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Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Goals For the 2012-2013 (And My Final Undegraduate) School Year
Year goals (effective August 30, 2012):
1) Have one treat per day (Milkshakes, brownies, semester-opening treats, etc. count as treats. Smaller things for special occasions—e.g., mini candies for Halloween, Hanukkah, Christmas, and other holidays—do not.).
2) Don’t overeat or overindulge. If and in case of overindulging, have plenty of water, oatmeal, coffee, and/or gum on hand and extra water, etc. as necessary.
3) Eat kosher or mostly kosher (healthy included in kosher).
4) Go to bed at 12:30-2:00 AM every night, and wake up at 9:30 AM-12:30 PM every day.
5) Shower at least once a week.
6) Don’t overspend (including overspending in donating) debit or UMBC card money.
a) Check debit and UMBC card accounts frequently
b) When possible, use meal plans for Dining Hall meals.
c) When eating at Outtakes for lunch, take water bottle and granola or Clif bar—buy sandwich or salad and yogurt.
d) When at Late Night, get coffee at minimum; salad, sandwich, or and other healthy food for snack and/or meal at maximum.
7) Study hours per day at maximum, every other day at minimum (depending on classes per day, etc.):
a) Poli 301-02: 1 hour, 40 minutes
b) Poli 206-01: 5 hours
c) Poli 320-01: 2 ½ hours
d) Biol 106-01: 2 ½ hours
8) Read Parsha and/or Haftarah at least every other day if not every day.
9) Write in Prayer Journal at least every other day if not every day.
10) Shower at least once if not twice a week.
11) Watch only “The O’Reilly Factor” at 8:00 (Monday-Friday) as TV watching and “Geraldo at Large” at 10:00 (Saturdays) except for special occasions (e.g., little or no TV during finals, and watch more on Election Night or during breaking news events that merit more coverage)
12) Attend UMBC Hillel Shabbatot and other events, and Students For Israel events when possible.
13) Don’t procrastinate.
14) Call Mom every day.
15) Make more—or at least closer—friends.
16) Pay attention in class.
17) Don’t spend unnecessary amounts of time on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
18) Do some stretches at least every other if not every day.
19) Brush teeth at least every other if not every day.
20) Write verse or Biblical insight in planner every week in weekly notes.
21) Go to church at least every other if not every week.
Can I trust you all to pray for and encourage me to make my best efforts to abide by these goals which I set for myself? A lot of these goals are hard to abide by with my Cereral Palsy, OCD/Anxiety/Depression/mild ADD/possible Aspeberger's, propensity to eat out of boredom, emotion, etc.; and the energy taken out of me from dealing with my C.P., etc. among other issues with which I deal.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Is This The Miracle That I Prayed For?
Let's see: whether intentionally or not; whether or not meant to be tagged as Esther, I'm tagged as Haman in a photo. I get an e-mail from a Jehovah's Witness from the Jews for Jesus forums asking me to delete her name from a post which is archived (Thus, I can't remove her name.), I get spam from one person on Twitter, and two other people get hacked and send me spam on Twitter; and I could go on. Am I just getting a rub in the face again, or could I be like Esther?
: If the big miracle that I prayed for is persecution & nothing else good with few exceptions right now, that's what I'm getting.
Maybe I'm Anticipating That Big Miracle I Asked Everyone To Pray About...
Whatever is going on, though, I can't sleep. I was tired but I couldn't sleep. I was going to have breakfast with my sister at the UMBC dining hall, but my Facebook status now reads, "[I] can't sleep. By the way, Michelle, forget breakfast in the morning." My status before read "Pray for a miracle for me; in particular, one that opens doors for me & lets me tell the world "How do you like me now?!" Laila tov."
Should I just ask "Who cares [about me]?!", by the way?
Should I just ask "Who cares [about me]?!", by the way?
Sunday, February 26, 2012
The Prayers For My Webcam Obviously Worked
Meanwhile, I was persecuted by at least four separate people on YouTube during the course of this Yom Rishon (Saturday evening to Sunday evening). I know that there is power in prayer for even shallow requests and that I was being persecuted by some force re the webcam, etc.. Thank you for your prayers.
Meanwhile, a more-serious prayer request: for my polytheistic friend whose family tried to proselytize incessantly to him or her. Please pray for him or her, that he or she will return to the Christian faith that he or she once had, and that his or her family members will not forcibly share their faith against the wishes of anyone-- whether a Non Christian, a struggling Christian, or even a strong Christian-- in the future. Toda v'Shav'ua Tov.
Meanwhile, a more-serious prayer request: for my polytheistic friend whose family tried to proselytize incessantly to him or her. Please pray for him or her, that he or she will return to the Christian faith that he or she once had, and that his or her family members will not forcibly share their faith against the wishes of anyone-- whether a Non Christian, a struggling Christian, or even a strong Christian-- in the future. Toda v'Shav'ua Tov.
Monday, February 13, 2012
A Friend Is Scheduled To Look At the Webcam Issue Tomorrow, So...
We'll see what happens. The webcam is currently not connecting to the Internet for some reason. So, until my webcam can reconnect to the Internet, no Facebook or YouTube videos-- or I could go the long way and upload videos recorded in Windows Movie Maker via "USB Video Device" or (if it works) "ASUS Virtual Webcam". Meanwhile, my mom suggested GeekSquad, so I can be thankful that my friend offered to help before (as he explained) I was about to get ripped off.
