obama’s often-cautious approach to the presidency, especially in an election year, have to be revamped in light of his sudden endorsement of gay marriage.
There is a temptation to view the turnabout solely in electoral terms. Obama himself said that the politics of same-sex marriage “may hurt me.” But perhaps the president made the calculation that he was willing to risk the loss of a fraction of socially conservative swing voters in states like Ohio in order to guarantee the enthusiasm of his top fundraisers. (A Washington Post analysis found that almost 20 percent of Obama’s bundlers have publicly revealed that they are gay). Maybe there is even private Obama polling indicating that November turnout among voters in the millennial generation is apt to be higher if the president took a firm position on gay marriage



"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money" 
Matthew 6:24


Like what the verse says, you cannot serve two masters. No matter how devoted you are to
your God, but if you will intend to have an extra "master", sorry to say but your doomed to fail. Let's just say that for 40 years of your life, you've been dedicated to serve God - then all of the sudden you came to politics, surrounded by people who had different perspectives in life (compared to Christians), money making policies, and corruption in whom we know came from one of the branch root of evil - money.

And boom! Now here's the test of integrity. You came to a point in your career where you have to make a choice, a stand where people will judge you based on the decisions you've made, not in the past, but in the present where your career is taking its place. All of the sudden, all of your presidential decrees bases on Godly foundations, your motivational, and inspiring speeches were all put to the trash bin just because of one illogical, unexpected, highly illogical decision- a support for gay marriage.


Seriously? Did God created 3 people in the first week of creation? If I'm not mistaken, It's only Adam and Eve. 

This is my opinion on why He made a Christianly Illogical wrong decision like this:
1. Additional Votes
2. Gay Pro's Support
3. Majority's Support

I guess true faith these days is very hard to find, especially on a President whose re-election is turning upside-down because of his half-heartedness.

Where's your integrity? Or should I say, Where's your Christian Integrity

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheisticreligion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament. "Christian" derives from theKoine Greek word Christ, a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term Messiah.

Integrity is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations, and outcomes. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness oraccuracy of one's actions. Integrity can be regarded as the opposite of hypocrisy,[1] in that it regards internal consistency as a virtue, and suggests that parties holding apparently conflicting values should account for the discrepancy or alter their beliefs.
Source: Wikipedia

We are Christians and we should have integrity. We should be consistent on our actions on our daily lives. We are living for the glory of our master, not for ourselves. Our methods in life, our principles in which we abide, our values we protect, should all be focused on the glory of our only master Jesus Christ. If you happen to serve two masters, then don't expect blessings.

TBH: I DON'T EXPECT OBAMA TO WIN THIS COMING ELECTION.*
*God's will be done



Sunday 6 May 2012

Why is maturity important for people in a relationship?

May 07, 2012 14:26


#1 Fact: Being in "love" will always be the best feeling in the world - next to winning a 100M Jackpot in Lotto
#2Fact: The moment you are in-"love", the heart always get the control and decision making instead of having the heart -and- mind tandem
*for a mature person, this characteristics does not apply

Why is maturity important for people in a relationship? 

I wanna quote this description of Osho of how maturity either destroys or prolong a relationship. This words pointed a gun on my face and smashed my immature stand against love relationship. Take note of the phrases in bold format.


“Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s
freedom, create a bondage, make a prison.
Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help
each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when
love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love
flows with dependence there is ugliness."

You're supposed to help each other by being a lifetime partner, not a lifetime mocker. There are words we say that often hurts the feeling of our partner and most of the time it becomes the destroyer of trust between couples. Jesus Christ has the best example of love - unconditional love for His children and also willing to die for them amids their sins and hardness. There must be love- an unconditional love whose goal is to strengthen each other. Immature people think only of themselves and they're partners being like an object that can be replaced, set aside, and even throw away whenever she/he likes. Selfishness is immaturity and immaturity is ugliness inside a relationship.


"A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises
in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and
fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and
standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand.
They were always ready to fall on the ground and to
creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they
don’t have the integrity to stand alone."

A good love relationship is all about having a good foundation. What's the purpose of loving a girl and yet your not sure if she's the one? Or should we say that the girl is not that sure if she can have a lifetime with a guy like you? Standing together is the best part of love. You can prove how much they love each other by the times they fall- and yet stand together.


A mature person has the integrity to stand alone.
And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives
without any strings attached to it. When two mature
persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life
happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are
together and yet tremendously alone. They are together
so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in
love help each other to become more free. There is no
politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate.
Only freedom and love.”

True love has equality between partners. If one is more matured than the other, then he/she must take effort to help the other grow. The two must grow in love and respect - that would mean a growth for both of them. Both must be strong enough to cater the needs of the other and no domination should be implemented. A mature person will always try his best to help the other grow in maturity, however the other one must not take it for granted.

Wednesday 2 May 2012

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein


  • "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
  • "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
  • "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
  • "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
  • "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
  • "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
  • "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
  • "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
  • "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
  • "God is subtle but he is not malicious."
  • "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
  • "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
  • "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
  • "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
  • "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
  • "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
  • "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
  • "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
  • "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
  • "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
  • "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
  • "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
  • "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
  • "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
  • "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
  • "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
  • "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
  • "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
  • "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
  • "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
  • "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
  • "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
  • "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
  • "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
  • "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
  • "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
  • "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
  • "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
  • "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
  • "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
  • "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
  • "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
  • "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
  • "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
  • "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
  • "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
  • "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
  • "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
  • "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
  • "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
  • "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
  • "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
  • "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
  • "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
  • "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
  • "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)

source: stumbleupon.com

Tuesday 1 May 2012

The Portrait of a Godly Woman

I was scrolling  my Tumblr dashboard and then I found this relevant picture. I am not a woman, yet I agree with everything written in this picture.

Traits of a Godly Woman

Faithful to God
faith·ful 
ADJECTIVE:
  1. Adhering firmly and devotedly, as to a person, cause, or idea; loyal.
  2. Having or full of faith.
  3. Worthy of trust or belief; reliable.
  4. Consistent with truth or actuality: a faithful reproduction of the portrait.
Patient
Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness. Marked by or exhibiting calm endurance of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance. Tolerant; understanding: an unfailingly...


Loving
Feeling love; affectionate. Indicative of or exhibiting love.
Kind
Of a friendly, generous, or warm-hearted nature. Showing sympathy or understanding; charitable: a kind word. Humane; considerate: kind to animals. Forbearing; tolerant: Our neighbor was very...

Modest
Having or showing a moderate estimation of one's own talents, abilities, and value. Having or proceeding from a disinclination to call attention to oneself; retiring or diffident. Observing conventional...

Selfless
Having, exhibiting, or motivated by no concern for oneself; unselfish

Nurturing
To bring up; nurture: bear and foster offspring. To promote the growth and development of; cultivate: detect and foster artistic talent. To nurse; cherish: foster a secret hope

Submissive
Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful. Showing deferential or submissive respect

A woman who loves God more than anything is the perfect partner to any man who loves God more than anything.


Have a good day