Pyxism is the newest installment of travel based MLM entering the industry. It is a US based company founded in August of 2009 by Lloyd Wilson who has been in the industry since 1997. The company is in pre-launch at the time this article was written.
Pyxism Start Up
The start up costs are one of the lowest with $300 cost for product purchase and an annual affiliate fee of $25 totaling to $325. With this start up cost you now have the possibility of turning it to up to $8,000 per month.
Pyxism Products
The company's products are discount travel packages. With your firs product purchase you get a vacation package to choose from, the packages range form a 3 day Bahamas Cruise to a 5 day stay in Cabos St. Lucas at a 5 star resort.
You also get a memberships with discounted travel on:
- Trips designed for up to 8 people to Florida, discounts on amusement activities.
- Las Vegas trips with flight and $500 in gambling chips included
- Variety of Europe travel packages
- Golf and Luxury travel packages to Mexico for up to 8 people
- Variety of travel packages to Australia
- Dream weeks which are travel packages anywhere around the world
- Great Discount Cruises
The distributors will also be able to retail these discounted travel packages and collect commission on those sales.
Pyxism Compensation Plan
The compensation is an improvement on the forced 2 by 3 matrix designed as a true follow me matrix. Pyxism's follow me matrix positions can be filled by the following:
1. Personally Sponsoring
2. Spill-over from you up line (up to 2 levels)
3. Spill-under from the people you sponsor
4. Re-entry of the leadership team
This compensation plan keeps the teams together, filling the positions in the matrix faster so that everyone can quickly to cycle out to the next matrix, without risking the breaking off of teams. It consists of two levels, the Compass and the Horizon matrix. You get compensation when you cycle out of the two matrix.
When you fill all your positions in the compass and cycle out you get:
1. Entry into upper level of the Horizon matrix
2. Automated re-entry into the Compass matrix following your sponsor or $300 cash
3. An additional Vacation valued at over $500 each time you re-enter the Compass matrix 4. $1,250 payout on the second and all subsequent qualified Compass matrix completions.
When you cycle from the Horizon you receive:
1. $8,000 cash
2. Automated re-entry into Horizon matrix following your sponsor
3. Additional Vacation valued at over $1,000 each time you re-enter Horizon matrix
You can also qualified for a $2000 in sponsoring bonuses.
It looks as though Pyxism is off to a good start in its pre-launch. The earning potential looks like a great opportunity to make a great income, but that involves sponsoring new members into your team. This means generating leads that you can expose them to your business by building trust and relationships with. For this you need a branded marketing system that you can use to generates leads, build relationships, trust and expose to Pyxism.
To create a success in any business you need a strong marketing system that will assist you in marketing you opportunity without spending a fortune on advertising and help you leverage free marketing strategies for your business. If you want to learn how to market so you can dominate your Pyxism business click this link now Learn MLM Domination
Thursday, December 31, 2009
HOME :: Home-Based-Business / Network-Marketing Learn How Rachel Long Became Known As the Queen of the Home Based Business Industry
Rachel Long is a great online network marketer who has been able to achieve a lot of success in the home based business industry. She started at the bottom like most of us with very little knowledge and experience. The one thing that made her different from many others attempting to be successful in this industry was her desire and determination to make it happen. Everyone else wanted to do it and even preached that they would but she was the only one who took action.
By taking action over and over again Rachel Long was able to achieve success in the home based business industry and became known as the queen. She has been involved in many programs throughout the years and has been able to acquire success in each one of the programs she was part of.
Of course determination alone was not the reason why she achieved so much success and continues to do so today but it was the fuel that ignited the fire. Her determination helped her acquire the skills necessary to be successful online and it gave her the strength to overcome many of the obstacles she faced along the way.
The biggest lesson to learn from the queen of the home based business industry is that determination combined with action can make things happen. If you have desired to achieve success in this industry then is going to be important to develop the determination needed to make things happen. The only way that you will truly fail in the home based business industry is by giving up. Rachel Long did not give up no matter what obstacles she faced along the way and this is the kind of mindset you must have to make it in this business.
By taking action over and over again Rachel Long was able to achieve success in the home based business industry and became known as the queen. She has been involved in many programs throughout the years and has been able to acquire success in each one of the programs she was part of.
Of course determination alone was not the reason why she achieved so much success and continues to do so today but it was the fuel that ignited the fire. Her determination helped her acquire the skills necessary to be successful online and it gave her the strength to overcome many of the obstacles she faced along the way.
