The Wounded Healers

With all its imperfections, sins, blemishes, and warts, the Church of Jesus Christ is the intended healer of the world’s wounds. Christians are called to be compassionate, wounded healers.Perhaps, Henri Nouwen, the Roman Catholic theologian, has said this better than anyone else. The author of many books, Nouwen speaks of Christians as "wounded healers" who have compassion. Compassion is not pity. Pity lets us stay at a distance. It is condescending.Compassion is not sympathy. Sympathy is for superiors over inferiors. Compassion is not charity. Charity is for the rich to continue in their status over the poor. Compassion is born of God. It means entering into the other person’s problems. It means taking on the burdens of the other. It means standing in the other person’s shoes. It is the opposite of professionalism. It is the humanizing way to deal with people. "Just as bread without love can bring war instead of peace, professionalism without compassion will turn forgiveness into a gimmick."
Ron Lavin, Alone/Together, Ron Lavin, CSS Publishing Co., Inc.

Anger and Snap Judgments

Anger can make a normally unbiased person act with prejudice, according to a study in the Journalof Psychological Science.Assistant psychology professors David DeSteno atNortheastern University in Boston and NilanjanaDasgupta at the University of Massachusetts,Amherst, randomly divided 81 study participants into two groups and assigned them a writing taskdesigned to induce angry, sad or neutral feelings.In a subsequent test to uncover non-consciousassociations, angry subjects were quicker toconnect negatively charged words—like war, deathand vomit—with members of the opposite group—even though the groupings were completelyarbitrary.“These automatic responses guide our behaviorwhen we’re not paying attention,” says DeSteno,and they can lead to discriminatory acts whenthere is pressure to make a quick decision. “Ifyou’re aware that your emotions might be coloringthese gut reactions,” he says, “you should taketime to consider that possibility and adjust youractions accordingly.”

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ThunderWear

Here's a slinkier fetishwear holster (as if they all weren't fetishwear anyway) for carrying up to six handguns at a time GAH! I mean "your six-gun," meaning ONE handgun with blast-tastic kablamability: Link, marginally work-safe. If you wanna get it go ahead.. to this link hahahahah have fun with it...

God Won't ask...

1. God won't ask what kind of car you drove, He'll ask how many people you drove who didn't have transportation.
2. God won't ask the square footage of your house, He'll ask how many people you welcomed into your home.
3. God won't ask about the clothes you had in your closet, He'll ask how many you helped clothe.
4. God won't ask what your highest salary was,He'll ask if you gave some to help others.
5. God won't ask what your job title was,He'll ask if you performed your job to the best of your ability.
6. God won't ask how many friends you had, He'll ask how many people to whom you were a friend.
7. God won't ask in what neighborhoodyou lived, He'll ask how you treated your neighbors.
8. God won't ask about the color of yourskin, He'll ask about the content of your character.
9. God won't ask why it took you so longto seek Salvation, He'll lovingly take you to your mansionin heaven, and not to the gate of hell

have a nice day!

Hair Cut or Car?

A young boy had just gotten his drivingpermit.Heasked his father> whether they could discuss his use of thefamilycar.>> His father took him into his study and said,"I'llmake a deal withyou.> You bring your grades up, study the Bible alittle, get your hair cut> and then we'll talk about it.">> After about a month, the boy came back andagain asked his father if> they could discuss his use of the car.>> They again went into the father's studywhere thefather said, "Son,> I've been very proud of you. You havebroughtyour grades up, you've> studied the Bible diligently, but you didn't getyour hair cut.">> The young man waited a moment and thenreplied, "You know, Dad, I've> been thinking about that. You know Samsonhadlong hair, Moses hadlong> hair, Noah had long hair, and even Jesus hadlong hair.">> The father said, "Yes, and everywhere theywent,they walked."

Pastoral Cartoons!

I was browsing through the Net until I come across to these cartoons ... It is really hillarious.. have a good day..

It was really interesting day!

Slept around 1:30 am then I woke up at 6 am - pray and went out to gym. After that as usual breakfast then to the Library.... that's all untill now... hope to motivate myself to write more interesting stuff for my blog... until then take care all and bye

Super Robert.. hahahaha(by Nate)

This is really funny... my friend make me laugh by creating this picture... Thanks Nate... Love ya bro...

Love Is Choice- It is your choice

When you love someone, or in love with someone,you will always come across with someone whoare more beautiful or handsome than your lovedone. You even will find someone who is wiser or more knowledgeable than the one you love. Otherthan that, you also will find someone who is more understanding and caring person than the one you love. If I want to tell more, there are a lot of things that I could tell from my observation. The point here is that you still will find someone better than the one you love.This is why I believe that, Love is Choice. It is where you make or made choice to live with and love the person. We are the one making choice here to love someone, and it is where the opposite sex made a choice to accept you. It is all your choice to love someone. It is depend on you and your choice. Human being was given this gift, the gift called freedom of choice. Yeah! Some of you are from Asian cultures may think that it is not your choice to live with and love a person chosen by your parents. At the end you still make choice even though your parents make you to love the person and live with him or her. It doesn’t matter whether it is arranged marriage or love marriage, at the end you are the one making the choice to live with the person and love the person. That’s reality.We are making choice.
Some times, most of you who are in relationship will come into a time when you will see or come across with someone who is better than the one you love. You might not tell it out because you are afraid of being spot by people that you are not loyal to the one you love. Let me tell you, many married people that I met even said the same things. Yeah, they made choice to live with the one they love. Some of them are mature and understood this. That’s why most of the married couples whenever they see someone who are better than the one they love, they always remind themselves that they already made a commitment and made choice to live with and love the one they love. This is what I call mature relationship. If any couples or individual out there can’t get this and can’t understand this they are not in mature relationship. It is when they are not mature in relationship, or in understanding the nature of love and relationship, they can’t stay with the loved one forever. To love someone you need to achieve maturity in mind and heart. At the end it is the choice you make to live with and love someone. When you make this choice you will learn to accept the person as she or he is. This is what I called mature love and relationship.This maturity is continuous development in us. It isyour choice.

Robert J Agustin

Decode the DaVinci

The Christian world have been stired with many latest theological issues. One of them will be the Da Vinci Code. Here I would like to add some interesting webpage to tell you more about how to decode this da vinci code... just visit this webpage and get a free copy of this book in pdf form.
www.thedavincidecode.net