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刚才读到一篇好文，分享一下。。《ZT》Posted on December 17, 2020 by SundanceStop for a minute. Stop and breathe….Stop and sit in peace… Just stop, and join together.All around us is this great sense of foreboding ugh, and it’s not just connected to an election; it’s everything. Everything is weird, everything is not comfortable, everything is less joyful and requires an intensity of thought just to carry-on ordinary events.Christmas, the day we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is a week away; and yet everything around us seems less focused on joy – and more focused on what joy we are missing. At the heart of that anxiety is this sense of foreboding. A sense of fear and worry; a sense of trepidation.In our daily lives we encounter ordinary disconnects now. Masked faces are disconnecting our sense of interaction, our human connection. Unfortunately, and as a natural outcome of these challenges, we are accepting disconnect and creating a void inside ourselves. At the same time COVID is physically disconnecting people from their family. Many families will not gather this year to celebrate the joyous event of Christ’s birth. Many parents and grandparents will not see their adult children for the first time in years, perhaps ever.Amid all of this flux and ugh, even simple tasks like decorating the Christmas tree somehow feels, senses, seems less joyful. Perhaps financial worry stems the joy in shopping for family and friends. Perhaps the shine within cheer is slightly dimmed because all around us is something we cannot quite describe, yet we feel it.Perhaps tears flow at times and we struggle to understand what this unusual anxiety is all about. Then, we begin to struggle with the feeling of shame or guilt for being weak and allowing our humanity to pour out of our human-selves. Then, at the worst possible time in the year, our faith organizations are slow to understand the importance of fellowship and community amid an upheaval that takes our center from under our feet.Regional leaders make the anxiety worse. As our grip on our familiar surroundings becomes more tenuous, we are faced with dictates and mandates that only exacerbate the issues. The media drumbeat an incessant noise that destabilizes us and yet we cannot quite put our finger on why the impact is worse now…. it is all ugh.It is all just, ugh.If you find the assembly of these words familiar to your current sense, first understand YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Second, understand there is nothing wrong with you. This blanket of anxiety is laying across our entire nation, and we are all sensing a various level of this ‘ugh’ with some familiarity. However, that said, it is important to know this is transitional. We will not be in this place long. This too shall pass.How do we shake these destabilizing feelings and emotions?How do we reconnect to the core-spirit we carry in our lives?These are the questions we should use to leverage ourselves back to a center of peace and hope. These are the questions that empower us to recharge of our sense of purpose and life within the lives of others, including our community, family and friends.♦ The first way we shake this ‘ugh’, is to give to others without reservation. Giving with purpose is the true spirit of human contact. The giving is not related to money or wealth; the giving is related to our human purpose. Perhaps we give a smile. Perhaps we give a kind word. Perhaps we give a compliment, or perhaps we just give time to another.You could give a gift to another or perhaps send an email; or better yet write a letter to a dear friend or family member. Reach out and tell them they matter and express why their place in this life of yours is important. Remind them of your specific thankfulness, and connect to the purpose of why we endeavor in this thing we call life. The important thing is to give, and to do it without any other intent or purpose than to fill your own heart.♦ Within the giving, remind yourself what this journey is all about and look around to recognize how fortunate we are to have this life. Choose to cherish the ultimate gift from a loving God who wants joy and hope to permeate our human sense.Hope is the one necessary human element beyond all other facets of life. Give the gift of hope and light to those you love by first reminding yourself of the gift that a loving God has given us all. It is too easy in our human sense to forget the biggest gift we have been granted, the gift of life. The ability to live and choose how we engage in the lives of others.Remind yourself of the kind of purposeful HOPE that would leave a throne to be born into a manger as a baby only to grow into a Man willing to lay down His everything for the wretchedness of humanity.No politics or false sense of security can overwhelm the message of HOPE that a loving God has provided. No effort of man or human disposition can surmount the greatest love of all. The message of Christ’s birth is bigger and greater than any legislative battle. “No power of hell, nor scheme of man” can come close to the purpose of God’s intent and love for you as a unique person qualified to receive that love.Wrap yourself in the blanket of that unconditional love. Stop what you are doing.Pause in the peace of this moment… set down your troubles, LISTEN and FEEL.“Long lay the world in sin and error pining, til He appeared and the souls felt its worth. A thrill of HOPE; the weary world rejoices, for yonder breaks a new and glorious morn…”​点击展开...Let the tears flow, and with them release the foreboding. Engage in the next moment with a loving purpose filled with the HOPE that He provides. Fall forward to the centered purpose of your life, a very special life, and reflect on the gift we are too quick to diminish.“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.” Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.”‭‭Revelation‬ ‭21:1-6‬点击展开...Abiding love to all.Steadfast,~ Sundance

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好文，要配好歌。。

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800年来的第一颗圣诞星，下周可见，12月21日最亮读过圣经的知道，这是伯利恒之星，耶稣诞生日出现的，它带领三个智者来到伯利恒镇。。。。===============================近800年来的第一颗“圣诞节之星”即将出现 气象学家史蒂夫·奈特 2020年12月4日 The first 'Christmas Star' in nearly 800 years will soon be visible宾夕法尼亚州哈里斯堡）—罕见的“圣诞之星”即将到来！2020年是艰难的一年，但临近尾声时，我们将看到近800年以来从未出现过的天上圣诞节现象。将日历标记为12月21日（冬至），因为那是木星和土星在天空中非常接近的位置，以至于肉眼几乎看不到它们在“碰撞”。这将导致产生辐射光，通常称为“伯利恒之星”或“圣诞节之星”。自从1226年3月4日以来，这还没有发生过如此辉煌的事情，因为这两个行星之间的对准非常罕见，大约每20年才会发生一次。对齐方式通常被称为大章合，但是您必须回到1226，这是最后一次使两者如此紧密地对齐。要亲自了解这一点，您将不得不希望在日落后约45分钟能清楚看到西南天空。总体而言，它将在12月21日最接近地球，但是在12月的整个第四周，“圣诞星”应该在北半球的几乎任何地方都保持可见

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非常期待。根据报道这两颗星的最近距离只有一个小拇指那么近，不懂这个距离是指什么，但是非常期待看到圣诞星

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今天妹妹上课就聊到这个大事，好期待

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按照印度男孩的说法这次800年一遇的相撞将给地球带来灾难，我个人不认为如此，我还是按刘伯温的预测，明年农历12月7日（公历1月19日）将会出幺蛾子。 但愿刘伯温这次预测是错误的。

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