Beauty in your life- change your thoughts for a positive outlook
Which topics would you like to be more informed about?
I seek to understand why mob mentality and dehumanization exist. Why when someone is offended they choose violence.
I know the root cause is Satan has influenced them to spread hate and violence. Why don’t people understand that the antidote to bad or offensive speech equals hurting or killing someone.
Maybe all the information we need is that people allow Satan to enter their hearts and heads.
What would your life be like without music?
In a world filled with pain, music gives me comfort, soothing my soul, and calming me down along with bringing me some inner peace.
I could not imagine living without music. Music is a spiritual thread the runs through the heart of creation.
Music helps us celebrate life. It helps us through our struggles and serves as a form of emotional and spiritual healing.
Music transcends language, culture, and backgrounds, it’s the one thing that can bring people together regardless of their differences.
“Those who live at the ends of the earth stand in awe of your wonders. From where the sun rises to where it sets, You inspire shouts of joy” -Psalm 65:8
Our work and worry blind us to the miracles around us. We rush through the days silencing the calling and our attention, so much that we mix the daylight before us.
If we pay attention we can see God’s wondrous acts through creation. The calming sea and the established mountains. His gracious care of earth. God’s mighty strength is evident in the creation of the earth.
To live in the awe of God, we must actively pursue a deep relationship with Him, in prayer and studying His Word, patience, and complete obedience to His commands through reflecting on His attributes, creation, and salvation, and humbly trust His plans.
A healthy fear of God involves deep reverence and awe of God. It’s a desire to align our hearts with His values, and hatred of evil, which stems from recognizing His greatness, love, and constant presence in our lives.
My awe of God began when I slowed down and observed. I made the time to pause my life and take in the breathtaking beauty of God’s creation, and allowed myself to see the miracles that surround me.
There is profound destruction of hatred. Some may argue for a limited time, in the short term it may have a motivating effect of anger or dislike, but the general consensus is that genuine hatred ultimately harms everyone it touches.
Holding onto deep-seated hatred releases stress hormones that can harm the nervous system, endocrine, and immune systems over time. It can lead to issues like inflammation, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Chronic hatred is also mentally and emotionally exhausting. It consumes energy, distorts reality, and creates obsessive negative thought patterns that interfere with peace of mind.
Hate often stems from a sense of fear, powerlessness, or feeling mistreated. This can cause people to isolate themselves which can reinforce their negative feelings.
When someone acts on deep-seated hate there are consequences of both internal and external that are profound and destructive.
Internally acting on hate intensifies the feeling of bitterness, anger, and resentment. These emotions can be corrosive and can distort the sense of identity or purpose.
Mentally, hate can lead to psychological instability.
After the emotional intensity fades there is a long-term remorse for the harm they have caused.
Externally, hate-driven actions can seriously hurt others, emotionally, physically, and socially. The trauma can last a lifetime.
It can lead to a cycle of violence. Acting on hate often breeds more hate. And can provoke retaliation or inspire others to act similarly, continuing a destructive cycle.
The societal impact can normalize the violence or prejudice, especially if left unchecked can influence others and reinforce dangerous ideologies.
As I look at things happening in America, I am in shock at what we have become. People giving in to evil, for fleshly desires. Rape, murder, and taking things that others have worked hard for. It is just heartbreaking.
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated” – Coretta Scott King
How do you celebrate holidays?
Living in America during the holidays are a cherished time often shared with meals and family.
I don’t have much family left, only a sister that I talk to. Most family get togethers are with my husbands family. Admittedly I feel like an outsider even after 35 years of marriage.
But, I try to bring a few of my traditions from growing up in a Hungarian household with cookies and candies yams the way my nagymama and father taught me.
I lost my father right before the holidays in 2013, I miss him dearly, but a following a few traditions every year seems to ease the pain.
Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail.
My great Christmas Catastrophe was when I baked cookies, made fudge, and other assorted candies for a my family annual Christmas feast.
I made them all and they put them in the oven to get them out of the way while I was cooking my nephew’s favorite candied yam.
I forgot and set the oven to preheat in turn melting the platter of treats I had spent so much money and time on.
As I opened the oven door I was shocked and horrified, to find a disaster.
My only hope was that someone else could bring treats. Along with the store-bought candy I had.
Thank goodness I had cooked the yams and they just had to be preheated at my mother-in-law’s house.
“Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you” -Matthew 17:20
Jesus speaks this shocking declaration to His disciples. When I read this scripture I had questions. Does this mean that if we have enough faith, we can do anything we want? If we believe hard enough, can we accomplish miraculous things?
