An Attractive Box with Nothing Inside is Disappointing! Can it Harm You?

An attractive box with nothing inside is disappointing! Can it harm you? Assuming that the box underneath such beautiful gift wrapping has to contain a valuable gift inside, you will want to hold it. Touch the bow, and it will be a very costly mistake, the biggest you will ever make.

Let's use an analogy based on this beautiful gift box: Underneath the beautiful wrapping lies things that are harmful to your health and others as well. The pretty bow holds evil inside.
 It is a very attractive box one would surely be happy to receive and immediately open. This box is empty inside. But you will never know that if you touched that bow. You will never know that you were deceived and played. You fell for looks and that was the first mistake you made. The second mistake you made were involving yourself emotionally. You just had to hold the box and touch the bow because you fell for looks. Some things are best to observe from distance, and keep moving. And some gifts are best not to touch.

How Some People Are Tricked into A Gift box Relationship 
There are people with the gift box attractiveness, and there are those who involve themselves with them emotionally. The gift wrapped individual's soul is like the empty box. The mind of such a person is likened to that of the pretty paper and the bow. They will destroy anyone who gets involved with them emotionally and eventually physically. There is nothing of value they contribute to a relationship. Instead, they drain the other person who is too emotionally involved with them to terminate the relationship, despite being used and abused emotional, or physically and oftentimes both.

Description of a Gift Wrapped Person:
Egotistical
Disrespectful to others
Self-centered
Self-worshiping
Uncaring
Untrustworthy
Does not value life

Suggested to Read: The Lovers Game
http://visitourlives.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-lovers-game.html

__ Ellen J. Barrier/
      Author

The Lovers Game

The Lovers Game is a risky and dangerous one to play. It can cause serious harm or death to others as well as to the players. In this game, the players lose. Nothing good can come of evil. To play with someone else’s emotions is a psychologically game that can harm someone’s health both mentally and physically. And can cause loss of life.

Case In Point:

Husband Beheaded Wife’s Lover

A 26-year-old Army sergeant killed his wife’s lover and brought his head to her. The wife is said to have been dating her husband’s friend and became pregnant by him. When her husband found out about the affair and her pregnancy, he became enraged.  He reportedly, confronted his wife’s lover and showed him no mercy. According to the report, he stabbed the man 15 times, and decapitated his head.

The report further informed: (both men were said to be in the military)

The husband went to the hospital where his wife were being treated for complications with her pregnancy and sat on her bed holding a gym bag. He removed the dead man’s head from the gym bag and while holding it with both hands; he said to his wife, “Look, the SPC is here! He’ll sleep with you every night. Only you won’t sleep at night. I studied, I planned this. I calculated this. I did this for you.”


Written by Ellen J. Barrier

Suggested to Read: Self- Restraint from Sexual Temptation
http://voices.yahoo.com/self-restraint-sexual-temptation-11888057.html

Avoid Living in The Past

           Don"t Get Stuck in Past.-Time

"We can't control our destiny. We can't go back into our past history and make changes. But we can begin this moment by setting a goal and pursuing it for a better life with a greater purpose."

__ Ellen J. Barrier

You Must Release the Past from Your Mind

“But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”  Apostle Paul

Avoid living in the past. Accept God’s forgiveness for your wrongdoings, and strive for a better future, and to become a better person.  Otherwise, you will become a prisoner locked behind the corridors of your past.

Living in the Past by Choice

For the individual who are able to make choices, but due to anger and grudges, refuses to let go of the past, he or she made the choice to become a prisoner of their past.  Such individuals are mean spirited people.  Living in their past, only makes them bitter, unkind and unhappy, because they refuge to forget what someone may have said or done to them, that they didn’t like,  and they aren’t about to forget, and in their mind, they are never going to forgive.

The Helpless Prisoner

Some people are afraid to move on.  Therefore, they are living in the past.  There are different reasons for which people are imprisoned in their past.  Fear and unhappiness can hold a person as a prisoner. They  prevent that person from making changes in their lives. They aren’t able to set goals because of the fear and unhappiness they are shackled to. They can't release themselves from their prison.

The cause of fear and unhappiness is oftentimes due to a bad relationship or abuse that such an individual experienced.  Therefore, they would need someone to help them by working patiently with them.  Otherwise, they will remain a prisoner in their past (psychologically). This is a helpless prisoner.

Source for quote: Philippians 3:13-14 King James Version Bible

Ellen J. Barrier
__ Author

Sleeping on The Job

Nurse Falls from her seat while sleeping

As previous nights a nurse went through her regular routine:  She placed several charts on her lap and sat on a seat at a desk to do her charting. Several minutes later, her head begin bobbing back and forth, and then came the sound of snoring. On this particular night, something happened unexpectedly!

Suddenly she fell off the seat, on to the floor. The sound of the charts made a loud noise, as they fell onto the floor.  She lay sprawled between the charts and the stool, resembling a drunkard.  (She wasn't hurt from her fall)

Nurse’s Profile:

Poor job performance, habitual reporting for work late, visits clubs before coming to work frequently, records false statements concerning the observation of patients; stating a patient slept comfortably throughout the night, when in fact, that individual had been given medication for pain.

Unit:  Post-op Surgical Patients 

Questions:

Should sleeping on the job be cause for automatic termination?

What are your feelings concerning those who have a poor job performance?

Did this nurse place these patients’ lives in jeopardy?

