Bible Verses
Here is your Tuesday STORY on: SELF DEVELOPMENT: We are all sometimes afraid to admit that our self development is totally down to us as an individual. Any guidance we get is ultimately asking us the question, 'Do we want to take action?' If we take no action, there is no self development! There is a belief that if we are given something free, we don't value it. But if we pay, it has value. I for example was given two concert tickets before Christmas and found the effort to go to the concert was enormous. Yet had I chose to buy the tickets I would have been eager to attend. Self development is no different! If you go to the gym for a year with an aim to shape your body, your tolerance increases. If you are presented with a box of chocolates, you become happy to except one, rather than binge on eight or nine. The value increases when you pay, not necessarily in money but effort too! The story today and subsequent quote is not about payment, but about being bound. If you get everything for free, it is easy not to improve; you haven't spent anything so it doesn't matter! You don't need to spend big, spending on a book once a month would do fine... THE TUNNEL Zenkai, the son of a samurai, journeyed to Edo and there became a retainer of a high official. This high official treated his wife like a slave and she looked frightened at each encounter with her husband. Zenkai fell in love with the official's wife and was discovered. Then in self-defence, he slew the official. This event caused Zenkai to run away with the wife. Both of them later became thieves. But the woman was so greedy that Zenkai grew disgusted. Finally, leaving her, he journeyed far away to the province of Buzen, where he became a wandering mendicant. To atone for his past, Zenkai resolved to accomplish some good deed in his lifetime. Knowing of a dangerous road over the cliff that had caused the death and injury of many persons, he resolved to cut a tunnel through the mountains there. Begging food in the daytime, Zenkai worked at night digging his tunnel. When thirty years had gone by, the tunnel was 2, 280 feet long, 20 feet high and 30 feet wide. Two years before the work was completed, the son of the official he had slain, who was a skilful swordsman, found Zenkai out and came to kill him in revenge. "I will give you my life willingly, " said Zenkai. "Only let me finish this work. On the day it is completed, then you may kill me." So the son awaited the day. Several months passed and Zenkai kept on digging. The son grew tired of doing nothing and began to help with the digging. After he had helped for more than a year, he came to admire Zenkai's strong will and character. At last the tunnel was completed and the people could use it and travel in safety. "Now cut off my head, " said Zenkai. "My work is done." "How can I cut off my own teacher's head?" asked the younger man with tears in his eyes. (A Zen Story) QUOTE: "People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound." (James Allen).
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Woman wards off attacker by reading the Bible to him... AFTER he slashed her ...
4 Feb 2012 at 6:39pm A woman managed to force a violent intruder out of her home by reading Bible verses to him - even though he had already cut the throat. Lindsay Wood, a devout Christian, fought her attacker with faith rather than force, and eventually he left her house ...Read more...
Woman Uses Bible Verses to Ward Off Attacker - YAHOO!
4 Feb 2012 at 5:42pm A North Carolina woman read the Bible to her attacker for an hour and a half after he slashed her throat before the man apologized and left. Lindsay Wood, 32, of Shelby, N.C., had just arrived home from Bible study on Wednesday. Wood asked her 15-year ...Read more...
Thomas Jefferson: non-Christian - Examiner
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From the Pulpit: A few of my favorite things - Freeport Journal Standard
1 Feb 2012 at 1:35pm Here a few of my favorites which have been a helpful and hopeful solace for me. ? Favorite Scripture: For some time I?ve been drawn to the first verses in the Bible. To be sure I enjoy the creation narrative, but I especially appreciate the bold ...Read more...
Alaska Airlines Eliminates Mealtime Bible Verses - KUOW
26 Jan 2012 at 12:02pm For decades, Alaska Airlines has distributed cards containing Bible verses along with its meal service. It started as a marketing idea, but customer feedback has been increasingly negative. The airline plans to get rid of the cards starting next month.Read more...
Alaska Airlines Opts To Stop Handing Out Prayer Cards - Consumerist.com
26 Jan 2012 at 7:08am For the past three decades, Alaska Airlines has handed out prayer cards imprinted with Bible verses with meals. But the airline will stop the ritual Wednesday, following through on a decision it made last Fall. According to the airline, a marketing ...Read more...
OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS; The Evangelical Rejection of Reason
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Quincy, Mass. THE Republican presidential field has become a showcase of evangelical anti-intellectualism. Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann deny that climate change is real and caused by humans. Mr. Perry and Mrs. Bachmann dismiss evolution as an unproven theory. The two candidates who espouse the greatest support for science, Mitt...Read more...