The biggest lesson to learn from the queen of the home based business industry is that determination combined with action can make things happen. If you have desired to achieve success in this industry then is going to be important to develop the determination needed to make things happen. The only way that you will truly fail in the home based business industry is by giving up. Rachel Long did not give up no matter what obstacles she faced along the way and this is the kind of mindset you must have to make it in this business.
How to Write an Article in 20 Minutes
Believe it or not, it only takes me 20 minutes to write a 400-500 word article. This article (which I wrote in 20 minutes) explains some of the tricks I use to accomplish this.
Blogging gives me a daily deadline, and I don’t really want to spend more than 20 minutes each day on blogging. Many of my blog entries are actually less than 500 words so take me less time.
Taking up blogging got me to start thinking seriously about writing quickly, and you may be facing a blogging time-crunch as well. So here are my 8 tips for writing an article in 20 minutes or less.
I start with a list of ideas and concepts I want to cover. Usually I write this list in point form. For me, I do this the old fashioned way, with a pen and paper.
I often “incubate” an article for a few days (this does not count in the 20 minutes). What I do is start roughing out some topic ideas then leave it. Because I have thought about it, ideas tend to come to me that I frequently add to my points. Of course I always carry a notebook for ideas.
I often need to reduce the number of ideas that I cover. Sometimes they do not fit with the angle of the article or do not flow with the other ideas. Sometimes I have to give up a point to write a good article.
Never save a good idea. When I know I have many article deadlines to meet, it is tempting to “save” a few good ideas for later. New ideas will always come so always give your best ideas.
Develop tricks to get past writers block. One way I do this is ”warm up” writing. I just sit down and write for 5 minutes. This tends to help subsequent writing to flow. Another way I do this is to go for a walk, cycle or a run (although sometimes I think I might use this to procrastinate a bit too). Another trick I use is to make a game out of the deadline – say I will do it by X o’ clock. Perhaps I am simple but this motivates me.
Come back to it later. My best articles are written partly, revisited a few times, then finished. I spend the same 20 minutes, though only 5-7 minutes per session. Of course if the ideas are flowing well, I do keep writing.
I often write 3-4 articles at the same time. Spending 5 minutes on one, 7 on another etc. When I am really in writing flow, this works well.
One trick is using bullet points or numbered points as in this article. People seem to like this technique and it helps articles flow for me.
So if I can write so quickly, why don’t I write a few articles each day? Apart from the fact that I have a very full time job, writing is the easy part; coming up with the ideas is the tough part.
Blogging gives me a daily deadline, and I don’t really want to spend more than 20 minutes each day on blogging. Many of my blog entries are actually less than 500 words so take me less time.
Taking up blogging got me to start thinking seriously about writing quickly, and you may be facing a blogging time-crunch as well. So here are my 8 tips for writing an article in 20 minutes or less.
I start with a list of ideas and concepts I want to cover. Usually I write this list in point form. For me, I do this the old fashioned way, with a pen and paper.
I often “incubate” an article for a few days (this does not count in the 20 minutes). What I do is start roughing out some topic ideas then leave it. Because I have thought about it, ideas tend to come to me that I frequently add to my points. Of course I always carry a notebook for ideas.
I often need to reduce the number of ideas that I cover. Sometimes they do not fit with the angle of the article or do not flow with the other ideas. Sometimes I have to give up a point to write a good article.
Never save a good idea. When I know I have many article deadlines to meet, it is tempting to “save” a few good ideas for later. New ideas will always come so always give your best ideas.
Develop tricks to get past writers block. One way I do this is ”warm up” writing. I just sit down and write for 5 minutes. This tends to help subsequent writing to flow. Another way I do this is to go for a walk, cycle or a run (although sometimes I think I might use this to procrastinate a bit too). Another trick I use is to make a game out of the deadline – say I will do it by X o’ clock. Perhaps I am simple but this motivates me.
Come back to it later. My best articles are written partly, revisited a few times, then finished. I spend the same 20 minutes, though only 5-7 minutes per session. Of course if the ideas are flowing well, I do keep writing.
I often write 3-4 articles at the same time. Spending 5 minutes on one, 7 on another etc. When I am really in writing flow, this works well.
One trick is using bullet points or numbered points as in this article. People seem to like this technique and it helps articles flow for me.
So if I can write so quickly, why don’t I write a few articles each day? Apart from the fact that I have a very full time job, writing is the easy part; coming up with the ideas is the tough part.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Ashamed...but not proud of it
I Ashamed
In the category of women behaving badly, this ranks right up toward the top. A true account...
