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4 Zodiac Signs Attract Abundance & Luck On Monday, September 7, 2026

Four zodiac signs are attracting abundance and luck on Monday, September 7, 2026. Today, Venus trines the North…
#NewsBeep #News #Entertainment #abundance #GB #luck #UK #UnitedKingdom #zodiac #zodiacsign #ZodiacSigns
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/762332/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1190358/ 4 Zodiac Signs Attract Abundance & Luck On Monday, September 7, 2026 #abundance #Entertainment #luck #UK #UnitedKingdom #Zodiac #ZodiacSign #ZodiacSigns

Birch trunk over ferns, Finland

#photography #nature #outdoors #finland #fern #birch #forest #relaxation #meditation #abundance #green #silentsunday

Birch trunk over ferns, Finland

#photography #nature #outdoors #finland #fern #birch #forest #relaxation #meditation #abundance #green #silentsunday

Birch trunk over ferns, Finland

#photography #nature #outdoors #finland #fern #birch #forest #relaxation #meditation #abundance #green #silentsunday

Birch trunk over ferns, Finland

#photography #nature #outdoors #finland #fern #birch #forest #relaxation #meditation #abundance #green #silentsunday

#Indigenous Leadership for Transformative #ClimateAction

By Kaniela Ing & #NDNCollective

Excerpt: "Restoring Regeneration

"Climate justice will require a significant structural shift from a #ProfitBased global #extractive economy to #NeedsBased, #localized, #RegenerativeEconomies. Anthropologists believe that, for centuries, people in many Indigenous societies worked roughly 15 hours a week to provide for their personal and communal needs. Our ancestors mastered advanced ecological management practices—like #regenerativeAgriculture , #aquaculture, #ControlledBurning, and #CoralReef replenishment — that Western empiricism is finally catching up to after decades of colonial governments banning such practices. These highly efficient Indigenous systems afforded our ancestors ample time to engage in fellowship with friends, practice arts and #crafts, learn new skills, or just relax and enjoy their lives.

"Today, we produce enough goods and services to exceed the needs of all among us, but poverty and income equality remain stark. Extractive systems endlessly require another valley, another river, another island, another continent—until there is nowhere left to occupy, conquer, pollute, and destroy. No clearer purveyor of this #ColonialMindset exists than the man who milked the most out of the #ExtractiveEconomy. Jeff Bezos, currently the richest man in the world, recently spent $5.5 billion dollars on a joyride to space using the money he’s hoarded by exploiting and abusing hundreds of thousands of workers selling mostly useless goods—made cheap by the monopoly power of Amazon and Amazon-affiliated companies—to the masses. Like a movie villain, his first comment upon witnessing the majesty of our cosmos was that we should immediately begin polluting it by exporting our trash beyond Earth’s orbit.

"We should take heart in the fact that people built our oppressive institutions, because it means that people can dismantle them and build something new. People hold the knowledge and technologies to transform society. All we need is moral fortitude and revolutionary courage. Today’s extractive systems were created and are upheld by the colonial myths of scarcity, individualism, and the sanctity of free markets. Tomorrow’s regenerative systems must be rooted in the Indigenous realities of #abundance, community codependency, and deep #reciprocal relationships between the planet and its people."

Read more:
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/11/17/indigenous-leadership-transformative-climate-action

#SolarPunkSunday #CircularEconomy #BuildingCommunity #SharingKnowledge #Degrowth #ClimateResilience #SharingEconomy #GrowYourOwnFood #Capitalism #CorporateColonialism #ClimateAction #Earth4All

ORDINARY GRACE 💎

Brunch was good today.

It was cleaning Sunday, so we had hamburgers at Grill’d.

Afterwards, I walked from North Hobart into the city to meet Pete.

Now I am home, fresh from breathwork, feeling grateful and wondering what I could possibly have done to deserve such abundance.

Probably nothing.

Deserving belongs to the world of deals and bargains.

Be good, get rewarded.

Work hard, earn the prize.

But this does not feel like a prize.

It feels like life simply giving itself.

A clean house.

A delicious hamburger.

A long #walk through quiet #Hobart.

Breath moving through my body.

Peter.

Two small white #pups.

A #tranquil afternoon.

Nothing dramatic.

Nothing earned.

Just ordinary #grace.

Perhaps grace is not the great event we are waiting for.

Perhaps it is this.

Life is already here in all its glory, before we decide whether we deserve it or not...

#Brunch #Sunday #hamburgers #Grill’d #grateful #home #abundance #city #world #reward #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #cooking #AI

California Gardening: Massive Kale Harvest: How to Manage a “Kale Jungle” https://www.allforgardening.com/1740751/california-gardening-massive-kale-harvest-how-to-manage-a-kale-jungle/ #abundance #BackyardGarden #CaliforniaGardening #CurlyKale #GardenTips #gardening #GrowingKale #HarvestingGreens #HomegrownFood #KaleHarvest #KaleJungle #OrganicGardening #VegetableGardening #VegetableHarvest #VLog

Friday, January 2, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/friday-january-2-2026/

‘ Abundance’ Tiny flowers on Skimmia Japonica can be overlooked as they are so small. So I thought they deserved some limelight✨This still life was only about 4 inches wide. #bsky.art #bloomscrolling #botanicalphotography #EastCoastKin #abundance #flowerphotography #skimmiajaponica #art #stilllife

"…#Democrats’ unrequited pursuit of #bipartisanship can lead them to undermine their legislative initiatives. But the [#broadbandpolicy] story #EzraKlein shared absolutely doesn’t support the thrust of #Abundance or the themes of the wider #Abundancemovement.

