[JOYnet] Picture of Peace
A PICTURE OF PEACE: There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror, for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace. The other picture had mountains too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from which rain fell and in which lightening played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all. But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest... perfect peace. Which picture do you think won the prize? The King chose the second picture. Do you know why? Because, explained the King, peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace. - Author Unknown (As Fwd to me : by Jan) TODAYS THOUGHT There is not one moment That we are separated from God's care Unless we choose to be ** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] To know more about Jesus Youth, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org **
[JOYnet] No War Please!
No War Please! The world is under the shadow of another war. Any war is a crime and there is no end victory in a war. Only the common people will be affected by the war. The earth is a very sensitive planet. Every war will affect the environment. Animals, trees and man will be badly effected by war. We have the right to live in this planet peacefully. It is not right to punish the innocent people for the crime of a few. Let us pray to our Lord to give the wisdom and knowledge to the world leaders to take good decision and to avoid a war. Biju Antony / JY-Kuwait. -- ___ Have you downloaded the latest calling software from Net2Phone? Click here to get it now! http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=NH211JKurl=http://commcenter.net2phone.com/ ** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] To know more about Jesus Youth, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org **
Re: [JOYnet] No War Please!
In continuation of Biju's mail. How would it be if all of us joynetters can pray for world peace? Let there be peace in the world and let it begin with me! love and prayers, Josun From: Biju Antony [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JOYnet] No War Please! Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:24:59 +0800 No War Please! The world is under the shadow of another war. Any war is a crime and there is no end victory in a war. Only the common people will be affected by the war. The earth is a very sensitive planet. Every war will affect the environment. Animals, trees and man will be badly effected by war. We have the right to live in this planet peacefully. It is not right to punish the innocent people for the crime of a few. Let us pray to our Lord to give the wisdom and knowledge to the world leaders to take good decision and to avoid a war. Biju Antony / JY-Kuwait. -- ___ Have you downloaded the latest calling software from Net2Phone? Click here to get it now! http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=NH211JKurl=http://commcenter.net2phone.com/ ** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] To know more about Jesus Youth, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org ** _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] To know more about Jesus Youth, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org **
[JOYnet] coincidence or God's call
Dear Joynetters, Last Sunday my husband had gone in the morning to give a talk for a youth leaders training in a church in the city. He was back home in the afternoon, and was getting ready to go to our parish youth prayergroup. And my son very unusually started crying very loudly and reached outside the gate with him. I was very distrubed seeing this, and I requested John to stay back since Isaac was seeing him only on Sundays and half the day was already over. John was a bit angry but he abided by the request and changed to his home clothes. Since it was my son's sleeping time he slept very soon in peace. I was feeling very guilty, so I asked John to go back to the prayergroup,but John went to sleep. In the next five minutes there was a phone call from John's aunty asking John to reach the hospital immediately as his uncle was very sick. If John was away I couldn't have helped much because I am not well for the past few weeks (with dizziness, weakness, and less blood-please do pray) What do you call this? Coincidence or the Lord working through little children. Because I and John feel that we both are very lazy people and are of hardly any use, especially to our parents and relatives. Praise God! HALLELUIA! - Original Message - From: Biju Antony [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:54 PM Subject: [JOYnet] No War Please! No War Please! The world is under the shadow of another war. Any war is a crime and there is no end victory in a war. Only the common people will be affected by the war. The earth is a very sensitive planet. Every war will affect the environment. Animals, trees and man will be badly effected by war. We have the right to live in this planet peacefully. It is not right to punish the innocent people for the crime of a few. Let us pray to our Lord to give the wisdom and knowledge to the world leaders to take good decision and to avoid a war. Biju Antony / JY-Kuwait. -- ___ Have you downloaded the latest calling software from Net2Phone? Click here to get it now! http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=NH211JKurl=http://comm center.net2phone.com/ ** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] To know more about Jesus Youth, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org ** ** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] To know more about Jesus Youth, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org **
