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Death is the saddest word to hear, and the things to do before you die is to prepare yourself, but nobody is ready to face it, as a matter of fact, most of us are afraid to hear it, but no matter what we do, we all are going there irrespective of what status you have in life whether rich or poor, no one can escape from it. As the bible said in:

Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

Yet, even though we all will die, the reality of death is pointing us to the hope we have in Christ Jesus.

There are really a lot of heartaches and struggle on earth that we have to experience but it’s helping us to be drawn closer to our savior, he is centering us deeper in his truths, and transforms our conversation with others through motivating us to live according to the will of God.

So the best things to do before you die, is what we will be talking about in this article.

So what does the Bible really say about death? Here are 10 ultimate guides as the truth from the Scripture reveals regarding death:

 1. Death is the most scary thing to think.

But what is death?

There are many causes of death, and it is defined in different ways. In a medical sense death is when the heart stops beating and cuts off the blood supply to the brain.

Therefore, since brain is not functioning anymore so the whole body system will stop working and the body can no longer stay alive.

Death is the whole truth for us, once you are born in this earth, you will start to qualify for death.

So we all know that we all will die, therefore, some wise people have come out with a question. “What happens after we die? Is there a life in the hereafter?

Without the bible, there is no other basis for truth about life after death because there was no any humans who came from there and tell us how it is.

Nevertheless, scientists are able to discover some amazing facts that happen inside the brain after we die.

Scientist are believing that this research will be able to answer some mysterious final moments of consciousness.

However, scientists able to discover some amazing things that happen inside the brain after death. Scientists believe this research will be able to answer some mysterious closing moments of consciousness.

But if we go back in time from many hundred of years ago, when someone dies, then people used to call straight away the priests or pastors rather than doctors for help.

When somebody dies there only basis for checking the life is the breath, once not breathing they will declare it us dead and the next step of it is to bury.

Unlike in our times, even if the person is not breathing anymore, they will still look for other ways like the heart beat, and even there is no more heart beat and breath they still do the final resort which is to CPR or Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation, then if still not being revived that’s the time they have to declare it dead.

So comparing to the old ways that only breath is the one to check if the person is dead or alive, and to the fact that there are many who were revived from CPR, so we can say that during those times, many were buried alive.

2. We are Mourning for the death but we are hoping for the life.

Losing a love one is the greatest pain you can ever imagine in your life. It may feel like a part of ourselves has been taken with them from departing.

We are grieving of the moments we can never bring back and all the memories and dreams we shared and the desires that there is no more chance of realizing.

As long as we know how were they when alive, our sorrow and grief will be eased a bit of hoping that after judgment we will see each other again.

We are promised with eternal life by God through Jesus Christ who died in the cross for our sins. Jesus was the best example that we really are resurrecting on the set time appointed, because we believed that Jesus died and he rose again from the dead, so we have the assurance that death is not the end of everything.

We may say goodbye for now but we are being promised through the scripture that we will see each other again someday in eternity.

God called the death as just sleeping because he will awake us one day when the time will come that all of his obedient children who are sleeping will be awaken and transferred to heaven.

1 Thessalonians 4:14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.

We as his beloved creations are never put into a life that is full of fear, uncertainty, or confusion.

Through Jesus, we are being offered a certain, glorious, and joyful sure destination, a kind of future who are free of pain, no sorrow and sickness, and there will be no more tears, that is when we’re all in heaven.

This is to be availed by all of us who are putting our trust in what God can do to our lives through Jesus Christ.

3. In this world we will have troubles, but God has overcome the world.

John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

When God had first created the world it was free of sin and death, but when the first couple Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s commandment, it was then that sin entered the world.

Genesis 2:15-17 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Genesis 3:2-6 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

4. “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

So due to their disobedience to God, they both were punished by banishing them out from the garden of Eden.

Genesis 3:16-17 To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” 17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

4. To die spiritually is to be disconnected from God.

Biblical words have so much difference compared to our regular ones, there are words in the bible which you can’t interpret it straight to what it means to be in the common regular English language.

When we talk about death, we automatically think of being physically dead, because to our way of thinking, death means the end of something and the complete stopped of life.

So death can mean separation of man from God or separation of spirit from the body because it is going back to God already who gave it to us.

The normal common death, our physical bodies will eventually cease to function and will begin to decay.

But our spirits or souls are eternal, so once we die, the breath of life which is the spirit that gives life to our bodies, they will go back to God who gave it to us, while our physical bodies will remain in the grave and will start to decompose.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

It will be during the judgment’s day only that God will give us back the breath of life so that we can be formed to what we originally be when we died, meaning we will have the same bodies as physical bodies like what we have now that can be touched or felt, so that we will know that he is God when we face judgment.

Ezekiel 37:4-6 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath[a] enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

But after the judgment, once you can be for heaven you will be changed and will become like angel so that you can enter to the kingdom of God because our physical bodies are not allowed to enter in there.

But if you are judged to go to hell, there will be no changes of your bodies because in hell we need to have physical bodies so that we can feel what is hell, and in there we will not die anymore.

5. When we die we are just taking a rest temporarily.

To die is just a temporary rest that’s the reason why Jesus Christ termed it as just a “sleep.”

Lazarus was already 4 days in the tomb and dead, but still Jesus called him sleeping and he would awake him, meaning he will make Lazarus to rise to life

John 11:11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”

John 11:43-44 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.

There are many verses in the bible that Jesus called dead as sleeping, so we have encountered now three kinds of meaning for the word death or dead in the bible.

Dead: first meaning is: In a medical sense death is when the heart stops beating and cuts off the blood supply to the brain. Therefore, since brain is not functioning anymore so the whole body system will stop working and the body can no longer stay alive.

Dead: second meaning is: To be separated from God just like what happened to Adam and Eve when they disobeyed the commandment of God which is also called as the spiritual death.

Dead: third meaning is: Sleep-because we all will be awaken during the final judgment if we can’t be included in the first resurrection, because there will be two resurrections that will occur, we really will resurrect because Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life,

John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

So since Jesus is life, if he doesn’t like you to die yet, you will never die no matter what kind of sickness you have, no matter what kind of accidents you will be experiencing, if God doesn’t allow you to die yet,

you will not die because as God said even when you’re dead already, for him you’re only sleeping and it’s easy for him to awake you.

Jesus Christ ascended back to heaven last 2000 years ago and before he left he was leaving a message to us through his disciples:

John 14:15-17 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

6. There are two places as destinations for us all.

After the judgment’s day, we will have two destinations to go. Those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.

John 5:28-29 28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.

In other words there will be three groups of people who will be present during the judgment.

First group: They are the people who died in Christ and they reigned with Christ for the thousand years and these group were already been judged during the first resurrection.

Second and the Third group: these are the groups whom are called the sheep and the goats.

He gathered them all in front of him and the sheep are on the right side while the goats on the left.

Matthew 25:32-33 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

The groups of goats are all going to hell, while the group of sheep, to heaven because when they were still alive, they did something that made God happy, like giving foods, drinks dresses, etc., to his beloved brethren.

34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

7. Is death a punishment?

The death which means separation from God is a punishment, because once you are dead spiritually, you will lose most of your privilege as a child of God, and there is a possibility that you can’t come back anymore because the devil will always be there to hinder you from going back to God.

God has all his reasons why we need to die sometimes very early in our lives. Always remember that God is powerful, he knows what is going to happen ahead of us. Therefore, he sometimes let the good people die not in time because he wants them to be saved from the coming bad things that will come to his people.

Isaiah 57:1 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.

So if we only understand the ways of God, we can freely accept whatever will happen. God knows what is best for us, sometimes we thought we are forsaken because we don’t understand what is happening and we don’t know what is ahead of us.

We don’t even know that many times in our lives, if without the guidance and protection of God, our lives were in danger but because God is not forsaking us so until now we are here still breathing because of the will of God.

We have to thank God for all the time whether we are happy or not we have to give thanks to God whom we owed our lives.

So let’s always rejoice and pray continually and we have to give thanks in all circumstances: for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

8. Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins.

James 1:15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

In this verse of the bible, it is said that when the sin is full-grown, it will give a birth to death.