In fact, the takeaway from the broadband tale is that the biggest obstacles to efficiency and abundance are often #corporatepower and its #corruptinginfluence on our politics — factors typically downplayed or unmentioned in the Abundance Discourse."
@davidsirota

https://www.levernews.com/abundance-is-how-dems-lose-to-trump/

Blooming into Balance: Celebrating Ostara 2025

The air is changing. A gentle warmth replaces the winter’s chill, and the world awakens with a vibrant burst of life. Ostara, the Spring Equinox, is upon us! This Pagan Sabbat marks the moment when day and night are of equal length, a perfect balance before the sun’s power begins to dominate. In 2025, we’ll be celebrating Ostara on Thursday, March 20th.

Ostara is a time of renewal, rebirth, and growth. It’s a celebration of the Goddess Ostara (or Eostre), associated with dawn, spring, and fertility, and a welcoming of the returning sun. Let’s delve into how you can celebrate this vibrant Sabbat, whether you’re a solitary practitioner or part of a coven.

💫 Correspondences of Ostara

 💫 Deities:

Ostara/Eostre, Persephone, Flora, Green Man, any deities associated with spring, dawn, and fertility.

 💫 Colors:

Pastel shades of green, yellow, pink, white, and light blue.

 💫 Symbols:

Eggs, rabbits, hares, flowers (especially daffodils, tulips, and crocuses), seeds, budding trees, lambs, butterflies.

 💫 Herbs and Flowers:

Daffodils, tulips, crocuses, violets, honeysuckle, sage, and anything new and green.

 💫 Stones:

Rose quartz, aquamarine, moonstone, and any light-colored crystals.

 💫 Incense/Oils:

Floral scents like jasmine, rose, and violet, as well as light, fresh scents like lemon and sandalwood.

 💫 Foods:

Eggs (decorated and plain), leafy greens, spring vegetables, seeds, honey cakes, and fruit.

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✨ Altar Setup

Your Ostara altar should reflect the vibrancy & colors of spring and can be in or outdoors.

Consider:

 ✨ A white or pastel-colored altar cloth.

 ✨ Fresh flowers in a vase.

 ✨ Decorated eggs or a nest of eggs.

 ✨ Images or figurines of rabbits or hares.

 ✨ Seeds or small potted plants.

 ✨ Candles in Ostara colors.

 ✨ Crystals that resonate with the season.

 ✨ A bowl of spring water.

 ✨ A representation of your chosen deities.

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🌛Rituals for Ostara

 🌛 Planting Ritual:

Plant seeds or seedlings to symbolize new beginnings and growth. As you plant, speak your intentions aloud.

 🌛 Equinox Meditation:

Find a quiet space and meditate on the balance of light and dark, the renewal of nature, and your own personal growth.

 🌛 Journaling:

Reflect on your goals and intentions for the coming season. Write about what you want to grow and cultivate in your life.

🌛 Offering Ritual:

Make offerings to Ostara or your chosen deities, such as flowers, seeds, or honey cakes.

 🌛 Spring Cleansing Ritual:

Cleanse your home and sacred space, both physically and energetically, to make way for new energy. Use sage, palo santo, or spring-scented essential oils.

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Solitary Practitioner Activities

 🌟 Nature Walk:

Spend time in nature, observing the signs of spring. Gather flowers, leaves, or stones to add to your altar.

 🌟 Crafting:

Create Ostara-themed crafts, such as egg decorations, flower crowns, or nature mandalas.

 🌟  Baking:

Bake spring-themed treats, such as honey cakes or egg-rich pastries.

 🌟  Dawn Meditation:

Wake up early and greet the sunrise, welcoming the return of the light.

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Coven Activities

🌟 Plant a communal garden or tree, symbolizing the coven’s shared growth and intentions.

 🌟  Egg Hunt:

Organize an egg hunt with hidden blessings or messages inside the eggs.

 🌟  Circle Casting:

Perform a group ritual to honor Ostara, invoking the energies of spring and balance.

 🌟  Potluck Feast:

Share a meal of spring-inspired dishes, celebrating the abundance of the season.

 🌟  Storytelling and Singing:

Share stories and songs related to Ostara and the spring season.

 🌟  Maypole Dancing (If appropriate):

Maypoles are often associated with Beltane, but as the spring energies rise, a smaller maypole dance could be incorporated to celebrate the returning fertility of the earth.

