Sometimes it came to my mind, “what life is with God and without God?”
I tried to reflect as God believer. How it affect my daily lifestyle. I grown up as always go to church and praying to God as our Heavenly Parent. In my heart and mind I believe there is the existence of God. However one day, I experience that there is no God, I could not feel the existence of God. I came to a question, “How about if I live a life without God?” And now I can differentiate the person believing in God and not believing in God. First of all, if you believe in God no matter what the name of God, what is your relationship with God. The first attitude that I have is afraid to commit sin or mistake which God can punish me or I create misfortune in my life, creating hell in my life. If I don’t believe in God, it’s very easy for me to commit sin or mistake. Secondly, if I believe in God as our Heavenly Parent means all human being is my brothers and sisters who I need to care, to give love and to forgive. However, if I don’t believe in God, means human being has no value at all. My relationship to other human being has no meaning; the value of life is nothing. You easily mistreated, harm others life and even its easy to kill a person. Thirdly, If I believe in God. No matter what trials, difficulties, misfortune in life. I have this attitude of patience, forbearance, endurance that I could survive in life. However, if I don’t believe in God. When trials, difficulties, misfortune in life will easily lost hope thinking want to disappear in life, committing suicide. In another perspective of life that the person don’t believe in God however knows what is good and evil, what is the right or wrong decision, how to take the right or wrong path. This is what we call conscientious people. This is people who are following their conscience, person with a sense of right and wrong or moral senses. How about the existence of God? God really exists? As a landscape photographer, you are concern of every detail of the subject you are shooting. I was able to understand the beauty, the composition, framing, colors, effects and wonders of nature. It passes in my mind and heart, the emotion of nature that can be felt to the beauty it possess. The brilliant, harmony of colors of nature that reflect the psychological structure of creation, even in the adversity of environment you can see the amazing wonders of life. I could understand before I came to these beautiful places there is already an artist who designs this landscape with beautiful, peaceful, loving heart. This creation, this nature is not come out accidentally. It is carefully plan, deeply think of its design beforehand. There is a big mind, a big heart that made it, an invisible artist which is God itself. Also you can appreciate the perfect detailed of subject you shoot in nature which that invisible artist has this perfect personality which is God itself. Additionally, as parents having children, you can understand how life was form, starting as blastocyst, then maturing into an embryo and then a fetus. It’s unbelievable; man and woman, husband and wife can create another human being. Not only human being but also plants, animals and all creation can regenerate another life. How amazing it is, life is not come out randomly or accidentally. It has a principle or laws to follow. We can conclude, before the universe came, there is an invisible scientist already formulated the existence of life and how life will be sustainable and regenerate which is God itself. As express in the bible Roman chapter 1:20 “Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; It means all creation is the visible manifestation of God invisible nature or personality. We can see and feel the existence of God by observing the creation that He made. Wow! It’s very exciting to know more the Story of God, you can discover many books here.
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The highlights of the Month of May is the celebration of motherhood. We celebrate it as “Mother’s Day” is a holiday honoring motherhood that is observed throughout the world.
On the next month of June is the celebration of fatherhood as we celebrate as “Father’s Day”. We observed we are celebrating the “Parent’s Day” for two months. It’s the month of May and June. This year 2022, we celebrate the “Mother’s Day” on May 8, Sunday. I would like to express my gratitude to all mothers in the world with this simple thoughts of quotation. Happy Mother’s Day When the days I open my eyes, You’re such beautiful, wonderful, And loving mother I have. The secured place to sleep And comfortable place to cry Is in your arms… Your tender heart and forgiving love, Caring our sensitivity, let me grown As loving and kind person… You’ve such a huge heart To embrace us all as naughty children… You have such amazing inner spirituality. We’ve grown as loving God our Heavenly Parent and be kind to others. You’re such mysterious mother, 99% of our DNA is from you, And 1% is from our Father… Mother of mine, you show us everything. The path we have to walk, The future we have to build, Your helping hand to stand In the adversity of life. Over and over the years, We learned so much from you… Mother of mine, You molded us the importance of home, The perspective of life, A noble tradition we have to pass on To our generation to come. You inspired us to have bid dreams, Aim high, and give us courage we can do it. You’re such strong mother, Motherly heart to secure our future. How blessed we are… To have such a mother like you. Your motherly heart, The sunshine of our life. Your smile, hugging, joy and love, That’s how great you are in our life. Your helping hand, your healing care, Your listening heart, embracing love… That makes who we are. You believe in our dreams, You teach us how to achieve that dreams… This are my gratitude towards all mother of the world. Additionally, this are some thoughts I love from known person. God can be everywhere, Because He lives in the hearts of Mom. By: Bill Gray Love is patient, Love is kind, Love is Mom. By: Keely Chance Mom give us the blessing of belonging. By: Megan Haave Happy Mother’s Day Mom! Wish you always good health, Showering blessing in life, And long, long life… https://youtu.be/yIsHNxieHpE
