It has been more than two weeks that I haven’t added any new post in my blog coz I am feeling too lazy these days. In other word, I must say that I haven’t found any fruitful result in my recent work so I feel that I am just wasting my valuable time. I used to go for photography atleast once a week before but now I can’t manage even a single hour for my photography. I love nature and its beauty as everyone do. I think that nature photography is a best way to be close with nature around us so that I want to  continue my photography again. I have a lot of works to complete but I don’t know how to manage all these. I may need a break for some days so that I can return back to work with refreshed mind and intellection. Now I can’t do anything except viewing these previously taken photos. Well, I am eagerly waiting for that day.

I have always one question storming in my mind! Not actually one, there are so many but this one is different. It’s about managing time. Yes, we all wish to have more time, but each of us is given out same 24 hrs each day. What I think is we have enough time in our hand to do important things. If we use our time wisely then we’ll have more things done in time and we can enjoy that time as well. I know that we all have too much to do in our life. But we don’t think about time and we tend to do everything in our life.

I used to suggest my friends to prioritize their most important things higher and not to do less important things. It’s true that sometime I am also unable to prioritize my works according to their importance. That’s why I failed to meet my deadline at my workplace, it’s my recent experience. I allocated more time for least important things so that I was unable to complete my project in time. One thing is clear that there is no any way back machine to take us back to history. Time never goes back and it is like a flowing river which never returns. But if we start managing time well then we can take our time back. We must keep in mind that everything we do is not important and we must track our time and evaluate where our time goes. Time is a gift so decide today to spend your time on most important things and take back your time and life.

These days I am going through book of Daniel in my personal Bible study. This book is very interesting and full of inspirations. I know that God loves our whole hearted commitment to Him and He doesn’t want us to be double minded. I found that Daniel’s three friends Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were fully committed to God. We know that these three Jewish youth were thrown into the furnace after they refused to bow down to a golden idol that king Nebucchadnezer had built. But what we can see here is - as these three boys were wholeheartedly committed to God they believed that if they are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God they serve is able to save them from king’s hand. We  can find here how the story concluded. God rescued the boys from the fire and God was glorified.

Let us see the response of king below from Daniel 3:25-28.

He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!”

So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.

Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way.”

Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

These three boys trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. When there is commitment, we will be rendered but when we bind to it, God is glorified and God will bless our lives to have lasting impact.

If you truly know the love and commitment of God for you, you will make a choice of commitment for Him.

Got this funny email this morning, hope you will enjoy!

Dear Mr. Bill Gates,

This letter is from Banta Singh from Punjab. We have bought a computer for our home and we found problems, which I want to bring to your notice.

1. After connecting to Internet we planned to open e-mail account and whenever we fill the form in Hotmail in the password column, only ****** appears, but in the rest of the fields whatever we typed appears, but we face this problem only in password field. We checked with hardware vendor Santa Singh and he said that there is no problem in keyboard. Because of this we open the e-mail account with password *****. I request you to check this as we ourselves do not know what the password is.

2. We are unable to enter anything after we click the ’shut down ‘ button.

3. There is a button ’start’ but there is no “stop” button. We request you to check this.

4. We find there is ‘Run’ in the menu. One of my friend clicked ‘run ‘ has ran upto Amritsar! So, we request you to change that to “sit”, so that we can click that by sitting.

5. One doubt is that any ‘re-scooter’ available in system? As I find only ‘re-cycle’, but I own a scooter at my home.

6. There is ‘Find’ button but it is not working properly. My wife lost the door key and we tried a lot for tracing the key with this ‘ find’, but unable to trace. Is it a bug??

7. Every night I am not sleeping as I have to protect my ‘mouse’ from CAT, So I suggest u to provide one DOG to kill that cat.

8. Please confirm when u are going to give me money for winning ‘HEARTS’ (playing cards in games) and when are u coming to my home to collect ur money.

9. My child learnt ‘Microsoft word’ now he wants to learn ‘Microsoft sentence’, so when u will provide that?

Best regards,
Banta Singh

One of my best friend recommended this song with very nice lyric, posted for you all. Think once after going through it.

“Think about the generations, and say we wanna make it a better
place for our children and our children’s children, so that they…
They, they… They know it’s a better world for them.
And think if they can make it a better place…”

There’s a place in your heart
And I know that it is love
And this place could be much
Brighter than tomorrow
And if you really try
You’ll find there’s no need to cry
In this place you’ll feel
There’s no hurt or sorrow

There are ways to get there
If you care enough for the living
Make a little space
Make a better place

Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me
And the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place
For you and for me

If you want to know why
There’s a love that cannot lie
Love is strong
It only cares of joyful giving
If we try we shall see
In this bliss we cannot feel, fear or dread
We stop existing and start living

Then it feels that always
Love’s enough for us growing
Make a better world
Make a better world
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Like a perfect rose blooming in a pockmarked battlefield is the fine art of true dating. Most of what you’ve learned about dating in popular culture is like the battlefield. Want to keep your emotions, body and spirit flying safely above the bombs bursting in air? Then read on!

by Randy Stiver

What’s the general goal of much or most of dating today? That’s right. It’s all over the sitcoms, lots of the “chick flicks,” R-rated movies and conversations among teens and young adults in school hallways and social hangouts. There’s just one primary message about what too many guys and girls want of each other—and it’s not good conversation, fine friendship or eventual marriage.

