August Newsletter
“A Love Letter from Jesus.”
My Dear Precious _________________,
I can’t tell you how good it is to send you my love, I love you so much. If you only had an idea. You are precious in my sight and you make me smile and laugh--especially when I see you freed up to be just the YOU I created YOU to BE! Do you realize it is ME who is playing the flute for you? I’m also writing the melodies. I’ll let you decide the meter and the beat, though.
When I see you hurting needlessly, I am very saddened. In your arena, it’s such a waste of time, but I do love to come to you. Rescuing is not always my first response, however. I love you more than that. I meed your real need first--an awareness of your complete dependence on me and more strengthening exercises in trusting and steadfastness. I am your all in all. I only wish you came to me more often and relied upon me more. You see, there is nothing I can’t do for you. I can bring you peace of mind, wisdom and discernment. I can bring you relief from your needless stress. I can bring you a friend during your loneliness and emptiness. I can bring you my caring spirit. I can bring you encouragement. In fact, I can provide you with a guarantee. Mostly, though I wish to bring you love.
Yes, I love you, but I am jealous of your time away from me. Where are you running to? What you are chasing is already here with me now! I do love your heart and I know that it’s true. You do really desire to be earnest in your loving of others and very generous with it, too, but also come be with me. Just be with me ... and listen!
We could really do great things together. Things that only you and I could do. Many private things that no one else may every know about. I k now what you love. I know what makes your heart sing. Let me sing with you.
I many areas you have a very willing spirit and I know your inner battle to develop and protect your own integrity and your desire to keep check on your motives. Bless you for that. I appreciate your honesty and your search for truth. I continue to send you my Holy Spirit to help you with that.
You have not taken advantage, though, of all the many gifts I have for you! Remember, you cannot open my packages if your hands are tied behind your back with worldly commitments. Could we discuss this? Better yet, would you just be still a moment and listen?
By the way, I do not need any proof from you of your worth. You are priceless and fully paid for. Let ME continue giving you my life. I’m just asking for yours.
With my utmost love,
Your Heavenly Father
EVERYONE CAN'T BE IN YOUR FRONT ROW
Life is a theater - invite your audience carefully.
Not everyone is spiritually healthy and mature enough to
have a front row seat in our lives.
There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go, or
at least minimize your time with draining negative, relationships/friendships/fellowships!
Observe the relationships around you.
Pay attention to:
which ones lift and which ones lean?
Which ones encourage and which ones discourage?
Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill?
When you leave certain people, do you feel better or feel worse?
Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know and appreciate you and the gift that lies within you? When you seek growth, peace of mind, love and truth, the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the FRONT ROW and who should be moved to the balcony of your life.
You cannot change the people around you....but you can change the people you are around! Pray for godly wisdom and discernment and choose wisely the people who sit in the front row of your life. author unknown
Place Of Peace
Life has its times when disturbances are distractive,
if allowed to continue personalities become unattractive.
Each of us needs some relief in which to dwell,
a place where we can find peace for at least a spell.
We need a place to go where God's voice can be heard,
a place to contemplate everything that's occurred.
A place to count our Blessings appreciating all we've been through,
a place where strength and courage are renewed.
A place that each of us can truly appreciate;
a place where we don't partake in arguing or debate.
A place where we offer up gratitude and praise,
Thanking God profusely for caring for us in so many ways.
A place where just breathing deeply calms our spirit,
and listening quietly for God's voice assures we'll hear it.
Seek and you shall find I know it is true,
what God has done for others He will do for you.
For some it will be off someplace where they can be alone,
for another perhaps a space in their home.
The Bible speaks of a "Prayer Closet" perhaps that's what it'll be,
your own little place of total privacy.
A place to be alone with Him a place for us to grow,
a place where when He answers us we will know that we know!
God loves every one of us that love will never cease,
He desires we each find our own place of peace.
U.S. drivers should think in gallons per mile: report By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - If soaring gasoline prices have prompted you to look for a more fuel-efficient ride, using miles per gallon as a guide could lead you astray, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
Instead, they propose a new standard based on gallons per mile, which gives people a far better idea of how much gasoline they might save by switching trading in that gas-guzzling minivan.