"During my sophomore year of high school, a nerdy upperclassman named John, developed a little crush on me. Back in high school, I had no problems befriending a geek. However, I was not particularly interested in them sexually.
"Still, I did not discourage his crush.
"I continued to laugh at all of John's jokes and I would periodically punch him playfully in the arm thinking that nothing harmful would ever come of it. Unfortunately, John interpreted all of my signals correctly and began pursuing me more aggressively. Cue the flowers and the poems and the invites for movies which I had to frantically make up excuses not to attend. Cue the sexual innuendos and the arm casually draped over my shoulder. Cue the rumors that John and I were dating.
"I had lost complete control of the situation.
"My friends, vicious that they were, started teasing me. Jokes about when I was going to take the poor boys virginity amidst cackling evil laughter became the norm. After awhile, I started to blame John for all of these problems. I mean, why didn't he realize that I was totally out of his league?
"Did you feel a little dirty reading that last sentence? Well, I felt dirty saying it. But I must warn you, it only gets uglier.
"One day, John presented me with a gift that cost him a fair chunk of change for a high school kid. It was a heart shaped pendant, encrusted with diamonds, on a gold chain. When he gave it to me, he smiled his big goofy smile and told me that he had been saving for a few months now to buy it for me. It was at this precise instant that I. Just. Snapped.
"I tossed the necklace aside and angrily informed John that I didn't want it. I told him that I hated him and if we were the last two people on the planet, I would never date him. I called him a loser, a wimp, and a social retard. His face crumpled as I viciously emasculated him, but I couldn't stop myself. I was fueled by anger and resentment and guilt and embarrassment. Finally, John weakly tried to defend himself and he whispered hoarsely that I was a b----. Furious, I called him a dork and stormed out of the library, my cheeks hot with rage.
"Oh, we're not done here yet! Stick with me; it's going to get uglier!
"I sought out my friends and recounted, with sudden remorse, how I broke John's spirit. I thought that they would be disgusted by my cruelty, but they only laughed and egged me on. They thought my parting insult, DORK, was the epitome of comedy and humor. From that point on, whenever we saw John in the halls, we'd scream at him and taunt him and oh so nastily remind him that he was a DORK. This went on for weeks.
"Whenever I look back on all of this, I remember John's face. I remember the look of dread that reflected in his eyes when he turned the corner and realized that we were there. I remember the way my own voice sounded, merciless and cruel, and I remember how our mocking laughter echoed in the halls. Most of all, I remember how I couldn't resist myself and how I gleefully let something nasty and hateful in me take over simply because I couldn't face my own mistakes and inadequacies.
"In the midst of this, John wrote me a letter. In it, he told me he once thought I was beautiful and smart. He said that he was initially attracted to my sweetness and my sense of humor. He said that now that he's gotten to know me better, he could plainly see that he had made a mistake. He said that my behavior made me ugly and he wanted nothing to do with me ever again. He asked that I please leave him alone.
"During lunch, I read the letter to my friends. We all laughed and chortled and picked on all of his spelling mistakes and grammar errors. My friends asked me how it felt to have my very first stalker and I made some silly little joke about sleeping with a baseball bat from now on.
"But inside? Inside, I felt the deepest shame.
"That boy thought I was beautiful, so I emasculated him. That boy thought I was smart, so I degraded him. That boy thought I was sweet and funny and kind, so I humiliated him in front of large groups of people. That boy's only mistake was that he was kind to me and I responded by making him regret it.
"Me, who always prided herself on being an individual and doing the right thing, succumbed to vicious pack mentality and outright cruelty. I wondered to myself, what is it about humans where we always feel the need to establish a pecking order? What right did I have to determine that John was out of my league in the first place? What was missing in me that caused me to feel better about myself by degrading someone else? What kind of person was I that I could reward someone's kindness by spitting in his face? I felt that if my father were alive to see what I had done, he would have turned his back on me.
"I have kept John's letter all these years. I kept it because it hurts me to read it. It is a reminder that someone out there once thought I was smart and beautiful, but my behavior changed his mind. When I'm feeling really low about the direction of my life, I read it and I think to myself that it took a boy that I abused to reveal to me my innate character flaws. When I put it down, I make a silent vow to show kindness to those who show me kindness. Sometimes I fail others and in doing so, I fail myself. I suspect that throughout my life, there will be many more failures.
