Watch this Fantastic short video.  Then ask yourself, Do You Believe?

THE BRICK

A young and  successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood  street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was  watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and  slowed down

When he thought he saw something. As his  car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed  into the Jag’s side door!
He slammed on the brakes  and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been  thrown. The angry driver then jumped out of the car, grabbed  the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car  shouting, ‘What was that all about and who are you? Just what  the heck are you doing? That’s a new car and that brick you  threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?’ The  young boy was apologetic. ‘Please, mister. Please, I’m sorry  but I didn’t know what else to do,’ He pleaded. ‘I threw the  brick because no one else would stop…’ With tears dripping  down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot  just around a parked car. ‘It’s my brother,’ he said, ‘he  rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can’t  lift him up.’

Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned  executive, ‘Would you please help me get him back into his  wheelchair? He’s hurt and he’s too heavy for me.’

Moved  beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling  lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy  back into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief  and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told  him everything was going to be okay. ‘Thank you and may God  bless you,’ the grateful child told the stranger. Too shook up  for words, the man simply watched the boy push his  wheelchair bound brother down the sidewalk toward their  home.

It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The  damage was very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to  repair the dented side door. He kept the dent there to remind  him of this message: ‘Don’t go through life so fast that  someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!’  God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes  when we don’t have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at  us. It’s our choice to listen or not.  Author Unknown

Thought for the  Day:

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be  on it.

If He had a wallet, your photo would be in  it.

He sends you flowers every spring.

He sends  you a sunrise every morning Face it, friend – He is crazy  about you!

God didn’t promise days without pain,  laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise  strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the  way..

Read this line very slowly and let it sink  in…

If God brings you to it, He will bring you  through it.

We all have time tested thoughts and philosophies on life.  Share yours here and tell us what your looking for in life.

Here’s some interesting thoughts.  They come from a woman in her 90′s…we can all learn something from her!

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer,
Cleveland , Ohio:

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons
life taught me.. It is the most-requested column I’ve
ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so
here is the column once more:

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick;
your friends and parents will. Stay in touch

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying
alone.

8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.

12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea
what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But
don’t worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or
joyful.

18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you
stronger.

19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood, but
the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life,
don’t take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear
purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words’In
five years, will this matter?’

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else
does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of
anything you did or didn’t do.

35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it
now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting
everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.”

There seems to be lots of thought on GOD.  Sometimes this becomes very controversial.  Many lives have been saved or lost either for or against the name and belief of GOD which is just a shame.  Some believe, some don’t.  But whatever your concept is or isn’t let’s just put the word GOD aside for now and go on to some of these thoughts.
While there are many beliefs and religions swirling around this big world they all seem to come back to a fundamental thought of spiritual connection as something that we were born with. It’s that little inner voice that keeps calling us to a higher level of living and being. Whether Hindu, Buddha, Mormon, Jewish, Christian, on and on.  Or even a non believer, we just know there’s something, if we’re willing to be honest with ourselves.  And let me say this now.  I’m not an expert on any one religion, nor have I spent years studying any.   I’ve ultimately become a Christian but that wasn’t until after many many miles on a long road where I didn’t really believe in anything.  Then I spent many years just believing in a power greater than myself as a “Good Orderly Direction”   or a defined way to live life.
With that said let’s chat about some general universal concepts.  Now let’s work out from the center.  Ok there’s you.  Moving outward you’re in a city or town.  That is in a state, that’s in a country, that’s on the planet earth, that’s in this solar system, that’s in the universe that goes out so far we don’t even know where it stops.  We’ll that’s pretty darn big and if you think it backwards were pretty small.
Let’s ponder for a minute.  Since we now agree that our surroundings are pretty darn big and how all this came into creation.  This is the question people have been debating for as long as man, well maybe some people.  Maybe no one will ever really know and well I ask,  does it matter.

