Me lembrei de mim mesma

Hoje me lembrei que existo, e ressolvi entao dar uma repaginada na minha vida..engracado, me dei conta que cresci demasiado e que ja nao sou aquela menina que pensava que o mundo era um mar de rosas. Hoje percebi que no meio de rosas tao lindas existem os espinhos que ferem sem compaixao. Hoje eu pude olhar para traz e ver que o caminho que percorri, foi um caminho sem roturas, porque nao estou em falta com ninguem, nao machuquei ninguem e posso seguir sem remorsos. Hoje me apercebi que sou querida e amada por uns e odiada por outros!! Tambem pude ver que, quando me faltou forcas para caminhar Deus o meu melhor amigo me carregou no colo. Hoje eu dou gracas a Deus, por me ter feito a pessoa que sou...Linda e Maravilhosa, capaz de amar ate no infinito. Hoje eu agradeco pelas pessoas que me sao queridas, principalmente o meu KING, HMV, Love u meu tudo, depois de Deus off course!!kkk.

Medo das alturas

Tomei coragem e enfrentei o medo que encurralava o meu cerebro, foi um sacrificio, mas, eu enfrentei o meu medo, assim como faco quando tenho que viajar de aviao. Sou doida, mas corajosa, enfim!!

Feeling cold

It is not snowing yet but Iam feeling so cold...& this mad cough is killing me!! Every winter, is the same!!

Is Your Food Safe?.

by Kathy Venan on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 at 21:09

How Safe Is Your Food?

DO YOU eat three meals a day? If so, by the time you are 70 years old, you will have consumed over 75,000 meals. For a typical European, that will mean eating—among other things—some 10,000 eggs, 5,000 loaves of bread, 100 sacks of potatoes, 6 sides of beef, and 2 sheep. Does all that eating amount to a chore? Far from it! How we relish hearing such expressions as "enjoy your meal" or "guten Appetit" or "bon appétit"! The head of a cooking school went so far as to say: "Food is the essence of life."

Most of the time, we may tend to take it for granted that the food we consume is wholesome and healthful. But if just one of those 75,000 meals were to contain something harmful, we could get seriously ill. Can we be sure that what we eat is safe? These days, more and more people seem to have doubts on that score. In some countries food safety has become a major concern. Why?

Causes of Concern

Each year, foodborne illness affects about 15 percent of the population of Europe. In the early 1980's, for instance, toxic cooking oil in Spain killed about 1,000 people and made another 20,000 seriously ill. In 1999 the population of Belgium was aghast when it was reported that such items as eggs, poultry, cheese, and butter were possibly contaminated by a poison called dioxin. More recently, Britain's consumers were horrified—and its beef industry was shattered—when cattle became infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease). Then there was an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which required the slaughter and disposal of millions of cows, sheep, pigs, and goats.

Grave though such risks are, there are other factors that worry people when it comes to food. Consumers are troubled by new techniques that are now being used in the growth and processing of foodstuffs. The European Commission wrote in 1998: "Novel technologies like food irradiation and genetic engineering of food crops have caused a lot of controversy." Do such modern scientific techniques improve our food or adulterate it? And what can we do to increase the safety of our own food?

Do you fear the future?.

by Kathy Venan on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 at 20:44

FEAR has many facets. For instance, some people are afraid of what lies ahead for the earth. “From heat waves to storms to floods to fires to massive glacial melts, the global climate seems to be crashing around us,” says Time magazine of April 3, 2006.

In May 2002, the United Nations Environment Programme released a report entitled “Global Environment Outlook-3.” It was prepared with the cooperation of over 1,000 people. According to a news report, it stated: “The planet is at a crucial cross-roads with the choices made today critical for the forests, oceans, rivers, mountains, wildlife and other life support systems upon which current and future generations depend.”

The present state of the global environment is but one cause of anxiety. People throughout the world now live in fear of terrorist attacks. The deputy director of operations for Canada’s top spy agency said: “We stay up at night worrying about the threats that we don’t know about.” Why, just watching the evening news on television can produce anxiety!

