“There are friends who would stick closer than your own brother or sister…”

– The Bible

One of my favorite song when I was in College and until now is the classic gospel song “friends” by Michael W Smith. Some of you would smile, and still remember this beautiful old song about friendship.

Many people depend on friendship for survival. Some would definitely literally die without friends.

Choosing our friends is very important though, we need to choose someone who would really care for us and not use us. Choose someone who chooses good over bad. And most importantly choose someone who loves God and follow His commands.

If there is one ingredient which adds warmth & love to our lives, it is FRIENDSHIP!!

FRIENDS surround us with the beauty of caring with them we can share what we see, what we feel & what we love. They help us with our problems because they listen as they listen, we begin to hear the language of our own hearts.

We can walk along the remembered paths of our lives & share our experiences.

We can work the soil of forgotten dreams that needed to be tended & nurtured again

We can always return to a friend like going back to a special place and find the same warm feeling unchanged by time or distance

Life gives us friends to share the precious times & memorable moments. Life gives us friends so we can share the growing up & growing down and old.

With friends we have a place to go to be accepted & understood.

Together we can laugh. Together we can cry.

In the heart of a friend, our thoughts are heard, our feelings are held, our lives are made more full, more rich, more open, more beautiful & more blessed!

This blog is dedicated to all of my friends both old and new ones! God loves you.

Seeing the world and visiting Europe as the best education you can give yourself – it is like walking through the pages of history, travel explores the horizon of one person’s intellect and perspective of things and meet new contacts;  5 out of 10 people in the United States travel for relaxation at least once a year, and many young people travel to Europe as often as they can.

Traveling to France will be the most cherished experience for everyone, one that doesn’t escape one’s list of must be visited in the Europe. The grandeur of France, it’s culture and History will be forever etched in your mind.  Paris and Avignon are the most enchanting places to visit in France.

When you’re trying to decide on the comfortable and reasonable accommodation that will serve you best, you can take a look at some of them on the Internet. There are delightful B&B’s and other Bed-and-Breakfast options in Hotel Paris. There are captivating beautiful Hotel Avignon.

The are also a great number of  “immobilier haut de gamme”  or luxury real estate in France, and they are exceedingly amazing.. if you have the resources, one can do some investment in the region.

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“In Christ alone, I build my trust,

and find the glory

in the power of His name…. 

In every victory, let it be said of me

my source of hope,

my source of strength

is Christ alone!”

Dear readers I hope you will like this inspirational thoughts from my father regarding his admiration for the little insects in which most of us, his children, only knew as those who bite or sting or just look plain ugly. These little insects tells us amazing truths about our broken dreams and building our dreams again.

Bees collects honey and store it in their hives, if a wild animal breaks their hive & steals their honey, they will keep on building their honeycombs, thus making more honey. Bees are warriors and they protect their hive with their lives.

He liked the ants because if the some creature destroys their home, they will do the same thing-immediately start building anew their home, working together for a common goal. My father told me that the ants were the most respectful of all because they greet each other when they meet each other and they are the most industrious, they work, work and work.

He also liked the spiders because if their webs were destroyed, they will start repairing the damage right away or build a whole new & better one. Spiders are strong insects, they are loners, often regarded as a source of fear and admiration, they work in solitude and work skillfully.

The lesson he learned from these little insects was that:

“Sometimes, the world may surprise us by destroying even our most carefully built plans. But if we choose to be ready to start all over again no matter what, eventually we will achieve great results. We just have to take one step at a time!”

“If we fall in life we must be able to stand up and start moving on, we must understand that these trials are here because there is a purpose, if our plans doesn’t work and if our dreams are broken – it means there are better things to come – all we have to do is pray and trust God”

“In Christ alone, I build my trust, and find the glory in the power of His name….  my source of hope, my source of strength is Christ alone!”

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My son, do not forget my teaching,

but keep my commands in your heart,

for they will prolong your life many years

and bring you prosperity.

Proverb 3:1-2

Recently, the UN’s World Health Organization has sent medical help to northern Yemen, because of internal conflicts couple of weeks ago.

Medical assistance such as professionals and medicine and supplies to treat people who have sustained injuries during the fighting, which media reports say has lasted a week in the mountainous region of Yemen. Further supplies will be sent to the area again.

Medical professionals and medical assistant has been dispatched from various areas to help poor people here. WHO is working with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on a joint health and nutrition response to the current emergency.

Although attention is focused on young babies and those with high-risk medical conditions, more older children who were previously healthy need help from medical assistant from hospitals to help stop infections and deaths. Of the 2.1 million children younger than 5 years, 78 percent of them are older than 12 months.

