People Be MOVED

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I just want to share this story to you... 

           

          There once was a man named George Thomas, pastor in a small New England town. One Easter Sunday morning he came to the Church carrying a rusty, bent, old bird cage, and set it by the pulpit. Eyebrows were raised and, as if in response, Pastor Thomas began to speak...'I was walking through town yesterday when I saw a young boy coming toward me swinging this bird cage. On the bottom of the cage were three little wild birds, shivering with cold and fright. I stopped the lad and asked, 'What you got there, son?' 'Just some old birds,' came the reply.

'What are you gonna do with them?' I asked.

'Take 'em home and have fun with 'em,' he answered 'I'm gonna tease 'em and pull out their feathers to make 'em fight. I'm gonna have a real good time' 'But you'll get tired of those birds sooner or later. What will you do?'

'Oh, I got some cats,' said the little boy. 'They like birds. I'll take 'em to them.'

The pastor was silent for a moment. 'How much do you want for those birds, son?'

'Huh?? !!! Why, you don't want them birds, mister. They're just plain old field birds. They don't sing. They ain't even pretty!'

'How much?' the pastor asked again.

The boy sized up the pastor as if he were crazy and said, '$10?'

The pastor reached in his pocket and took out a ten dollar bill. He placed it in the boy's hand. In a flash, the boy was gone.

The pastor picked up the cage and gently carried it to the end of the alley where there was a tree and a grassy spot Setting the cage down, he opened the door, and by softly tapping the bars persuaded the birds out, setting them free.

Well, that explained the empty bird cage on the pulpit, and then the pastor began to tell this story.

One day Satan and Jesus were having a conversation. Satan had just come from the Garden of Eden, and he was gloating and boasting. 'Yes, sir, I just caught the world full of people down there. Set me a trap, used bait I knew they couldn't resist. Got 'em all!'

'What are you going to do with them?' Jesus asked.

Satan replied, 'Oh, I'm gonna have fun! I'm gonna teach them how to marry and divorce each other, how to hate and abuse each other, how to drink and smoke and curse. I'm gonna teach them how to invent guns and bombs and kill each other. I'm really gonna have fun!'

'And what will you do when you get done with them?' Jesus asked. 'Oh, I'll kill 'em,' Satan glared proudly. 'How much do you want for them?' Jesus asked

'Oh, you don't want those people. They ain't no good. Why, you'll take them and they'll just hate you. They'll spit on you, curse you and kill you. You don't want those people!!'

'How much?' He asked again.

Satan looked at Jesus and sneered, 'All your blood, tears and your life.'

Jesus said, 'DONE!'

Then He paid the price.

The pastor picked up the cage he opened the door and he walked from the pulpit.

Notes:

 Isn't it funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.

Isn't it funny how someone can say 'I believe in God' but still follow Satan (who, by the way, also 'believes' in God).

Isn't it funny how you can send a thousand jokes through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing?

Isn't it funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it to them.

Isn't it funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what God thinks of me.

I pray, for everyone who sends this to their entire address book, they will be blessed by God in a way special for them.

And send it back to the person who sent it, to let them know that indeed it was sent out to many more.

13 REASONS WHY WE NEED TO STOP SINNING

"Heal the world.. Make it a better place.. For you and for me and the entire human race..."

Yes, sinning is one of the things people do. But how can we stop doing it? What could be the consequences of doing  sin? The following may convince you to stop sinning:

---> Sin does not satisfy. (Hebrews 11:25)

---> Sin leads to more sins. (Proverbs 5:22)

---> Sin leads to worse sins. (Ephesians 4:17-19)

---> Sin enslaves. 

             * Sin enslaves to its last. (Proverbs 5:22)

             * Sin enslaves to the flesh. (Romans 7:14-24)

             * Sin enslaves to demons. (Matthew 12:43-45)

---> Sin degrades and humiliates. (Proverbs 6:32)

---> Sin steals joy. (Psalm 16:11)

---> Sin steals our confidence before God. (Genesis 3:6-9)

---> God will punish sinners in this world and in the world to come. (Revelation 3:4-6)

---> Sin hurts the Lord. (Luke 19:41-44)

---> Sin hurts the sinners. (Proverbs 4:18-19)

---> Sin hurts the sinners' family and friends. (Hebrews 12:15)

---> Sin puts the sinner on the side of the devil, demons and the world. (John 15:19)

---> Sin blocks the blessings and the promises of God. (Deuteronomy 28:15-16)

After knowing all those consequences of sinning, are you still going to do it again?
             

The Pleasure of Beautification

I know people all around the world is doing this. They beautify themselves and I will be hypocrite to deny that I myself is doing it. But if we are going to compare the beautification of the males and the females, we can see that the females do it more often than the males. Now, let's focus on the females or the women. Why do the women do all this beautification. Is it just the pleasure of doing it or there is something else? Maybe the following points are some reasons:

• Women do beautify themselves to attract some opposite sex. A good example for this is a wife fixing herself to be noticed by her husband.
• Woman beautify themselves to look clean and of course, beautiful. Well, maybe an example for this is the daily routine and hygiene like taking a bath, cutting some fingernails, fixing the hair and a lot more.
• Beautification on women adds personality. Just like what professional women are doing. They beautify themselves to be able to out stand the profession that they have.
• Lastly, they make some beautification because that's their hobby. Simple as that.

But aside from the reasons above, I can personally say that the beautification on us women really generates some pleasure within us. We don't even think how much we spend on each of the process of beautification and also the time we are able to accumulate by just staying in our favorite salon. And indeed, beautification also helps us feel comfortable within ourselves that no men can ever understand.

Dogs fear in BOOM!!!

Let me tell you something...

As we celebrate the coming of the metal rabbit 2011, people can't help to blast some firecrackers. It has been part of the New Year's Celebration to have those kind of colorful and loud sounds. It has been a tradition here in the Philippines that the louder the firecrackers you blast the more the evil spirits stay away from you. But what'a alarming in this kind of tradition is that the firecrackers that is being pop can even generate 100 - 120 decibels which can destroy the hearing sense of a person and even the animals like cats and dogs. Now, what can we do to protect our animals in this occasional activity?

Me and my family have dogs and as we notice them in New Year's celebration, they tend to be fearful with the loud sounds associated with the firecrackers. Even if they are safely closed in the room, they still tremble in fear. Just this New Year's celebration, we made a new approach on how to ease our dogs when the firecrackers blast. We turn on the radio to destruct them in listening to the loud firecrackers. We also try to play with them.

As this year 2011 mingles in our life, lets not forget our pets that takes part of our life.

Stolen Shots

Have you ever wonder why stolen shots always become interesting? It is because in stolen shots you are able to find unfamiliar pose and unexpected capture of your target. We may say that a single picture can produce a thousand of words but one stolen shot can produce millions of words. Capturing an unconscious target seems to be very easy especially today that we have now been engaged to modern technology like cellphones with built-in camera, and affordable digital camera.

Now, how do we capture a stolen shot? Simple, with your gadget at hand and with your target, everything will do. Although not all people are fun of stolen shots especially the victims of it, for me, stolen shots are still the best thing to capture a perfect picture. A perfect picture doesn't literally shows the perfectness of the photo but rather the reality of the scene being captured.

Does having a stolen shot with someone an illegal act? I can say yes. But how does stolen shots made legal? It is when you ask your targets consent regarding to that matter and besides not all stolen shots shows negativity. In fact, it shows more of the positivity of the person but, of course, it all depends on the heart of the photographer.

Here are some of my stolen shots. And by the way, I ask my targets consent... :D