"My greatest fear is that John's dry observations about my character still hold true today."1
We all experience personal shame. And for many it goes way beyond treating someone badly in high school. It might be shame over sexual abuse inflicted on us. Or ugly habits we've developed. Or the constant awareness that we are less of a person than others see. In struggling through our shame, we might especially avoid God, assuming that God would only make us feel worse.
As one person put it, "If your God exists, I wonder if he would care about me. I've done some pretty stupid stuff in my life. My thoughts are that he would look my way in disdain and complete and utter disappointment."
Is that true? How does God see us, in light of the fact that he really does, fully...see us?
God said he knows "the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account."2 In a strange sort of way, that's comforting. At least there is one person who really does know everything, every detail about us. God is the one person we don't need to try to hide stuff from. He knows it all. Guard down.
This next thought might be surprising. He says that he "sympathizes with our weaknesses."3 God doesn't expect that we will ever be perfect. We will never perfectly behave well or perfectly treat others well. It would be right to do. But none of us are that righteous. We lie, we belittle, we criticize, we're impatient, arrogant, etc. We have horrible thoughts toward others, and we engage in things we wouldn't want anyone else see us do.
Some people think that if we were just more aware of the Ten Commandments we would act better. Their thinking is, we need to be reminded not to lie, not to commit adultery, not to murder, etc. However, the Ten Commandments are not going to make us be better people, no matter how prominently they are displayed. God tells us the purpose of the commandments, ie. the law: "...no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin."4 Trying to live up to God's commands is not going to relieve of us guilt, but probably will actually increase our guilt. This is not the way to overcome shame.
Becoming religious is not the answer either. There is an attraction today toward following strict, religious rituals. The more stringent the better. The more radical, the more devoted. This approach draws an allegiance because it speaks to our respect for action, for diligence. But subjecting ourselves to religious behavior is an empty hope. It does little toward bringing freedom from shame, sin, or internal burdens.
The only way to become free from shame is to become convinced that you are fully loved. God, who knows every detail about you, welcomes you to know his love.
Jesus invites us into a relationship with himself, "Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you [a weaker ox would be paired with a stronger ox] and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."5
He can free us from the shame we carry and deeply change our perception of ourselves.
Take for example, this Jewish woman in the Middle East, written about in the Gospel of John. Having already been married five times, she decided this time to just live with the guy. Everyone in her village knew her, and probably talked about her. Feeling so ostracized, she had to go to the well to get her water at a time of day when no one else would be there. Jesus, however, waited for her at the well and told her how she could have eternal life. She was so moved by the conversation, she persuaded everyone in her village to come meet Jesus. That's quite a change from avoiding people, to being willing to address the entire town. Did you know that Jesus can bring you that kind of freedom?
Also in the Gospel of John, was a woman caught in adultery and dragged before a violent crowd ready to be stoned to death. They asked Jesus to pronounce the condemnation. He responded that the person without sin should throw the first stone. "They went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her, 'Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?' She said, 'No one, Lord.' And Jesus said, 'Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.'"6 It is through Jesus that we also can have forgiveness, a completely clean slate. A very different life. Do you ever wonder what God thinks of you? Here is a snapshot of Jesus' view of us: "When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd."9 No one to care for them. No one leading them, protecting them. No one meeting their needs.
Do you realize that this is how Jesus sees you? Harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. In response to your needs, Jesus tells us, "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand...sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep...He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd."10 The one who genuinely cares about you. "I came that they may have life and have it abundantly."11
More than anyone else, Jesus is whom we can go to in times of shame and personal failures and when others sin against us. Jesus is not asking us to get over our shame. He's asking to be our shepherd.
He is able to put our shame in past tense, "you were dead in the trespasses and sin in which you once walked..."12 He does not say to this, "Try harder. Be better sheep." Instead, "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive...that...he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."
If you would like to know God in an intimate way, he offers you a relationship with him. The following explains how: Knowing God Personally.
I Ashamed
In the category of women behaving badly, this ranks right up toward the top. A true account...
"During my sophomore year of high school, a nerdy upperclassman named John, developed a little crush on me. Back in high school, I had no problems befriending a geek. However, I was not particularly interested in them sexually.
"Still, I did not discourage his crush.
"I continued to laugh at all of John's jokes and I would periodically punch him playfully in the arm thinking that nothing harmful would ever come of it. Unfortunately, John interpreted all of my signals correctly and began pursuing me more aggressively. Cue the flowers and the poems and the invites for movies which I had to frantically make up excuses not to attend. Cue the sexual innuendos and the arm casually draped over my shoulder. Cue the rumors that John and I were dating.