Most children were hospitalized and those who were treated in hospitals by medical assistant to assist them in their medical conditions that significantly identified them as being at greater risk for severe diseases.

Severe shortage of medical professionals such as medical assistants are lacking in severe places like these.  Trainings for quality medical assistants are lacking nowadays, one of the most prevalent school is St Agustine School of Medical Assistants, it offer quality school for health care professionals to be professionally prepared in emergency situations like this. 

 We hope there will be a better world for tomorrow.

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The eye of a man,

Picturesque profoundly

Reflects the thousand miles

Of life’s journey

Glimpsing the joy and sadness..

The beauty and ugliness…

Of life’s struggle to survive.

The eye of man

It can never lie…

For indeed it is…

the window of our soul

- Leo Fuentes

Psalm 92:5

How great are Your works oh God,

How profound Your thoughts.

The most beautiful part of our body are the eyes… for indeed it expresses the thoughts of our heart and soul.  Through it one can see the youthfulness, the tiredness, the glow of happiness, sadness, fear, desperation, the desire, failure, brokenness, victory, success or love.

Caring for the eyes is one important thing… However if ones vision is blurred one must do something immediately before it results to blindness. Wearing eyeglasses sometimes camouflage what the real expressions are.  It also hides the beauty of one’s eyes.

Disposable contact lens is one way it can correct our vision without the hassle of eyeglasses, disposable contact lenses can correct our vision comfortably and conveniently even to the most sensitive eyes. Disposable lenses are safe and healthy options for ones blurring eyes. The exciting thing about these lenses is that one can choose the color of our eyes.. it’s enhances the beauty of our eyes,, its really exciting.

Next time you would be ask to identify which of a person’s body you would love most in a person,,, let it be the EYES.

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Il y a des gens qui n’ont de leur fortune que la crainte de la perdre.

(There are those who get nothing out of their fortune other than the fear of losing it.)

                                                              – Rivarol

In financial Investment – Placement Financier, Placement of money in Insurance is still the best option, as it connotes the ‘time value of money’ that an investor prefers to receive an fixed higher amount in the future, all else being equal. In other words, the present value of a certain amount of money is greater than the present value of the right to receive the same amount of money time t in the future. This is because the Insurance company place the amount in a safe interest-bearing bank or trust account (or otherwise invested) from now to time t and yield interest. Consequently, the one who is insured benefits from life’s uncertainties and at the same time demands interest payments for use of their capital/placement, if nothing bad happens to them.

Moreover choosing the right credit card – crédit immobilier, today is very critical, we have to choose credit card which protects us from frauds and has insurance protection, we must and get it from refutable big bank issuers.

In the recent listing of Fortunes magazine’s leading banks in the world, and one strongest in the world when it comes to both consumer banking and private banking is France, Netherlands and Germany. The United States had suffered much from the economic crisis and many wealthy corporate businessmen are shifting their banking preference changer de banque to a more stable financial institutions in Europe, mostly in Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain and France.

Studying for the Future

The Bible says train a child in the way they should go and they will bring honor to his father and mother. I personally believe Children must be trained young in educational developments to achieve an early lead to face the many challenges of academic demands for a star career. School Children in class-A institutions are having the tough time of their life in their secondary education preparing themselves for college, students are often struggle a lot of assignments and homework and student custom paper that give them super training for best academic exposure preparing them for the future.

Students must not ONLY be trained academically, the three important factors in education’s life training must be satisfied:

1. Cognitive (Brain training)

2. Affective  (Heart and emotion training)

3. Psychomotor (Muscle training)

With all these exposures that a student must undergo, sometimes heavy workloads interfere with personal commitments, sports and family activities and problems or feeling sick. If student missing the deadline for any school assignments, essays, research papers or term papers for any reason, custom paper for students are the easiest solution to beat deadline. Sometime it is inevitable that students resort to student custom paper services offered by some reliable professional internet education companies to help student with their researches or projects.

Whether parents like it our not, Internet has played a very vital part in today’s education process which makes it an indispensable tool for learning. Students need all the help they could get.

The is a hope and a future for our world with an educated mankind.

Throw out the non-essential numbers in your life: age, weight & height. Be thankful and be proud about it.

Keep only the cheerful friends around. The “grouches” pull u down. If you really need a grouch, there are probably a few dozen of your relatives to do the work.

Keep on learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, interior design, gardening …whatever. Just never let the brain idle.

Laugh often, long & loud… Laugh until you gasp for breath. Laugh so much that you can be tracked in the store by your “distinctive laughter”.

