Perry Belcher | Tefillin
US AIRWAYS Flight 3079 from Laguardia to Louisville was diverted to Philadelphia after a seeming bomb scare wthis Thursday morning. The reports said that the scare was brought about by a seventeen year old boy who was using phylacteries travelling from White Plains New York with his 16 year old sister to Louisville.
“So great is the mitzvah of tefillin that whoever wears them will live a long life…. and Raba said that all who wear tefillin and wrap themselves with a tallis, and say the Shema and pray are promised a place in Olam Haba,…. Abaye said that the fires of Gehinom will not affect him…. Rav Papa said that all of his sins are forgiven.” [Tur O”H 37}
SO WHAT IS A PHYLACTERY?
A Phylactery,collectively known as tefillin is either of the two small boxes, usually made of black leather with straps attached to them worn on the arm and head during certain Jewish services tefillin is either of two small leather boxes with straps attached to them containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer. Observant Jewish men are required to place one box on their head and tie the other one on their arm as part of their morning prayers.
Apparently, the City police Lt. Frank Vanore says the crew on US Airways Flight 3079 questioned the teen because the tefillin is something that the average person is not going to see very often according to FBI spokesman J.J. Klaver. The teens were cooperative with law enforcement and were even more alarmed than they were according to the police.
Good news is the plane landed without incident and that the passengers deplaned and are being re accommodated on other flights according to US Airways spokesperson Jim Olson.
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Perry Belcher | Free At Last, free at last
Martin Luther King
What a great honor it is to celebrate the birthday of our American hero Dr. Martin Luther King.
In today’s climate, the days, where true stand up heros are few and far between, Dr. King reminds us of the power we ALL have.
Today, to give your life for what you believe in is seen by most to be insane.
Instead we whine and complain, post on blogs or just try to pretend the ugliness of the world doesn’t exist.
Dr. King’s legacy has lived on because he took a stand that he knew might cost him his life.
That is a MAN! 100%.
So the next time you feel bothered by a injustice, stand up an fight. You might just amaze yourself.
Feel free to post your thoughts on Dr. King below
Perry Belcher | Buried Under The Rubble
As you walk over the rocks and the scrambled pieces of what used to be a building you hear the desperate but weak moans and cry’s of “help me, please”
To many to count, everywhere you go.
You are powerless.
Imagine the smell of rotting human bodies by the thousands lining the streets, so many in fact they have to be moved by bulldozers to make way for aid for the living.
Imagine the frustration of doctors and aid workers with little or no supplies, people dying, when they know massive stocks of supplies are just a few miles away, held only by disorganization…
If I disturbed you with these mental images it’s because I meant to
Hi, Perry Belcher here. I hope while your reading this you and your family are well.
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Today the http://www.redcross.org needs your help to to save the lives of thousands of your fellow human beings.
Please help now by going to the link below and making any donation you can to help. It’s the right thing to do.
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Just Do It
JUST DO IT
I am sure that all of us are guilty that we have already failed to do something that we should have. And when this case happens, we immediately resort into making alibis or excuses.
Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. ~Ani Difranco
Usually, it is because we do not want to accept responsibility for our mistake and we do not want to admit our fault that we end up being excuse-makers. Making excuses for mistakes is not new. In fact, we can trace this undesirable habit all the way back to the Garden of Eden when God caught Adam eating the forbidden fruit.
The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”- Genesis 3:12
“The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” Genesis 3:13
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. ~Steven Grayhm
Excuses negate responsibility.
“And oftentimes, excusing of a fault,
Doth make a fault the worse by the excuse;
As patches set upon a little breach,
Discredit more in hiding of the fault,
Than did the fault before it was so patch’d.- Shakespear
Excuses are harmful because they prevent one from succeeding. When we make excuses and repeat them often enough, we tend to believe it to be true already, and this further inhabit us from taking corrective measures.
Limitations are actually a thing of the mind. We can do anything we make up your mind to do. Determination always finds a way around obstacles. It is by refusing to make excuses and in being responsible that we build our self-respect, pride and confidence, which in turn breeds competence and power. By living up to our promises and obligations, we win the trust of others which in turn helps us to succeed.
A very inspiring role model for this is Filipino American Jessica Cox who was born without arms. She is a daughter of a retired American music teacher and a Filipina nurse from Samar province. Jessica, despite being born without arms, holds the distinction of being the first woman pilot in aviation history to fly with her feet.
There are many strategies to living a successful life, but nothing makes sense unless you have already been through all the previous guides , it’s time to know what the road to success looks like so as not to be frightened when you start walking that path. You will feel proud of yourself for overcoming all of these obstacles and for reaching your goals despite of the many things that stood in your way. To find out how to do exactly that – Go here: Perry Belcher
Perry Belcher | PUT OTHER PEOPLE IN THEIR PLACE
PUT OTHER PEOPLE IN THEIR PLACE
This does not invoke violence. It simply means give value to other’s opinions about you as to how realistic and important as they really are. There is nothing wrong with having to listen to other people, as long as these opinions does not inhibit us from being the best person we could be.
