The document discusses various people smiling in different situations and contexts, with underlying meanings and intentions that are not always apparent. It describes a businessman smiling to hide evil intentions, a politician smiling through effort to appease a crowd, a postman smiling to extract favors, a policeman smiling to protect his family by going easy on a criminal, a waiter smiling unwillingly due to demanding customers, a doctor smiling while accepting money, a drunk man smiling to hide misery, a magician smiling through weariness to entertain audiences, and a creator smiling to encompass all of existence, in contrast to the genuine smile of the narrator's beloved meant only for them.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
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What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
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The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
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Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
1. SMILE
When the astute businessman smiled profoundly exposing his entire armory of teeth;
it seemed deliberate and artificial,
I developed an instantaneous abhorrence for him; as he seemed to be having evil
intentions lurking furtively in his mind.
When the power hungry politician on the stage smiled; embellished scrupulously in
magnificent attire; it seemed as if he was putting in a marathon amount of effort,
He was forcing his lips wide trying to appease the boisterous crowd; when actually
the interior realms of his mind wanted him to thunderously snore and sleep.
When the potbellied postman standing on the door smiled; it looked as if he was
trying to conceal his intense infuriation,
The ulterior motive behind his congeniality was to extract a glass of cool water;
munch at some sizzling refreshments; when he actually felt that he threw the bulky
parcels on the ground and ran away.
When the stringent policeman smiled at the culprit; it seemed as if he was vehemently
trying to suppress his intense indignation,
All he was doing was nimbly buckling under a threat to his family; when he knew he
should be indiscriminately thrashing the criminal for his plethora of barbaric deeds.
When the waiter in the restaurant effeminately smiled; it blatantly appeared as if he
was unwillingly pretending,
The bulging purses of his customers had made him adapt to unfair means; while in
reality he fervently wished to splash a glass of water on their faces for rebuking and
condemning him.
When the doctor in the operation theatre smiled; on first sight it seemed as if he was
philanthropic and committed diligently to the impoverished society,
Although after a while I saw him guffawing loudly; while accepting a colossal sum of
money for his benevolent deed.
When the drunkard man swaying rampantly on the street smiled; it appeared as if he
was hiding a trail of forlorn misery,
There was an accentuated sea of anguish lingering in his inebriated eyes; and he
stretched the corners of his cheek simply to pacify apprehensions regarding his
health.
When the magician swirling on the stage smiled; it seemed as if it was an intentional
attempt to allure the audience,
2. The conglomerate of his bones felt weary after performing for the entire day; and all
he wanted was a cup of steaming coffee compounded with infinite hours of blissful
silence.
When the omniscient creator smiled on this earth; there was no questioning the
authenticity of his smile,
Although it encompassed scores of organisms; the tangible and ethereal; and I had
only a minuscule fraction of his smile to preserve meticulously with me.
And when my beloved smiled staring deeply at me with her emphatic eyes; she put an
abrupt end to all my quandaries regarding the world,
It was a smile, which impregnated in me a new spirit to live; a smile which was
exclusively meant for me and mind you this time I wasn’t ready to share .