"I had lost complete control of the situation.
"My friends, vicious that they were, started teasing me. Jokes about when I was going to take the poor boys virginity amidst cackling evil laughter became the norm. After awhile, I started to blame John for all of these problems. I mean, why didn't he realize that I was totally out of his league?
"Did you feel a little dirty reading that last sentence? Well, I felt dirty saying it. But I must warn you, it only gets uglier.
"One day, John presented me with a gift that cost him a fair chunk of change for a high school kid. It was a heart shaped pendant, encrusted with diamonds, on a gold chain. When he gave it to me, he smiled his big goofy smile and told me that he had been saving for a few months now to buy it for me. It was at this precise instant that I. Just. Snapped.
"I tossed the necklace aside and angrily informed John that I didn't want it. I told him that I hated him and if we were the last two people on the planet, I would never date him. I called him a loser, a wimp, and a social retard. His face crumpled as I viciously emasculated him, but I couldn't stop myself. I was fueled by anger and resentment and guilt and embarrassment. Finally, John weakly tried to defend himself and he whispered hoarsely that I was a b----. Furious, I called him a dork and stormed out of the library, my cheeks hot with rage.
"Oh, we're not done here yet! Stick with me; it's going to get uglier!
"I sought out my friends and recounted, with sudden remorse, how I broke John's spirit. I thought that they would be disgusted by my cruelty, but they only laughed and egged me on. They thought my parting insult, DORK, was the epitome of comedy and humor. From that point on, whenever we saw John in the halls, we'd scream at him and taunt him and oh so nastily remind him that he was a DORK. This went on for weeks.
"Whenever I look back on all of this, I remember John's face. I remember the look of dread that reflected in his eyes when he turned the corner and realized that we were there. I remember the way my own voice sounded, merciless and cruel, and I remember how our mocking laughter echoed in the halls. Most of all, I remember how I couldn't resist myself and how I gleefully let something nasty and hateful in me take over simply because I couldn't face my own mistakes and inadequacies.
"In the midst of this, John wrote me a letter. In it, he told me he once thought I was beautiful and smart. He said that he was initially attracted to my sweetness and my sense of humor. He said that now that he's gotten to know me better, he could plainly see that he had made a mistake. He said that my behavior made me ugly and he wanted nothing to do with me ever again. He asked that I please leave him alone.
"During lunch, I read the letter to my friends. We all laughed and chortled and picked on all of his spelling mistakes and grammar errors. My friends asked me how it felt to have my very first stalker and I made some silly little joke about sleeping with a baseball bat from now on.
"But inside? Inside, I felt the deepest shame.
"That boy thought I was beautiful, so I emasculated him. That boy thought I was smart, so I degraded him. That boy thought I was sweet and funny and kind, so I humiliated him in front of large groups of people. That boy's only mistake was that he was kind to me and I responded by making him regret it.
"Me, who always prided herself on being an individual and doing the right thing, succumbed to vicious pack mentality and outright cruelty. I wondered to myself, what is it about humans where we always feel the need to establish a pecking order? What right did I have to determine that John was out of my league in the first place? What was missing in me that caused me to feel better about myself by degrading someone else? What kind of person was I that I could reward someone's kindness by spitting in his face? I felt that if my father were alive to see what I had done, he would have turned his back on me.
"I have kept John's letter all these years. I kept it because it hurts me to read it. It is a reminder that someone out there once thought I was smart and beautiful, but my behavior changed his mind. When I'm feeling really low about the direction of my life, I read it and I think to myself that it took a boy that I abused to reveal to me my innate character flaws. When I put it down, I make a silent vow to show kindness to those who show me kindness. Sometimes I fail others and in doing so, I fail myself. I suspect that throughout my life, there will be many more failures.
"My greatest fear is that John's dry observations about my character still hold true today."1
We all experience personal shame. And for many it goes way beyond treating someone badly in high school. It might be shame over sexual abuse inflicted on us. Or ugly habits we've developed. Or the constant awareness that we are less of a person than others see. In struggling through our shame, we might especially avoid God, assuming that God would only make us feel worse.
As one person put it, "If your God exists, I wonder if he would care about me. I've done some pretty stupid stuff in my life. My thoughts are that he would look my way in disdain and complete and utter disappointment."
Is that true? How does God see us, in light of the fact that he really does, fully...see us?