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Ostara whispers of fresh starts and the quiet strength of budding life. It’s a time to turn inward, to examine the seeds of your own dreams, and gently coax them into bloom. Whether you find solace in solitary reflection or joy in shared celebration, take this moment to truly connect with the earth’s awakening. Listen to the birdsong, feel the sun’s gentle warmth, and let the promise of spring fill your heart. Plant your intentions with care, nurture them with kindness, and watch as your own unique potential unfolds. May your Ostara be filled with personal growth, renewed hope, and the blossoming of your truest self. Happy Ostara!

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🌈 Ostara Ritual for Renewal

The Seed of Potential: An Ostara Ritual for Renewal

Choose a space where you feel connected to nature, whether it’s outdoors or a designated sacred space indoors.

Welcome, fellow seekers, to the vibrant dawn of Ostara. As the Earth awakens from its winter slumber, we too are called to embrace renewal and growth. This ritual is designed to honor the Spring Equinox, the moment of perfect balance, and to plant the seeds of our own potential.

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Preparation

🌈 Timing:

Perform this ritual on the Spring Equinox, ideally at dawn or during the day when the sun is high.

 🌈 Location:

Choose a space where you feel connected to nature, whether it’s outdoors or a designated sacred space indoors

 🌈 Altar:

Set up your Ostara altar with the correspondences mentioned in the previous blog. Include a small pot of soil, seeds (representing your intentions), and a bowl of fresh spring water.

 🌈 Tools:

You will need candles (pastel colors), incense (floral or fresh scents), and a representation of the Goddess Ostara (or your chosen spring deity).

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⭐ The Ritual ⭐

 🌈 Casting the Circle:

If you typically cast a circle, do so now, invoking the elements and guardians.

 🌈 Invocation:

Light your candles and incense. Stand before your altar and say:

   “Ostara, Goddess of Dawn and Spring, we welcome your light. The Earth awakens, and so do we. We gather here, at the point of perfect balance, to honor the return of life and the blooming of potential.”

 🌈 Honoring the Equinox:

Take a moment to feel the balance of light and dark. Close your eyes and visualize the sun rising, bringing warmth and vitality to the Earth. Say:

   “Day and night are equal, a moment of perfect harmony. We honor the balance within and without, the dance of light and shadow, and the promise of growth.”

 🌈 Planting the Seeds of Intention:

Take the pot of soil and the seeds. As you hold the seeds, visualize your intentions for the coming season. What do you wish to cultivate in your life? Speak your intentions aloud, infusing the seeds with your energy.

   “These seeds represent the potential within me. I plant them with intention, nurturing my dreams and aspirations. May they grow strong and vibrant, bringing forth the fruits of my labor.”

   Plant the seeds in the soil.

 🌈 Blessing the Seeds and Water:

Hold the bowl of spring water over the planted seeds. Say:

   “Water of life, nourish these seeds of intention. May they be blessed with growth, vitality, and abundance.”

   Sprinkle the water over the soil.

 🌈 Meditation and Visualization:

Sit or stand comfortably. Close your eyes and visualize your intentions taking root and flourishing. See them growing into vibrant manifestations of your desires. Feel the warmth of the sun and the gentle breeze of spring.

 🌈 Offering to Ostara:

Offer a small gift to Ostara, such as flowers, a decorated egg, or a poem. Say:

   “Ostara, we thank you for the gifts of spring. We offer our gratitude and respect, and we celebrate the renewal of life.”

 🌈 Grounding:

Take a few deep breaths, grounding yourself in the present moment. Feel the connection to the Earth and the energy of spring.

 🌈 Releasing the Circle:

 If you cast a circle, release it now, thanking the elements and guardians.

 🌈 Closing:

Extinguish the candles and incense. Place the pot of seeds in a sunny location and water them regularly, nurturing your intentions as they grow.

🌈 Reflection:

After the ritual, take some time to journal about your experience. Reflect on your intentions and how you plan to nurture them throughout the spring and summer. This ritual is a powerful way to connect with the energies of Ostara and to embrace the potential for growth within yourself. May your spring be filled with joy, abundance, and renewal.

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Cap 3000 a Valhalla blinding consumers

On my last day at the Cote d’Azur I at our walk in Saint Laurant du Var we also went walking in a huge shopping centre Cap 3000, opposite the airport Nice Cote d’Azur.

a veritable institution at the heart of the French Riviera: a shopping mall in a fabulous location, standing on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

Located on the western edge of Nice, right next to the international airport

It offers an attractive and diversified range of shops for all the family, from major high-street names to small boutiques. There’s something for all tastes and all budgets! You can meander through the mall until 9pm from Monday to Saturday

At the moment it has 180 shops in a magnificent building, which is being made to a much bigger place, with an additional two floors full of shops. When walking through the beautiful shopping mall I felt in the Walhalla of mankind or Valhalla, a splendid palace, roofed with shields, where the warriors feast on the flesh of a boar slaughtered daily and made whole again each evening. They drink liquor that flows from the udders of a goat, and their sport is to fight one another every day. It is the grand place for lust and indulgence, where today is not thought of the Ragnarök or Doomsday.

