Courage to restart

How often the end of a relationship generates a devastating feeling, as if there were no more ground or references! Whether it is the end of a marriage, the loss of a loved one, a close friend who leaves, the fact is that it happens frequently.

I understand that it is difficult and the feeling of emptiness, suffering, mourning are inevitable in most cases. However, staying in the hole forever is a choice, a concession of the sufferer. There are people who cling to the emptiness of loss as if this emptiness could replace who left. It is almost like a kind of backward loyalty that makes the sufferer feel guilty for failing to suffer, clinging to the object of suffering as if it depended on it.

This does not realize that suffering also reveals to us, after all, it opens up where the voids, the fears, the zones of comfort that need to be faced. To face is a choice, to illuminate the dark corners of the soul with the light of the conscience is also a Choice that depends solely on each individual.

If you are suffering, fulfill your time of mourning in peace. Just do not forget that he has time to finish and, if you want, it will come out better than he entered. Let go of your pain so it does not rot and spoil you. It is necessary to walk and recover happiness along the way, in the gifts and compensations that life gives, in the courage to start over, to be again.

Flavio Siqueira

Coragem de recomeçar

Quantas vezes o fim de uma relação gera um sentimento devastador, como se não houvesse mais chão nem referências! Seja o fim de um casamento, a perda de um ente querido, um amigo próximo que vai embora, o fato é que acontece com frequência.

Entendo que seja difícil e o sentimento de vazio, o sofrimento, o luto são inevitáveis na maioria dos casos. No entanto, permanecer no buraco eternamente é uma escolha, uma concessão de quem sofre. Há pessoas que se agarram ao vazio da perda como se esse vazio pudesse substituir quem foi embora. É quase como um tipo de lealdade às avessas que faz o sofredor se sentir culpado por deixar de sofrer, apegando-se ao objeto do sofrimento como se dependesse disso.

Esse não percebe que sofrimento também nos revela, afinal, escancara aonde estão os vazios, os medos, as zonas de conforto que precisam serem encaradas. Encarar-se é uma escolha, iluminar os cantos sombrios da alma com a luz da consciência também é uma escolha que depende unicamente de cada individuo.

Se estiver sofrendo, cumpra seu tempo de luto em paz. Só não esqueça que ele tem tempo para terminar e, se você quiser, sairá melhor do que entrou. Desapegue-se da sua dor para que ela não apodreça e te estrague junto. É preciso caminhar e recuperar a felicidade no caminho, nos presentes e compensações que a vida dá, na coragem de recomeçar, de ser de novo.

Flavio Siqueira

Ele enxugará dos olhos deles todas as lágrimas

O novo céu e a nova terra

1 Então vi um novo céu e uma nova terra. O primeiro céu e a primeira terra desapareceram, e o mar sumiu. 2 E vi a Cidade Santa, a nova Jerusalém, que descia do céu. Ela vinha de Deus, enfeitada e preparada, vestida como uma noiva que vai se encontrar com o noivo. 3 Ouvi uma voz forte que vinha do trono, a qual disse:

— Agora a morada de Deus está entre os seres humanos! Deus vai morar com eles, e eles serão os povos dele. O próprio Deus estará com eles e será o Deus deles. 4 Ele enxugará dos olhos deles todas as lágrimas. Não haverá mais morte, nem tristeza, nem choro, nem dor. As coisas velhas já passaram.

5 Aquele que estava sentado no trono disse:

— Agora faço novas todas as coisas!

E também me disse:

— Escreva isto, pois estas palavras são verdadeiras e merecem confiança.

6 E continuou:

— Tudo está feito! Eu sou o Alfa e o Ômega, o Princípio e o Fim. A quem tem sede darei água para beber, de graça, da fonte da água da vida. 7 Aqueles que conseguirem a vitória receberão de mim este presente: eu serei o Deus deles, e eles serão meus filhos. 8 Mas os covardes, os traidores, os que cometem pecados nojentos, os assassinos, os imorais, os que praticam a feitiçaria, os que adoram ídolos e todos os mentirosos, o lugar dessas pessoas é o lago onde queima o fogo e o enxofre, que é a segunda morte.

He will wipe all tears from their eyes

The New Heaven and the New Earth

1   I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth had disappeared, and so had the sea. 2 Then I saw New Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down from God in heaven. It was like a bride dressed in her wedding gown and ready to meet her husband.

3   I heard a loud voice shout from the throne:

God's home is now with his people. He will live with them, and they will be his own. Yes, God will make his home among his people. 4 He will wipe all tears from their eyes, and there will be no more death, suffering, crying, or pain. These things of the past are gone forever.

