"WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER...THIS JOURNEY ON EARTH. HELP ME TO EXPLORE JUST WHAT IS GOING ON AND WHY! I DEFINITELY HAVE MY OWN IDEAS! THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO ALL WHO ARE SEARCHING AND STRUGGLING FOR ANSWERS TO WHAT AND WHY. MAY GOD BLESS AND SURROUND YOU ALL WITH HIS WHITE LIGHT. BUT I NEED EVERYONE'S HELP! WILL YOU JOIN ME?"
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Beliefnet's Stories of Renewal Contest
Spring. Crocuses break through the earth signaling new life. And for many faith traditions, spring marks a time of spiritual rebirth as well, celebrated with holidays like Easter and Passover. What better time of year to share YOUR personal stories of renewal?! Enter Beliefnet.com's Stories of Renewal Writing Contest now by sharing your story. Did the birth of a child transform you? Have you changed careers? Beaten an addiction? Did you choose a new spiritual path or deepen your faith? We want to hear YOUR stories of renewal. Let this season inspire you!
Use your journal to share your personal story and to enter the Stories of Renewal Writing Contest.
Need help getting your journal started? Click here for instructions on creating a journal entry.
Your entries will be judged by an expert panel of writers. The winning story will be published on Beliefnet and featured in several newsletters and pages.
To enter the contest, simply indicate your interest in the comments section, then start writing! Length, style and content are up to you. The contest begins Monday, March 22 and ends Monday, April 12.
We’ll be highlighting the best contributions throughout the contest, so get yours in early!
We look forward to reading your contributions!
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
BLOCKBUSTER EXPRESS-Rent One, Get One FREE!
How many times in your life has a DVD saved the day? From entertaining fidgety kids on long trips to curing the rainy day blues, I think we can all agree that renting a DVD can be a busy Mom's secret weapon.
As a busy Mom, I know that there isn't always time to even rent a DVD. Taking the whole family down to your local movie rental store can end up being an hour long ordeal. By the time you get home you're too tired to even watch the movie and what seemed like a great idea ended up being quite a chore. Luckily, I've found the perfect solution!
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Through the rent online feature at blockbusterexpress.com, you can create a favorites list, browse available movies at your preferred kiosk, complete the rental of up to three movies at once online and then pick up the DVDs from the kiosk at your convenience. Now you can spend less time renting and more time enjoying your DVDs with your family.
Start planning your next movie night tonight! BLOCKBUSTER Express offered a special Rent One Get One Free coupon code for MomSelect members to use and share with all of your friends, family and followers. The coupon code is 555G13B.
When you rent a movie at the regular price using the code in the banner above*, you'll receive the first night's rental on the second movie FREE. This offer expires on 3/31 so make sure to take advantage of it soon and encourage your friends to do the same!
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Real Food Project-Great Prizes!
Celebrity chef Bobby Flay and actress/mom Lori Loughlin have teamed up with Hellmann's® and Best Foods® Mayonnaise to unveil the Real Food Project on Hellmanns.com, a comprehensive online resource offering tips and ideas on how to create real meals made with Real Food.
Because videos are great for multi-tasking moms, The Real Food Project features a series of entertaining how-to tutorials, hosted by Bobby Flay, to give us tools and techniques to prepare great-tasting, at-home meals for our families. Just by visiting www.Hellmanns.com, you can access a wide range of recipes, including sandwiches, entrees and side dishes, all designed to please picky palates. There are even chances to win great prizes like a kitchen essentials bundle, Bobby Flay Grill It and Hellmann's® and Best Foods® products by playing the "Wheel of Real" instant win game and entering the Real Food Sweepstakes.
"Disclosure: I was entered for a chance to win a Hellmann's® prize package in exchange for this post. No monetary exchange took place."
