Discouragement.

Everyone will have their share of discouragement at some point in their lifetime.

Discouragement happens in all areas of life. An employee puts in his best to ensure his department achieves success, only to get a damaging response instead of a good appraisal from his superior. A woman’s marriage dreams end when her husband is unfaithful. She truly feels the pangs of discouragement. A couple suffers their second miscarriage while trying to create a family. These people all deal with discouragement differently, but some may become so discouraged, so distressed and as a result may attempt to take their own lives.

The root word of discouragement is courage so it should only make sense that the feelings associated with failure and rejection often try to deal a blow to your inner source of courage. Unfortunately, these emotions can cripple you to the point where you avoid taking small risks that have huge potential rewards.Life is full of failures, rejection and more than a fair share of discouragement. I believe that the difference in how persistent people are often comes down to how they handle the discouragement that comes from the same situation. While some people can immediately brush themselves off, others can enter a negative cycle of thoughts that persists for weeks, months or even years.

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. "Dale Carnegie

"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus." Bishop Robert South

Homosexuality

Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior or attraction between people of the same sex or to homosexual orientation . As a sexual orientation , homosexuality refers to "having sexual and romantic attraction primarily or exclusively to members of one’s own sex"

Many lesbians and gay men form durable relationships. For example, survey data indicate that between 18% and 28% of gay couples and between 8% and 21% of lesbian couples in the U.S. have lived together 10 or more years.

In many cultures, homosexual people are frequently subject to prejudice and discrimination. Like many other minority groups that are the objects of prejudice, they are also subject to stereotyping. Gay men are seen as effeminate and fashionable, often identified with a lisp or a female-like tone and lilt.

Research suggests they develop enduring romantic relationships. Gay men are also often alleged as having pedophilic tendencies and more likely to commit child sexual abuse than the heterosexual male population, a view rejected by mainstream psychiatric groups and contradicted by research.

Claims that there is scientific evidence to support an association between being gay and being a pedophile are based on misuses of those terms and misrepresentation of the actual evidence. Lesbians are seen as butch, and sometimes "man-haters" or radical feminists.

In these sixteen countries, Homosexuality is punishable by either Death or Life Imprisonment.
Afghanistan - Death Penalty
Pakistan - Life Imprisonment
Uganda - Life Imprisonment
Somalia - Death Penalty
India - Life Imprisonment
Iran - Death Penalty
Sierra Leone - Life Imprisonment
Myanmar - Life Imprisonment
Sudan - Death Penalty
Yemen - Death Penalty
Bangladesh - Life Imprisonment
Nigeria - Death Penalty
Mauritania - Death Penalty
Saudi Arabia - Death Penalty
Qatar - Death Penalty
United Arab Emirates - Death Penalty

The Christian Bible and the Homosexual:

The Bible does not speak of gays. Nor does it speak of the earth orbiting the sun. Sexual identity was not a concept of biblical times.
It speaks of homosexual acts only when they are part of sacred prostitution, idolatry, promiscuity, seducing children, rape, or violating hospitality. It condemns all such acts, whether heterosexual, homosexual, or having nothing to do with sex.
Of the thousands and hundreds of words, pages, stories, laws, and commandments in the Bible, very few deal with homosexual acts.

Dr. Neil Whitehead is a research scientist and biochemist from New Zealand and is his wife Briar Whitehead is a writer. Dr. Whitehead coauthored a book with with his wife entitled My Genes Made Me Do it - a scientific look at sexual orientation which argues that there is no genetic determinism in regards to homosexuality (homosexuals are "not born that way") and that there is abundant documentation that individuals are able to leave homosexuality and become heterosexuals.

Hardest Choice?

The hardest choice involves letting go of someone you adore.

Best friend.

One of the best friends you ever have is your own conscience.

"...it works like an inward monitor, similar to an alarm. Don't ignore it, respect it"

Money

Having Money....

(A) increase your Security

or

(B) increase your Fears

Patience helps us understand those things that Passion can't Process...

"So the doubts are clarified and from there you can decide assertively.."

What do you think?

Power

Power has the ability to help and at the same time the ability to harm.

"The use of power." -Infact Control makes Power.

Dialogue

A dialogue means listening and understanding, not proving and convincing


"To understand and to be understood is the source of unity between two people"