GET INSPIRED -EBENEZER

A superb diamond field waits to be discovered by us all We will find it within our heart and within our soul  So often these precious stones are left too far behind To chase pleasures and money with our body and mind A bit like the farmer who left farm, family and friends To search for gold and diamonds in faraway lands It was a mere year later, on his farm, just in the ground That a huge diamond mine was actually found. Oh yes my friends, in our heart and soul, deep inside A bit hidden, lies the biggest field of peace, joy and light So throw away the worry, stress and fear, play it smart The biggest source of peace sits right there in our heart   One of my newest poems  A small rhyme is incorporated I wish you all Peace, the Peace with a capital P  Let us make it quiet for awhile today and  discover it right where it sits :) Watch for more... Ebenezer 

Morning Walk The morning walk! Just yesterday, I read one of my reflections, I wrote down in July 2015  (can find them in the archives of this blog on the right side of the page) , now almost three years ago. It was about a morning walk I made and I had made the intention to do it every day. Of course the intention had faded with time and now it had been quite a long time that I had made no morning walk.  So this morning, at 6.45 I was on the beach. There was just a narrow strip of orange in the sky, not so far from the horizon, but still the fresh air and the free massage of my feet on the wavy sand and the moving sea water, was inviting enough to make me go.  I took a picture of the orangey skies and after a few pics, the battery of my phone was finished. I went to walk and the lively lovely hermit crabs were moving to-and-fro. I loved to see them and decided I will step on none, which, at certain places, was not easy, since there were so many of them.  ...

Here I want to share with you my recent experience sitting outside. I was sitting outside in my garden and suddenly managed to appreciate how beautiful one of the trees was. It was a tree, I had walked by countless times but had never really noticed its particular beauty. And now I just sat there, not far from that particular tree, truly admiring the beauty of the texture of its bark. I could see the roots disappear in the depth of the soil and above form the crown with all the shades of green it displayed. I loved it, I had like a few moments of joy.  A little bit more reflection made me look at other trees too and surely they had so much beauty too. I had so many trees in and outside my garden, in my village! And all had their own special beauty. Let us all make some time today to pick a tree, take a closer look at it, discover its amazing beauty and just sit not far from it and have a few truly enjoyable moments. Some people hug trees, talk to trees. This is not very mu...

Our choice I do not speak here of extreme situations, but I do think most of us can live comfortable without the need to do things that our God does not want us to do. All too often we are lured to the path that seems the easy way out. The path that leads to instant gratification, to fast money, and so on, but the truth, the painful truth is that these paths that seem so easy at first do bring us far more trouble in the end than we can imagine. If on the other hand we take that path of sticking to our values and principles no matter what, we will need to take a path that often seems to initially lead away from the fast gratification, from apparent instant richness But if we take the effort to walk this path, which is the path of God, we will be never disappointed in the end, because these paths lead to peace. Peace is on of the greatest gifts of God. Peace is so much more than the absence of war. Peace of mind is this great feeling we get when we make another human h...

The story of judgment is not a happy one. We tend to pick up our judgments from so many potential places.  From a preacher, from politicians, the news, from a pseudo-scientific website, and the list goes on and on. The problem is that once we made a harsh judgment, it tends to stick. It tends to paralyze our flexibility, our thinking out of the box, our empathy, our capacity for respect and understanding Once a believer accepts the preacher's judgment that those who are not following this or that ritual, are doomed to hell, it becomes very difficult to even consider a standpoint of someone thinking differently and even give it a try to generate some respect for it or trying to understand it.  Once an atheist judges the believers as stupid, addicted to illusions, it becomes very difficult to even consider the other person's belief might be of value or even give it a try to generate some respect for it or trying to understand it.  Once a conservative starts the na...

A Masterpiece "Make Every Day Your Masterpiece" (Coach Wooden)  🔑🔑🔑🔑🔑🔑🔑🔑🔑🔑🔑🔑 I came across this wonderful quote yesterday. And this is such a great quote, I think. So true! Life is made out of time for each of us our time on earth is limited. So every second, every minute, every day that we waste, we waste a bit of our life. Today I was talking to my nephew almost 14 years old now. I talked to him about making every day special. I hope he got some inspiration from my small talk around this quote. I think most of us want to lead a life of inspiration. And so many times we manage to be in a certain level of flow where creative thoughts and actions come to us easily. However for each of us, there are times where inspiration runs a bit low. These are the times, we need books, and quotes, These are the times, we can climb on the shoulders of (other) giants to reach tall and high. Yesterday, I just did that: I googled the most beautiful inspiration...