God said he knows "the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account."2 In a strange sort of way, that's comforting. At least there is one person who really does know everything, every detail about us. God is the one person we don't need to try to hide stuff from. He knows it all. Guard down.
This next thought might be surprising. He says that he "sympathizes with our weaknesses."3 God doesn't expect that we will ever be perfect. We will never perfectly behave well or perfectly treat others well. It would be right to do. But none of us are that righteous. We lie, we belittle, we criticize, we're impatient, arrogant, etc. We have horrible thoughts toward others, and we engage in things we wouldn't want anyone else see us do.
Some people think that if we were just more aware of the Ten Commandments we would act better. Their thinking is, we need to be reminded not to lie, not to commit adultery, not to murder, etc. However, the Ten Commandments are not going to make us be better people, no matter how prominently they are displayed. God tells us the purpose of the commandments, ie. the law: "...no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin."4 Trying to live up to God's commands is not going to relieve of us guilt, but probably will actually increase our guilt. This is not the way to overcome shame.
Becoming religious is not the answer either. There is an attraction today toward following strict, religious rituals. The more stringent the better. The more radical, the more devoted. This approach draws an allegiance because it speaks to our respect for action, for diligence. But subjecting ourselves to religious behavior is an empty hope. It does little toward bringing freedom from shame, sin, or internal burdens.
The only way to become free from shame is to become convinced that you are fully loved. God, who knows every detail about you, welcomes you to know his love.
Jesus invites us into a relationship with himself, "Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you [a weaker ox would be paired with a stronger ox] and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."5
He can free us from the shame we carry and deeply change our perception of ourselves.
Take for example, this Jewish woman in the Middle East, written about in the Gospel of John. Having already been married five times, she decided this time to just live with the guy. Everyone in her village knew her, and probably talked about her. Feeling so ostracized, she had to go to the well to get her water at a time of day when no one else would be there. Jesus, however, waited for her at the well and told her how she could have eternal life. She was so moved by the conversation, she persuaded everyone in her village to come meet Jesus. That's quite a change from avoiding people, to being willing to address the entire town. Did you know that Jesus can bring you that kind of freedom?
Also in the Gospel of John, was a woman caught in adultery and dragged before a violent crowd ready to be stoned to death. They asked Jesus to pronounce the condemnation. He responded that the person without sin should throw the first stone. "They went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her, 'Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?' She said, 'No one, Lord.' And Jesus said, 'Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.'"6 It is through Jesus that we also can have forgiveness, a completely clean slate. A very different life. Do you ever wonder what God thinks of you? Here is a snapshot of Jesus' view of us: "When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd."9 No one to care for them. No one leading them, protecting them. No one meeting their needs.
Do you realize that this is how Jesus sees you? Harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. In response to your needs, Jesus tells us, "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand...sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep...He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd."10 The one who genuinely cares about you. "I came that they may have life and have it abundantly."11
More than anyone else, Jesus is whom we can go to in times of shame and personal failures and when others sin against us. Jesus is not asking us to get over our shame. He's asking to be our shepherd.
He is able to put our shame in past tense, "you were dead in the trespasses and sin in which you once walked..."12 He does not say to this, "Try harder. Be better sheep." Instead, "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive...that...he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."
If you would like to know God in an intimate way, he offers you a relationship with him. The following explains how: Knowing God Personally.
I Ashamed
Sunday, November 1, 2009
I really should be ashamed, but honestly, I ‘m not
I haven’t been making the blog rounds for about a week or so now. I throw my post up for the day and swoosh, I’m gone from the computer for the greater part of the day. I just can’t concentrate on reading as of late. Maybe it has something to do with this little creature who is sitting here on the floor with a little pink pig toy in his mouth.
I have been thinking about things lately and I think I have come up with a rational reason for the amount of time I have spent on the computer for the past three plus years. The last two years of Murphy’s life I was more of a caregiver than anything else. Once he was settled in and sleeping in the mornings, I would escape in body and mind to the computer to avoid what I knew would one day be the inevitable. I knew it, I just didn’t want to watch him and be reminded of it all day each day. The computer took all those thoughts and hid them for a while. It covered the depression that I was feeling daily.
Then after Murphy’s death (it’s still difficult to write those four words) I came to the computer for almost a year, again as my friend who took my mind off thoughts I didn’t want to think. It was sort of like that commercial, “Calgon take me away”, and my computer did indeed take me away.