__ Ellen J. Barrier

Author/Medical Professional

The Beauty of Life

(The Pillow case angel is a beautiful design for pillows)

The butterflies represent the beauty of life and the ever changing process it brings as we take each step forward. Along our journey through life, we grow from our youth to adult years. Life is an experience we embrace because of the beauty we enjoy with family and friends throughout the years.

The smiles we share during the times we gather for the holidays over games, social events and lots of food and fun, are beautiful memories we each hold in our hearts and never let them go. Those of us who prepare meals for the family gathering and plan our activities, we do them with the spirit of love that the joys of life brings with each of the colors of its own beauty in every family, as seen in the picture with the angel holding the butterflies above.

In our hearts we each are thankful for our family and friends and for the memories that we all share. And we pray there will be more beautiful memories of life we will share, along our journey of life stories.
__Ellen J. Barrier

Self- Restraint from Sexual Temptation

For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

And beheld among the simple one, I discerned among the youths,

A young man void of understanding,

Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

And behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart.

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

I have peace offerings with me;

this day have I payed my vows.

Therefore, came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

He goeth after her straight way, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

Till a dart strikes through his liver as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her path.

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Source of information: King Solomon

Proverbs 7:6-27 (K.J.V)

 Questions:

How would you describe this woman?

Is there anything about the woman in this story that is different in her life style from some of  today's women?

Is this woman single or married?

Would you characterize this woman as a ‘player’?

Does it appear that she and her husband have an open marriage?

What is your opinion on open marriages?

What are your views about people who allow themselves to get involved in a relationship of this kind?

Is there anything about such relationship that can lead to harm?

What advice would you offer to both males and females that might be of some help in preventing themselves from getting into the situation that the people in this story are involved in?

__Ellen J. Barrier

Author

Demonic Behavior

   These are Acts of Demonic Behavior Committed Globally

WOMAN BRUTALLY BEATEN and KILLED

  (Crowd Look On and Cheer)

A 33-year-old woman and mother of a 13-year-old daughter, who was presently working and attending college to obtain a degree in marketing, was beaten by three men while in the presence of dozens of onlookers who did nothing to prevent her death.

The Incident as reported:

At about 3:00 a.m. the woman was involved in two minor traffic accidents. In this particular area where the accident occurred, traffic is said to be heavy on weekends. One of the cars, reportedly, involved in the accident had three men in it.

 Ages reported: a 19-year-old and two 20-year-old. The three men reportedly chased the woman’s car onto a bridge that corners the island of the city of Detroit, and rammed her car, forcing her to stop. One of the three men then, smashed her car with a crowbar and pushed her from the car, ripping her clothes. Then after pushing her against the car, he beat her. She tried to run, but was unable to get away from her attacker, who is described as weighing about 300 pounds. The woman was said to have weighed about 115 pounds and was 4-foot-11. Her attacker reportedly, chased her with a crowbar onto the bridge. At some point, the woman was either pushed from the bridge by her attacker or perhaps jumped from fear of him. Reportedly, the woman vanished in the water.

Detroit, Michigan (1995)

Two Teenage Girls Butchered an Elderly Woman  

In March of 1993, two 17-year-old girls were imprisoned for butchering a partially blind 70-year-old woman. The woman was throttled with her dog’s leash, stabbed and slashed 86 times, then stomped. The injuries to her body were described as: five broken ribs, a broken nose, and injuries to her scalp. The injuries to her scalp were caused from the girls’ attempt to scalp her. After they had murdered the elderly woman, they robbed her of $81.72 in pension money. One of the girl’s was her next door neighbor, who reportedly, had tormented the elderly woman for years.

London, England

TEENAGE BOYS KILLS TAXI DRIVER

Three teenagers, two 15-year-old, and a 16-year-old, were arrested for the murder of a 53-year-old taxi driver. One of the boys was said to have had a business card that read, “Crime Company Inc.” and a detailed plan to rob a bank and kill any witnesses. Another boy was said to have bragged about the murder at school, the next day. According to report, “All three teenagers had previous records, but mostly for petty theft.”

Herzliyya, Israel (1994)

THE WORDS OF A CHILD MOLESTER and MURDERER

At the age of 31 years, in December of 1993, a child molester and murder told the court that if he was granted clemency, he would “kill and rape children again and enjoy every minute of it.” He was charged with the deaths of three children. In 1989 he strangled a 4-year-old boy and hung him in a closet, and fatally stabbed a 10-year-old and his 11-year-old brother a month later.

He told the court he started molesting youngsters when he was 14. He was placed in a sex-offenders treatment program. He said he agreed to attend the program only to avoid going to jail, and to continue molesting children. The child molester and murderer confessed to having committed crimes that were so terrible, that it makes him sick to think about them.

Spokane, Washington (1993)

The Mind without a Conscious

Conscious in this sense is used in reference to one having the ability to make a logical judgment between right and wrong.   There are some who are intelligent people and can make educational decisions about things, and appears to be normal people. Yet, many of these same people commit wrongful acts and have no consciousness of guilt.  What is it that causes such a problem to exist among so many individuals?

My Thoughts:

We hurt ourselves emotionally and physically when we separate Spirituality from our everyday life. It becomes easy to commit wrongful acts against others and feel no remorse.  We as human beings need desperately to seek spiritual guidance from our creator, to help us in our daily life; to treat others the way we want to be treated, to guide us in our decision making, in order for us to be  better people.

__ Ellen J. Barrier
Author