[JOYnet] sofi requires your prayers urgently
hi, i hope some of you might know sofi, she used and still is a Jyer. she is my wife and she is 9 months pregnant and now she is suffering from high fever. the doctor has prescribed antibiotics. she doesnt want to take antibitocs. she is very afraid for the baby. please pray for her and the baby. i am very afraid. this is our first baby and god has been so kind me till now and will be ever. but i am afraid. please pray for my wife and baby roshan _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] To know more about Jesus Youth, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org **
[JOYnet] Fwd Healing - a picture
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[JOYnet] A World Split Apart By Solzhenitsyn
A World Split Apart Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University June 8, 1978 I am sincerely happy to be here with you on the occasion of the 327th commencement of this old and illustrious university. My congratulations and best wishes to all of todays graduates. Harvards motto is VERITAS. Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that truth eludes us as soon as our concentration begins to flag, all the while leaving the illusion that we are continuing to pursue it. This is the source of much discord. Also, truth seldom is sweet; it is almost invariably bitter. A measure of truth is included in my speech today, but I offer it as a friend, not as an adversary. Three years ago in the United States I said certain things that were rejected and appeared unacceptable. Today, however, many people agree with what I said . . . The split in todays world is perceptible even to a hasty glance. Any of our contemporaries readily identifies two world powers, each of them already capable of destroying each other. However, the understanding of the split too often is limited to this political conception: the illusion according to which danger may be abolished through successful diplomatic negotiations or by achieving a balance of armed forces. The truth is that the split is both more profound and more alienating, that the rifts are more numerous than one can see at first glance. These deep manifold splits bear the danger of equally manifold disaster for all of us, in accordance with the ancient truth that a kingdom in this case, our Earth divided against itself cannot stand. There is the concept of the Third World: thus, we already have three worlds. Undoubtedly, however, the number is even greater; we are just too far away to see. Every ancient and deeply rooted self-contained culture, especially if it is spread over a wide part of the earths surface, constitutes a self-contained world, full of riddles and surprises to Western thinking. As a minimum, we must include in this China, India, the Muslim world, and Africa, if indeed we accept the approximation of viewing the latter two as uniform. For one thousand years Russia belonged to such a category, although Western thinking systematically committed the mistake of denying its special character and therefore never understood it, just as today the West does not understand Russia in Communist captivity. And while it may be that in past years Japan has increasingly become, in effect, a Far West, drawing ever closer to Western ways (I am no judge here), Israel, I think, should not be reckoned as part of the West, if only because of the decisive circumstance that its state system is fundamentally linked to its religion. How short a time ago, relatively, the small world of modern Europe was easily seizing colonies all over the globe, not only without anticipating any real resistance, but usually with contempt for any possible values in the conquered peoples approach to life. It all seemed an overwhelming success, with no geographic limits. Western society expanded in a triumph of human independence and power. And all of a sudden the twentieth century brought the clear realization of this societys fragility. We now see that the conquests proved to be short lived and precarious (and this, in turn, points to defects in the Western view of the world which led to these conquests). Relations with the former colonial world now have switched to the opposite extreme and the Western world often exhibits an excess of obsequiousness, but it is difficult yet to estimate the size of the bill which former colonial countries will present to the West and it is difficult to predict whether the surrender not only of its last colonies, but of everything it owns, will be sufficient for the West to clear this account. But the persisting blindness of superiority continues to hold the belief that all the vast regions of our planet should develop and mature to the level of contemporary Western systems, the best in theory and the most attractive in practice; that all those other worlds are but temporarily prevented (by wicked leaders or by severe crises or by their own barbarity and incomprehension) from pursuing Western pluralistic democracy and adopting the Western way of life. Countries are judged on the merit of their progress in that direction. But in fact such a conception is a fruit of Western incomprehension of the essence of other worlds, a result of mistakenly measuring them all with a Western yardstick. The real picture of our planets development bears little resemblance to all this. The anguish of a divided world gave birth to the theory of convergence between the leading Western countries and the Soviet Union. It is a soothing theory which overlooks the fact that these worlds are not evolving toward each other and that neither one can be transformed into the other without violence. Besides, convergence