So many people have to work hard for the wages they might get, but here it looks like all those walking around have enough money to spend for hours in hundreds of attracting shops.

For sure all those people seem to trust in all those things or gadgets beautifully presented in those places which cry to come in and feel as if you can be the honourable guest of fortune.

Having walked through that “Palace of abundance” or better “superabundance” I could not resist looking at a lot of people who have their heart sold to all those material products but have no eye for what can not be seen.

At the Biblestudents you can read how Jesus fed many people and shall be able to read (from 2018, October 19) about Jesus who once more was concerned about real hungry people (Matthew 15:32-39 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: 4000 Fed). There too there was a material problem, food or something for the stomach. Though in the gospels we also receive the lesson for more important food, whereof not many seem to think about today. Most people are not hungering for the right things (James 4:3).  Their eyes and heart are focused on the material things of this world. Consumption has become the new god today, after we had money as the new god entering our world from the golden 1960ies. Money and consumption are the male and female god who feel very nice together and who have a better marriage than most couples today. They are namely a very jealous couple which like to get people to want for more and more all the time,getting them into a state of never feeling to have enough.

The Mammon or god of this world has the Dollars and Euros flying in the air,many people jumping up to catch them, for soon going to spend them, often on things they really do not need or which pollute our world further. (Think of all those capsules of Nespresso for example.)

What is most important for many today is that they can enjoy their life with as many gadgets and handy tools as possible. Many go about their lives feeding on the thoughts of their own mind and of their greed. Anxieties, worries, and cares of this life creep in and rob us of the One Who Looks at this world and can see how man does not really want to see Who and what is important for their life and future. I wondered how many would feel His abiding presence.

If we feed on sports, worldly entertainment, social media, material wealth, creature comforts and trivia, is it no wonder that we hunger for those things rather than the things of God?

These days in the Provence I could enjoy beautiful countrysides, lovely small villages, like Tourettes sur Loup, Saint Paul de Vence, etc. and the lovely city Nice where like in many French places people did not take away their dog droppings. In those bigger places we could see many clustered at their phone or walking like they do not like the day, or are taken away from the world by the music from their earphones. Feeding themselves with worldly entertainment, social media, material wealth, creature comforts and trivia.

Clearly we could feel to be in a world where the hunger was or is on other things than the spiritual, though we encountered many Buddha sculptures and yoga places.

Wherever we look around us we can see that in this world many have grown cold by feasting on the things of the flesh and therefore no longer hunger for God. Lots of people love to be filled, but are focussing on things which pass or have limited value. They are filled with worldliness and are thus deceived into being comfortable and contented (Rev. 3:17-18).

When we see how at several occasions Jesus took care for the people around him, we notice how God was with Jesus and provided enough food for the crowd. Throughout history of mankind we can find examples where God was with His people and took care of them.

We should not be afraid. Even when we have not a filled purse, God shall take care that we would be able to manage. His Word and His blessings shall provide for those things we really need in life.
At all times we should not forget that He is the Maker and Provider, the Rock and our Protector.

When people “rend their hearts” and turn back to God (Joel 2:13) God shall receive them with open arms. As any Father would do, He shall look for the best of His children. But as any Father He also would like to be recognised and respected as Father.

We must seek Jehovah God for who He is and not what He can provide. As we devote ourselves to prayer and His word, we will begin to sense His presence and draw near to Him.

From the gospels we learn that God provided a man,who not only could speak in the name of God but also act in the name of God. By believing in that sent one from God, as the scripture says, will have rivers of living water flowing from his inmost heart. (John 7:38) If much more people would know the generosity of God and who Jesus is, they would be feeling much better and would appreciate others with the same fate with the knowledge or certitude that together they can count on Jesus giving us  fresh, living water, so that we should not be thirsty any more. Because the water Jesus gives will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life. (John 4:10; John 4:14)  Therefore let us look for a better meal than the one offered by all those consumer needy tents. Let us remember that Jesus said,

“I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever.
(John 6:35)

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Find also to read and think about

1. A multifold of elements in creation and a bad choice made
2. Life isn’t unfair
3. Matthew 14:14-22 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: 5,000 Fed
4. Focusing on being a blessing
5. Less… is still enough
6. Selfishness can become our biggest ally for the Money Free Movement
7. Being ‘broke’ a state of mind
8. Listening to the lessons of the Bible and looking for ways to please God
9. God should be your hope
10. Ability (part 4) Thought about the ability to have ability
11. True riches
12. Good to make sure that you haven’t lost the things money can’t buy
13. Count your blessings
14. Not everything has to be reciprocated with money
15. Blow to legitimacy of the capitalist system
16. 2013 Lifestyle, religiously and spiritualy
17. Greed more common than generosity
18. How we think shows through in how we act

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Cap 3000 a Valhalla blinding consumers

On my last day at the Cote d’Azur I at our walk in Saint Laurant du Var we also went walking in a huge shopping centre Cap 3000, opposite the airport Nice Cote d’Azur.