Death as we have learnt in this article that there are many meanings of it, so when sin is full-grown, it will cause us to die, not to die physically but to die spiritually or to be separated from God.

The bible is clearly telling us that there is no one who does what is right and never sins, it is declared by God in this way because we all are liable to err.

But God is considerate and merciful because he sent his only-begotten son to redeem our sins so that whoever that believes in him shall not perish but will have an everlasting life.

John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

9. Death Is Not the End.

Many people have thought that once we die, we simply cease to live, they are concluding that human consciousness arises gradually as the brain is developing and will slowly weaken or will simply stop.

The bible has different explanation about it, as the scripture says that while our present physical bodies will decompose, but our spirit will never die so after we die, the spirit which is the breath of life will go back to God who gave it, and during the judgment’s day he breath it back to us in order for us to be alive again and to know that he is God.

Ezekiel 37:4- 6 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath[a] enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

So our death will not be the final existence but it is only a temporary rest, because God will awake us to the appointed time set by him.

So while we are alive it’s wise to know and prepare ourselves about what will be and where we will be going once we are resurrected during the final judgment.

Although the bible is speaking of two resurrections, first is for those who died in Christ, and second for all the people from the time of Adam up to then.

The first scenario of first resurrection is this:

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

The second scenario which is the second and the last resurrection or the final judgment.

John 5:28-29 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.

10. Heaven is the only best place that we should dream to go to.

There is nothing that can compare to the experience that we will be availing and enjoying once we deserve the reward of doing the things that is according to God’s will.

If we only believe what is in the bible, all of us will choose the heaven because this is the most beautiful place to be.

Revelation 21:4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

So if there will be no more crying, mourning, or pain in there, we can imagine how beautiful it is, because it is only those things that making us not happy completely for while there is pain there will be no perfect joy unlike what is promised by God in heaven.

There are only two destinations for us, if we are good we will go to heaven but if we die being bad then the possible place for us is hell.

Everything that will happen in the future regarding heaven and hell, are all recorded in the bible, and the battle between devil and God is already written in it and it’s been read by a lot of people including devil himself has known it.

It is like a movie that you have already been seen, you know already what is the ending, so if we are wise enough, we have to choose to be of God since he is the winner and will never be a loser.

I hope you’ve learnt something from this article, and if you have any comments and suggestion please write them below, and I will be more than happy to hear it.

Francisco

Founder of Bookworm or https://franciscorondinalaurito.com Website

 

Proverbs 27:10 Do not forget your friends or your father’s friends. If you are in trouble, don’t ask a relative for help; a nearby neighbor can help you more than relatives who are far away.

What is the importance of finding out about who are your neighbors?

In order for you to find out who your neighbors are, you need to first let your neighbors know who you are, by respecting of whoever they are, their beliefs, backgrounds, races, irrespective if whether they are rich or poor.

This of course meant that there is something completely profound which is at work all around you.

For those who are God-fearing people, God has chosen some neighbors for you whom you can get closer as times go by.

What that means? Every person that God brings into your life has its purpose and meaning, so the neighbors who are living just close by, is placed by God for some special purpose.

So make sure that you will do your part to complete God’s plans and purpose for giving you neighbors as them.

Take care of your neighbors, and never despise them, and be generous as much as possible if you have the capability to do so specially to the poor.

Proverbs 14:21 Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

Loving your neighbors is a commandment, but a lot of obvious questions are arising whenever it is heard by people who are not familiar with God’s words.

 

How do I find out who my neighbors are?

So here below are all the 12 steps or ways on finding out who your neighbors are.

In order for you to find out who your neighbors are, you need to find a way first on how to meet them.

1.) Knowing your neighbors

For us to be able to know our neighbors, we must first be the kindest that we are to them by showing some act of love in order for us to be noticed through the kindness that we have shown not only to them but for all the surrounding people.

If we want God to be pleased with us by loving our neighbors in the way which he commanded to us, we should have the kind of love which is not expecting in return.

In the beginning your neighbors might be hesitant in knowing you, because of their previous experiences that there are people who started to be nice but with different intentions. So normally you will not see any interest for knowing you well, but you need to understand them because they don’t have any idea yet about you, so all you have to do is to prove them that you are different among all that they have known, and by the attitude that you have shown later they can be convinced with it.

2.) Be friendly to them even if they are not.

To have a better relationship with your neighbors, you should try to be as friendly as possible, even if you don’t see any signs from them of being deserving for it.

Build a close friendship with them, but never force them or never obliged them to be friendly.

Some neighbors want some space and privacy from everyone around them so make sure that you know the right timing of when to meet them, it should be on their own convenience so that you will not be counted as disturbance for them.

If you encounter situations like that, you should respect it, because they have the right to feel uneasy since they have not known you so well.

3.) Perfect timing and close attention on your neighbors reactions is very important.

Expecting to meet neighbors specially for the very first time will create nervousness, and that is natural for most of us.

Sometimes the nervousness that you feel is only within yourself as it is triggered by focusing on how you present yourself rather than the person appearing before you.

But as long as you remember that it’s the will of God that you are doing, you can expect some encouragement and confidence coming from God since your intention to face personally to your neighbors is for the good for both you and your neighbor.

Remind yourself that you are not alone doing it, God will be with you to help you make it a successful one.

4.) Be respectful even if they are not.

To be respectful, is to feel like you are in their shoes. So don’t do the things to others the things that you don’t like to be done to you.

Avoid doing things that cause disturbance to your neighbors rests, like too loud music, or any gatherings that will possibly create noise which is disturbing to them.

Whenever you see them passing by don’t forget to at least say hello or if they are a little far, at least you will wave them as part of your acknowledgment that you recognize them as good neighbors.

The more you respect them is the more you can expect them to respect you in return, but never expect them to do that all the time, remember that it’s you who initiated it because you want to be known as a good neighbor to them.

5.) Try to remember your neighbors’ name.

In all industries specially in the hospitality, remembering names is a very important factor as part of the personalized service.

So if you think you often are forgetful of names or any important matters of personal details including names, occupations, relationship of the families, etc.

I would recommend you to put all those details down on notes to make sure you will remember them, so that on the next acquaintance of your neighbors, you can automatically call them by names, and it will make a lot of sense for them. Mentioning names when calling a person, is telling them that you are giving them extra respect and care, and by this, you are making them impressed you, and by and by, will make them to like you.

6.) Show some qualities that can benefit neighbors or be friendly to them.

Show your concern to them and be neighborly. If you happen to see that there are mails which they don’t notice, try to call to inform them and they will appreciate it. When you pass by then you see their faucet is dripping or any other things which you think unusual to happen, call or ring them to make them be aware of it.

Be always willing to lend a hand or anything when you see that they need some help. And those little thing that you showed will mean a lot to them, and will go farther in improving your relationship with them.

By doing so, you are building a trust and close relationship, and making this will not only make you as the favorite neighbor of theirs, but also you are teaching them how to care for their neighbors.

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7.) show your neighbors that they are important to you, by following them up now and then.

Do all your best to beat down a path through the hedge, for a lengthy silence will send a relationship into an unclear situation. So keep some short accounts with neighbors by pointing regular times for re connection and deepening of the relationship.

The non-formal hospitality is completely possible and the best path forward. Be open to spontaneity and keep it just simple.

Greet them on their special occasions, like birthday, anniversary, etc., then show your concern and empathy, to let them know that you care for them.

8.) Be of service to your neighbors.

Be Always ready to help when needed, offer yourself what you can do to assist them with their struggles, be truthful and genuine to them.

Look for ways on how you can contribute any help even on the most ordinary needs in your neighbors’ life.

If they’re out of the house, offer yourself to have a look at it for them to have a peace of mine while they’re away from home.

If you’re going for a shopping, ask them if there is anything that they would like you to buy for them.

Offer all that you can do to them, if you have any special talents, ask them if they need you to do it, if they need something like tools or anything, be always willing to lend it to them, and by doing so, you are opening the gate of the closest relationship between neighbors.

8.) Give a small gift during their special occasions.

Giving gifts is making them special to you, the more you do it, the more they will value it, and the more they will put a special place in their heart for you.

Actually it’s not just during special occasion that we should give gifts but every time when you feel like doing it, as long as you will do it from the heart, and the most heartily given gifts is when you don’t expect any returns.