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Ghosts, Spirits & Entities
Ghosts, Spirits & Entities:
George Noory delved into the world of ghosts, spirits, and attached entities with alternative health practitioner and clairvoyant psychic Rita Louise, Ph.D. Louise recalled her first encounter with a "dead guy" at her childhood home -- a house built in 1898. In one area of the basement there was a shift in energy and the distinct impression of a man, she said. Louise went on to study at the Berkeley Psychic Institute and became part of house healing team there. One of her cases involved a three-year-old who claimed to have a boogie man in her closet. According to Louise, the girl had opened a door into the spirit world simply by allowing imaginary playmates into her life.
Louise described an attached entity as "a being without a body, with a ghost-like character." We tend to invite them in or something in our personalities attracts them to us, she said. Attached entities enter a person's auric field, the electromagnetic energy surrounding a physical body, where they can cause a host of problems, she continued. Louise believes these beings are responsible for mental conditions ranging from obsessive–compulsive disorder to schizophrenia. Though they have been known to stay attached to people, usually these entities feed off of a person's emotional energy until the victim stops the behavior that attracted them, she added.
Louise discussed her work as a soul healer/medical intuitive and shared details of her work with a woman suffering from bulimia. The patient had a very hungry young man in her auric field, Louise explained, noting that the woman would regularly consume a couple of boxes of cereal and a dozen eggs for breakfast, followed by five Big Macs (with all the trimmings) for lunch. Louise said she was able to resolve the case by moving the entity out of the woman's auric space and performing energy work on the entity.
She also spoke about non-human entities, the difference between demons and attached entities, as well as her experiences with ghost-hunting group Metroplex Paranormal Investigations. "There isn't really anything going on [at most of places the group visits] or it's residual energy that the people are picking up on," she explained, noting that active haunting cases are fairly rare. In the event that one's house is really haunted, Louise suggested giving the ghost a name and trying to communicate with it.
Thanks, CoastZone Newsletter.
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Celebrate Spring!
Spring is here. Let these quotes and sayings about springtime lift your spirits.
The season of renewal and rebirth is upon us. Like a newborn baby, this season brings with it the sweetness of new beginnings and endless possibilities.
Spring equinox 2010 and the first day of spring is March 2010. So peel away the darkness of winter, and enter the warmth of spring! Welcome springtime with these inspiring quotes.
And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Spring is when life's alive in everything.
—Christina Rossetti
Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.
--Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
—Harriet Ann Jacobs
Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
—Zen saying
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
—William Shakespeare
The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.
—Edwin Way Teale
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
—Susan J. Bissonette
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.
—Edgar Guest
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
—Robin Williams
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want —oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
—Mark Twain
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.
--Ruth Stout
Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
—W. Earl Hall
In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head.
—Emma Racine deFleur
Spring—an experience in immortality.
—Henry D. Thoreau
The force of Spring—
mysterious,
fecund,
powerful beyond measure.
—Michael Garofalo
Spring is the Birthday of the World
'Tis like the birthday of the world,
When earth was born in bloom;
The light is made of many dyes,
The air is all perfume:
There's crimson buds, and white and blue,
The very rainbow showers
Have turned to blossoms where they fell,
And sown the earth with flowers.
—Thomas Hood
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
How You Live Fresh
Happy First Day of Spring!
When you wake up in the morning, do you feel refreshed and ready to greet the day? How do you celebrate the present moment and "live fresh" in your life?
Share the ways to bring a sense of fresh newness into each day, hour, moment of life.
Walk through this garden of refreshing tips and see which ones speak to you on your journey to wholeness and joy
"Acknowledge nature - take a walk or look out the window. Write something every day. Have a sensory experience of touching a flower, tree bark or a leaf. Put aside some pampering time each day to do something special for yourself. Smile at everyone you meet."
--Lady of Light
"How beautiful it could be if we could only love each other. Always."
--Dibban Guha
"Creative visualization really works! Go after what you want in life, meditate, and beautiful things happen. Sometimes images flow into your mind effortlessly that are more beautiful than you could ever have imagined. Incredible things can happen as long as you keep your mind open and your intentions pure. Change can be a second chance at life."