Now lets just think about the forces of energy that exists in our world.  The rising and setting of the sun and moon.  The strength and power of the ocean.  The forces of the wind in a storm.  The rushing of a mighty river, the majesty of a mountain top.  All of these things are testimony to the raw fact that there is a power far greater than we are or we possess.  Try this sometime tell the sun not to set, stand in the ocean and stop the waves from crashing, blow into a tornado to get it to stop spinning,  and see what happens.  OK, I know these all seem ridiculous, so pick your own challenge.  The point is that there is a fantastic energy in perfect order that have kept all of these things in motion since the beginning of time.   We ourselves as humans are surrounded by and were created from the very same energy, yet most of us on most days hurl ourselves through a 24 hour period completely disconnected and oblivious to this marvelous power that runs through and surrounds us at all times.

Now I hope at this point we’re all feeling humbled (I sure am) enough at the thought of our small and seemingly powerless existence and in the sense of this smallness we can all agree that there is a power greater than ourselves, that I chose to call God, but feel free to call it whatever you’d like, but it does exist and it has a tremendous influence on our lives whether we want to or not or whatever you choose to call it.  It’s working on us, in us and through us every second of every day.   Just as it causes the sun to rise, the rivers to flow and keeps all things in motion. This is the same energy that recently scientists have agreed exists.  This is the same energy that is spoken of in all spiritual texts and looked to since the beginning of time.  If you are like me, and chose to call it God then you’ve probably already had some experience or a profound life changing event that has brought you to know him in this way. Some ah ha moment where you just knew there as a perfect plan working in and around you that you didn’t devise.  If you haven’t, well that’s ok but what I’m about to say may challenge all of your past or present thinking and I mean this with all love.  If you currently do not have a relationship with a power greater than you, but think you might just slightly be looking, this may be helpful.  If you do have a relationship but may  have let it lapse, this may remind you.  And if you seek this relationship daily, well this may not mean much.  In any case it’s all good were just poking around.

So let’s travel back in our mind and our lives and see where we end up.  How many of you are parents?  Think back to before your child was born.  Your mind wandering a million miles an hour, hoping and praying that your child is healthy and has all the right parts, wondering if it’s going to be a boy or girl, daydreaming about all of the experiences you will have with this child as he or she grows, planning the decorating of the nursery, and oh wait, stop!  At some point in all of that I’d bet that you said to yourself,  “________, please let this baby be healthy”  What did you fill that blank with?

Maybe you’ve fought in a war, or a relative or someone close to you was sent off to serve their country somewhere.  Imagine yourself sitting in that foxhole with bombs going off all around you.  Did you plead aloud, “please _______, get me out of here alive!”  Again I have to ask, what did you fill the blank with?

Lastly, It’s Saturday night you’re out with your friends having a great time at a party.  Maybe you drank just a little too much.  You get home, somehow manage to get undressed and flop yourself on the bed and wondering “man, I hope this stops soon”  Just as that thought repeats itself over and over again in your mind.  Everything is moving faster and faster.  The room is spinning faster and you say to yourself, “oh Shit” as you fall out of bed and make the mad dash to the bathroom, barely making it in time to drop to your knees, grab the porcelain hanging on for dear life.  Right at that moment, BBLLAAAHHHHHHH!  While you’re hurling your guts out, you cry out, “Oh ______________, Help me, and I won’t do this again!”
So there’s three examples that 99% of the time when asked, everyone can relate with.  I’ll ask you again, what did you fill the blank with?  My experience and everyone I’ve ever asked, the answer was God.  So we DO believe whether we thought we believed or not.
Why is it that so many times we only call out to God when it’s a 911 call?  We seek his help only when we’re in the deepest trouble or pain.  Just like the forces and energy we talked about earlier, he/she is the power in us, working through us and surrounding us all the time.  It’s a unconscious ingrained knowing deep in our heart, that he/she, whatever you call it put there.   When I started to learn to connect with that energy source regularly, daily and started to ask that little inner voice inside how I might make better choices.  Or how might be a brighter light in this situation.  Or what would big love do now my life changed for the better.  The more connected I get to him, she, it, the happier and fuller my life becomes.  It’s not what’s in this world that I become satisfied with it.  This world always leaves me wanting more no matter what I achieve or acquire.  It’s what’s outside that when I bring it inside I’m filled with peace, happiness, love, joy and contentment.  Now that’s pretty cool.