a veritable institution at the heart of the French Riviera: a shopping mall in a fabulous location, standing on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

Located on the western edge of Nice, right next to the international airport

It offers an attractive and diversified range of shops for all the family, from major high-street names to small boutiques. There’s something for all tastes and all budgets! You can meander through the mall until 9pm from Monday to Saturday

At the moment it has 180 shops in a magnificent building, which is being made to a much bigger place, with an additional two floors full of shops. When walking through the beautiful shopping mall I felt in the Walhalla of mankind or Valhalla, a splendid palace, roofed with shields, where the warriors feast on the flesh of a boar slaughtered daily and made whole again each evening. They drink liquor that flows from the udders of a goat, and their sport is to fight one another every day. It is the grand place for lust and indulgence, where today is not thought of the Ragnarök or Doomsday.

So many people have to work hard for the wages they might get, but here it looks like all those walking around have enough money to spend for hours in hundreds of attracting shops.

For sure all those people seem to trust in all those things or gadgets beautifully presented in those places which cry to come in and feel as if you can be the honourable guest of fortune.

Having walked through that “Palace of abundance” or better “superabundance” I could not resist looking at a lot of people who have their heart sold to all those material products but have no eye for what can not be seen.

At the Biblestudents you can read how Jesus fed many people and shall be able to read (from 2018, October 19) about Jesus who once more was concerned about real hungry people (Matthew 15:32-39 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: 4000 Fed). There too there was a material problem, food or something for the stomach. Though in the gospels we also receive the lesson for more important food, whereof not many seem to think about today. Most people are not hungering for the right things (James 4:3).  Their eyes and heart are focused on the material things of this world. Consumption has become the new god today, after we had money as the new god entering our world from the golden 1960ies. Money and consumption are the male and female god who feel very nice together and who have a better marriage than most couples today. They are namely a very jealous couple which like to get people to want for more and more all the time,getting them into a state of never feeling to have enough.

The Mammon or god of this world has the Dollars and Euros flying in the air,many people jumping up to catch them, for soon going to spend them, often on things they really do not need or which pollute our world further. (Think of all those capsules of Nespresso for example.)

What is most important for many today is that they can enjoy their life with as many gadgets and handy tools as possible. Many go about their lives feeding on the thoughts of their own mind and of their greed. Anxieties, worries, and cares of this life creep in and rob us of the One Who Looks at this world and can see how man does not really want to see Who and what is important for their life and future. I wondered how many would feel His abiding presence.

If we feed on sports, worldly entertainment, social media, material wealth, creature comforts and trivia, is it no wonder that we hunger for those things rather than the things of God?

These days in the Provence I could enjoy beautiful countrysides, lovely small villages, like Tourettes sur Loup, Saint Paul de Vence, etc. and the lovely city Nice where like in many French places people did not take away their dog droppings. In those bigger places we could see many clustered at their phone or walking like they do not like the day, or are taken away from the world by the music from their earphones. Feeding themselves with worldly entertainment, social media, material wealth, creature comforts and trivia.

Clearly we could feel to be in a world where the hunger was or is on other things than the spiritual, though we encountered many Buddha sculptures and yoga places.

Wherever we look around us we can see that in this world many have grown cold by feasting on the things of the flesh and therefore no longer hunger for God. Lots of people love to be filled, but are focussing on things which pass or have limited value. They are filled with worldliness and are thus deceived into being comfortable and contented (Rev. 3:17-18).

When we see how at several occasions Jesus took care for the people around him, we notice how God was with Jesus and provided enough food for the crowd. Throughout history of mankind we can find examples where God was with His people and took care of them.

We should not be afraid. Even when we have not a filled purse, God shall take care that we would be able to manage. His Word and His blessings shall provide for those things we really need in life.
At all times we should not forget that He is the Maker and Provider, the Rock and our Protector.

When people “rend their hearts” and turn back to God (Joel 2:13) God shall receive them with open arms. As any Father would do, He shall look for the best of His children. But as any Father He also would like to be recognised and respected as Father.

We must seek Jehovah God for who He is and not what He can provide. As we devote ourselves to prayer and His word, we will begin to sense His presence and draw near to Him.

From the gospels we learn that God provided a man,who not only could speak in the name of God but also act in the name of God. By believing in that sent one from God, as the scripture says, will have rivers of living water flowing from his inmost heart. (John 7:38) If much more people would know the generosity of God and who Jesus is, they would be feeling much better and would appreciate others with the same fate with the knowledge or certitude that together they can count on Jesus giving us  fresh, living water, so that we should not be thirsty any more. Because the water Jesus gives will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life. (John 4:10; John 4:14)  Therefore let us look for a better meal than the one offered by all those consumer needy tents. Let us remember that Jesus said,

“I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever.
(John 6:35)