--Rayna Stark
"You cannot change what you will not admit. In order to live fresh, you have to identify what needs to be discarded. A superficial change will not sustain your core values. Examine honestly."
--Gail
"Start each and everyday thanking God for allowing you to see another day, tommorrow is not promised. Live each day like it's your last day on this earth, be kind, be fair, but most of all LOVE one another."
--Doreatha Brannon
"Remember the good memories that shine in your heart and let that light shine through you and out to others always."
--Mary
"We need to stop taking each other for granted. We are only here for a brief moment. So let's enjoy each other while we are here, for tomorrow is not a promise."
--Shirley McCain
"It's so wonderful and yet so difficult to live in the moment."
--Laura
F- Free yourself of expectations.
R- Realize that every moment counts.
E- Eat more chocolate.
S- Service to others.
H- Heal your heart.
--Jennifer Mazzucco
Today I see the beauty in each day.
Today life is filled with caring, sharing, loving.
Today is about acceptance of others, and myself.
Today cannot be replaced.
--R VICTORIA
Thanks, Beliefnet.com!
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Thank You for This Day!
Dear Lord, I thank You for this day,
I thank You for my being able to see
and to hear this morning.
I'm blessed because You are
a forgiving God and
an understanding God.
You have done so much for me
and You keep on blessing me.
Forgive me this day for everything
I have done, said or thought
that was not pleasing to you.
I ask now for Your forgiveness.
Please keep me safe
from all danger and harm.
Help me to start this day
with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude.
Let me make the best of each and every day
to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.
Please broaden my mind
that I can accept all things.
Let me not whine and whimper
over things I have no control over.
And give me the best response
when I'm pushed beyond my limits.
I know that when I can't pray,
You listen to my heart.
Continue to use me to do Your will.
Continue to bless me that I may be
a blessing to others.
Keep me strong that I may help the weak...
Keep me uplifted that I may have
words of encouragement for others.
I pray for those that are lost
and can't find their way.
I pray for those that are misjudged
and misunderstood.
I pray for those who
don't know You intimately.
I pray for those that will disregard this
without sharing it with others
I pray for those that don't believe.
But I thank You that I believe
that God changes people and
God changes things.
I pray for all my sisters and brothers.
For each and every family member
in their households.
I pray for peace, love and joy
in their homes; that they are out of
debt
and all their needs are met.
I pray that every eye that reads this
knows there is no problem, circumstance,
or situation greater than God.
Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight.
I pray that these words be received
into the hearts of every eye that sees it
in Jesus' name.. Amen!
I thank You for my being able to see
and to hear this morning.
I'm blessed because You are
a forgiving God and
an understanding God.
You have done so much for me
and You keep on blessing me.
Forgive me this day for everything
I have done, said or thought
that was not pleasing to you.
I ask now for Your forgiveness.
Please keep me safe
from all danger and harm.
Help me to start this day
with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude.
Let me make the best of each and every day
to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.
Please broaden my mind
that I can accept all things.
Let me not whine and whimper
over things I have no control over.
And give me the best response
when I'm pushed beyond my limits.
I know that when I can't pray,
You listen to my heart.
Continue to use me to do Your will.
Continue to bless me that I may be
a blessing to others.
Keep me strong that I may help the weak...
Keep me uplifted that I may have
words of encouragement for others.
I pray for those that are lost
and can't find their way.
I pray for those that are misjudged
and misunderstood.
I pray for those who
don't know You intimately.
I pray for those that will disregard this
without sharing it with others
I pray for those that don't believe.
But I thank You that I believe
that God changes people and
God changes things.
I pray for all my sisters and brothers.
For each and every family member
in their households.
I pray for peace, love and joy
in their homes; that they are out of
debt
and all their needs are met.
I pray that every eye that reads this
knows there is no problem, circumstance,
or situation greater than God.
Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight.
I pray that these words be received
into the hearts of every eye that sees it
in Jesus' name.. Amen!
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