But now all that has changed. I have this sweet little creature who just wants to play and have fun all day long. He’s new life and a life that has a long happy future. I am a sucker for happiness. It’ll get me every time. I don’t want to miss a moment of this new happiness, not one moment of any of it.
So please forgive me for being selfish and pretty much ignoring my computer during the day, I just have new experiences to explore and relish right now. Oh sure, I’ll continue to post just as I always have, you just might not see my paw prints very much around the web for a little while.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Aku malu tapi mahu
Alhamdulillah.
Aku selamat pindah umah...
dapat la bini aku tenang sikit jaga anak..
masa g beli barang letrik sabtu lepas..
(aku rasa amat dimalukan oleh bapak mertua aku
dengan tindakannya sesudah kami memilih barang..)
hajat aku, cuma nak beli yang perlu2
dalam kos yang rendah..
Dan hajat untuk berutang dengan Court maut.
tapi, mentua aku membantah sekeras2nya.
katanya, kot maut, harga jd 3x ganda.
beli cash katanya.
aku mengajak bini dan bapak mertua utk ke kedai
letrik yg sesuai..
aku menyatakan ingin membeli peti ais
dan mesin basuh dulu..(jenama koman)
itu yang paling perlu..(dalam bajet)
tapi, bila bapak mertua ikut,
dia jenis tak puas ati kalo barang jenama koman..
memilih mesin basuh.
aku nak beli jenama UPsON..RM 2++ saja.
Bapak mertua aku mengarahkan supaya amek
yg brended..lalu dia mengesyorkan PENSONIC..RM 380
(lari bajet)
memilih peti ais.Aku nak beli yg kecit2.
tapi, bapak mertua aku menyuruh aku
membeli PANASONIC..RM 7++..
(lari Bajet.)
Selesai itu,
aku ingat settle.
rupanya TV pun penting katanya..
Aku dan bini tengok2 kat jenama hanabishi..
nakamura, siti nurhaliza..
tapi bapak mertua aku mengarahkan
aku memilih antara LG flat screen 21'
dengan Panasonic.
Tanpa membantah,
bini aku pilih LG flat screen..hampir RM 5++
(bajet dah jauh meninggalkan kami,
bukan lari, dia naik bas)
ingat dah setel.tak jugak..!
bapak mertua kata,
nanti kimi boring, baik amek DVD player.
Hapa?? aku amek yg paling murah.
jenama SINA. RM 120.
bajet dah tak kelihatan)
Selesai semua.
kira..dekat2 RM 2ribu..
(aku dah nak pensan..)
tapi, bapak mertua aku g ke kaunter bayaran..
Dia bayar.cash.
(aku sangat2 rasa malu...Tapi mahu)
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
pastu dia kata. Kabinet jer aku beli sediri.
Petang, aku dan bini g memilih kabinet dapur..
sebab bajet datang semula kepada kami,
dengan gembira bini aku memilih kabinet dapur yg paling
dia suka..
dekat2 RM 3rat jgk kabinet rupanya.
ada lagi bajet.
kami sama2 memilih kabinet TV..
pastu, beli jugak Ampaian yg lipat2 tu,
yg paling besar.
ada lagi belen duit ni.
Hari ahad, kami memborong barang dapur...
kicap, sos cili, sabun, semua amek yg besar.
dan belen duit, buat aku bayar deposit 2bulan
dekat tuan umah.
Bini aku nampak gembira...
walopun nampak penat.
kemas umah pun tak abes lagi..
petang karang sambung...
Aku kagum dengan DVD playerbaru ni.
bole baca tamdraiv.ada usb port.
mcm komputer.bole main MP3,MP4, JPEG,PJK, AMN.
turun tepen, dtg a umah.
*************************************************
baca metro arini,
kat bahagian sukan..lucu.
hilang sikit penat...
antaranya...sms dari peminat..
1) Dengan negara asia pun kena 5 gol,
Nasib abik MU tak datang,
Kalo tak, mungkin 20 gol. REES
2) Pemain negara tidak serasi sesama sendiri.
rasanya, ambil saja skuad negeri Perak
jadi wakil negara, mungkin ada baiknya.GMARTTHEMASTER
3) Kapten Malaysia sepatutnya Shahrul Azhar(Perak)
Yang ada strategi dan peningkatan.KAEDE
4) Raja Ahmad melenting sbb prof Khoo
kata malaysia main mcm robot.
Ok la tu kerana Transformers pun robot juga!