Many hardworking adults are afraid of losing their jobs. Layoffs, plant closures, competition in the workplace, and excessive demands by employers can create a climate of job insecurity. Teenagers face the fear of rejection by their peers. Young children may fear that their parents do not really love them. But what about conditions in the world around them? “For the young and the innocent, the world outside their home must seem like a big scary place at times,” says one worried mother. And many parents are anxious about the effect the world’s moral decay is having on the ones they love, especially their children.

The elderly often fear falling on a staircase or being assaulted on the street. Yes, “they have become afraid merely at what is high, and there are terrors in the way.” (Ecclesiastes 12:5) There is the fear of serious illness. Reports of deadly flu viruses, cancers, and infectious diseases can make us afraid of contracting some new and strange sickness that could cripple or kill us and our family. For that matter, when we see healthy, vibrant people becoming sick and frail, it is hard not to worry that the same thing will happen to us or to our loved ones. And how sad it is to look into a sick person’s eyes and see that they are devoid of hope!

Affected by the many facets of fear, do we have any sound reason to be optimistic about the future? Can anything help us to maintain a positive outlook.

Solidao no mundo....

by Kathy Venan on Thursday, 21 July 2011 at 18:46

LIGAÇÕES de celular, mensagens de texto, e-mails, salas de bate-papo, sites de relacionamento — os meios de comunicação nunca foram tão variados e acessíveis como hoje. Mas, neste mundo interligado, muitas pessoas — jovens e idosas — se sentem solitárias. Por quê?

Em seu livro Loneliness—Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection (Solidão — A Natureza Humana e a Necessidade de Interação Social), os pesquisadores John T. Cacioppo e William Patrick fizeram uma análise ampla sobre a solidão. Eles citam um estudo que diz: “O crescente uso da internet pode aumentar o isolamento social e a depressão quando substitui formas mais concretas de contato humano.”

O ritmo de vida frenético imposto pela sociedade moderna não contribui para uma interação humana significativa. Um sorriso e o sentimento expresso no olhar de uma pessoa dificilmente podem ser transmitidos pelo telefone ou por meio de uma mensagem na tela do computador.

Essa falta de interação pode ocorrer no local de trabalho; porém, é ainda mais comum no ambiente familiar. Não é raro membros de uma família passarem o dia todo sem conversar ou tomar uma refeição juntos. Filhos adolescentes têm seu próprio computador e vivem praticamente isolados da família. É irônico que, apesar de seus aparelhos de comunicação, muitos jovens se sentem solitários.

Os que talvez mais precisem lutar com a solidão são pais que criam sozinhos os filhos. A tecnologia moderna, entre muitas outras coisas, pode atrapalhar sua comunicação com os filhos, aumentando os sentimentos de solidão. Além disso, muitas pessoas solteiras não encontram alguém para se casar e continuam emocionalmente insatisfeitas.

A solidão se tornou um mal social que pode levar a promiscuidade, gula, alcoolismo, uso de drogas e até mesmo suicídio. Por isso, é importante identificar as causas da solidão. Esse é o primeiro passo para lidar com esse problema.

Hoje em dia, até o casamento pode ser ameaçado por sentimentos de solidão. A falta de comunicação entre marido e mulher pode criar uma situação em que os dois levam vidas paralelas que quase nunca se encontram. Sentir-se sozinho mesmo estando casado é uma das piores formas de solidão.

O segredo da longetividade, ESTA EM OKINAWA?.

O segredo da longetividade, ESTA EM OKINAWA?.


by Kathy Venan on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 at 21:34

Estima-se que, em 2006, dos 1,3 milhão de habitantes das ilhas de Okinawa, no Japão, 740 eram centenários — 90% dos quais eram mulheres. Isso representa cerca de 50 centenários para cada 100 mil pessoas, de acordo com o Estudo dos Centenários de Okinawa, dirigido pelo Dr. Makoto Suzuki. Na maioria dos países desenvolvidos, calcula-se que essa proporção seja de 10 a 20 centenários para cada 100 mil pessoas.

Essa pesquisa ainda em andamento, considerada por alguns como “o mais longo estudo ininterrupto do mundo sobre centenários”, constatou que “um número incomum deles [estava] extraordinariamente saudável”. Para descobrir a razão disso, o Dr. Suzuki e sua equipe examinaram o estilo de vida e a constituição genética de mais de 900 centenários e de muitos outros okinawanos de 70 anos ou mais. Os pesquisadores concluíram que a maioria dos idosos analisados estava em boa forma, que não tinham artérias obstruídas e que o índice de câncer e doenças cardíacas era notavelmente baixo. Além disso, dentre os que tinham quase 100 anos, poucos apresentavam demência em comparação com pessoas dessa faixa etária em outros países desenvolvidos. Qual o segredo?