"There is a math illusion here," said Richard Larrick, a management professor at Duke University, whose research appears in the journal Science.
Larrick said most people think improvements in miles per gallon are all the same, where a 5 gallon per mile improvement would yield the same gas savings in a car that gets 10 miles per gallon or 20 miles per gallon. (One mile equals 1.61 kilometers, and one U.S. gallon equals 3.79 liters.)
"The reality that few people appreciate is that improving fuel efficiency from 10 to 20 miles per gallon is actually a more significant savings than improving from 25 to 50 miles per gallon for the same distance of driving," Larrick said.
He tested this out in a number of different experiments on U.S. college students.
When presented with a series of car choices in which fuel efficiency was defined in miles per gallon, the students could not easily identify the choice that would result in the greatest gains in fuel efficiency, he said.
People had a much easier time when fuel efficiency was expressed in gallons per 100 miles. In that case, a car that gets 18 miles per gallon uses 5.5 gallons of gas per 100 miles, and a car that gets 28 miles per gallon uses just 3.6 gallons per 100 miles. With gasoline prices over $4 a gallon, that's a difference of about $8 per 100 miles.
"If we just turn everything around, you can see where are the large savings in gallons of gas," Larrick said in a telephone interview. The idea is not new. Many other countries, especially in Europe, already use a standard that compares gas used per trip.
To translate miles per gallon into gallons per 10,000, Larrick said people can simply divide 10,000 by miles per gallon. Cars with the highest miles per gallon are always the most fuel efficient, he said. It is when people are trying to replace a car that they may be misled.
That's how he became interested in this problem.
"We were trying to decide whether to get rid of a minivan and go for a station wagon versus getting rid of a sedan and going for a really high-mileage hybrid car," Larrick said.
"We realized in the end we were better off trading in the minivan and only gaining 10 miles per gallon then we would be trying to swap out the sedan for a highly efficient car."
To help make these choices easier, Larrick and colleagues recommend consumer publications and car makers start listing fuel efficiency in terms of gallons per 10,000 miles driven, which he said is roughly the distance people in the United States drive in a year.
Larrick's team has developed a conversion table that can be found at http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/news/mpg/table.pdfgallon.
My Dear Precious _________________,
I can’t tell you how good it is to send you my love, I love you so much. If you only had an idea. You are precious in my sight and you make me smile and laugh--especially when I see you freed up to be just the YOU I created YOU to BE! Do you realize it is ME who is playing the flute for you? I’m also writing the melodies. I’ll let you decide the meter and the beat, though.
When I see you hurting needlessly, I am very saddened. In your arena, it’s such a waste of time, but I do love to come to you. Rescuing is not always my first response, however. I love you more than that. I meed your real need first--an awareness of your complete dependence on me and more strengthening exercises in trusting and steadfastness. I am your all in all. I only wish you came to me more often and relied upon me more. You see, there is nothing I can’t do for you. I can bring you peace of mind, wisdom and discernment. I can bring you relief from your needless stress. I can bring you a friend during your loneliness and emptiness. I can bring you my caring spirit. I can bring you encouragement. In fact, I can provide you with a guarantee. Mostly, though I wish to bring you love.
Yes, I love you, but I am jealous of your time away from me. Where are you running to? What you are chasing is already here with me now! I do love your heart and I know that it’s true. You do really desire to be earnest in your loving of others and very generous with it, too, but also come be with me. Just be with me ... and listen!
We could really do great things together. Things that only you and I could do. Many private things that no one else may every know about. I k now what you love. I know what makes your heart sing. Let me sing with you.
I many areas you have a very willing spirit and I know your inner battle to develop and protect your own integrity and your desire to keep check on your motives. Bless you for that. I appreciate your honesty and your search for truth. I continue to send you my Holy Spirit to help you with that.
You have not taken advantage, though, of all the many gifts I have for you! Remember, you cannot open my packages if your hands are tied behind your back with worldly commitments. Could we discuss this? Better yet, would you just be still a moment and listen?
By the way, I do not need any proof from you of your worth. You are priceless and fully paid for. Let ME continue giving you my life. I’m just asking for yours.
With my utmost love,
Your Heavenly Father
EVERYONE CAN'T BE IN YOUR FRONT ROW
Life is a theater - invite your audience carefully.