Nasib baik tak kata Keldai atau lembu.REZA
5) Kepada Raja Ahmad zainudin,
kali ini orag tak panggil pemain Malaysia Robot.
tapi transformers,
Kejap jadi kuda kepang,
kejap tukar jadi tunggul kayu.The kop
Aku selamat pindah umah...
dapat la bini aku tenang sikit jaga anak..
masa g beli barang letrik sabtu lepas..
(aku rasa amat dimalukan oleh bapak mertua aku
dengan tindakannya sesudah kami memilih barang..)
hajat aku, cuma nak beli yang perlu2
dalam kos yang rendah..
Dan hajat untuk berutang dengan Court maut.
tapi, mentua aku membantah sekeras2nya.
katanya, kot maut, harga jd 3x ganda.
beli cash katanya.
aku mengajak bini dan bapak mertua utk ke kedai
letrik yg sesuai..
aku menyatakan ingin membeli peti ais
dan mesin basuh dulu..(jenama koman)
itu yang paling perlu..(dalam bajet)
tapi, bila bapak mertua ikut,
dia jenis tak puas ati kalo barang jenama koman..
memilih mesin basuh.
aku nak beli jenama UPsON..RM 2++ saja.
Bapak mertua aku mengarahkan supaya amek
yg brended..lalu dia mengesyorkan PENSONIC..RM 380
(lari bajet)
memilih peti ais.Aku nak beli yg kecit2.
tapi, bapak mertua aku menyuruh aku
membeli PANASONIC..RM 7++..
(lari Bajet.)
Selesai itu,
aku ingat settle.
rupanya TV pun penting katanya..
Aku dan bini tengok2 kat jenama hanabishi..
nakamura, siti nurhaliza..
tapi bapak mertua aku mengarahkan
aku memilih antara LG flat screen 21'
dengan Panasonic.
Tanpa membantah,
bini aku pilih LG flat screen..hampir RM 5++
(bajet dah jauh meninggalkan kami,
bukan lari, dia naik bas)
ingat dah setel.tak jugak..!
bapak mertua kata,
nanti kimi boring, baik amek DVD player.
Hapa?? aku amek yg paling murah.
jenama SINA. RM 120.
bajet dah tak kelihatan)
Selesai semua.
kira..dekat2 RM 2ribu..
(aku dah nak pensan..)
tapi, bapak mertua aku g ke kaunter bayaran..
Dia bayar.cash.
(aku sangat2 rasa malu...Tapi mahu)
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
pastu dia kata. Kabinet jer aku beli sediri.
Petang, aku dan bini g memilih kabinet dapur..
sebab bajet datang semula kepada kami,
dengan gembira bini aku memilih kabinet dapur yg paling
dia suka..
dekat2 RM 3rat jgk kabinet rupanya.
ada lagi bajet.
kami sama2 memilih kabinet TV..
pastu, beli jugak Ampaian yg lipat2 tu,
yg paling besar.
ada lagi belen duit ni.
Hari ahad, kami memborong barang dapur...
kicap, sos cili, sabun, semua amek yg besar.
dan belen duit, buat aku bayar deposit 2bulan
dekat tuan umah.
Bini aku nampak gembira...
walopun nampak penat.
kemas umah pun tak abes lagi..
petang karang sambung...
Aku kagum dengan DVD playerbaru ni.
bole baca tamdraiv.ada usb port.
mcm komputer.bole main MP3,MP4, JPEG,PJK, AMN.
turun tepen, dtg a umah.
*************************************************
baca metro arini,
kat bahagian sukan..lucu.
hilang sikit penat...
antaranya...sms dari peminat..
1) Dengan negara asia pun kena 5 gol,
Nasib abik MU tak datang,
Kalo tak, mungkin 20 gol. REES
2) Pemain negara tidak serasi sesama sendiri.
rasanya, ambil saja skuad negeri Perak
jadi wakil negara, mungkin ada baiknya.GMARTTHEMASTER
3) Kapten Malaysia sepatutnya Shahrul Azhar(Perak)
Yang ada strategi dan peningkatan.KAEDE
4) Raja Ahmad melenting sbb prof Khoo
kata malaysia main mcm robot.
Ok la tu kerana Transformers pun robot juga!
Nasib baik tak kata Keldai atau lembu.REZA
5) Kepada Raja Ahmad zainudin,
kali ini orag tak panggil pemain Malaysia Robot.
tapi transformers,
Kejap jadi kuda kepang,
kejap tukar jadi tunggul kayu.The kop
Friday, January 30, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