5 Then the one sitting on the throne said:

I am making everything new. Write down what I have said. My words are true and can be trusted. 6 Everything is finished! I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will freely give water from the life-giving fountain to everyone who is thirsty. 7 All who win the victory will be given these blessings. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

8 But I will tell you what will happen to cowards and to everyone who is unfaithful or dirty-minded or who murders or is sexually immoral or uses witchcraft or worships idols or tells lies. They will be thrown into that lake of fire and burning sulfur. This is the second death.

She is amazing

She smiles when she wants to scream. 

She sings when she wants to cry. 

She cries when she is happy. 

And she laughs when she's nervous. 

She fights for what she believes. 

She rises to injustice. 

She does not take no for an answer when she believes there is a better solution 

She walks without new shoes so her children can have them. 

She goes to the doctor with a frightened friend. 

She loves unconditionally. 

She cries when her children fall sick and rejoice when their children win prizes. 

She is happy when she hears about a birthday or a new marriage. 

To be a woman is to be a Princess at 20. 

Queen at 30. 

Empress at 40...

And especially a lifetime.

  Pablo Neruda

Little loving poem

This is a love poem.

So sweet, so tender, so yours ...

It is an offering to your moments

Of fighting and of breeze and of heaven ...

And I,

I want to serve you the poetry

On a blue seashell

Or in a basket of flowers in the field.

Maybe you can understand my love.

But if this does not happen,

does not matter.

Already declared and stamped

In rows and between rows

Of this little poem,

The verse;

The so famous and unexpected verse that

It will leave you amazed, surprised, perplexed ...

I love you, forgive me, I love you ... "

Cora Coralina

Don't touch my chosen leaders

The Lord Can Be Trusted

1 Praise the Lord and pray in his name! Tell everyone what he has done.

2 Sing praises to the Lord! Tell about his miracles.

3 Celebrate and worship his holy name with all your heart.

4 Trust the Lord and his mighty power.

5 Remember his miracles and all his wonders and his fair decisions.

6 You belong to the family of Abraham, his servant; you are his chosen ones, the descendants of Jacob.

7 The Lord is our God, bringing justice everywhere on earth.

8 He will never forget his agreement or his promises, not in thousands of years.

* 9 God made an eternal promise 10 to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, 11when he said, “I'll give you the land of Canaan.”

12 At the time there were only a few of us, and we were homeless.

13 We wandered from nation to nation, from one country to another.

14 God did not let anyone mistreat our people.

Instead he protected us by punishing rulers 15 and telling them, “Don't touch my chosen leaders or harm my prophets!”

16 God kept crops from growing until food was scarce everywhere in the land.

17 But he had already sent Joseph, sold as a slave into Egypt, 18 with chains of iron around his legs and neck.

19 Joseph remained a slave until his own words had come true, and the Lord had finished

testing him.

20 Then the king of Egypt set Joseph free 21  and put him in charge of everything he owned.

22 Joseph was in command of the officials, and he taught the leaders how to use wisdom.

23 Jacob and his family came and settled in Egypt as foreigners.

24 They were the Lord's people, so he let them grow stronger than their enemies.

25 They served the Lord, and he made the Egyptians plan hateful things against them.

26 God sent his servant Moses.

He also chose and sent Aaron 27 to his people in Egypt, and they worked miracles and wonders there.

28 Moses and Aaron obeyed God, and he sent darkness to cover Egypt.

29 God turned their rivers into streams of blood, and the fish all died.

30 Frogs were everywhere, even in the royal palace.

31 When God gave the command, flies and gnats swarmed all around.

32 In place of rain, God sent hailstones and flashes of lightning.

33 He destroyed their grapevines and their fig trees, and he made splinters of all the other trees.

34 God gave the command, and more grasshoppers came than could be counted.

35 They ate every green plant and all the crops that grew in the land of Egypt.

36 Then God took the life of every first-born son.

37 When God led Israel from Egypt, they took silver and gold, and no one was left behind.

38 The Egyptians were afraid and gladly let them go.

39 God hid them under a cloud and guided them by fire during the night.

40 When they asked for food, he sent more birds than they could eat.

41 God even split open a rock, and streams of water gushed into the desert.

42 God never forgot his sacred promise to his servant Abraham.

43 When the Lord rescued his chosen people from Egypt, they celebrated with songs.

44 The Lord gave them the land and everything else the nations had worked for.

45 He did this so that his people would obey all his laws.

Shout praises to the Lord!