As we look up our present society, we are living in the advancement of science and technology, lifting - up our standard of living. The advancement of transportation and communication lead us to a rapid development were people can freely move conveniently. However, at the same time, we experience the bloody conflict of the war, many people died in the past century and continuously war is going on, anywhere in the world we face this pandemic of covid virus and continuously develop to a high breed of virus. Moreover, poverty, family breakdowns, sexual transmitted diseases, drug abuse, crime, juvenile violence and many kinds of problem is coming out and lingering in our society. Yet, this entire problem has only a temporary solution. Let’s try to reflect and understand the causes of problem from the basic unit of our society which is the family. According to Noah Webster wrote in 1970: “Educations in great measure, forms the moral character of men, and moral are the basis of government….It is much easier to introduce and established an effectual penal status the ill effects of a bad system…. The only practicable method to reform mankind is to begin with children.” Our children are growing up starts in the family. According from the universal values of child education starts already from the time that mother conceive the baby until it give birth where the emotion, psychological, thoughts and action of parents have big influence in the growth of baby in the womb. Especially the bonding of mother in rearing the baby while still inside the womb has a big influence in the development hearing sounds of mother’s body, recognizing the language sounds, memory development, and eyesight development. If we want that our children become great children, start the education during the pregnancy. If we want to learn more about this information can easily search it in the books, magazine, internet and anywhere whatever information we want because of the advancement of information technology. From the birth to 12 years old is the period where children character and personality are not stable or in immature stage that needs to nurture that become stable until the period of adolescence. I inspired with this article “The Child 10 Commandments” written by Written by Dr. Kevin Leman
When our children growing up properly, emotionally and psychologically stable, mental and physical stability in their adolescence period. The moral and ethical values of the youth maturely develop. We can assure they can be good citizens in our society. The youth that grow up in the family environment with outstanding moral and ethical values can expand it to be social ethics, business ethics, national ethics and world ethics. We can understand that all moral and ethical laws or values are the expansion of values from the family. Then religious groups will cultivate and building –up the highest standard of morals and ethics. And the school will properly convey this morals and ethics to all men and women in the world. It will be the basis of system management and laws in governing the nation, the basis of diplomacy of one nation to another nation and the basis to establish peace and order of the world. We could have a good system management of environment, fair distribution of wealth, fair sharing of science and technology for every nations of the world, solving the problems of poverty, hunger, malnutrition, crime and any problem that arises in our society. Also, if we established the highest standards of world ethics, relationship of nation to another nation, we can avoid the global pandemic of corona virus disease that was discovered last December 2019. As well as, we can be able properly manage the environment which we can avoid the worst disasters and calamities which the world experience at this present situation of weather condition. This pandemic virus, calamities and disaster, the war in any part of the world, and different kind of world suffering is an opening eye for humanity that we need to care, extend our love, and live for the sake of others that will start from us as individual, expanding it in our family, neighbors, society, nation and the world. As we are living in our daily life, our daily routine and lifestyle relates to the four season of a year which are spring, summer, autumn, and winter. When spring is coming, it’s a transitional period from freezing cold of winter to hot season of summer. It’s a symbol of hope, where the rain showering the earth. The buds of flowers are sprouting, a fresh young leaves are growing, where flowers are blooming. Young butterflies, bees, dragonfly and birds enjoying sipping the nectar of flowers. It is the season of new hope, and new beginning of fresh life.