How you think is everything. Remember to “think positive” at every opportunity. Visualize success, not failure. Avoid negative environments and people.
PUT YOURSELF IN YOUR PLACE
To move the world, we must first move ourselves
Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right
It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
You are what you think…not what other people think. Champions believe in themselves even if no one else does In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. They can because they think they can.
Perry Belcher | Stand by Our Own Conviction
Have you ever felt being angry because things did not go the way you wanted it to go? A lot of times, we do things that we end up feeling regretful or not fulfilled at all. Most of the times, we are forced to do things even if we do not like them. Picture these scenes for instance:
• An overachiever student who got good grades and was involved in just about every extracurricular activity her school offered because her father told her she would fail.
• Someone who is a fence sitter who just goes with the flow even when things are against his will
• A girl who have sex with her boyfriend to prove her love for him even if it is against her will
• Someone who is a wallflower who sees and knows everything but does not say a word because they can not handle someone paying attention to them even though they crave it too.
There is nothing wrong with being an overachiever, nor there nothing wrong with going with the flow once in a while. Neither making love with the person that we love nor being an introvert is wrong. There is nothing wrong in doing things as long as it does not affect our capability of doing or saying anything due to fear. Whatever we are doing should never be against our own belief and should never inhibit our creativity, and productivity. What is common in all these scenarios is what we call: FEAR OF REJECTION.
I am sure all of us have in one way or another at some stage in our life had been vulnerable at this fear of rejection. Perhaps this fear of rejection had been inadvertently encumbered with us in our pasts that had us react to avoid due to being hurt. I am not saying we should not be hurt, after all we have emotions nor we are dead. But what makes this fear hinder us from succeeding in life is when it paralyzes us into becoming the best that we can be, hence, it no longer gives us happiness in what we do.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. – Aristotle
Of course, we fear that nobody will like us, but what is most important is that we like who we are. Fearing other people’s opinions towards us is like rejecting ourselves first and foremost. We should learn to accept and love ourselves first because nobody else will love it more than we do. People will like us depending on how we present ourselves, which is oftentimes, how we perceive ourselves to be.
One thing I like about myself is….
Perhaps there is more than one reason that we can think of to end this sentence. One great thing about being human is that we are created by God, and that is enough reason for us to love ourselves. Once we accept and love ourselves, we can always pray the same words that King David used in his prayer:
The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?- Psalm 71
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Forgiveness
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Friday, January 8, 2010 at 9:32pm | Edit Note | Delete
FORGIVENESS
I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, Philippians 3:13
One of the great secrets of successful people is having the ability to forgive. I know for a lot of people it is not an easy task especially when we are hurt and we have been wronged. Also, when we feel that there is an injustice done towards us. But let me tell you why it is a necessary ability for people who want to succeed in life.
Not being able to forgive is the greatest obstacle that anyone who wants to succeed in life could ever have. It cripples us physically, mentally, emotionally as well as spiritually. Allowing the bad things in our life to haunt us is a thief that will rob us of health, happiness, and success, if we allow it. As the famous saying goes:
Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. ~ Unknown
For some people, it is hard to forgive a wrong done to us because of the thinking that it is an admission that no injustice has taken place. Yes, there might have been an injustice, but it is not an admonition to ignore the past and the pains that we have been afflicted with, but simply not letting this past and pains to continue to hurt us. By forgiving, we are disarming this injustice and disenabling the power that this injustice had once over us.
For some of us, we might find forgiving hard to do, because we feel that forgiving would seem that we are soft or passive about sin, but in reality, forgiving does not mean that we tolerate sin, but instead, we are being righteous through it. It does not mean that we have to compromise our righteousness; instead we increase the righteousness within us to be able to rise above this injustice.
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:14
Revenge is sweet, sweeter than life itself – so say fools
As an old Chinese saying advises,
“If you are seeking revenge,
you’d better dig two graves.”
Revenge does not quench anger because it refuses to be satisfied. And worse, with resentment is we become a warped character wherein it makes us become like the one whom we can not forgive.
I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor. 2 Samuel 16:22
Stop being sorry for Self
Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many .Hebrew 12:15
We should quit bringing these negative pasts of ours up, in order to forget its hold on us. We simply need to STOP blaming these pains we feel over one person. It is natural that we will feel hurt once an injustice had been done to us, but it is up to us if we will let this injustice hurt us longer and paralyze us more. Forgiving is a thing we do not need to do for those who trespass us but a thing that we should do for our own good.
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander. Matthew 15:19
Even if we do not do revenge, simply being burdened by anger and resentment is already as if doing revenge, which Is never a good thing for ourselves. As all human revenge, never lead to any good.
We simply have to Let God be God
God alone, who gave the law, is the Judge. He alone has the power to save or to destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor? James 4:12
We should trust in God’s faithful word, and let God do his assignment, so that we can be free to do ours. Rather than having these resentments consume our energy and time doing things that will not make us a better person, we should refocus these energies into the things that will make us reach the best that God had intended for us in order to succeed in life. We can hold onto God’s promise in Romans 12:19, Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay, “says the Lord.
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