If you can make some homemade stuff, that will be more highly appreciated by your neighbors.

Upon giving your gifts, you don’t need to stay long in their house, even if they tell you to stay, try to make some excuses, because you don’t know exactly about their plans for the day, so to avoid of making you bother them, spend only few minutes conversation with your neighbors.

10.) Dealing with misunderstanding and conflict to your neighbors.

We’re just human and not perfect, so when you feel you’ve hurt them or do anything wrong with them, always be the first one to apologize.

Be Always sincere to them and when apologizing make it a heartfelt one.

Don’t let your pride drive you to create a bad relationship, be humble as always, and always think that your neighbors are much better than you.

You must be so considerate to them, if you’re not in good terms, be the first to initiate reconciliation between you and them, and it’s a good practice that will also teach them how to be humble base on what you showed to them.

Keep in mind about your purpose for apologizing, you have to do it for your part but you can’t expect your neighbors to do the same, but at least you are doing all you can to make peace with them.

11.) Show to your neighbors that your yard is presentable and neat.

These things are just simple, but most neighbors will really appreciate it. How your yard look like will reflect in you, and up to your whole house.

Just keep your yard as neat as you. Your neighbors are looking at you, and whatever they see, which are pleasing to their eyes, they tend to imitate your way of making your yard neat.

The leaves from the trees that are falling now and then, are uncontrollable and understandable. What you need to make sure that your lawns are mowed regularly, and the rubbish can be picked up or swept since they are not looking good when too much already.

Try to decorate your yard by planting some plants that will bear flowers for they will beautify your yard, and it is so pleasing to the eyes of your neighbors too, when they pass by.

12.) Don’t be sensitive and try to let something go.

It is inevitable that there will be something your neighbors may do which is annoying for both of you. This is normal and true and mostly it is done unintentionally. Just try to let it go, because it is normal for human beings that not all the time we can bring happiness, it is sometimes balanced with some challenges and trials but once you can get over it, it will make your relationship as neighbors closer and stronger.

Being not in good terms with our neighbors for sometimes is unavoidable, but the good thing is no matter what happens, after your conflict, you’re ready to forgive each other and because of your close relationship and your good memories as good neighbors, it’s easy for you to learn to forgive and forget everything that happened.

Once again, it is very important to have a better relationship with your neighbors, and it’s good to get along well with them in many other good reasons.

It’s so nice that you are at peace with them as always, and you who are in such situation will be much more pleasant if you can do it.

If you just know how to feel what they feel, you can avoid any misunderstanding, so if you want to stay out of trouble with your neighbors, be careful what you say.

Implant in your mind the commandment of God about our responsibility towards neighbors, as the bible said in:

Matthew 19:19 respect your father and your mother; and love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

If we follow the commandment which is to love them as we love our self, we can learn to be considerate to them when they fail.

So if you love your neighbor, you should be loyal and true to them and you will not be against them for the good and bad times, as God had commanded us to be your neighbors’ defender not accuser as it is said in:

Exodus 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Another final thing that I would like to keep you in your mind about how to find out who your neighbors are, is to limit your visits to them, if possible never come to their house without any invitation, and once you’re there with them try to limit your time as much as possible, because your neighbors are just human beings, they have their moods and emotions which is sometimes difficult to understand as the bible reminded as in:

Proverbs 25:17 Don’t visit your neighbors too often; they may get tired of you and come to hate you. 

I hope you learn something from this exclusive article. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to write them below and I will be more than happy to hear it. May God bless you all as always…

Francisco,

Founder of Bookworm or https://franciscorondinalaurito.com
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Coronavirus is now known to be the deadliest virus ever experienced by the world which is still horrifying us, as of the moment.

There is no one yet on our time that has an idea about how to prevent yourself from coronavirus, and nobody has known it yet if what to do during pandemic, and when shall this be ended?

although there are news already spreading around, about the discovery of the vaccines who can stop it from infecting people around the globe.

Even if the vaccine is already there, it will probably take more months or year in observation of what will be the side effect of it, because it’s not only about curing or healing that they have to consider,

but also they need to find out for there is maybe some harmful side effects it can bring specially to those who have never been infected but injected with the vaccine for infection prevention.

Coronavirus is defined as in any of a group of RNA viruses that cause a variety of respiratory, gastrointestinal, and neurological diseases in humans and other animals.

What is RNA? RiboNucleic Acid, a nucleic acid present in all living cells. Its principal role is to act as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA for controlling the synthesis of proteins, although in some viruses RNA rather than DNA carries the genetic information.

An RNA virus is a virus that has RNA as its genetic material. This nucleic acid is usually single-stranded RNA but may be double-stranded RNA.

Notable human diseases caused by RNA viruses include the common cold, influenza,
SARS, COVID-19, Dengue Virus, hepatitis C, hepatitis E, West Nile fever, Ebola virus disease, rabies, polio and measles.

What is a coronavirus?

Coronaviruses are a large group of viruses that are common among animals.

In rare cases, they are what scientists call zoonotic, meaning they can be transmitted from animals to humans, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

What are the symptoms of coronavirus?

The viruses can make people sick, usually with a mild to moderate upper respiratory tract illness, similar to a common cold. Coronavirus symptoms include a runny nose, cough, sore throat, possibly a headache and maybe a fever, which can last for a couple of days.

For those with a weakened immune system, the elderly and the very young, there’s a chance the virus could cause a lower, and much more serious, respiratory tract illness like a pneumonia or bronchitis.

How it spreads?

When it comes to human-to-human transmission of the viruses, often it happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.

Depending on how virulent the virus is, a cough, sneeze or handshake could cause exposure.

The virus can also be transmitted by touching something an infected person has touched and then touching your mouth, nose or eyes. Caregivers can sometimes be exposed by handling a patient’s waste, according to the CDC.

Human-to-human transmission has been confirmed to be the quickest way of spreading the virus, but experts now are trying to understand who is transmitting it most, who are those that are risking to be infected easily.

Other transmission is occurring mostly in hospitals with patients that are tested to be positive with COVID-19, because the air they are inhaling is rotating all around the hospital. But the super spreaders are still human-to-human.

Coronavirus treatment.

So far there is still no specific treatment, but researchers is on their way. Most of the time symptoms will just go away on their own, as soon as the symptoms are being detected, the infected person should be isolated right away to avoid spreading the virus.

Whether the vaccine or the cure will be there already, the best thing to do is still prevent ourselves from the infection, in order for us to not to risk of dying of it, and also to not to become a spreader of it.

When there are any symptoms for even just a standard cold, cough, or fever, right away you should see the doctor, to find out what you really are having.

As of the moment, doctors are using just fever medication to relieve from the symptoms, but according to the CDC, a room humidifier or a hot shower can help a lot with a sore throat or cough.

So for the infected ones or for the non-infected, drinking plenty of fluids, and getting rest and sleep as much as possible, will help a lot in fighting and preventing against the virus.

The vaccine is underway but it will still take few months until clinical trials can be fully achieved, but it is known to last for probably another more months before it can be available to the world.

So our only ways is to prevent ourselves from infection, because prevention is much better than cure.

Another way of reducing risk of infection is by avoiding people who are sick. Try to avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth.

Wash your hands as often as possible with soap and water and for at least 20 seconds or more.

Cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze, and disinfect the objects and surfaces you touch.

Be in compliance with the social distancing protocol, avoid any gatherings, visiting friends, and avoid conversing with other people.

Some have said that coronavirus can also infect to animals like our pets, and there were questions whether your pets can also have COVID-19 and then pass it to the owners.

Since animals are living being, there is also a possibility that they can carry the virus and will pass it to you.

So dogs or any other pets that are allowed by owners to roam around to other places, there is a big possibility that they will be carrying the virus and pass it to you, so it is much better to keep your pets to stay in your home,

if your house have no fence, better tie them so that they will not become the reason for your life to be endangered by being infected by COVID-19.

There were few reports that dogs and cats had been infected with COVID-19, so for your own pets, it’s must safer to keep them in contact with other people, so we also have to apply to them the social distancing protocol implemented by CDC or Centers for Disease Control.

What are the ways to prevent it from spreading at home?