From this fresh cool breeze of springs transitioning to a warming hot weather which is the season of summer. The surrounding is brightly green with the sun nourishes the earth. It’s a summer season, the days are longer and night is short. It is a season to enjoy our life; children are playing in a brighter loving life. People are viewing life in a positive outlook, full of vitality and enthusiasm. It’s a season full of fun, enjoyment, and life outdoors. After summer, we experience the colorful amazing beauty of nature when the leaves are turning into flowers. The surrounding green turns into red, orange and yellow. It is the season of autumn in a new perspective of colorful life. As the weather is changing the leaves are changing its color in adopting the change of season. It’s a time of reflection of our beliefs, thoughts, and emotion to have a positive change of lifestyle, forgetting the old ways of life. It is a life changer that we will experience challenges and difficulties in life. It is a season of winter. The season with a short day light and long dark night. It’s a time of meditation, reflection, and relaxing in the serenity of life. We may be deal the stormy, suffering path in our daily life. This is the season where tress is leafless; it seems as its suffering and dying. But we observe the root of tress is going deeper and deeper sipping the nutrients of the earth. This period of winter life is a time of learning to understand our values, who we are, building a strong foundation within ourselves to withstand in the most difficult moment of life, pushing our life to go beyond the limit of our ability and capacity to bear the fruit of success in life. It’s the cycle of nature from the spring of life, experience the warm bright summer, feel the colorful life of autumn and freezing our life in winter. But we may not become leaves that influence the circumstances in life. Human being must possess an absolute values in life that we may not carried by any circumstances. We must have values to find beauty in the diversity of life. This my animation video in “The Four Season Of Life”. The year 2022 is the year of the Black Tiger or Water Tiger, people born in the years 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986,1998, 2010, and 2022. They have the personality of courageous and strong-minded person. It will start on February 1, 2022 until January 21, 2023 and February 18, 2022 is the Black Tiger Day and February 2022 is the month of the Tiger.
Here are some famous people born in the year of the tiger. Lady Gaga , born on March 28, 1986 as Fire Tiger – famous singer known for her flamboyant and diverse contribution to the music industry. Queen Elizabeth II, born on April 21, 1926 as a Fire Tiger – Queen of the United Kingdom Marilyn Monroe, born June 1, 1926 as a Fire Tiger – famous actress, model, and singer Tom Cruise, born on July 23, 1962 as a Water Tiger – most important actor in Hollywood Leonardo Dicaprio, born on November 11, 1974 as Wood Tiger – nominated for five Academy award and Golden Globe Awards Margaret Hamilton, born December 9, 1902 as Water Tiger – famous for being computer scientist. The Tiger represents power to lead which have this character of fearless, strong, courageous, and competitive and take the initiatives. The Tiger is also represent respect and prestigious. Furthermore, it represents beauty, sanctity, and wisdom. However, as Water Tiger, the water element means instability, fertility, and sudden change or unpredictable. It needs to make plan which need to focus in all detail of the activities and will take precautions. This year 2022 is a year of beneficial for making plans for the future that leads to a prosperous life and with the blessing of love. As long as we have determination and motivation to succeed. If we think of water, it refer also to sensitivity, creativity that can take any form to fill up the space and can adopt any situation. It is like water in the stream, river, and sea, we can feel peace and serenity however it also extremely powerful natural source of force like tidal wave, floods and typhoon which need extra precaution in our decision making. The Water Tiger is a symbol of strength and energy which means despite of tough challenges we face, we can overcome all the adversity that was still we face in the last year of 2021 and we can have more energy to be tough facing the year 2022 challenges in life which can bring more success in our goals and ambition in life. If we try to reflect the past year 2021 of pandemic covid 19 situation and natural disasters that was brought the isolation and suffering of humanity. We are force to shift and adopted the new way of life for survival. It’s an opening eye that we need each other. Every country needs its other to survive. Hoping each one of us we can move on for the new change of routine life for the new hope offer by the fortune of Black Tiger year 2022. This year is the time of healing, recovery, recreation and new determination to face the new order of life, new world system, new structure of economy, and new perspective in life. Even in the spiritual aspect of human life and social relationship will have great changes resulted from the calamity of pandemic. We understand in the edge cliff of our life, there is only one eternal being we can rely and ask for, which is our Heavenly Parents, the Almighty God who can show us the hint solution of our problem and embrace us in any situation of life. Let us face the year 2022 the year of courage, bravery, creative and strong –minded person. Wishing You All A Prosperous Chinese New Year 2022 – Year Of The Black Tiger. In the development of human history it was structured in politics, economy, ideology and religion on these contemporary trends of modern life which we expect to live in peace and harmonious living condition of life. We witness the development of science and technology which we expect to provide conveniences, prosperity and happiness in life.
