MAYBE

Maybe God wanted us to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.

Maybe when the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.

Maybe the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

Maybe it is true that we don't know what we have got until we lose it, but it is also true that we don't know what we have been missing until it arrives. Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart; but if it does not, be content it grew in yours.

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone,

but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.

Find the one that makes your heart smile.

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real.

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you are the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Please send this message to those people who mean something to you, to those who have touched your life in one way or another, to those who make you smile when you really need it, to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down, to those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their friendship. And if you don't, don't worry, nothing bad will happen to you. You will just miss out on the opportunity to brighten someone's day with this message.

A jobless man applied for the position of "office
boy" at Microsoft.
The HR manager interviewed him then watched him
cleaning the floor as a test.
"You are employed" he said. "Give me your e-mail
address and I'll send you the application to fill in,
as well as date when you may start.
The man replied "But I don't have a computer,
neither an email".
"I'm sorry", said the HR manager. If you don't
have an email, that means you do not exist.
And who doesn't exist,cannot have the job."
The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know
what to do, with only $10 in his pocket. He then
decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10Kg
tomato crate.
He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round.
In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his
capital. He repeated the operation three times,
and returned home with $60.
The man realized that he can survive by this way,
and started to go everyday earlier,
and return late. Thus, his money doubled or
tripled every day.
Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then
he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles.
5 years later, the man is one of the biggest food
retailers in the US.
He started to plan his family's future and decided
to have a life insurance.
He called an insurance broker, and chose a
protection plan. When the conversation
was concluded the broker asked him his email.
The man replied, "I don't have an email."
The broker answered curiously, "You don't have an
email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire.
Can you imagine what you could have been if you
had email?!!" The man thought for a while and
replied, "Yes, I'd be an office boy at Microsoft!"

Moral of the story
M1 - Internet is not the solution to your life.
M2 - If you don't have internet, and work hard,
you can be a millionaire.
M3- If you received this message by email, you are
closer to being an office boy/girl, than a millionaire...
Have a great day!!!

P.S - Do not forward this email back to me, I am
closing my email and am going to sell tomatoes!

THE RIGHT PERSON?

Nice article for the married, soon to be married, and waiting to bemarried... Food for thought and in the words of Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ:During one of our seminars, a woman asked a common question.

She said, "How do I know if I married the right person?"I noticed that there was a large man sitting next to her so I said, "It depends. Is that your husband?"In all seriousness, she answered "How do you know?" Let me answer this question because the chances are good that it's weighing on your mind. Here's the answer. EVERY relationship has a cycle. In the beginning, you fell in love withyour spouse. You anticipated their call, wanted their touch, and liked their idiosyncrasies. Falling in love with your spouse wasn't hard. In fact, it was acompletely natural and spontaneous experience. You didn't have to DO anything.

That's why it's called "falling" in love... because it's happening TO YOU.

People in love sometimes say, "I was swept of my feet." Think about theimagery of that ____expression. It implies that you were just standingthere; doing nothing, and then something came along and happened TO YOU.

Falling in love is easy. It's a passive and spontaneous experience.But after a few years of marriage, the euphoria of love fades. It's thenatural cycle of EVERY relationship. Slowly but surely, phone calls become a bother (if they come at all), touch is not always welcome (when it happens), and your spouse's idiosyncrasies, instead of being cute,drive you nuts.The symptoms of this stage vary with every relationship, but if you think about your marriage, you will notice a dramatic difference between the initial stage when you were in love and a much duller or even angrysubsequent stage.At this point, you and/or your spouse might start asking, "Did I marry the right person?" And as you and your spouse reflect on the euphoria of the love you once had, you may begin to desire that experience withsomeone else.

This is when marriages breakdown. People blame their spouse for their unhappiness and look outside their marriage for fulfillment.Extramarital fulfillment comes in all shapes and sizes. Infidelity isthe most obvious. But sometimes people turn to work, church, a hobby, a friendship, excessive TV, or abusive substances.But the answer to this dilemma does NOT lie outside your marriage. Itlies within it.I'm not saying that you couldn't fall in love with someone else. Youcould. And TEMPORARILY you'd feel better. But you'd be in the same situation a few years later.