++

Find also to read and think about

1. A multifold of elements in creation and a bad choice made
2. Life isn’t unfair
3. Matthew 14:14-22 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: 5,000 Fed
4. Focusing on being a blessing
5. Less… is still enough
6. Selfishness can become our biggest ally for the Money Free Movement
7. Being ‘broke’ a state of mind
8. Listening to the lessons of the Bible and looking for ways to please God
9. God should be your hope
10. Ability (part 4) Thought about the ability to have ability
11. True riches
12. Good to make sure that you haven’t lost the things money can’t buy
13. Count your blessings
14. Not everything has to be reciprocated with money
15. Blow to legitimacy of the capitalist system
16. 2013 Lifestyle, religiously and spiritualy
17. Greed more common than generosity
18. How we think shows through in how we act

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Cap 3000 a Valhalla blinding consumers

On my last day at the Cote d’Azur I at our walk in Saint Laurant du Var we also went walking in a huge shopping centre Cap 3000, opposite the airport Nice Cote d’Azur.

a veritable institution at the heart of the French Riviera: a shopping mall in a fabulous location, standing on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

Located on the western edge of Nice, right next to the international airport

It offers an attractive and diversified range of shops for all the family, from major high-street names to small boutiques. There’s something for all tastes and all budgets! You can meander through the mall until 9pm from Monday to Saturday

At the moment it has 180 shops in a magnificent building, which is being made to a much bigger place, with an additional two floors full of shops. When walking through the beautiful shopping mall I felt in the Walhalla of mankind or Valhalla, a splendid palace, roofed with shields, where the warriors feast on the flesh of a boar slaughtered daily and made whole again each evening. They drink liquor that flows from the udders of a goat, and their sport is to fight one another every day. It is the grand place for lust and indulgence, where today is not thought of the Ragnarök or Doomsday.

So many people have to work hard for the wages they might get, but here it looks like all those walking around have enough money to spend for hours in hundreds of attracting shops.

For sure all those people seem to trust in all those things or gadgets beautifully presented in those places which cry to come in and feel as if you can be the honourable guest of fortune.

Having walked through that “Palace of abundance” or better “superabundance” I could not resist looking at a lot of people who have their heart sold to all those material products but have no eye for what can not be seen.

At the Biblestudents you can read how Jesus fed many people and shall be able to read (from 2018, October 19) about Jesus who once more was concerned about real hungry people (Matthew 15:32-39 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: 4000 Fed). There too there was a material problem, food or something for the stomach. Though in the gospels we also receive the lesson for more important food, whereof not many seem to think about today. Most people are not hungering for the right things (James 4:3).  Their eyes and heart are focused on the material things of this world. Consumption has become the new god today, after we had money as the new god entering our world from the golden 1960ies. Money and consumption are the male and female god who feel very nice together and who have a better marriage than most couples today. They are namely a very jealous couple which like to get people to want for more and more all the time,getting them into a state of never feeling to have enough.

The Mammon or god of this world has the Dollars and Euros flying in the air,many people jumping up to catch them, for soon going to spend them, often on things they really do not need or which pollute our world further. (Think of all those capsules of Nespresso for example.)

What is most important for many today is that they can enjoy their life with as many gadgets and handy tools as possible. Many go about their lives feeding on the thoughts of their own mind and of their greed. Anxieties, worries, and cares of this life creep in and rob us of the One Who Looks at this world and can see how man does not really want to see Who and what is important for their life and future. I wondered how many would feel His abiding presence.

If we feed on sports, worldly entertainment, social media, material wealth, creature comforts and trivia, is it no wonder that we hunger for those things rather than the things of God?

These days in the Provence I could enjoy beautiful countrysides, lovely small villages, like Tourettes sur Loup, Saint Paul de Vence, etc. and the lovely city Nice where like in many French places people did not take away their dog droppings. In those bigger places we could see many clustered at their phone or walking like they do not like the day, or are taken away from the world by the music from their earphones. Feeding themselves with worldly entertainment, social media, material wealth, creature comforts and trivia.

Clearly we could feel to be in a world where the hunger was or is on other things than the spiritual, though we encountered many Buddha sculptures and yoga places.

Wherever we look around us we can see that in this world many have grown cold by feasting on the things of the flesh and therefore no longer hunger for God. Lots of people love to be filled, but are focussing on things which pass or have limited value. They are filled with worldliness and are thus deceived into being comfortable and contented (Rev. 3:17-18).

When we see how at several occasions Jesus took care for the people around him, we notice how God was with Jesus and provided enough food for the crowd. Throughout history of mankind we can find examples where God was with His people and took care of them.

We should not be afraid. Even when we have not a filled purse, God shall take care that we would be able to manage. His Word and His blessings shall provide for those things we really need in life.
At all times we should not forget that He is the Maker and Provider, the Rock and our Protector.

When people “rend their hearts” and turn back to God (Joel 2:13) God shall receive them with open arms. As any Father would do, He shall look for the best of His children. But as any Father He also would like to be recognised and respected as Father.

We must seek Jehovah God for who He is and not what He can provide. As we devote ourselves to prayer and His word, we will begin to sense His presence and draw near to Him.