What’s the endgame of wrong and promiscuous dating? Right again. Ragged and jaded emotions; sinfully violated bodies (both genders); a haunting, sad-eyed, brokenhearted, guilty conscience; premarital pregnancies ending in either the weary and lonely existence of single-mom-misery or tiny aborted lives snuffed out before they can even cry for help.
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I love this song Your love is deep by Jami Smith.

Your love is deep
Your love is high
Your love is long
Your love is wide

Deeper than my view of grace
Higher than this worldly place
Longer than this road I travel
Wider than the gap You filled

Who shall separate us
Who shall separate us from Your love
Nothing can separate us
Nothing can separate us from Your love

I know life just keeps going in its normal way. I was really enjoying the work that I am doing here at Nepal. But I am not able to concentrate in my works these days. Sharing some of my personal feelings - getting bored with my own life. I am feeling like I can’t do anything. I never experienced anything like this before. Always thinking about someone. Yes, I have planned to do lot of things in my own country. But the situation in this country is expelling everyone to try for abroad. I was neither thinking nor interested to go abroad. I may be wrong coz I am pointing the situation of country. I can’t say it’s 100% true but I think that this point is somewhat responsible to make people leave country. But in my own case this point can’t be applied.

Situation may come when someone must think about going abroad. I don’t know why I was not interested to go abroad before. But these days, my mind is not in right place. Now, I think that I must try for abroad. But I can’t go further coz there are so much works and some commitments to finish. I am not able to suggest my mind to do this or that. So I am not concentrating on my works and feeling bored with life. Some of my friends say me that I ask so much questions. My another question- Is this life?

5. You get a lot of fingers pointed at you
When error messages pop up and system outages occur, employees and managers quickly start pointing fingers at IT and the pressure is intense to get things fixed quickly to keep users from losing productivity. That’s part of the job and you have to always be prepared for it. In fact, some IT pros even get an adrenaline rush from this type of high-pressure stakes.

The problem is that IT pros hear loud and clear when things aren’t working, but they rarely get much appreciation during the other 99% of the time when systems are running smoothly.

4. People assume you’re an expert in all things tech
When you’re an IT worker, non-techies tend to assume that you know everything about all tech subjects. For example, if you’re a help desk technician you get questions about how the company’s Web site is built. And if you’re a Java developer you can expect to field questions about how to deal with spam and spyware on an employee’s machine.

There are obviously tactful ways to handle this, but many IT pros can’t help but get a little frustrated by this, or even feeling a little inadequate. Worse, because you’re a techie, a lot of your co-workers will come to you for advice on buying PCs, digital cameras, and TVs. Some will even ask you to fix their PC for free or help troubleshoot a problem with their cable modem.

3. You have to continually re-train, on your own dime
I think it’s fair to say that no profession on earth is changing faster than the IT field right now and that’s not likely to change any time soon. The pace of development and innovation in hardware and software products is staggering. As a result, the knowledge that it takes just to keep your current job is always growing and morphing, and IT pros have to take responsibility for their continuing education or risk having their skills and knowledge become obsolete within a few short years.

This is a constant struggle. The big challenge is that many companies don’t officially recognize this problem, and so IT pros have to use free resources like TechRepublic to stay current, or pay for training out of their own pockets. In the past, TechRepublic surveys have shown that over 50% of IT pros pay for their own training.

2. The hours are long and irregular
Lots of jobs in the knowledge economy require long hours, so it’s not unique that many IT professionals — from developers to administrators to systems integrators — have to work overtime on a regular basis. However, what does set IT apart is the scattered irregularity of those hours. Most IT workers are always on call, or are at least part of an on-call rotation, in case critical systems go down during off-hours.

In addition, many IT pros have tasks that they need to do when there aren’t as many users on the system. That means coming in early to run backup routines or staying late to update an application or patch a server after most of the users have logged off at the end of the day.

1. The job market is tumultuous and in transition
During the late 1990s, people flooded into IT, chasing the promise of $65K/year jobs that were going unfilled because of the lack of qualified candidates. IT professionals who were already in the field could hop jobs and get significant pay raises. IT pros were in demand. But, it didn’t last. The dot com implosion and the wrap up of the Y2K fixes meant that a lot of tech jobs disappeared.

Since then, the off-shore outsourcing phenomenon and the H1B visa issue have put further strain on the IT job market in the U.S. and abroad. Many IT professionals run the risk of building their skills, experiences, and their careers, only to have their jobs shipped overseas to save costs. That means IT professionals have to be particularly adept at managing their own careers in order to avoid being unemployed or underemployed.

God’s Word is quite clear that one cannot just decide to be a Christian, one has to be invited!

by Doug Horchak

So what is a Christian? A couple of billion people on the planet all claim to be Christians, but their beliefs, doctrines and practices vary widely. What does being a Christian mean? Let’s take a quick look at what the Bible says a Christian is.

The word Christian is used three times in the New Testament (Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16). Followers of Jesus Christ were first called “Christians” in Antioch (Acts 11:26) because they believed in Christ and followed His example. The word was initially used by their detractors in a derogatory sense, but believers embraced the term as a badge of honor.

While the first-century Christians did follow the teachings, practices and example of Jesus Christ at that time, since then the term has virtually lost its meaning—as it’s usually not accompanied by the same way of life and understanding. Today many claim to be Christians yet don’t really follow Jesus’ teachings.
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