Because (listen carefully to this):THE KEY TO SUCCEEDING IN MARRIAGE IS NOT FINDING THE RIGHT PERSON; IT'SLEARNING TO LOVE THE PERSON YOU FOUND.

SUSTAINING love is not a passive or spontaneous experience. It'll NEVERjust happen to you. You can't "find" LASTING love. You have to "make" it day in and day out. That's why we have the ____expression "the labor of love." Because it takes time, effort, and energy. And most importantly, it takes WISDOM. You have to know WHAT TO DO to make your marriage work.

Make no mistake about it. Love is NOT a mystery. There are specific things you can do (with or without your spouse) to succeed with your marriage. Just as there are physical laws of the universe (such as gravity), there are also laws for relationships. Just as the right diet and exercise program makes you physically stronger, certain habits in yourrelationship WILL make your marriage stronger. It's a direct cause andeffect. If you know and apply the laws, the results are predictable...you can "make" love.

Love in marriage is indeed a "decision"... not just a feeling.

Mountain Story - An interesting short story

"A son and his father were walking on the mountains.Suddenly, his son falls, hurts himself and screams: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"Curious, he yells: "Who are you?"He receives the answer: "Who are you?"And then he screams to the mountain: "I admire you!"The voice answers: "I admire you!"Angered at the response, he screams: "Coward!"He receives the answer: "Coward!"He looks to his father and asks: "What's going on?"The father smiles and says: "My son, pay attention."Again the man screams: "You are a champion!"The voice answers: "You are a champion!"The boy is surprised, but does not understand.Then the father explains: "People call this ECHO, but really this is LIFE.It gives you back everything you say or do.Our life is simply a reflection of our actions.If you want more love in the world, create more love in your heart.If you want more competence in your team, improve your competence.This relationship applies to everything, in all aspects of life;Life will give you back everything you have given to it."
YOUR LIFE IS NOT A COINCIDENCE. IT'S A REFLECTION OF YOU!"-- Unknown Author

Let it Go

Let it go
by T. D. Jakes

There are people who can walk away from you.
And hear me when I tell you this!

When people can walk away from you: let them walk.
I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you,
loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you,
staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone.


When people can walk away from you: let them walk.
Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.
The bible said that,
They came out from us that it might be made manifest
that they were not for us. For had they been of us,
no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19]


People leave you because they are not joined to you.
And if they are not joined to you,
you can't make them stay.
Let them go.


And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person,
it just means that their part in the story is over.
And you've got to know when people's
part in your story is over so that you
don't keep trying to raise the dead.


You've got to know when it's dead.
You've got to know when it's over.
Let me tell you something.
I've got the gift of good-bye.
It's the tenth spiritual gift,
I believe in good-bye.


It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful,
and I know whatever God means for me to have
He'll give it to me.
And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.
Stop begging people to stay.
Let them go!!

If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was
never intended for your life,then you need to .. LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ...
LET IT GO!!!
If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your
worth...
LET IT GO!!!
If someone has angered you ...
LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge ..
LET IT GO!!!
If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction ...
LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or
talents ..
LET IT GO!!!
If you have a bad attitude...
LET IT GO!!!
If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better...
LET IT GO!!!
If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new
level in Him...
LET IT GO!!!
If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship....
LET IT GO!!!
If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help
themselves..
LET IT GO!!!
If you're feeling depressed and stressed ....
LET IT GO!!!
If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling
yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it," then you
need to...
LET IT GO!!!
Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a
new thing.!!!
LET IT GO!!!
Get Right or Get Left .. think about it, and then
LET IT GO!!!

JUDAS was no villain, old document claims

I got this from philippine daily inquirer, I think its pretty interesting especially to the christians like me.

WASHINGTON, JUDAS ISCARIOT, vilified as Christ's betrayer, acted at Jeses request in turning him over to the authorities who crucified him, according to a 1,700-year-old copy of the "Gospel of Judas" unveiled on Thursday.