I’ve heard many people say this is the case. It’s just hard to believe, that we will get whatever we want. However, if we look at the context of the passage, or even the Bible as a whole, we begin to see that using faith in done sort of magical power is not what I think Jesus was advocating.
Faith is not a mustering of will or a power to wield. Faith comes from trusting in God and His will.
If we go back to the context of this verse we can begin to understand what Jesus is saying. In Matthew 17, Jesus had just come down from the mountain where He was transfigured into His divine nature. From my reading, this signified a moment where Jesus’s true identity as the Son of God is made evident.
Then the following occurs in Matthew 17:14-20:
In context, the problem being addressed is that the disciples could not drive out the demon because they had too little faith.
Here the mountain Jesus is alluding to is the demon-possessed boy. Jesus is making a point that even the tiniest bit of faith -the size of a mustard seed, could accomplish great things. If the disciples had even the smallest bit of faith, they could do great mountain-sized things.
My mind has been on what the difference is between inheriting and entering the Kingdom of heaven. Is there a difference?
This is what I have found: entering heaven refers to our immediate destination after we die (if we believe) to be in God’s presence, which is achieved through faith in Jesus. Inheriting the Kingdom of God, however, signifies a fuller entitlement and ownership within the kingdom, this requires a transformed life of obedience and endurance. While all believers enter heaven, not all believers will “inherit” the kingdom, in this deeper sense. These two concepts are deeply connected.
Entering Heaven:
We can enter heaven through a spiritual rebirth and faith in Jesus’s sacrifice which grants eternal life.
This destination is secured by God’s grace through faith. It involves being “born again into God’s family.
Inheriting the Kingdom of Heaven:
Inheriting the kingdom of God implies a deeper participation and ownership within God’s eternal rule, becoming co-heirs with Jesus.
It requires more than just belief, it necessitates a life lived in obedience to God and in perseverance.
This is an entitlement that comes through being a committed disciple of Jesus, demonstrating the fruits of the Spirit, and maintaining faith and transformed living.
Entering Heaven is like a prerequisite and parallel to inheriting. Inheriting the kingdom represents a deeper reward abs status for committed believers.
Heirs by faith, subjects by choice.
All who believe in Jesus are “children of God” and are spiritual heirs. But inheriting points to those who live in a way that reflects our status as co-heirs, in an active sense.
The question is do we want to enter heaven, or do we want to inherit the kingdom? It’s something to think about.
While this is a Biblical Concept. There are no scriptures that speak about this, maybe only my thoughts working overtime.
Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.
I wish I would have learned about the power of forgiveness.
Forgiveness is one of the most powerful, yet difficult lessons we can learn. It’s not just about leaving someone off the hook it’s about freeing yourself from the heavy burden of resentment.
It took me many years to realize that forgiveness is an act of self-healing.
It takes courage to forgive. It’s easy to lash out, stay angry or seek revenge.
I wish someone would have to told me, that it takes forgiveness to start healing. That forgiveness is a sign of inner strength, not weakness.
Forgiveness isn’t about forgetting, it’s about choosing peace over pain. That peace is more valuable than carrying the weight of a grudge.
That, in learning to forgive we become wiser, lighter, and freer.
Unforgiveness only poisons your soul. We cannot expect to heal, if we have unforgiveness or bitterness in our heart.
I have been reading Ecclesiastics I’m the Bible this morning. It is a lament written by King Solomon, on what he has learned through his many mistakes. This is just a breakdown of the lesson of this book.
This book uses the word “vanity” to describe how all worldly things, money, power, pleasure, and success are ultimately meaningless and as elusive as smoke or wind. Every thing in the world is temporary.
Life is a characteristic by lack of certainty and fairness, and we have limited control over our destiny’s or the outcomes of our endeavors.
The temporary nature of life and the finality of death mean we cannot take worldly possessions and accomplishments with us.
I think we need to live in the light of these truths.

Despite life’s frustrations, we should find a way in the good things that God provides, such as food, drink, and the fruits of our labor, and recognize these things as gifts from God.
Our true purpose is not found in self-centered pursuits, but in a God-centered worldview, recognizing our dependence on our Creator and live according to principles.
We need to understand that there is a “time for everything“ this encourages, patience, discernment,and faith in God‘s perfect plan, which can unfold according to His sovereign timing.
The hope for God future judgment provides a framework for integrity and justice, this assures that every deed will be eventually brought to light and accounted for.
Ecclesiastes teaches us that the keys were meaningful life if you embrace the reality of a fallen world, but also finding purpose and lasting joy in God.
It calls us to live with integrity, recognizing God’s sovereignty, and ultimately finding fulfillment, not in fleeting earthly things, but in fearing and obeying God.
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