The tears happen… Endure, grieve, cry hard enough, & move on. The only person who is with us in our entire life is … ourselves.

Surround yourself w/ what you love, whether it is family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies … whatever. Your home is your refuge.

Cherish your health. If it is good – preserve it. If it is unstable – improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve – get help.

Don’t take guilt trips. Go to the mall, the next county, a foreign country… but not guilt.

Tell the people u love, that you love them at every opportunity.

REMEMBER, Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

I have learned that……

Your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don’t even know you.

You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.

No matter how much I care, some people just don’t care back.

It is hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and not hurting people’s feelings and standing up for what you believe.

It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.

Praying hard is essential,, pray with all of your heart and believe… Your faith will see you through the harshness of life.

Remember, a Faith not worth dying for, is not a faith worth living for.

MOM, YOU’RE THE BEST!

Mom has always been the best, her painstaking world revolves around us her children.. we are who we are now because of her.. Like Dad who pass away when we were young, we love her so much. Thanks to a friend, this story which I come across during mother’s day made me cry… hope you’ll like it:

After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take my MOM out to dinner. “I love you, but I know your MOM loves you & would love to spend some time with you!”

My MOTHER has been a widow for 19 years, but the demands of work & three children made it possible to visit her only occasionally.

That night, I called to invite her to go out for dinner. “What’s wrong, are you well?” she asked…I thought that it would be pleasant to spend some time with you, just the two of us,” I said. She thought about it for a moment, “I would like that very much.”

Friday after work, I drove over to pick her up. She waited at the door with coat on. She had curled her hair & wearing the dress she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary. She smiled as radiant as an angel. “I told my friends that I was going to go out with my son, and they were impressed, they can’t wait to hear about our meeting.”

My mother took my arm as if she were the First Lady. I had to read the menu since her eyes could only read large print. I lifted my eyes & saw Mom staring at me. A nostalgic smile was on her lips. “It was I who used to read the menu when you were small,” she said. Now it’s time that You relax & let me return the favor, I responded.

We had an agreeable conversation – nothing extraordinary but catching up on recent events of each other’s life. As we arrived at her house later, she said, “I’ll go out with you again, but only if u let me invite u!”

A few days later, my MOM died of a massive heart attack. Some time later, I received an envelope with a copy of a restaurant receipt from where we dined. An attached note said: “I paid this bill in advance. I wasn’t sure that I could be there; but nevertheless, I paid for 2 plates one for you & the other for your wife. You will never know what that night meant for me. I love you, son.”

At that moment, I understood the importance of saying in time: “I LOVE YOU” and to give our loved ones the time that they deserve.

DONT JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER

This story was emailed to me by a friend, and I want to share with you, I hope you’ll find inspiring:

A lady in faded gingham dress w/ husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly w/o an appointment into Harvard University President’s outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard & probably didn’t even deserve to be in Cambridge.

“We’d like to see the president,” the man said softly. “He’ll be busy all day,” the secretary snapped. “We’ll wait,” the lady replied.

For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping they would finally be discouraged & go away. They didn’t, the secretary grew frustrated & finally decided to disturb the president, eventhough it was a chore she always regretted.

“Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they’ll leave,” she said to him. He sighed in exasperation & nodded. Someone of his importance obviously didn’t have the time to spend w/ them, he detested gingham dresses & homespun suits cluttering up his outer office.

The president, stern faced & with dignity, strutted toward the couple. The lady told him, “We had a son who attended Harvard for a year. He loved Harvard & was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband & I would like erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus.” The president wasn’t touched. He was shocked. “Madam,” he said, gruffly, “we can’t put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like cemetery.”

“Oh, no,” the lady explained quickly. “We don’t want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard.” The Pres. rolled his eyes. He glanced at gingham dress & homespun suit, then exclaimed, “A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much building costs? We have over $7.5M in the physical buildings here at Harvard.”

For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now. The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, “Is that all it cost to start a university? Why don’t we just start our own?” Her husband nodded. The president’s face wilted in confusion & bewilderment.

Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up & walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the university that bears their name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.

Moral Lesson:

Whether the historical acount of this literature is true or not, one thing should remain, whe must not judge a person.   A modern day example also is Susan Boyle a singer, whom audiences easily judged base on appearance and the clothes she wears.

We hope not to be judgemental in the way we treat people, after all, the best gift that we could receive comes in unsuspecting package: Salvation bought about by a person who was born in a manger, a carpenter’s son and was crucified and died for our sins.

Let us always remember the golden rule:  ”Dont do unto others what you dont want others do unto you.”