“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”
—Pythagoras
A great quote from the Epoch Times this morning
Be sure to check out the comment section for more of this months additions going forward.
In the meantime , this is a wonderful topic on ag and health
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/inside-the-farming-movement-to-detox-america-6025008
Land, Body, and Spirit
Many regenerative farmers believe that nutritious, natural food can combat disease and promote good health.
The health secretary is one of those believers.
“Our health is directly related to our food, and the quality of our food is directly related to and [depends] on the quality of our soils,” Kennedy said during a presentation at the summit.
He described how he grew up seeing fields covered with flowers and butterflies, and puddles teeming with frogs and tadpoles. Now, he worries that children may lose the chance to see such biodiversity and to form a connection with nature.
“It’s not only biologically impoverishing us, but it’s spiritually impoverishing us,” he said.
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The Blessing song is a favourite of mine, been part of my night time prayers for my son Benjamin since he was born. Numbers 6:24-26
“The LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you;
the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.”
The Blessing
https://youtu.be/uZ55mDL7dA0
I have reserved my ticket for Spark 2027 and that week is scheduled for Calgary, so Lord willing, I will be there.
I am planning on doing the Fall Wilderness Hike with Father's to Father's, so I started training, hiked to church on Sunday, it's a modest start.
have a blessed week.
Tim
Waymaker, God never stops working
https://youtu.be/iJCV_2H9xD0
Even when I don't see it, You're working
Even when I don't feel it, You're working
You never stop, You never stop working
You never stop, You never stop working
Timothy Ross, CKA®
613-345-0016 Office
www.TimothyRoss.ca
God Is Who Made Us
Isaiah 25:1 (NIV®)
LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago.
I sometimes hear people say, “I’m industrious, focused, self-sacrificing, and persistent. I’m well educated and self-made. I have worked hard for everything I have achieved and everything I possess.” Really? I’m an advocate for all of those characteristics. I believe in hard work, perseverance, and education. I believe we should do everything we can to maximize the opportunities we are given. But we have not made ourselves. The Bible says God knew us when we were knit together in our mothers’ wombs (Psalm 139:13). He gave us gifts and abilities. He chose the time of our birth, the place of our birth, and the circumstances that have defined us. Whatever success or goodness that may describe our lives is a reflection of the grace and mercy of an Almighty Creator God. I don’t mean that we should be passive and sit and wait for God to act. I mean that we should recognize and praise Him for the wonderful things He has done.
THINK ABOUT IT
“Know that the LORD Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving, And His courtyards with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name” (Psalm 100:3–4, NASB®).
PRAYER
Heavenly Father, thank You that You are the Author and Creator of my life. Forgive me for the times arrogance or pride has led me to take credit for the things I have or have done. I come to You now in humility and gratitude to acknowledge all that I have, all that I am, and all that I will ever be comes from You—my Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer, and Deliverer. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Blessings,
Pastor Allen Jackson
Self-Confidence
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
Here, Kipling reminds young men of the necessity of maintaining a quiet confidence in their own values, capabilities, and ideas—even when others are challenging them. Manhood requires a sense of identity rooted in what you stand for and what you know you are capable of accomplishing. A masculine man has principles and knows he is able to live up to them. This gives him a steadiness of character even in the most chaotic of situations.
https://improvingfutures.ning.com/blog/if-by-rudyard-kipling
https://www.theepochtimes.com/bright/what-kiplings-poem-if-can-teac...
great poem, reminder
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"Self-Confidence
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
Here, Kipling reminds young men of the necessity of maintaining a quiet confidence in their own values, capabilities, and ideas—even when others are challenging them. Manhood requires a sense of identity rooted in what you stand for and what you know you are capable of accomplishing. A masculine man has principles and knows he is able to live up to them. This gives him a steadiness of character even in the most chaotic of situations."
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Overcoming Human Respect
Because of his quiet confidence in himself and his beliefs, a man can withstand the false accusations or misrepresentations of others. He is not a slave to human respect. He doesn’t lose his calm even when others think badly of him or speak untruths about him. Since he knows that his value as a man doesn’t depend on what others think of him, he can maintain peace in the face of unjust criticism or even falsehoods. Like a man striding through a flurry of dried leaves, he doesn’t allow trivial things to divert him from his path."
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Setting Goals and Facing Setbacks
The first two lines of this stanza include balanced halves, separated by the hyphen: “dream—and not make dreams your master”; ”think—and not make thoughts your aim.” Here, Kipling points to the necessity of balance in a man of true character. For instance, he should be ambitious and able to imagine better futures, yet not to the point that he allows his ambitions to dominate him or override his principles. Likewise, a man of character is a man of thought, but not only thought. He must be a man of action, too, whose thoughts and ideals bear fruit in the tangible world."
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Persistence and Courage
Virtue and Identity
In this final stanza, Kipling returns to an idea articulated at the beginning: fidelity to yourself and your values. A true man will not be swayed from the path of virtue by those around him. He will not be degraded by the crowds nor puffed up into arrogance by “kings.” He will not scorn others, but neither will he allow them to dictate to him how he must behave. This gives him, again, a kind of freedom, such that he does not allow his identity to get tied up in pleasing friends or combatting enemies."But of even greater value than this mastery over the world is what the boy who takes this advice will become: a “Man.” More important than all the worldly achievement that follows from true masculinity is the value inherent in living a life of virtue and becoming a man of character. Of course, the conditionality of that resounding “if” that runs through the poem expresses the difficulty of achieving the ideal laid out here. Yet it also suggests that the ideal is not out of reach for those willing to live with integrity."