Um fator importante é a genética. Mas há outros fatores envolvidos como não fumar, consumir bebidas alcoólicas com moderação e ter uma boa alimentação. Geralmente, a dieta dos okinawanos tem poucas calorias e é rica em verduras, legumes, frutas, fibras naturais e gorduras benéficas (ômega-3, gordura monoinsaturada). Além disso, eles têm o hábito de parar de comer quando estão cerca de 80% satisfeitos. “É bom parar de comer antes de se sentir completamente satisfeito”, diz o Dr. Bradley Willcox, que também participou no estudo. “Leva mais ou menos 20 minutos para que o cérebro receba a mensagem de que o estômago está cheio.”

Os okinawanos se mantêm fisicamente ativos por ocupar-se em atividades como jardinagem, caminhadas diárias e danças típicas. Testes de personalidade revelaram que os centenários são otimistas, adaptáveis e controlam bem o estresse. As mulheres em especial demonstraram uma “forte integração social”.

“Não há pílula mágica” para a longevidade, diz o Dr. Willcox. Conforme o estudo revelou, o que influencia a duração da vida são fatores genéticos, alimentação, exercícios, bons hábitos e “maneiras saudáveis de lidar com o estresse”.

Who Can Know the Future?

Who can know the future??.


by Kathy Venan on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 at 20:35
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“I am the Divine One . . . , the One telling from the beginning the finale, and from long ago the things that have not been done.”—Isaiah 46:9, 10.

IN THESE unstable times, political, financial, and social analysts study history and modern trends in an effort to predict the future. Others, desperate to know what the future holds for them personally, look to astrology or spiritism for answers. Such people are often disappointed with the results. Is it utterly impossible to know what will happen to this world, our families, and us as individuals? In the end, can anyone really foresee the future?

In his words to the prophet Isaiah, quoted above, Almighty God, Jehovah, described his own ability to foretell the future. Through Isaiah, God foretold the release of the ancient Israelites from Babylonian captivity and their return to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple. How precise was this prophecy? About 200 years in advance, Isaiah correctly named Babylon’s future conqueror, Cyrus. Furthermore, Isaiah accurately described Cyrus’ strategy—that of diverting the Euphrates River, which served to protect the city. He even foresaw that Cyrus would find the massive two-leaved doors in the city wall carelessly left open, contributing to Cyrus’ easy victory.—Isaiah 44:24–45:7.

Compared with God, man is powerless to peer into the future. “Do not make your boast about the next day,” wrote wise King Solomon, “for you do not know what a day will give birth to.” (Proverbs 27:1) That observation is still true. No human can foresee even his own future. What makes God different? He completely understands everything he has created, including the nature and inclination of man. When he chooses to do so, God can foresee exactly how individuals and entire nations will act. Further, he has unlimited ability to control the outcome of events. When he foretells through his prophets that something will occur, he becomes “the One making the word of his servant come true, and the One that carries out completely the counsel of his own messengers.” (Isaiah 44:26) Only Jehovah God can truthfully make that statement.

Isaiah lived more than 700 years before Jesus, the Messiah. Yet, Isaiah prophesied about the coming of the Messiah. Particularly from the 18th century on, however, critics of the Bible have attacked the authenticity of the book of Isaiah. They have claimed that Isaiah’s prophecies were not truly predictive but were written after the fact, a later writer merely recording what had already happened. Is that true? In 1947 a copy of the book of Isaiah was discovered, along with other ancient scrolls, in a cave near the Dead Sea. Scholars determined that this copy was made more than a hundred years before the birth of the foretold Messiah, or Christ. Yes, the Bible revealed the future!

Isaiah and other Bible writers could not have foretold future events based solely on their own insight. Rather, they “spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit.” (2 Peter 1:21) In the following articles, we will focus on some details of Jesus’ life that were foretold through Isaiah. Then we will consider events that Jesus and his disciples foretold for our day and beyond.












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