Not everyone is spiritually healthy and mature enough to
have a front row seat in our lives.
There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go, or
at least minimize your time with draining negative, relationships/friendships/fellowships!
Observe the relationships around you.
Pay attention to:
which ones lift and which ones lean?
Which ones encourage and which ones discourage?
Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill?
When you leave certain people, do you feel better or feel worse?
Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know and appreciate you and the gift that lies within you? When you seek growth, peace of mind, love and truth, the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the FRONT ROW and who should be moved to the balcony of your life.
You cannot change the people around you....but you can change the people you are around! Pray for godly wisdom and discernment and choose wisely the people who sit in the front row of your life. author unknown
Place Of Peace
Life has its times when disturbances are distractive,
if allowed to continue personalities become unattractive.
Each of us needs some relief in which to dwell,
a place where we can find peace for at least a spell.
We need a place to go where God's voice can be heard,
a place to contemplate everything that's occurred.
A place to count our Blessings appreciating all we've been through,
a place where strength and courage are renewed.
A place that each of us can truly appreciate;
a place where we don't partake in arguing or debate.
A place where we offer up gratitude and praise,
Thanking God profusely for caring for us in so many ways.
A place where just breathing deeply calms our spirit,
and listening quietly for God's voice assures we'll hear it.
Seek and you shall find I know it is true,
what God has done for others He will do for you.
For some it will be off someplace where they can be alone,
for another perhaps a space in their home.
The Bible speaks of a "Prayer Closet" perhaps that's what it'll be,
your own little place of total privacy.
A place to be alone with Him a place for us to grow,
a place where when He answers us we will know that we know!
God loves every one of us that love will never cease,
He desires we each find our own place of peace.
U.S. drivers should think in gallons per mile: report By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - If soaring gasoline prices have prompted you to look for a more fuel-efficient ride, using miles per gallon as a guide could lead you astray, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
Instead, they propose a new standard based on gallons per mile, which gives people a far better idea of how much gasoline they might save by switching trading in that gas-guzzling minivan.
"There is a math illusion here," said Richard Larrick, a management professor at Duke University, whose research appears in the journal Science.
Larrick said most people think improvements in miles per gallon are all the same, where a 5 gallon per mile improvement would yield the same gas savings in a car that gets 10 miles per gallon or 20 miles per gallon. (One mile equals 1.61 kilometers, and one U.S. gallon equals 3.79 liters.)
"The reality that few people appreciate is that improving fuel efficiency from 10 to 20 miles per gallon is actually a more significant savings than improving from 25 to 50 miles per gallon for the same distance of driving," Larrick said.
He tested this out in a number of different experiments on U.S. college students.
When presented with a series of car choices in which fuel efficiency was defined in miles per gallon, the students could not easily identify the choice that would result in the greatest gains in fuel efficiency, he said.
People had a much easier time when fuel efficiency was expressed in gallons per 100 miles. In that case, a car that gets 18 miles per gallon uses 5.5 gallons of gas per 100 miles, and a car that gets 28 miles per gallon uses just 3.6 gallons per 100 miles. With gasoline prices over $4 a gallon, that's a difference of about $8 per 100 miles.
"If we just turn everything around, you can see where are the large savings in gallons of gas," Larrick said in a telephone interview. The idea is not new. Many other countries, especially in Europe, already use a standard that compares gas used per trip.
To translate miles per gallon into gallons per 10,000, Larrick said people can simply divide 10,000 by miles per gallon. Cars with the highest miles per gallon are always the most fuel efficient, he said. It is when people are trying to replace a car that they may be misled.
That's how he became interested in this problem.
"We were trying to decide whether to get rid of a minivan and go for a station wagon versus getting rid of a sedan and going for a really high-mileage hybrid car," Larrick said.
"We realized in the end we were better off trading in the minivan and only gaining 10 miles per gallon then we would be trying to swap out the sedan for a highly efficient car."
To help make these choices easier, Larrick and colleagues recommend consumer publications and car makers start listing fuel efficiency in terms of gallons per 10,000 miles driven, which he said is roughly the distance people in the United States drive in a year.
Larrick's team has developed a conversion table that can be found at http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/news/mpg/table.pdfgallon.
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