Hiding the Word
Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
Psalm 119:11
Psalm 2
1 Why do the nations conspire[a]
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth rise up
and the rulers band together
against the Lord and against his anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break their chains
and throw off their shackles.”
4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
the Lord scoffs at them.
5 He rebukes them in his anger
and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
6 “I have installed my king
on Zion, my holy mountain.”
7 I will proclaim the Lord’s decree:
He said to me, “You are my son;
today I have become your father.
8 Ask me,
and I will make the nations your inheritance,
the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You will break them with a rod of iron[b];
you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”
10 Therefore, you kings, be wise;
be warned, you rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear
and celebrate his rule with trembling.
12 Kiss his son, or he will be angry
and your way will lead to your destruction,
for his wrath can flare up in a moment.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
Footnotes
Pleasures Are Meaningless
2 I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless. 2 “Laughter,” I said, “is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?” 3 I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.
4 I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. 5 I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6 I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. 8 I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and a harem[a] as well—the delights of a man’s heart. 9 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.
10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
and this was the reward for all my toil.
11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun.
Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless
12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
and also madness and folly.
What more can the king’s successor do
than what has already been done?
13 I saw that wisdom is better than folly,
just as light is better than darkness.
14 The wise have eyes in their heads,
while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
that the same fate overtakes them both.
15 Then I said to myself,
“The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
What then do I gain by being wise?”
I said to myself,
“This too is meaningless.”
16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;
the days have already come when both have been forgotten.
Like the fool, the wise too must die!
Toil Is Meaningless
17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. 18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. 20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. 21 For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. 22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? 23 All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.
24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? 26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Footnotes
Moral Benefits of Wisdom
2 My son, if you accept my words
and store up my commands within you,
2 turning your ear to wisdom
and applying your heart to understanding—
3 indeed, if you call out for insight
and cry aloud for understanding,
4 and if you look for it as for silver
and search for it as for hidden treasure,
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7 He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8 for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
9 Then you will understand what is right and just
and fair—every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will protect you,
and understanding will guard you.
12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,
from men whose words are perverse,
13 who have left the straight paths
to walk in dark ways,
14 who delight in doing wrong
and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
15 whose paths are crooked
and who are devious in their ways.
16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,
from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 who has left the partner of her youth
and ignored the covenant she made before God.[a]
18 Surely her house leads down to death
and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
19 None who go to her return
or attain the paths of life.
20 Thus you will walk in the ways of the good
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will live in the land,
and the blameless will remain in it;
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
Footnotes
Think and Grow Rich
10 Powerful Lessons from
Chapter 4
Auto-Suggestion — The Medium for Influencing the Subconscious Mind
In Chapter 4 of Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill explains that the subconscious mind can be influenced through repeated thoughts, words, emotions, and beliefs.
Auto-suggestion is the practice of deliberately feeding your mind the ideas, goals, and beliefs that support the life you want to create.
Auto-suggestion is the process of influencing your subconscious mind through repeated thoughts, words, and ideas.
Key Takeaway: Repeated thoughts become powerful mental instructions.
Words alone have little influence. Hill emphasizes that thoughts must be mixed with emotion, feeling, and belief before they significantly affect the subconscious mind.
Key Takeaway: Emotion transforms ideas into influence.
The subconscious responds most strongly to thoughts backed by faith. The more conviction you attach to an idea, the more deeply it becomes impressed upon your mind.
Key Takeaway: Belief amplifies the power of suggestion.
Hill teaches that concentration is essential when applying auto-suggestion. Scattered thoughts produce scattered results, while focused attention strengthens mental influence.
Key Takeaway: What you consistently focus on gains power.
When repeating your goal, Hill encourages readers to imagine themselves already in possession of it. The subconscious responds strongly to vivid mental pictures.
Key Takeaway: See your success before it becomes reality.
Many goals initially feel unrealistic. Hill explains that repeated exposure to a thought can gradually replace doubt with confidence.
Key Takeaway: Consistency strengthens belief over time.
Auto-suggestion works whether thoughts are positive or negative. Fear, doubt, worry, and discouragement can also become impressed upon the subconscious if repeated often enough.
Key Takeaway: Protect your mind from destructive mental programming.
Hill advises readers to remain alert for plans, ideas, and inspiration that emerge after focusing intensely on a goal.
Key Takeaway: Expect guidance and remain ready to act.
A thought alone is not enough. When ideas arrive, Hill insists they must be acted upon immediately. Delayed action weakens momentum.
Key Takeaway: Inspiration creates opportunity, but action creates results.
Auto-suggestion is not a one-time exercise. The subconscious often requires repeated instruction before new beliefs become dominant.
Key Takeaway: Persistence turns possibility into conviction.
One-Sentence Summary
Chapter 4 teaches that through repetition, emotion, faith, visualization, concentration, and persistence, you can deliberately influence your subconscious mind and strengthen your ability to achieve your goals.
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The subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute faith.
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— Napoleon Hill
Reflection Question
What message are you repeatedly giving your mind — and is it helping create the future you want?
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