There are general guidelines to be followed as per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, regarding household proper ways and procedures for cleaning and disinfecting to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in all homes.

The virus will remain be on the contacted surfaces or materials for hours to days on surfaces that have been contacted or touched by the infected ones.

Our only way to prevent from spreading and killing the virus is by doing the best practice of proper procedure and protocol of cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces,

Examples of highly-touched surfaces are tables, chairs, doorknobs, light switches, remote, sinks, toilets, faucets, cellphones and handles. Minimize using cash payments with exchange, or better use credit or debit cards so that your only worries to sanitize is just your card.

But before entering your house make sure you wash and sanitized your hands. Change your clothes outside your house, and put it straight to washing and sanitize again before entering,

or if possible it is much safer if you take a bath straight before changing your clothes.

Try to avoid eating cold and raw foods from outside. If you like to eat some salads, blanch it first for at least 1 minute to the boiling water, then have your safer to eat salads.

Cleaning should always be followed by disinfection, because the virus will not be killed by just cleaning, you should also sanitize it.

Cleaning is just defined as the removal of germs, dirt, and impurities of the surfaces, but it is not completely killing the virus, so even though the places and the surfaces are looking great, the risk of being infected by the horrible virus is still present.

We need some chemicals if we talk about disinfection, but cleaning can only be done with regular cleaning soups.

Disposable gloves are very important to be worn while disinfecting dirty surfaces. Use a different wiping cloth on each cleaning, one for cleaning and another one for sanitizing or disinfecting.

Always wash your hands, after touching, dirty objects, or chemicals to avoid cross contamination.

We need to wash hands not only for the spread of the virus but for also avoiding the possible poison we have in our hand from handling disinfectant or any sanitizing materials.

Cleaning dirty surfaces can be done with just using detergent or soap and water, but for disinfection, we need to apply some diluted household bleach solutions,

alcohol solutions with at least 70% alcohol, or any suggested cleaning and sanitizing materials by the CDC.

Always read the labels of any disinfectant or bleach solutions for proper dilution of it. Any expired cleaning materials should be discarded right way.

Use the proper cleaning agent according to its kind and use. Always follow the guidelines and instructions according to the manufacturer’s way of using it.

Whether there is anybody in your family that is infected by COVID-19 or not, the best way to do is to always comply the 6 feet apart from others and avoid social gatherings as much as possible,

avoid all sorts of physical contacts, and if you happen to be in a queue, try to avoid conversing with each other.

-Wash your hands with soup and water for 20 seconds or more is the very first practice that we should accustomed wherever we are, every now and then specially after touching some dirty things or after using the toilets.

So before eating, even if you think you have never touched anything dirty, make it a habit of washing hands.

How do we wash our hands- first wet your hands, then apply soap before washing for at least 20 seconds or more. Include your palms, the back of your hands, between your fingers and under your nails,

and then rinse thoroughly. Once again wash your hands often, but especially after you’ve been in a public places or if you have coughed or sneezed.

If you like to learn some biblical insight about coronavirus please click this link.

I hope this article has taught you a little knowledge about how to prevent yourself from coronavirus. If you have any questions, comments, and suggestions, please feel free to write them below and I will be more than happy to hear it.

 

Francisco,

Founder of the Bookworm Website or https://franciscorondinalaurito.com

What is a prayer?

So the power of prayer in the bible will take effect depending on the one who prays.

James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But the prayer of the upright is His delight.

If we look at the comparison of the two people who are doing good things, when the wicked offers a sacrifice to the Lord it is abomination to him, while the prayer of the upright is his delight.

This is the characteristic of God when dealing with offerings and prayers, he is pleased more with even just the prayer of upright people than to the offerings and even sacrifices of the wicked.

The bible is teaching us a way or pattern of how we should pray, so since this is only a pattern, it doesn’t necessarily mean you have to do exactly as it is.

We are only told to make it as our basis and pattern of how to pray, so our prayer could be shorter or longer, as long as we will do it with a clean heart, or a proper way.

Matthew 6:9-15 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

15 but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

How long should we pray?

The God whom we are praying is a powerful, as long as you’re ready and prepared with your prayer, you can surely be heard by God, we don’t need to memorize the same words always,

but you need to compose your prayer based on your needs. We don’t need to repeat any words of prayers as God doesn’t like it:

Matthew 6:7-8 “When you are praying, don’t say meaningless things like the unbelievers do, because they think they will be heard by being so wordy.

8 Don’t be like them, because your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

How do we pray?

If we have the chance of doing our prayer in private, it’s much better or else we will be compared to the hypocrites who love to stand in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people.

So there is a proper way that God wants us to do when praying.

Matthew 6:5-6 “And whenever you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to stand in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people. I tell all of you with certainty, they have their full reward!

6 But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is hidden. And your Father who sees from the hidden place will reward you.

To whom we should pray?

If we go back to the pattern that God is telling us to do, like the one we can read in

Matthew 6:9-15 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

15 but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

So prayer is intended only for God and nobody else deserves prayer other than God. In the old testament during the time of Moses, angels were the mediator between God and men but on Christian era, angels are not anymore to be worshiped, as it is Jesus now who is the mediator and the way to the father.

Therefore, when John bowed down to the angel who showed him all the things which he wrote in the revelation, he was told to not to do it since he the angel is also his fellow servant, and he was told to worship only God.

Revelation 19:10 I bowed down at his feet to worship him, but he told me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who rely on what Jesus is saying. Worship God, because what Jesus is saying is the spirit of prophecy!”

So we should be careful on whom we pray so that our prayer can be heard, so the best prayer is to direct it to the father in heaven and through Jesus Christ as he is the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the father except by him.

John 14:6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

How many times we should pray?

Pray without ceasing is what is the best but the recommended one as what the people of God normally do is to pray night and day,

2 Timothy 1:3 I constantly thank my God—whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you in my prayers night and day,

which also the perfect one to do, specially before going to sleep and after waking up in the morning.

To pray before going to sleep is very important because there is a long way of sleeping from night to day, and we don’t know what will happen while we are sleeping,

so it’s good that in our prayers we include all the wishes of waking up in the morning as many people have not waken up anymore.

Once we can wake up in the morning then that is the perfect time for us to thank God for letting him still see us the day, then we pray for guidance and protection against evil.

What should we do before we pray?

To pray to God is to come to his holy presence. If we have a schedule to meet some influential people like Mayors, Congressmen, Senators, or even President.

Of course if we meet them, we must prepare ourselves, like taking a shower, brushing our teeth, and wearing our best suits in order for us to be capable of facing those people.

So how much more when you schedule your self to meet your creator, you should also prepare yourself, but your preparation is different, God will not be looking at your outer clothes but of your inner self.

You should cleanse your heart, forgive those that have sinned against you, and stop all your evil deeds and ways. Then you can be assured that your prayer can be heard.

If God likes to hear your prayer he can do it, but if he doesn’t like, it can never reach to him for the bible said:

Lamentation 3:44 You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

I have a personal experience about prayer and I know how effective it is once God will listen to us.

Last 1994 I was hospitalized for my severe stomach pains, I was rushed to the Cebu Doctor’s hospital, then I was diagnosed to have appendicitis, my parents are poor and since it was an emergency they have to find a way just so that I can be operated from my appendicitis.

I was scheduled to be operated 7:00 am the next morning since it was night when I arrived to the hospital. I was crying the whole night for the pain, and worries about what will happen after my operation.

I remembered a verse that made me a little stronger,

Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

Matthew 10:31 Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

If the sparrows will not die without God’s will, how much more we, which are more important than sparrows, I said to myself if God will let me live I will live but if I will die, it is already according to his will.

But the pain was still very severe, I pressed the button for the doctor to come to me but nurse came and didn’t give me anything to ease the pain.

I felt very nervous about myself because they let me drink castor oil and for that I removed everything from my stomach, and then I vomited green color liquid. I remembered another verse of the bible:

Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

I prayed to God to heal me with my sickness because I felt like I can’t bear the pain anymore after vomiting a lot of green liquids, I pressed the button for help but nobody came,

I continued to pray for the healing, until I didn’t realize that I fell asleep while praying, I was able to wake up only when the doctor came to me with nurses bringing the stretcher going to the operating room.