The other option is praying for a miracle for the webcam and my computer so that my friend doesn't have to come right after his class to help me on my computer, and so that I could save him time while I get a Valentine's Day miracle (besides any that I can forsee, which is essentially no miracle besides the computer being fixed; though I'd prefer the "'catching away' of kallat Mashiach").
The other option is praying for a miracle for the webcam and my computer so that my friend doesn't have to come right after his class to help me on my computer, and so that I could save him time while I get a Valentine's Day miracle (besides any that I can forsee, which is essentially no miracle besides the computer being fixed; though I'd prefer the "'catching away' of kallat Mashiach").
Friday, January 27, 2012
If There's a View From Baltimore, That Was Probably Me...
But I couldn't blog from the UMBC computers, and won't be moving in my laptop until Sunday night. Maybe the UMBC internet network has blocked anyone from posting blogs altogether. Meanwhile, I'll at least try to blog if and when I can. Also meanwhile, the verses that are keeping me particularly afloat this semester are Proverbs 3:5-6 and 16:33.
On another note, I'm scheduled to take my final stats exam at Howard Community College in the morning. Just pray for me, and l'laila tov. Especially prayers for me regarding anything have helped to keep me afloat as well as has Scripture-- I still try to read the various parshot v'haftarot yom l'yom.
On another note, I'm scheduled to take my final stats exam at Howard Community College in the morning. Just pray for me, and l'laila tov. Especially prayers for me regarding anything have helped to keep me afloat as well as has Scripture-- I still try to read the various parshot v'haftarot yom l'yom.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
So Far, What Seemed Like a Miracle Is a Shattered Dream....
I'm not going to get into what the miracle is, especially if it turns out to be a shattered dream; since (even though I'm a Jewish Christian) I don't want to (for a lack of a better term) jinx any chances of my so-far-shattered dream being what I had thought (or hoped) that it was going to be. To make a long story short; I don't presently have all that I need to fulfill the dream, and I could possibly be being presented with a possibly-false-choice scenario wherein fulfilling my dream and going to college for at least this semester is regarded.
I'm not asking for money. I'm asking for prayer, prayer that (as the Bible says) G-d will provide; though I am much less than many who have been provided for and are being (and/or will be) provided for. I'm not Avraham or Moshe, or so many others who have been provided for. I'm not the starving child in Africa or the sexual-abuse victim (who, in many cases, is-- in a sense-- luckier than I am because he or she suffers so much more here, and gets more sympathy from both Heaven and Earth-- and more reward in Heaven because of his or her suffering. As I've blogged about before, I can't even get sympathy or empathy for what little I've been through in comparison-- in fact, I usually get the opposite. That is, I get the opposite of sympathy and empathy.).
As I said, I'm asking for just prayer, prayer that (as the Bible says) G-d will provide; though I am much less than everyone from Avraham and Moshe, to the starving child in Africa and the sexual-abuse victim. Besides, the fulfillment of my dream may help that I am exalted above those who have abused and hated me, and who even abuse (including ignore) and hate me still.
I'm not asking for money. I'm asking for prayer, prayer that (as the Bible says) G-d will provide; though I am much less than many who have been provided for and are being (and/or will be) provided for. I'm not Avraham or Moshe, or so many others who have been provided for. I'm not the starving child in Africa or the sexual-abuse victim (who, in many cases, is-- in a sense-- luckier than I am because he or she suffers so much more here, and gets more sympathy from both Heaven and Earth-- and more reward in Heaven because of his or her suffering. As I've blogged about before, I can't even get sympathy or empathy for what little I've been through in comparison-- in fact, I usually get the opposite. That is, I get the opposite of sympathy and empathy.).
As I said, I'm asking for just prayer, prayer that (as the Bible says) G-d will provide; though I am much less than everyone from Avraham and Moshe, to the starving child in Africa and the sexual-abuse victim. Besides, the fulfillment of my dream may help that I am exalted above those who have abused and hated me, and who even abuse (including ignore) and hate me still.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
A Prayer For the Hanukkah and Christmas Season, And the New Year; And...
To begin, I'd go to a Messianic beit knesset, but the problem is that the closest one that I can get to requires that I keep all 613 mitzvot; which is in direct contradiction with Tanakh itself: you cannot keep all 613 mitzvot and live under chen (grace) at the same time; especially since some of the mitzvot were set up to contradict with chen. Also, I am a Patrilineal Jew and would thus not be accepted as a Jew. Since being a Jewish former Catholic priest born of two Jewish parents gets one considered a mere ger tzedek and not a Yehudi; how much harder a time would a Patrilineal Jew whose own patrilineal family won't admit their Jewishness have! So, I still remain churchless and hopefully not sued like Crystal Cox was (You can guess what a mean spirit threatened me with. As usual, I am a target of lawsuit abuse.).
Now for the prayer:
First the "Avinu" ("Our Father"), then
G-d, if it be in your will, we pray for the continuing Christmas and Hanukkah season, and for the New Year; and we also pray for the fullness of the gentiles to come in, that You might come soon. We also pray that if our desires be according to your desires and that if our desires are according to your desires (and your desires are according to our desires), and if it be in your will; that you give us the desires of our hearts. Amen.
Now for the prayer:
First the "Avinu" ("Our Father"), then
G-d, if it be in your will, we pray for the continuing Christmas and Hanukkah season, and for the New Year; and we also pray for the fullness of the gentiles to come in, that You might come soon. We also pray that if our desires be according to your desires and that if our desires are according to your desires (and your desires are according to our desires), and if it be in your will; that you give us the desires of our hearts. Amen.
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