The Judas gospel was one of several ancient documents found in the Egyptian desert in 1970, was preserved and translated by a team of scholars and made public in an English translation by the National Geographic Society.

Its introduction says it is "the secred account of the revelation that Jesus spoke in conversation with Judas Iscariot."

"He's the good guy in this portrayal," said Bart Ehrman, a religion professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "He's the only apostle who understands Jesus."

Later, it quotes Jesus as saying to Judas, "You will exceed all of them (the other disciples) for you will sacrifice the man who clothes me."

"The idea in this gospel is that Jesus, like all of us, is a trapped spirit, who is trapped in a material body," Ehrman said. "And salvation comes when we escape the materiality of our existence, and Judas is the one who makes it possible for him to escape by allowing for his body to be killed."

Rev. Donal Senior, president of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, said the document revealed the diversity and vitality in early Christianity.

"The question becomes..... does this tradition, this alternative story, if you like, in the gospel of Judas have a claim that in some sense is equal to the rival claim of the gospel tradition?" Seinor said.

It is known who wrote the Judas gospel. The copy unveiled on Thursday was a document mentioned critically in the year 180 in a treatise called "Against Heresies," written by Irenaetis, bishop of Lyon in what was then Roman Gaul and now France.

The bishop denounced the manuscript as heresy because it differed from mainstream Christianity. The actual text had been thought lost until this discovery.

Elaine Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton University, said, "The people who loved, circulated and wrote down these gospels did not think they were heretics."

LET THE DEBATES BEGIN

Added Senior: "Let a vigorous debate in the significance of this fascinating ancient text begin."

In the Bible's New Testament, Judas is portrayed as the quintessential traitor, acceptin 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus by identifying him to Roman soldiers. The bibilica Gospel of St. Matthew says Judas quickly regretted his treachery, returned the silver and hanged himself.

The New Testament contains four Gospels -- of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John -- but many more so -called apocryphal gospels were written in the first centuries after Christ's death, attributed to such disciples as Thomas and Philip and to his female follower Mary Magdalene.

Why do Men bothered much bout SEX

I have a male friend, he's turning thirty three this year, acting like an insane person because of he never ever experience sex since birth.

And now hes getting older, and his parents plan an arrange wedding six months from now, he's acting very weird and very eager to experience sex before marriage. Well, I told him you can pay someone to do it with you or flirt someone who loves dating and sex with him after dating. But he's very afraid to do so and because I he's very desparate to do so, he never realized that he's acting like a maniac and worst lke a psychopat! grrr....


Now he's friend set him for a date with this lady and told him that she's a good companion. I didnt realized until he told me that he's thinking that he will have an opportunity to sex with this girl. (hey I was shocked with that just because of "she's a good companion"). And worst he really showed his intention to have sex with this girl without asking the girl nor any signs that the girl like to be with him in bed. Ended up the girl got mad at him. I pity him but I can only help him by listening and giving him pieces of advice. I sent him an email :

Anyways, bout your problem, You should not ask the girl to go out again with you just to ask apology to her in person. Better talk to her on the phone and sincerely apologize telling her for being sorry for the wrong notion of her being a "good companion." Still you respect her a lot and hoping she will see your good traits as a friend and she will trust you again.


But I think its not a problem, i dunno why you are very bothered for not experiencing sex. Its just in the mind. There are lot of things you can do better than sex. Sex will just come in the right place, right person, and right attitude. Sex do not measure your being a macho or being a hunk, its not just a game to play, It is a gift from God to express love and not just simply a plain reason for lust and physical satisfaction.

Hey its not bad if you will just do it alone whenever your body needs it. My dear friend, its all in the mind, you should be aware of controlling your needs and wants. In all aspects. Self dicipline is something, specially dealing with sexual desires. Cheer up! :) Its not the end of your life if you havent experience sex before marriage even you are a MAN. ok :)

I know sex is good but still it is not only sex that controls your life!. :-)

I hope I can help him.