Before taking me there he touched my stomach and he wondered why I didn’t scream, because he expected me to do so after touching my stomach that’s why he asked me,

“have you not felt the pain? I said “yes, there is no pain doctor” he said that my appendicitis was gone, and I overheard them talking with my parents that there will be no operation to do and he even said,

among the 100’s of patients he diagnosed it was his first time making mistake. Whether it was a mistake or not I considered that as healing from the Lord, because I believe he is the one that heals us for all our sickness.

Exodus 15:26 He said, “If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.”

Luke 11:9 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

 

We are being told by God to ask and it will be given to us, seek and we will find, knock and the door will be opened to us.

So all we have to do is with our prayer we have to ask God, and if the one we ask is by his will, we will surely receive if it’s according to his will.

God is a good giver, he will not give us the things we ask if it can make us bad, because knows everything which is good for us, and if he sees it’s not going to do you any good, he will never give you.

So if you ask and don’t receive, just think of it that it might not be good for you, It’s not yet the perfect time for you to have it.

What normally is the reason for not being able to receive what we ask is because we ask it with the wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on pleasures.

James 4:3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

I hope you learn something from this article regarding prayer, if you have any questions, comments, or maybe some suggestions, please feel free to write them below and I will be more than happy to hear it.

Francisco,

Founder of Bookworm Website

A person who is not satisfied with something he already has will never be able to be satisfied no matter how much he gets, therefore, in this article that I’m creating, I prepared 12 easy ways on how to be happy with what you have.

To start it up I would like to use a verse of the bible so that we can be guided accordingly while reading the full content of this post.

Hebrew 13:5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

1) Be happy with what you’ve got.

We are being guaranteed by God that as long as we know how to be contented with what we already have, if we know how to make ourselves free from the love of money, he left us a promise that he will never leave us nor forsake us.

We need to remember that the God who promised to us is the God who can’t lie, so whatever he promises there is an assurance that he will keep it.

Being healthy and strong is already a big blessing we received from God, so we must be thankful for it, that there is God who is not getting tired of loving and forgiving us all for our trespasses.

To be happy with what you’ve got, is one of the difficult task to do specially when the word “more and better” are the mostly emphasized words.

In our daily lives we are encountering a lot of pressures just to have the satisfying things in life, which appears to be in order. However, there are truly a lot of things to be grateful for in our day- to -day life.

To be satisfied with what you have, work on an improving positive attitude, interacting with others, and being simple and contented.

2) Open your mind for any changes.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

If you can change at least one of your viewpoints or behaviors every few months are more likely to look to the future with

hope and positivity. If you are the kind of individual who also generally claim to be in a better mood most of the time.

Always implant in your mind that growth will not be possible without the change, and try to face the changes with open arms so that you can feel more satisfied overall.

If you have such behavior of being disrespectful or being uncourteous, you can gradually correct this one by doing your best for changing and overcoming this behavior.

One decision is enough to change your whole life or your destiny forever, so next time when you decide, think for the best.

3) Always consider the positive side of the situations.

To focus on the positive side of life, you need to do your best in looking at the negative situations with the positive lights and views. Our thoughts can be changed by in just an overtime processes.

Thus, such thinking may help you to feel more satisfaction in life, because you’re putting a positive thinking on the people, situations, and everything regarding life.

There are times in our lives that we will encounter situations like having a business or jobs that wasn’t a success, by

experiencing like this it will help you to strengthen yourself in facing the different kinds of obstacles and challenges of our daily walks of life, and by your optimistic thinking your true passion of life can be obtained.

4) To have everything is not an assurance for a complete happiness.

Get some ideas from those wealthy and successful people, because from them you will learn some techniques of how they get there, and at the same time you also need to consider the valuable experience you may learn from those who are not fortunate and failure.

There are many people who are happy with less than we have, so happiness is not only by what we have in life but also in appreciating in what we already have.

There are however, people who have more than what you have but still dissatisfied. Some people don’t have contentment in life, but if we only know how to make yourself happy, you can definitely make it,

by not comparing yourself to others specially to those who are already successful.

5) Be friendly and treasure any friendships.

To have friends who are optimistic is contagious, so it is important that you know who to choose to become friends because from them you will learn things in life, if they are pessimistic you will become like them for being together with them, so friends are the big factors in achieving things.

Friends are good but it takes time to invest in friendship, so it is much better to make friends before you need them.

Although friends may come and go while enemies accumulate. To have a friend, be a friend, because if you look for friends they are too scarce to find but with your friendliness you will find them everywhere.

Friends can help you in many ways, there are friends who are much closer with your relatives, as a friend nearby is much better that a relative who is far away.

When you invest in friendship you should be willing to give your best, you should be honest with them, you should be helpful when they need you, and when the times will come that you need them,

you don’t need to call them but, they will always look at it as an obligation to support and help you when needed.

6) Be grateful as always.

Being thankful is the most pleasant feelings to be felt from within yourself, with or without a specifically associated act, for gratitude can come from things that happen now or things that happened in the past.

In order to recognize all of your great achievements in your life. Writing a page each day with few encouraging words that you can feel grateful for,

so then this sort of activity may help you to feel satisfied through bringing positive things in your life.

You can write down everything about being grateful, remember all the things that you need to appreciate and things that you owed a lot of obligations.

Learning about gratitude should not be a substitute for anything including solving all problems. But you need to prioritize and focus on problems that needs attention.

Problems will sometimes help you find your way in doing your best, then it can make you to realize that with it there is still something that we have to be thankful for.

7) Love your family unconditionally.

After few years of relationship, there are a lot of things will come as something we called changes in a relationship.

There will be things you will discover from your spouse which are not favorable to you, and many things that looks discouraging to see, and sometimes there are things you wish your child could do but couldn’t make.

Try to learn to accept things because not everyone is the same, every person is unique of his own, and you should not expect that what you can do, they can do as well.

Accept them for who they are, it is not difficult to correct things specially it’s your family, so whatever you like to happen be open to them or teach your ways,

if you want them to do things that you like to ask them to do in a nice way, or help doing it then everything will be okay.

8) Think yourself as uniquely blessed.

People that you encountered in your daily life are of different path or a different sort of life than you are. Don’t be jealous with their accomplishment however, take a guide from them on how to be the same.

Comparing yourself to them will only make you discourage for sometimes but always remember that we have our own life which is so much different from theirs.

We have different struggles of life, ours might be harder or easier it will all depend on the situations.

Comparing ourselves to others will not make us happy, because we can always see something better from them, while they themselves have also found something better in us and that is how life is.

We should never compare ourselves to others, because we and them are not writing the same examination.

Always aim to be better than the person you were yesterday, because we ourselves are our true competition.

9) Think positively and share your courage with others.

What you allow is what will continue. It’s always better to spend more time alone than allow negative people and their opinions to derail you from your destiny.

Don’t easily get jealous, try to remember that everyone has positive and negative experiences, but what you will see are all only the good aspects of them and of their lives,

but deep inside you don’t know that sometimes they experience much harder life than you.

Always see to it that in every person’s one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.

So let’s all have the kind of mind which is not like the parachute, that will only function when it’s open.

10) Be active on all charitable works.

I always remember my favorite verse of the bible in Proverbs 11:25 Be generous and you will be prosperous. Help others and you will be helped.

If you want something that can lift your spirit up, it’s just easy by only helping others and not expecting any returns.

It can be a little hard to see the point of everything you’re doing. Offer yourself for those who are in need, and the more you help others the more you realize what life is all about.

And all these things will lead you to a very satisfied being, more contentment in life and more energy to survive in whatever trials and challenges that you are facing in your life.

Every time you see those who are in need, by serving them and by helping them, it will make you feel the better and you will be proud that you are having the rule of helping and not by being helped.

11) Think of it that not only material things can bring joy to our life.

Accustom yourself in making things that you like without using money. There are a lot of things that can make us happy without involving financial matter.

Something to enjoy that doesn’t need to be bought are: House cleaning with your family, playing with them, loving and caring them, etc.,

To see your family happy are already a great joy of our life and that is also some things non-material ones but is making you happy from inside up to outside.

When your family is complete, and happy, healthy, and strong, there is no money that can buy the happiness that it can produce.

