CS Lewis Song

*C.S. Lewis on Eternal Life*

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.
                                                                   - C.S. Lewis

LIFE and Death

'Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death. The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security. When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same. The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

If you die to everything you know, including your family, your memory, everything you have felt, then death is a purification, a rejuvenating process; then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death.

To find out actually what takes place when you die you must die. This isn't a joke. You must die - not physically but psychologically, inwardly, die to the things you have cherished and to the things you are bitter about. If you have died to one of your pleasures, the smallest or the greatest, naturally, without any enforcement or argument, then you will know what it means to die. To die is to have a mind that is completely empty of itself, empty of its daily longing, pleasure; and agonies. Death is a renewal, a mutation, in which thought does not function at all because thought is old. When there is death there is something totally new. Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.'
~Krishnamurti.

Walking on a Dream ~ Empire of the Sun

La-la-la-LOVE is LOUDER...........................

Dreams CAN and DO come true!

Or, "Ask and Ye Shall Receive!"

(Remind me to write about a similar experience I had several years ago. Involved $40 tho, not the lottery, LOL!!! ~ Kate)

An Auckland man has proved some dreams really do come true after dreaming his winning numbers - and then playing them to win $6.1 million on Lotto Powerball in last Saturday's draw.
The winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a regular Lotto player who picks his own numbers, but changes them from time to time.
A family spokesperson spoke to NZ Lotteries about the prophetic dream and the winner's reaction to his sudden luck.
"About five or six weeks ago, he dreamed of a set of Lotto numbers, so he changed his ticket to these new numbers - and what a result!
"He [the winner] called me up on Sunday saying he thought he'd won something, but he'd not heard all of the numbers. I looked them up on the internet for him and read them out while he checked them off, and he just kept saying 'yes, yes, yes' and we realised he'd got them all!
"It's pretty overwhelming winning such a large sum of money, right now he's just going to put it in the bank while he decides what he will be doing with it," said the spokesperson.
The winner bought his lucky ticket at St Lukes Lotto in Auckland. Their prize is made up of $142,857 from Lotto First Division and $6 million from Powerball First Division.

Article from Yahoo! News - Click Here!

~The Parking Space~

I phoned an old workmate and friend today to see how she was after hearing she had been in intensive care. Thankfully she is fine. Reminded me of the time, a couple of years or so back, when she used to pick me up for work every Monday to Thursday. Almost every day we would stop at the bakery near work for a feed, since we worked over the dinner hour. (And like I ever need an excuse to eat, LOL!) Almost every day we would have to drive up a side street by the bakery corner and park there, since parking spaces were hard to come by at this shopping centre. Occasionally we were lucky enough to squeeze into a park outside, or up the street a little, but usually it was the side street.

One particular day, as we were driving up the hill before turning right into the main street where the bakery was, I spontaneously said to my friend, "God, let there be a parking space for us ... See what Holy Spirit thinks of me." My friend, not being of any particularly spiritual persuasion probably thought I was out of my tree! (And it wouldn't be the first time, haha!) Anyhow, as we approached the main street and turned the corner both our mouths dropped to the floor. EVERY PARKING SPACE WAS VACANT! THERE WASN'T A CAR TO BE SEEN!!!

My friend seemed totally blown away and no one is ever more surprised than me when these things happen. Not sure what she made of it in the end, but I sure knew it was a miracle! Thank you Holy Spirit! :~D