However, we are still living in a world of conflict, wars, hungers, pandemic, calamities, crimes, immorality and so many strange problems arises in family and social conflicts. On this contemporary society, from individual, family, society, nation and the world realized that we cannot live by ourselves alone. We need to help each other and to set up a universal values which everyone will be benefitted to have the rights to live, wants to have freedom and equality in living. We came up to the declaration of universal human rights that was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris last December 10, 1948 as the common based for the standard living for humanity and the world in order to give chance to have a peaceful living and harmonious life. However, still is missing on this declaration of universal human rights. Let us review it and we try to look for another perspective view of life. 1. We Are All Born Free & Equal. Everyone are all born free, have our own thoughts and ideas. Every one of us should be treated in the same way. 2. Don’t Discriminate. Whatever our differences these rights belongs to everybody. 3. The Right to Life. Everyone has the right to have life and to live in freedom and safety. 4. No Slavery. Nobody has any right to make us a slave. We cannot make anyone our slave. 5. No Torture. Nobody has any right to hurt us or to torture us. 6. You Have Rights No Matter Wherever We Go. Even though we have unique characteristic but we are same human being with heart and mind. 7. Everyone is Equal before the Law. The same law is applied for everyone. It must treat everyone fairly. 8. Your Human Rights Are Protected by Law. Everyone can ask for the law to help us when time we are not treated fairly. 9. No Unfair Detainment. Nobody has the right to put us in prison without good reason and keep us there, or to send us away from our country. 10. The Right to Trial. If everyone are put on trial this should be in public. The people who try us should not let anyone tell them what to do. 11. Everyone is always Innocent Till Proven Guilty. Nobody should be blamed for doing something until it is proven. When people say we did a bad thing we have the right to show it is not true. 12. The Right to Privacy. Nobody should try to harm our good name. Nobody has the right to come into our home, open our letters, or bother us or our family without a good reason. 13. Freedom to Move. Everyone have the right to go where we want in our own country and to travel as we wish. 14. The Right to Seek a Safe Place to Live. If everyone are frightened of being badly treated in our own country, everybody have the right to run away to another country to be safe. 15. Right to a Nationality. Everyone have the right to belong to a country. 16. Marriage and Family. Every grown-up has the right to marry and have a family if they want to. Men and women have the same rights when they are married, and when they are separated. 17. The Right to Own Things. Everyone has the right to own things or share them. Nobody should take our things from us without a good reason. 18. Freedom of Thought. Everyone have the right to believe in what we want to believe, to have a religion, or to change it if we want. 19. Freedom of Expression. Everyone have the right to make up our own minds, to think what we like, to say what we think, and to share our ideas with other people. 20. The Right to Public Assembly. Everyone have the right to meet our friends and to work together in peace to defend our rights. Nobody can make us join a group if we don’t want to. 21. The Right to Democracy. Everyone have the right to take part in the government of our country. Every grown-up should be allowed to choose their own leaders. 22. Social Security. Everyone have the right to affordable housing, medicine, education, and childcare, enough money to live on and medical help if we are ill or old. 23. Workers’ Rights. Every grown-up has the right to do a job, to a fair wage for their work, and to join a trade union. 24. The Right to Play. Everyone have the right to rest from work and to relax. 25. Food and Shelter for All. Everyone have the right to a good life. Mothers and children, people who are old, unemployed or disabled, and all people have the right to be cared for. 26. The Right to Education. Education is a right. Primary school should be free. We should learn about the United Nations and how to get on with others. Our parents can choose what we learn. 27. Copyright. Copyright is a special law that protects one’s own artistic creations and writings; others cannot make copies without permission. We all have the right to our own way of life and to enjoy the good things that art, science and learning bring. 28. A Fair and Free World. There must be proper order so we can all enjoy rights and freedoms in our own country and all over the world. 29. Responsibility. Everyone have a duty to other people, and we should protect their rights and freedoms. 30. No One Can Take Away Our Human Rights. These are universal human rights to observe and be implementing in our society. However it is not an easy way that every country can apply this principle of human rights, even as an individual is difficult to apply it in our daily routine life. Sometimes it was used to justify the selfish interest and to shield the mistake that was done. This universal principle of human rights must be cultivated in the genuine love atmosphere, with moral responsibility for humanity. Without this moral responsibility or genuine love, it’s easy to set aside, neglect and violate the rights of human being as stated above. Everyone must have the reeducation of universal values leading to the maturity of heart and mind. This reeducation must be starting in our family, reoriented in school and carried out in the social life. If everyone has this maturity of heart, matured personality, these human rights is just a lifestyle or a culture which naturally a part of our moral and ethical values. If morality and ethics becomes the lifestyle of humanity, human rights is just as inherent nature of a matured person and freedom will just follow. True freedom is within the principle, outside the principle there is no freedom, it leads to destruction. It’s like driving a car, following the traffic laws and regulation. You are free to move around without any destruction to other people and the environment. True freedom acquired from genuine love and taking responsibility. Without genuine love and responsibility, freedom can easily be abuse and leads to the destruction of life. If the rights of an individual become an inherent nature in our lifestyle and have freedom of living. It will create an equality of life whatever our standard of living. Equality thus not mean, everyone have same standard of living, equal distribution of wealth. It is a feeling of satisfaction in life even our status in life is rich, poor, or middle class. Each country has its own culture, political system, economic standard, religion, geography, and climate condition. It will never be equal. However, everyone recognized and respect the rights of an individual and have freedom of living in the atmosphere of genuine love. It will create a life of satisfaction and a feeling of equality. It will be the starting point of peace and harmony within the individual, family, clan, tribes, society, nation, and the realization of world peace. Every day we read and hear about the good news and bad news happenings around the world, at the end the day still the problem exist.