12) Don’t buy the things you don’t really need just because they are cheap.

Don’t buy the things you don’t really need just because they are cheap. To struggle financially is one of the causes of unhappiness in life.

There are things in our life when it is so difficult to ever be in a position where money isn’t a problem at all, you can lessen the stress by only enjoying things that you see all around.

Instead of buying what you don’t want, think your every buying decision for not just a day but more days,

and the longer you decide buying the lesser the price you will get as things are getting cheaper day by day.

Don’t be jealous with others who are updated in all latest gadgets, avoid on reading catalogs or to the clearance sale magazines because in there you will find a lot of temptations of buying.

Be satisfied with what you have by enjoying its function, there is no so much big difference with the latest gadgets with that of yours as a rather older version.

Just always think that you can do most functions the same as the latest one, because the most common function that we normally used are only browsing, watching videos, calling and messaging.

Enjoy on what you already have instead in focusing on all the things you don’t have, If you dream of something which you are not capable of having it will only cause you to feel not good.

There are countless things that we need if we think we want them, but if you try to focus on what you already have then your mind will learn to be contented with whatever you have.

To crave more stuff while you already have it, is not a good sign, there is maybe something wrong with us if that is the case.

I hope you learn something from this valuable article, and if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, feel free to write them below and I will be more than happy to hear it.

Francisco,

Founder of the Bookworm or https://franciscorondinalaurito.com
website.

How do you love your enemies?

Loving your enemies is the most difficult thing to do, and we can’t do it unless we have the faith that we can make it through the help of our God, who himself has commanded us to do so. So without God’s help and intervention it will be impossible for us to do. We need to learn the ways of God on loving your enemies.

Luke 6:27 “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

What is God’s objectives of why is he commanding us to love our enemies, how can we love our enemies when we are being done with something not good. But since God is perfect and powerful, in every commandment he made there is always a reason behind, and all the reasons will be for our own good, with the double-sided effects, for our enemy and at the same time for the good of ourselves.

1) How do you make enemies? and How do you forgive them?

The more argument you win the fewer friends you have, and the fewer friends you have is  the more likely you can have enemies. This might be a little sad truth or reality, and a more painful set of thinking, but we need to consider them in order for us to change our ideas. Always remember that no matter how we take care with our talking there will always be some people who will not be happy with you, and if you don’t know how to deal with such people then you will be making some enemies out of this situation. But as long as you’re aware of what exactly happened, it will not be hard for you to make peace with them.

2) Be logical about your views towards enemies.

Hearing the phrase, Love your enemies,” does not necessarily mean you have to love them as much as you love your family and friends. Although we are being instructed to love them and to do good to them. But we can’t be obedient to God if we don’t follow God’s commandment. But with God, it’s not difficult for us to do things even if it is against our will, because God who is the source of all love will help us understand why there are people who would like to have enemies rather than friends.

3) Be considerate about giving chance.

Once we are being hurt by enemies our common feelings to arise is the hatred, but if you consider it as a sin, you will have the courage to be patient because for expecting that somebody is going to become an enemy at the same time the Holy Spirit will make you feel and understand why those people became who they are. Yes, it will really take time before we can fully understand the will of God, but if we try to figure out the very essence of all his commandments we will be ending up with the conclusion that his objective of letting it happen, even though sometimes it may start with pain but at the end of it, we will benefit a lot from the same situation which we thought in the beginning as trials or challenges of our faith. So no matter what happens to us as long as we are living with the faith and works with the will of God then all that we are facing whether hardship or comfort we always have to thank God for everything.

4) Don’t expect your enemy to love you back.

Enemies are enemies, they could hardly change themselves, they will never love you, but you are told to love them. Some people they will only forgive unless their enemies will come and apologize to what they have done to them, which is very impossible to happen that’s the reason why we called them enemies because they will not do for you anything pleasing but hurting. Just always think of it that you need to realize that forgiveness and loving your enemy is benefiting both of you because you will have reward from God while your enemy was not being harmed for only doing him good.

5) There is peace obtained as the benefits for forgiveness.

Forgiving enemy is beneficial to your health, because once you have enemy inevitably you will think of them and every time you remember them you will recall also all the things that caused you to become enemy, which are a very disgusting thing to think. Therefore, there is no other better things than to forgive them, because in forgiving you will experience peace of mind, lowering of your blood pressure, your system will be boosted, you can reduce risk of anxiety and depression, and to avoid the possible risk of heart attack. So there is a magical benefit towards your mental and physical well-being, that gives you a higher self-esteem and will improve you mentally and psychologically.

6) To forgive is not the last resort but your first move.

Don’t give a space in yourself anything like irritating thoughts and all the bitterness about your enemies, however, you have to push for a while and digress your thinking to only positive memories and thoughts. Think of something good that you have gained from your experience with your enemies, and throw away all the distasteful memory that caused you to be the best of enemies.

Don’t yield yourself to the pleasure of all resentful thinking about your enemies, it is only making you as a loser, because your enemy is maybe not thinking of it and you are thinking of it alone. Never let them overpower your peaceful thoughts. You are commanded to love them, so to train yourself to follow it, is to at least learn to ignore them and think of something amusing and valuable thinking.

7) Show to your enemy that you care for them even though they don’t.

There are a lot of things that could hinder you for following God’s commandment which is to love them, if you only think of all the negative things that happened from the past. Hence, try to switch your thinking to a different views of life.

Yes indeed, it is so hurting and difficult to erase everything that happened between you and your enemy, you don’t need to kiss them to have peace with them, but at least you will not do anything bad to them, if they had done something very serious at least surrender it all to the law of the government and to the law of God.

8) Be Always humble and always consider others as better than you.

We are just a human being and we are not perfect, we too have said something hurtful and inappropriate, and there are many things which we didn’t notice it was hurting for someone who heard it, so every time in our lives we are committing some small mistakes to our fellow men and to our God. So if you want to be forgiven for all those trespasses, we also have to forgive others so that ours can also be forgiven.

Sometimes due to over confidence, we thought that we never erred, but not knowing that we already have done countless of unintentional mistakes.

By being humble and considering others as much better than us, we will learn to appreciate small and convert it into valuable ones.

Everyone of us is unique in each other, there is something that you can do while others can’t and vice versa.

Respect others and think of them as more knowledgeable than you are and then you will learn to be humble of yourself and knowing that we are just from dust and to dust we will return.

9) Be mindful of yourself, always connect your mouth to your brain before talking.

Being a hot-tempered person is not good, because once you are hot-headed, you are torturing your inner self, and by having an angry feeling is to consume all your serotonin in the body and lacking of it will cause you to be melancholic. So by just your own thinking you have made yourself miserable.

If you want to stay out of trouble be careful what you say, because from the way we talk is where we can make enemies, so always connect your mouth to your brain whenever you are talking specially in front of your enemies. Our enemies are so sensitive to every word that we speak so be mindful, for instead you want some reconciliation, you have aggravated your situations.

10) Admit that it’s your fault because your enemy will never do it.

If both of you will not drop down your prides there will be nothing will happen with you, for the fire can’t be extinguished with same fire but by water or humbleness. To be humble is not a sign of cowardice, not a way of giving up but of growing up. If your enemy happened to be with you around for most of your time like co-worker or sometimes you are living on the same roof, which is the most difficult situation to overcome because your whole day will not be good since you are surrounded always with the one you don’t like. But on the other hand, you have the bigger chances of mending your relationship faster, since you will meet them every day. So then try to take every opportunity to interact with your enemy by showing them your best attitude that in spite of the things they did, you are still able to show them good things. Your kindness and patience with them will already do a big impact for their interest in you and for them to develop some better things of their lives.

If it’s not possible to reconcile with them, at least by showing your kindness and patience you will be able to maintain your low level of conflict.

Respecting your enemies even if they don’t deserve will confuse them and make them start to meditate about your extra ordinary behavior which is for them impossible for them to do to their enemies.

11) Share your thoughts and be considerate towards anyone.

There are the worst situations of enemies that will make you suffer for a trauma, such as murder of a family member, there is no other as painful as this is.

Without our fear to God, we can’t think that there is no more chance for you to forgive, for if you see them you might even kill them as well, but all we have to do is to remember the God’s commandment which is to love and to do good to them.

