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Garbage within

garbagewithinGarbage under the sofa, dust on the tables, hand marks on the windows, spilled drinks all over the kitchen top, hairs on the bathroom floor, dirty laundry on the bed, and toilets not flushed. It gives us the chills only to think of a house like that, doesn’t it? Our house is our sacred space in this world and it shouldn’t be left for the rats and cockroaches to invade. Now, if our house is that important to us, imagine our own hearts, where everything that is about us comes from?
 

Two in one

twovoicesThey sound the same but they're totally different. You hear them all the time, from the minute you wake up to the minute you go to sleep. One is louder than the other and they both tell you what to do. However, you're the one who decides which one you'll listen to.

Two voices, one head.

Most people listen to the loudest voice. The one in bold, which many times feels as though it were screaming at you. It's easier to listen to it because it makes more sense... it's usually linked to how you feel, to the past, and to fears you've had.

Why should I forgive her if she has never apologised for what she has done? Why should I humble myself to someone who doesn't even deserve my respect? Why should I trust if everybody has disappointed me in some way?


These loud voices make a lot of sense, especially to our human nature which is highly attracted to what is not good. You can listen to these voices anywhere and at anytime. They're too clear to miss... and they torment you while pretending to be doing you a favor... It has most advantages over the other voice but it's the one you should constantly ignore... Those who listen to this voice do what they want, achieve what they want, and yet, are never ever happy with what they get.

The gentle other voice however, also speaks all the time but it's hardly ever listened to. And when you finally listen to it, it doesn't make much sense. It asks you to go against everything that you are, that you've known, and that you feel. It's never harmful and yet, your ego feels attacked. It's often in italic, smooth, and quite elegant I must say...Those who listen to it don't do what they want and end up getting everything they've never thought they could get. The too-good-to-be-true-excuse is no applicable.

The secret has not changed. It's the same for thousands of years. Listen to the right voice within so you can make the right decision and have what you should have: a life.

 

In faith,

Cristiane Cardoso

 

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Growing Old

growingoldMany women would do anything to stop aging. Some pay ridiculously to go on surgery and have their lives threatened by it, others lie through their teeth about their age, and others give up on life and live on a constant depressive state of mind just waiting to get it over with.

 
 

In the beginning

heartpeopleGod created everything perfect. The skies, the seas, the land, the animals, the birds, the fish, the stars... and you. But you were different, He didn't get that creative about you... He wanted you to be special, to be unique, like nothing else in the whole world. You were created in His Likeness!

 

 
 

Needy Wife

needy

Was he wrong in not having time for me, his wife? Yes he was. Was he wrong in telling me to sort myself out? Yes he was. But would that have made any difference to the problem at hand? Would knowing that he was wrong solve anything? I had to do something, I could not wait for him to change... and so I changed.

 
 

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