Abortion
BREAKING: Chilling 911 call: Baby born alive at abortion clinic, “we can’t provide care” by Ben Johnson
Planned Parenthood Evacuated Due To … Baby Food? by Mollie Hemingway
British TV presenter Holly Willoughby left visibly shaken by description of abortion
“Jesus, what have I done?”: rock star Steve Tyler’s traumatic encounter with abortion by Kevin Burke
Hollywood star Patricia Heaton sparks Twitter furor with pro-life tweet by Claire Chretien
Devotional
Would Anyone Notice? by Rev. Ken Klaus
Music
Video: Simon Cowell just experienced what it feels like to worship
Worldview and Culture
Beware of new Facebook ‘Friend’ request scam by Tim Hattrick
Commencement Season by Dr. Thomas Sowell – “This is the season of college Commencement speeches — an art form that has seldom been memorable, but has increasingly become toxic in recent times.”
Five “must-know” verses about Forgiveness by Emily Yillah
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Our Thoughts by Abbot Tryphon – “Our thoughts determine our lives.”
“Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility (Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica)”.
Saint Saraphim of Sarov said that if we “acquire peace, a thousand around us will be saved”, for having been created in the image of God, and we are part of the Divine thought that was made material in time and space. We not only influence those around us with our thoughts, but we even influence the cosmos. If we focus on the negative, those negative thoughts impact everyone around us, and even the whole world. The Elder Thaddeus tells us we can be either very good, or very bad, depending on the thoughts and desires we breed.
There is a lot that is wrong with the world, but it begins with us. If there is to be peace in our world, it must begin with me. If hatred, anger, envy, lust, and spite, are to end, it must end with me. When we allow destructive thoughts to destroy our peace, the peace around us is destroyed. We can not blame the world, or even those around us, for that which happens around us, radiates from us. Blame for all that is wrong with the world, can not be placed beyond our own hearts.
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