It sounds ridiculous for anyone without the fear of God, Even God will understand how you feel, but he will help you to accept at the later time, and it’s good to stick on his command which is to do good. What good you should do for enemies like them?

The good that you should be doing is to not to do anything bad like hiring people to kill them in retaliation of what they did to your family.

Surrender it all to God, and God who knows your feelings will be the one to help you heal the wound of your heart.

12) Be friendly even though they’re not.

To turn your enemies into friends is by focusing yourself into a more positive relationships. If you want to find ways on how to know your enemy better, initiate of being nice to them by offering something like coffee or whatever help you can do, specially if they are your colleagues in a company.

Your colleagues who knew about your stories will be amazed and will make them praise you for what you are doing which they can’t afford to do, and then you will gain lots of friends because of that.

Try to join to some friends who are having the same interest as yours, some friends who are kind and God-fearing.

The attitude of friends is so contagious, and you will learn from their way of thinking if you don’t know how to get a way with this kind of thinking your friends have, so be careful in choosing friends and at the same time you continue to show your positive outlook of life base in the ways of God taught in the bible.

13) Take all the privileges by taking advantage of the available counseling.

Take all your privileges in taking advantage of the counseling you can obtain from trusted religious leaders or person whom you think capable of helping you out of your situations, and for looking for ways to make peace with your enemy.

Sometimes in our lives, a time will come that we are having some trouble trusting new friends because of our experiences with them, but always remember, not all friends who smile are real friends, therefore, if you want your secret to not to be known from anyone specially to your enemies, try to minimize telling it to your friends, because friends come and go while enemies accumulate.

Discussion is the way for gaining knowledge and argument is the way for gaining enemies, so if you want to collect friends rather than enemies try be a good friend, and never dream to always win in any argument if you don’t like to collect more enemies.

Indeed it’s true that it is much easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend, but if we are commanded to love our enemy how come it’s difficult to forgive our own friends, so it’s not true that difficult to forgive a friend, it’s easy as they are already your friend, you are maybe just hurt so much for not expecting that your friend will do such thing to you.

Once again we are only human being, we must be aware of it, if you treat everyone as human being who is liable to err then your consideration and patience towards all will get higher, because the more you know yourself is the more you will have patience of what you see in others.

14) Why forgiveness is so vital to be followed?

I would like you to notice the verse below, of how important is forgiveness to our salvation. We have known some commandments of God about sins but we ignored one of the unforgivable sin which is to have and unforgiving heart, that if you don’t forgive them, God will also not forgive you so it is tantamount as unforgivable sin. Read the verse below.

Matthew 6:14-15 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

 

The very main topic of this article is about loving our enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.

Matthew 5:44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

I will explain you a bit about this verse of the bible, for which it becomes the questions of most people, how come we are commanded to love our enemies, and pray for those who persecute us?

We are told to love them because God loves them and by doing them good will encourage them to come to him and repent for all their sins and be saved.

There are many reasons for God to tell us to love our enemies and one of its best reasons is that, once you learn the most difficult task which is to love our enemies, how much more to love our own family.

So if you can’t love your family it is impossible for you to love your enemies, and if you can love your enemies it’s easy for you to love your families.

I hope you learn something from this article, and if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, I will be more than happy to hear it, even if it’s biblical question I will answer it with always the supplying verse from the bible.

Francisco

Founder of the Bookworm or the https://franciscorondinalaurito.com

What are the characteristics of a good employee?

On the sides of the employer, it is a part of their obligation to appraise if who among of their employees have the capacity to become an asset of the organization.

It is not quite easy to find out and keep those valuable employee. The people who have the potential to become good employees for the future, are the ones who should be hired because in them we can surely expect the best attributes, for employees who have the potential assets to the company.

So in this article we will be discussing things in regard to the best employees who possess the characteristics of a good employee.

Top employees should have the following characteristics:

Below are the lists of the 15 steps or ultimate guides on how to become the best employee ever.

1) Listening skills – most people love to talk than to hear, so if you want people to like you just listen to them very well and you will have somebody to always talk for a longer time,

because they like to be with people whom they are being respected and heard, and understood about their ideas, feelings, and knowledge that they shared. The better listener you are, is the more people would like to talk to you.

2) Competence – if you are able to do your job well you will be seen very competent by your employer, because they are looking at employees who are effective in the assigned duties that they have.

So skills and knowledge are very important for an employee as a sign of being great at what you are doing.

You are going to build a closer relationship with your employer because they want people who are reliable and a possible candidate to be the best asset of the company.

3) Self- motivated: being responsible with the assigned position, is taking the responsibility and with the sense of ownership of the company.

Self-motivated employee will not look at the time while working but on the completeness of the task given for completion. You are also able to work long hours without supervision.

You should always be ready to do any extra task assigned which includes the unavoidable sudden change of schedule or overtime works needed for immediate orders prioritization.

4) Adaptability/ Decisiveness and Effectiveness in learning: Those employees who are flexible and adaptable in any environment, they are the ones  who are willing to learn new things,

or they are called quick learners people, who perform their best, even if there are many changes in the tasks they are still able to perform to the best as possible within the organization.

5) Be on your focus and in concentration: We all have some problems at home that needs to be resolved but an employee who have stayed in focus will still be able to perform their best output as they are not bringing their bad moods and problems from home.

Their continuous focus is still helping them to be motivated to work even though they have some problems that are still to be taken action.

6) Team player: Most companies have employees who are working as a team. And those companies who require teams are looking for effective team members, who can render the best performance as possible.

In every team there should be an ideal worker, who can be relied on to work as a team. Being a team player is very important in the companies who require team collaborations.

The skill of every member of the team will play a big role in the team. Therefore, in teamwork we should not remove the word team or else teamwork will become only work, so then who would like it now. So make sure to keep teamwork as teamwork no matter what happens.

7) Honesty is known to be the best policy: One of the qualities of the best employee is his honesty towards his job, colleagues, employer or to the company. An honest employee can be trusted and relied on in everything.

The company is fully trusting its employees to use mostly all the equipment necessary for the job assigned, and almost all of them are expensive, therefore,

to be honest and to have the sense of ownership of everything that belongs to the company and even for those that belong to the colleagues, an honest employee will take care of all of them assuming that it is his own thing.

8) Cooperative and Supportive to the colleagues: You have shared the biggest contributions to your colleagues when you show that you are doing your very best for the sake of the fulfillment and achievement of your colleagues in the team.

The more enthusiasm that you shared with your team is the more they will appreciate your effort and it will make you shine towards all your colleagues including to the company.

9) It’s vital to be ethical: Rules and regulations are to be followed: There are right manners that needs to be kept in every place of the organization.

A good employee will always follow the policies and procedures set by the management or company which will be a good example from other colleagues to inspire them to do the same.

10) Being Polite: to be friendly and approachable are some traits of a good employee. A good employee should be respectful, obedient, and courteous,

whenever you meet your colleagues you should always have a greeting to make just to let them know that there is someone like you around. So the words please, good day, thank you, you’re welcome, etc.

could always be heard from your mouth for all the time when you are with your colleagues, and it will make a big difference for you.

11) To be optimistic and being a positive thinker is what everyone loves. Being pessimistic is just a small thing but it makes a big difference. You’re attitude will matter a lot when It comes to being a positive thinker.

Even without saying a word by just your action all your colleagues will find out who and what you are. But showing a positive attitude and being a problem solver, will do a lot of changes in your life and on the way how your colleague judge you.

12) Well disciplined personality and to be punctual as always, is what the boss loves, and in this way you will shine among all other employees and then you are building a relationship with your superior and the company.

But coming late will do the opposite, you are ruining their trust in you. Even if you will extend more hours to fill up your missing time, it’s not possible and no employer will ever like and appreciate it.

13) Those who gossip with you will likely gossip about you: Respect your colleague’s privacy by not telling or exposing whatever you heard about them.

You should always remember that they came to the office to work and not with any other purposes but only about the career. Every thing you heard about the office are all confidential and must not be spread outside.

So safeguard and protect the confidential nature of the office business and all transaction, and most of all respect the privacy of co-workers by keeping to yourself everything you know about them.

