PACEMAKERS – WHO ARE THEY?

Do you feel bankrupt? Is our country-- is our world bankrupt for power? For peace? God’s providence is our inheritance.

                  How do you want to be remembered? As a child of god? As a peacemaker?

 Peacemakers. Who are they? Are they only politicians and world leaders? Or else they also people like you and me?

  Everyone can be a pacemaker. The mother who resolves the toy tug-of-war between her toddlers is a peacemaker. The student who helps settle disputes in her calm in the midst of verbal onslaughts from distraught managers is a peacemaker

          Every one of us can be a pacemaker--no matter who we are and what we do.

HEALING FOR THE HIDDEN WOUND

      Society inflicts hidden wounds on us. Some one of you have been the victims of racial or ethnic prejudice, or of some other form of painful discrimination such us sexism or ageism. You know the discomfort of being laughed at, ignored, not being allowed to fulfill your vocational dreams, just because you are a certain race, sex, or age.

            Sometimes those people closest to us inflict the deepest, most painful wounds. Some of you would weep right now, if I touched the tender memory, because of what a father or a mother, a souse, child, lover, employer, or friend did to you.

   Other hidden words we inflict on ourselves. We react too negatively to circumstances; we wound ourselves because we take them much too seriously. We read too much into other people’s actions and exaggerate their rejection of us.

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HEALING FOR THE HIDDEN WOUND

      Society inflicts hidden wounds on us. Some one of you have been the victims of racial or ethnic prejudice, or of some other form of painful discrimination such us sexism or ageism. You know the discomfort of being laughed at, ignored, not being allowed to fulfill your vocational dreams, just because you are a certain race, sex, or age.

            Sometimes those people closest to us inflict the deepest, most painful wounds. Some of you would weep right now, if I touched the tender memory, because of what a father or a mother, a souse, child, lover, employer, or friend did to you.

   Other hidden words we inflict on ourselves. We react too negatively to circumstances; we wound ourselves because we take them much too seriously. We read too much into other people’s actions and exaggerate their rejection of us.

THE PRESCRIPTION

The prescription for joyful living is very simple: if you want to be happy, treat people right. If you carry somebody else’s burdens, in the process you’ll discover the secret of happiness.

         Everybody wants to be happy. I’ve observed in the world today that there are those who are trying to reach happiness with selfishness, yet these people end up in a hell on earth. There others who try to obtain joy by following the laws of Christ and choose to look for people who have burdens, you might be able to help them. But if you look for you own happiness, ignoring the needs of those around you, you will lose out altogether.

BE HAPPY ATTITUDE

It is a sure prescription for happiness. Learn to live by this refreshing happy attitude: “it’s not what happens to me that matters most; it’s how I react to what happens to me.”

                   Be sure of this: if you have the attitude that you should forever be spared from all pain, hurt, and grief, you can be positive that someday you will be jolted with a depressing disillusionment. Sorrow, rejection, bereavement hit all of us at some point in our lives. To expect that somehow we are privileged persons and should be immune from hurt and hardship is unrealistic.

GIVE UP!

Do you want a life-changing experience with god? If so, wise up! Realize it’s instinctive and normal to be religious. Clean up! Wash your mistakes and negative emotions away through Christ’s grace. And the third step is : give up anything that may be hindering you. Perhaps there is something in your life that you will have to relinquish, with god’s help. If it is something that is blocking the birth of real faith, then you may have to give it up. If it is a choice between living and a bad habit--choose life.

WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM ?

 First, recognize that the real problem is not your tragedy that has hit. The real problem is your reaction to it. If you do not take control of your reaction to your loss, you can and probably will eventually be destroyed by it.

 How do you fix the problem?

1.      Decide not to go on for the rest of your life surrendering to sorrow and tears. To do this only disgraces your loved ones, your friends, and yourself. Moreover, continued grief dishonours the god who wants only to be created with giving you a rebirth of joy. Decide that this nonconstructive sorrow mixed with self-pity has to STOP.