From the gospels we learn that God provided a man,who not only could speak in the name of God but also act in the name of God. By believing in that sent one from God, as the scripture says, will have rivers of living water flowing from his inmost heart. (John 7:38) If much more people would know the generosity of God and who Jesus is, they would be feeling much better and would appreciate others with the same fate with the knowledge or certitude that together they can count on Jesus giving us  fresh, living water, so that we should not be thirsty any more. Because the water Jesus gives will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life. (John 4:10; John 4:14)  Therefore let us look for a better meal than the one offered by all those consumer needy tents. Let us remember that Jesus said,

“I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever.
(John 6:35)

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Find also to read and think about

1. A multifold of elements in creation and a bad choice made
2. Life isn’t unfair
3. Matthew 14:14-22 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: 5,000 Fed
4. Focusing on being a blessing
5. Less… is still enough
6. Selfishness can become our biggest ally for the Money Free Movement
7. Being ‘broke’ a state of mind
8. Listening to the lessons of the Bible and looking for ways to please God
9. God should be your hope
10. Ability (part 4) Thought about the ability to have ability
11. True riches
12. Good to make sure that you haven’t lost the things money can’t buy
13. Count your blessings
14. Not everything has to be reciprocated with money
15. Blow to legitimacy of the capitalist system
16. 2013 Lifestyle, religiously and spiritualy
17. Greed more common than generosity
18. How we think shows through in how we act

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Cap 3000 a Valhalla blinding consumers

On my last day at the Cote d’Azur I at our walk in Saint Laurant du Var we also went walking in a huge shopping centre Cap 3000, opposite the airport Nice Cote d’Azur.

a veritable institution at the heart of the French Riviera: a shopping mall in a fabulous location, standing on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

Located on the western edge of Nice, right next to the international airport

It offers an attractive and diversified range of shops for all the family, from major high-street names to small boutiques. There’s something for all tastes and all budgets! You can meander through the mall until 9pm from Monday to Saturday

At the moment it has 180 shops in a magnificent building, which is being made to a much bigger place, with an additional two floors full of shops. When walking through the beautiful shopping mall I felt in the Walhalla of mankind or Valhalla, a splendid palace, roofed with shields, where the warriors feast on the flesh of a boar slaughtered daily and made whole again each evening. They drink liquor that flows from the udders of a goat, and their sport is to fight one another every day. It is the grand place for lust and indulgence, where today is not thought of the Ragnarök or Doomsday.

So many people have to work hard for the wages they might get, but here it looks like all those walking around have enough money to spend for hours in hundreds of attracting shops.

For sure all those people seem to trust in all those things or gadgets beautifully presented in those places which cry to come in and feel as if you can be the honourable guest of fortune.

Having walked through that “Palace of abundance” or better “superabundance” I could not resist looking at a lot of people who have their heart sold to all those material products but have no eye for what can not be seen.

At the Biblestudents you can read how Jesus fed many people and shall be able to read (from 2018, October 19) about Jesus who once more was concerned about real hungry people (Matthew 15:32-39 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: 4000 Fed). There too there was a material problem, food or something for the stomach. Though in the gospels we also receive the lesson for more important food, whereof not many seem to think about today. Most people are not hungering for the right things (James 4:3).  Their eyes and heart are focused on the material things of this world. Consumption has become the new god today, after we had money as the new god entering our world from the golden 1960ies. Money and consumption are the male and female god who feel very nice together and who have a better marriage than most couples today. They are namely a very jealous couple which like to get people to want for more and more all the time,getting them into a state of never feeling to have enough.

The Mammon or god of this world has the Dollars and Euros flying in the air,many people jumping up to catch them, for soon going to spend them, often on things they really do not need or which pollute our world further. (Think of all those capsules of Nespresso for example.)

What is most important for many today is that they can enjoy their life with as many gadgets and handy tools as possible. Many go about their lives feeding on the thoughts of their own mind and of their greed. Anxieties, worries, and cares of this life creep in and rob us of the One Who Looks at this world and can see how man does not really want to see Who and what is important for their life and future. I wondered how many would feel His abiding presence.

If we feed on sports, worldly entertainment, social media, material wealth, creature comforts and trivia, is it no wonder that we hunger for those things rather than the things of God?

These days in the Provence I could enjoy beautiful countrysides, lovely small villages, like Tourettes sur Loup, Saint Paul de Vence, etc. and the lovely city Nice where like in many French places people did not take away their dog droppings. In those bigger places we could see many clustered at their phone or walking like they do not like the day, or are taken away from the world by the music from their earphones. Feeding themselves with worldly entertainment, social media, material wealth, creature comforts and trivia.

Clearly we could feel to be in a world where the hunger was or is on other things than the spiritual, though we encountered many Buddha sculptures and yoga places.

Wherever we look around us we can see that in this world many have grown cold by feasting on the things of the flesh and therefore no longer hunger for God. Lots of people love to be filled, but are focussing on things which pass or have limited value. They are filled with worldliness and are thus deceived into being comfortable and contented (Rev. 3:17-18).

When we see how at several occasions Jesus took care for the people around him, we notice how God was with Jesus and provided enough food for the crowd. Throughout history of mankind we can find examples where God was with His people and took care of them.