We witness the good things happening in politics, economy, culture, religion, the advancement of science and technology, healthy life, and new creative invention and discovery for human conveniences for living. However on the other hand, the problems of poverty, hungers, crimes, corruption, wars, refugee, racial discrimination, immorality, pollution, diseases, calamities and religious intolerance have continuously lingering in every corner of the world. How much effort was invest by world leaders, righteous people and conscientious people to find solution for world’s problem? We just ended to a temporary solution. Maybe it’s time to restructuring our world standard of system and principle of governance. We recognized the one who govern in any aspects of human life is composed of an individual coming from different family’s background culture and belief. It means we have to start in the reeducation of an individual. Each and every one of us doesn’t want to be a bad person. This is what we call morality or moral values. Moral is the standard of conduct how to become a good person. These morals are including good habits such as honesty, trustworthy, helpfulness, courageous, integrity, love, responsible, hard work, compassion and all values pertaining to an individual’s behavior, personality or characters. What makes a person becomes moral? Morality is usually based on religious laws whatever kind of religions. It means its universal values. Morality must be based on the standard of our Creator which is God. God is absolute, eternal and unchanging. It means these values must also eternal, unchanging and absolute in an individual. Also the inner aspect of God is heart is love. And this love must be eternal, unchanging, and absolute. Therefore, morality must be based on True love. Therefore, any individual before will govern any aspects of human society. An individual must grow maturely in heart which he or she had possessed this kind of moral values which result to good governance. An individual is not just an individual to exist for himself. It’s a universal nature that all creatures have male and female, positive and negative. It means a matured heart individual has to build a family. He or she needs somebody to build a family. When moral values applied in the family we called it ethics. Ethics is the standard of an individual how to build a good relationship to others. The values created in the relationship between husband and wife is fidelity, loyalty and any values related to the relationship between husband and wife. The values in relationship between parents and children are what we called parental love, unconditional love. The values in relationship from children to parents are called filial love. The values in relationship between brothers and sisters are kindness, loyalty, respects, charity, justice, empathy and other values relating to brothers and sisters. In short we called these values as family ethics. All the ethics that exist in the society is the extension of family ethics. Business ethics is the extension of family ethics. Political ethics is also the extension of family. When family ethics applied to national ethics we called it patriotism, the love of an individual towards the country. The relationship between one country to another country is what we called world ethics which have the foundation from family ethics. When moral and ethical values applied in society and government it becomes the bases of laws and system of the country. We observe that the country which has strong family culture have this peaceful and organized system of structure that leads to the peaceful development and focusing on the benefit of whole body system of society. When an individual who are responsible in the governance of society, nation, and world have this matured heart with morals and ethical values. We can have the hope for a brighter and peaceful future. If humanity will be re-oriented about moral and ethical values centering on the standard of matured heart which is Agape love- God’s love. We can have the solution for the world’s problem and heal the wounds of humanity. We can create a system that can balance the distribution of wealth, sharing of the advancement of science and technology, new ideas or discovery which can solve the problem of hunger, poverty, calamities, crimes, corruption, wars, refugee, racial discrimination, immorality, pollution, diseases, religious intolerance and we can avoid the destruction of human life. If we could have this reorientation of education throughout the world about moral and ethical values we can look forward for a brighter peaceful and hopeful future which we called world peace or ideal world. |
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