True freedom is to Not do the luxurious but time wasting manners at all, able to apply those time to better use of time.
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There are many times, people pray for themselves...in other words, they talk to themselves and call it prayer, or, they prayed but actually they talked to themselves.
We need to pray to the true God, according to His will, in relationship with God.
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Incredible, I believe it's the first time I saw a live comet. I joined the AAA (Amateur Astronomers Association http://www.aaa.org) and we all saw it with our naked eyes. Not to mention that Brooklyn Heights Promenade has one of the best skyline view in the city. I still remember back in 1986 when my father took me to look for Hayley's Comet, none of us could find it. I wish my camera had not been broken. Nevertheless, James Shanks took a picture of it and here it is. Click for larger view.
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Two nights ago, after taking several exposure shots at Orion at a very very windy and cold beach in Far Rockaway, my olympus c-5500 motor drive seemed to be filled with wandering terrestrial "asteroids" and failed to operate.
The photographer is on leave now.
Nevertheless, using even 15 second long exposure certainly brings out a lot of hard to see heavenly bodies.
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I'm sure Satan would love to have one believe that good could also come from evil. Or that good things could come from bad behavior. The tools for such deception: history and experience. However, the truth is, indeed good they are, but they don't come from bad behavior, it is a deception of time and desire. Making it seem that way. So no behavior detested by God could have any excuse. Nor are these good things merits to the culprit. It is only in the view of God's righteousness, that His "common grace" is upon this culprit.[@more@]
It is amazing how beautiful the light is. Crepuscular ray, a new term that I just learned yesterday at an astronomy lecture, is something I've seen and wonder if it has ever been named. The one with ray through holes of clouds is even called "Jacob's Ladder".
Below, respectively, crepuscular and anticrepuscular rays.
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I believe the ancients are a lot wiser than today's people. Because of technologies of these days, we thought we are "smarter". But we couldn't even solve a lot of ancient monuments. Not only that, there are mysteries that have been lost to us, in some way, hidden from us. We are not to rival against God to discover them.[@more@]
It is not surprising, that many "orthodox" preachers/pastors have been lured into the charismatics simply because the charismatics are able to show more "support", financial and emotion -wise.
Nevertheless, personal feelings, money, cannot be the highest priority.
And one must know the real truth about the charismatic/pentacostal movement, not just the superficial unfamiliar "culture shock" sensation of disagreement.
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