We should not be afraid. Even when we have not a filled purse, God shall take care that we would be able to manage. His Word and His blessings shall provide for those things we really need in life.
At all times we should not forget that He is the Maker and Provider, the Rock and our Protector.

When people “rend their hearts” and turn back to God (Joel 2:13) God shall receive them with open arms. As any Father would do, He shall look for the best of His children. But as any Father He also would like to be recognised and respected as Father.

We must seek Jehovah God for who He is and not what He can provide. As we devote ourselves to prayer and His word, we will begin to sense His presence and draw near to Him.

From the gospels we learn that God provided a man,who not only could speak in the name of God but also act in the name of God. By believing in that sent one from God, as the scripture says, will have rivers of living water flowing from his inmost heart. (John 7:38) If much more people would know the generosity of God and who Jesus is, they would be feeling much better and would appreciate others with the same fate with the knowledge or certitude that together they can count on Jesus giving us  fresh, living water, so that we should not be thirsty any more. Because the water Jesus gives will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life. (John 4:10; John 4:14)  Therefore let us look for a better meal than the one offered by all those consumer needy tents. Let us remember that Jesus said,

“I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever.
(John 6:35)

++

Find also to read and think about

1. A multifold of elements in creation and a bad choice made
2. Life isn’t unfair
3. Matthew 14:14-22 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: 5,000 Fed
4. Focusing on being a blessing
5. Less… is still enough
6. Selfishness can become our biggest ally for the Money Free Movement
7. Being ‘broke’ a state of mind
8. Listening to the lessons of the Bible and looking for ways to please God
9. God should be your hope
10. Ability (part 4) Thought about the ability to have ability
11. True riches
12. Good to make sure that you haven’t lost the things money can’t buy
13. Count your blessings
14. Not everything has to be reciprocated with money
15. Blow to legitimacy of the capitalist system
16. 2013 Lifestyle, religiously and spiritualy
17. Greed more common than generosity
18. How we think shows through in how we act

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#1960s #Abundance #Anxiety #BelievingInJesus #BreadOfLife #Cap3000 #Consumption #CoteDAzur #CountOnJesus #Doomsday #Entertainment #Food #Fortune #FrenchRiviera #GadgetS_ #GenerosityOfGod #Greed #HungerForGod #Hungering #John410 #John414 #John738 #MakerGodAlmighty #Mammon #MaterialWealth #Money #Nice #PresenceOfGod #ProtectorGod #ProviderGod #RiversOfLivingWater #RockGod #SeekGod #SentOneFromGod #SocialMedia #Spending #ThingsOfGod #toDrawNearToGod #Unseen #Valhalla #Worldliness

Cary Wolfe on “Another Moral Vocabulary”

This is from Natasha Lennard’s 2017 interview with Cary Wolfe in The Stone:

On the one hand, rights discourse is Exhibit A for the problems with philosophical humanism. Many of us, including myself, would agree that many of the ethical aspirations of humanism are quite admirable and we should continue to pursue them. For example, most of us would probably agree that treating animals cruelly, and justifying that treatment on the basis of their designation as “animal” rather than human, is a bad thing to do.

But the problem with how rights discourse addresses this problem — in animal rights philosophy, for example — is that animals end up having some kind of moral standing insofar as they are diminished versions of us: that is to say, insofar as they are possessed of various characteristics such as the capacity to experience suffering — and not just brute physical suffering but emotional duress as well — that we human beings possess more fully. And so we end up reinstating a normative form of the moral-subject-as-human that we wanted to move beyond in the first place.

So on the other hand, what one wants to do is to find a way of valuing nonhuman life not because it is some diminished or second-class form of the human, but because the diversity and abundance of life is to be valued for what it is in its own right, in its difference and uniqueness. An elephant or a dolphin or a chimpanzee isn’t worthy of respect because it embodies some normative form of the “human” plus or minus a handful of relevant moral characteristics. It’s worthy of respect for reasons that call upon us to come up with another moral vocabulary, a vocabulary that starts by acknowledging that whatever it is we value ethically and morally in various forms of life, it has nothing to do with the biological designation of “human” or “animal.”

Having said all that, there are many, many contexts in which rights discourse is the coin of the realm when you’re engaged in these arguments — and that’s not surprising, given that nearly all of our political and legal institutions are inherited from the brief historical period (ecologically speaking) in which humanism flourished and consolidated its domain. If you’re talking to a state legislature about strengthening laws for animal abuse cases, let’s say, instead of addressing a room full of people at a conference on deconstruction and philosophy about the various problematic assumptions built into rights discourse, then you better be able to use a different vocabulary and different rhetorical tools if you want to make good on your ethical commitments. That’s true even though those commitments and how you think about them might well be informed by a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the problem than would be available to those legislators. In other words, it’s only partly a philosophical question. It’s also a strategic question, one of location, context and audience, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that we can move more quickly in the realm of academic philosophical discourse on these questions than we can in the realm of legal and political institutions.

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