Tag: character
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Consciousness
Featured Image Pexels.com “It is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going smoothly. In this way, you grow in present power. Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now Journal. In the light of Eckhart Tolle’s quote I am reminded of other famous quotes and here are a
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Idiosyncrasies-Wisdom Snippets From Peter.
Featured Photo by Mpumelelo Macu Upsplash.com If my personal idiosyncrasies draw scornful thoughts and remarks from others it becomes their issue, as it will hurt them more than it does me. Idiosyncracies are flags of character, don’t you think? Now that I am a while past the three-score and ten mark I feel I have
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Peter’s Quote for the Day – You Define Yourself.
Feature Photo by https://unsplash.com/@chela_bonky? You, Define Yourself. What was the biggest discovery in my life? It was when I realized I did not have to define my character from others or events in my past. The many wrongful, unfair, and sometimes, downright hurtful events that took place in my life. I stood up and made
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Peter’s Quote for the Day – Fire.
Fire of Refinement. Strangely enough, gold is not in a pot at the end of the rainbow but is found in the furnace of life where it is being refined. You and I, the supreme creatures in the universe, are the unrefined gold. Nothing in the universe requires the furnace of refinement, except you and
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Peter’s Quote for The Day.
Feature Photo by Clemens van Lay Upsplash.com I used to say, with some level of exasperation, “My life is filled with problems.” Did I mean, ‘My life is filled with issues that challenge my journey?’ Maybe I need to face the journey of life with the view that challenges must be laid across my path.
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Died for My Sin or Resurrected for my life?
We have heard about the “The Gospel” – the foundation of the Christian faith. Today there seems to be many different versions of how the gospel is interpreted, what the Gospel is or what it means. The gospel is normally explained by saying, “Jesus died on the cross so that my sins may be forgiven”.
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Nursing Emotional Weaknesses
We are naturally self-centred and therefore it’s not easy for us to accept what other people say about us. We have a built in instinct to defend ourselves and criticise situations or others, if we do not approve.
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Unlocking the New Life
At first glance, the situations in the world around us do not seem to be very encouraging. The reason is, that we see things according to our own understandings. Our ‘measuring’ system is the nature which we received from Adam. This nature causes us to principally focus on self-centeredness. When things around us do not
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Why me Lord?
“Why is this happening to me; how does a loving God allow this to happen”?
Love Your Life Adopt Your Purpose 