[JOYnet] When you lie down in your bed psalm4.4
?When you lie in silence on your beds Offer the right sacrifices to the Lord And put your trust in Him? Psalm 4.4 Psalm 4 is a good evening prayer . God works in us when we lie down and rest. When we are awake and lie down in silence, thinking about many painful or creative things, God is with us. God is inviting us to think properly and to offer a Spiritual sacrifice. Often times when we are silent our minds wander and it may not be always the pleasant things that come to us. It is possible that even non spiritual things work in us. The psalmist is inviting us to offer sacrifices to the Lord and to put our trust in our dear God when we are in bed. Offering sacrifices is a very simple and intimate thing in our lives. We might be able to offer sacrifices to our God. A very intimate sacrifice is done in the Altar of our hearts. Our homes and our beds are Holy dwellings of our God. God lives in our body and mind. We are the temples of the Holy Spirit. Whether we are awake or asleep we are in the Holy Presence of our God. I think this attitude and awareness enables us to function differently from what we might have been doing till today Ruby?s life I have heard from Ruby (real name is withheld) encouraging news. Ruby is unmarried and a single mother. The father of the child visits with her and the son. Ruby was touched at the downing of the World trade Center. She is afraid for her life. She is frightened about the loss of her soul. She is reminded of the Bible message ? even if you gain the whole world and if you lose your soul what gain you have? The other day the father of her child ,James ( real name is withheld) came to visit with her and the child. They had a long chat in their bed. As he forced her to sin with him she turned around and asked him. ? Are you not afraid. If you die in sin where will you go? I am not willing to go to hell when I die.? Ruby was touched when the World Trade Center was downed under terrorists attack. Ruby was able to convince him that their bed is a sacred place. She read the psalm 4. And she trembled literally as she read the verse 4. ? Tremble and sin not; reflect upon your beds? and exactly that is what Ruby was able to do. She felt God touching her through this event of the disastrous event in New York God touched Ruby her son and her life style. She is tired of sins in her life. Sins multiplied and their bed became sinful place. But God touched the same bed to make them turn around in the name of the Lord. Repentance is in her heart. She is resolved not to sin. She was able to convince James to return to the Lord. He is also coming to see me. I think such miracles are because of prayers and intercessions. God uses His whips to chastise the people. People get tired of sinful lives and they turn away from their sins and return to the Lord. An Ash Wednesday prayer Every year as I put ashes on people?s forehead on Ash Wednesday, I am reminded of the prayer ? Turn away from sin and return to the Lord?. I think Ruby is returning to the Lord. Ruby is trusting n God and returning to God. She knows that her bed is a Holy dwelling place of her God. Ruby is worried about her son. She wants to set an example for her son. Many of you as you read this live story might be up in arms to blame this woman and this man who fathered a child but I am inviting you to slow down. Jesus asked the crowd of sinners to slow down. When an adulterous woman was caught in the act of committing sin, what they did was to lead her out of the city and to stone her so she might die because that is the prescription in the Mosaic Law. Jesus intervened and said ? If you are clean you be the first one to cast the stone at her? and no one stoned her. Jesus invites us I think Jesus invited them to look into their lives. The God in Jesus touched their souls and made them aware of their illness, their sinfulness. They turned away from committing a murder. Jesus saved them from killing a person in His presence. God doesn?t want any of us to judge anyone and to sin in His presence. We are instructed in catholic ways but at times or often we are too catholic. We condemn people and we make the lives of other people miserable. Very often we talk about negativity. We are buried in the concept of sin and shame and try to correct people and that makes the others stubborn and sin again in their stubbornness. You and me, we need people to change. We like to see people change. We are upset if someone sins. But when we sin we are least bothered. Of course we are bothered but we don?t want anyone to challenge and to judge us. Now returning to Ruby I would say she is conscious of her life style. She is changing. She wants to change but she cannot change alone. She wants her man also to change so that there would be peace in life. She could go away and marry another person and that is not possible in this juncture. But God touched this man
