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What makes life beautiful?

This is not a prescription nor is it a recipe to a delicious and beautiful life. It is an attempt to do just that! Have you been on a war front? Not as some armed (to the tooth) army man? But as an 'armless' and harmless creature, created in the image of God, but facing imminent death or some serious injury? A cat caught on some bright and blinding light? Which kind of shears past your iris to the brain? One day I did find myself in precisely that situation. When a grenade blew off a portion of the wall of a house that we were staying in. In the dead of the night. You wake up and you are not very sure whether it is just a bad dream or indeed the cold air hitting your face is really, in the middle of rubbles and dust. You blink hard, close your eyes, open them again and curse, and then reality jolts you that indeed you are staring at the starry sky rather than the ceiling of your room! But the last thing you remember is that you'd gone to bed in a room and slept on

Kinds of people

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There are three kinds of people. Those who do good because they know it is good to do good. They know good comes back to you ' pressed down, running over', later on. Evalengicals in the house? Another group is those who do good because they know somebody is watching over their backs. A mean supervisor with a cane in his hands, ready to deploy it even if it is not necessary, makes all the difference to them - between delivering or not delivering results.   The last set are those who work because they've been promised some goodies, once the sweating is done. Which set do you belong to?  The group you can identify yourself with makes all the difference in this life. The first group are those who report to work or their business on (or in) time and work their a**** off - to deliver to their employer and to their families and to humanity as a whole. They make all the difference in this world. They work more because they love their job or business and