14) Be hard-working and energetic: Being a hard worker can’t be substituted with anything, even though almost all who are working in the company are claiming to be diligent, but just few of them can work full time work without supervision.

In order for us to be called the best employee, we need to work hard like working with your own company. The best employee will work hard not for eye service or for men- pleaser, but working from the heart with the full honesty and industriousness.

15) Go above and beyond compliance to the task assigned: The best employee knows how to initiate things to do, they don’t need to be told what to do they have common sense and their always objective is to contribute something good to the team. The best employee’s hard work can be so noticeable by the big boss,

and they mostly receive commendation and reward, and they can earn a faster promotion than the rest, and the management will normally choose from them to nominate as the best model employee of the company.

They can complete the task on their own so there will be no need for man to man supervision or maybe micro-management.

 

So if you can comply all that are stated above about the characteristics of the best employee, then no doubt that you yourself can be, If you just review and review the 15 steps or guide on how to become the best employee,

wherever you work, you will always be seen as an asset of the company, and you will have more chances of getting promoted. Most managers of the company are putting more value on the attitude of the employee, so no matter how experienced you are, if you show a bad attitude towards all, then your talents and skills will not be counted as great because decorum is very important in every establishment. But if you are friendly, humble and approachable, even though you’re not very good at the task assigned, there will be a lot of your colleagues who are willing to help you. The best employee will not look at the time while working but they are focusing about output and completion of work, they are very punctual but always the last one to leave. They are devoted and loyal whether they like the company or not because their aim is always to provide the best service as possible.

I hope you have learnt from this article about being the best employee, and if you have any questions, comments, or maybe reactions please feel free to write them below and I will be more than happy to hear it.

Francisco,

Founder of the Bookworm Website or the https://franciscorondinalaurito.com

10 ways on how to improve yourself.

There are plenty of ways if we talk about personal improvement, but you need to face your fears and do yourself alone to improve your social life, so that you will be able to make yourself better than what you are, because when it comes to improving yourself, you should focus everything about your self-confidence.

So to make you be fully equipped with the necessary things to be needed for your journey of improvement, here are all those steps that can make you achieve the goal of improving yourself, so here are the 10 ways on how to improve yourself.

1) change your bad habits if you want to improve yourself.

You can improve yourself by choosing the best steps, and one of it is by changing your bad habits which is one of the most difficult things to do, but if you are determined to do it of course you can make it,

or else there is nothing that you can improve, because in your journey of improving yourself, you have to first break the barrier of changing which is your inner self and habits and once you are able to overcome it, you can improve yourself like never before.

It is something that you do in your daily life which is the one we normally called bad habit, it is sometimes our too much delay of taking actions or maybe of non-stop working without having any breaks.

Our bad habits are of different styles, sizes, and shapes, so better work on your own ways and try your best to make your bad habit turn into good.

2) The first thing you have to think is how to improve your skills.

Everyone of us are gifted with special skills, some of them are already been discovered and some are not.

So there is always a big opportunity for us to learn and grow, as long as we know how to find out about where our passions are and about expanding our knowledge which is very important for improving ourselves.

We can always find some opportunity to try something different every day or take the challenges by yourself to something you’ve always passionate about in order to overcome the things you feel you can’t do.

No matter what it is, whether about job, studies, business, it’s so important that you know how to apply your all best with both hand open and ready to catch all opportunities as much as possible.

There are many helpful areas of your life that can be used in improving yourself specially your educational point of view including your career.

If we move up to the ladder of some people, it is so important that you put yourself in there, in order to learn the necessary steps to fulfill the goal.

3) Include the exercise as part of your daily or weekly routine.

To be healthy you need to do your best in putting exercise in a regular basis since it is the best element of life. To exercise even just 30 minutes twice or thrice a week activity, it can already be a big help for you.

Adding exercise into your routine can be helpful in keeping your body fit, and it is very essential for your health, and your mental well-being too.

Look for an exercise that you love doing, rather than simply doing something out of necessity, because life will definitely be so stressful, and by making yourself busy with the exercise as your activity to relieve some stress.

Find something that could bring you excitement and joy, then do your best in working out slowly and surely. Yes, exercise is really important to get into the routine but it’s not going to be something that will happen in just a day,

you need to put some patience with it specially if you have never done this before. So don’t overload yourself by doing it all together at the same time or else your enthusiasm to commit it will be lost.

4) Set a goal for what to do few years from now, and ask some comments.

Do you have any specific goal to achieve for the future or on any certain time? Having a set goal or plan will help you a lot in achieving your dream faster.

In order for our life to be directed on the right way, it is so important to ask yourself how to find that specific direction in life. To set a specific plan or target of years on when to achieve it will so much help us in creating and gaining some sort of success in life.

You should have an action plan, if you want to achieve what you have set to do, for the more goals you have, the more plans you have to fulfill to make it better.
The best ways to improve yourself, is to ask for feedback, personal or constructive criticism will help you improve yourself.

We can benefit a lot from truthful feedback, so it’s important that we are open for it and willing to accept as this can improve ourselves than being defensive.

Feel free to ask questions from your friends if you think there is something wrong that you will be needing some advice from whom you trust.

The people who are supportive to you are only those who care for you like your friends, family, relatives, etc., these are the only people you can trust that will help you to find the best for you in your life.

Find guidance from them who inspire you and surround yourself with people who are going to help you in times when you need them the most.

5) Be bookworm

There is no other better things than having a habit of reading, because it will help you become more intelligent in both your language and how you write, as well as building your skills.

Reading of whatever books are good for building knowledge and there are a lot of things you will learn in each book depending on which kind you are reading.

If you spend sometime in reading, you’re going to help yourself in so many ways of life. Try to pick the best books to read so that you will be encouraged of reading once it is related to your desire and inclination,

or else you will not be enjoying in your reading and you will lose your interest of it and then you will miss a big thing in life, because from reading books you will get the ideas of success and failure as your guide to your journey of improving yourself.

Especially if you want to improve your language skills, reading is a very important factor, although not all of us like to read same books, but you need to set a target number of times and books to read in every month or year so that you have a forcing strategy to motivate you to read as many books as possible.

Make reading as a habit, and no matter how old you are already it is so important, that you make yourself enjoy with it, so try to find some books that will make you more interested in it.

6) Tell yourself something positive every morning Upon waking up.

In self-improvement it is so vital that you have with you some positive affirmation. Why? Because there is nobody else around us that could tell if where we are already of our journey, and how good we are doing in our life. Reward yourself with some sort of encouragement because no one else is going to do it for you.

Tell something to yourself each morning some wonderful phrase or quotes that will make you feel excited about what is going to happen ahead of us. Be inspired to do things which is not just the ones you have been doing already but also for something which you have not thought doing since before.

Talking to yourself alone with some words of affirmation will be a little weird at the beginning but it helps a lot in giving you some energy to be hopeful and optimistic.

It will also build you up with your courage to say a word of positive thinking that will increase your power to make you more energetic.

Always fill your days with positive thinking, always think to yourself that everything is possible, because it’s really possible as even the word itself is telling us “IM POSSIBLE.”

7) You have to have a dream if you want to make a dream come true.

Dream is very important in our life because without it we can accomplish nothing. Holding yourself back will not be helpful in achieving them, and it’s never going to improve your quality of self-satisfaction, so dream and dream because it’s free.

When you’re trying to improve yourself on where you want to be in your life, having a dream can help you to go there. Even it seems impossible to do it, as long as you are inspired and motivated for it you will certainly achieve something wonderful about your dream.

8) Don’t accompany with people who are pessimistic.

You don’t need people with negative attitude in their lives. Negativity can be your partner themselves or maybe friends or members of your family.

They all can bring you down with your improvement, so be careful enough with your way of thinking and never be carried away by what you experience with them as they have different views for life which you don’t need to make as your basis for your improvement.

Any people that you feel having negative approach about life, always remember they can do nothing with your goals, so better be aloft with those people as they only bring you a not good outcome, and you can never expect them to bring out the best in you however, possibly the worst.

Anyone who is against your way, doesn’t deserve to be part of your plans and dreams, whoever they are, even your own family or friends if they don’t support you, don’t expect them to, however, go ahead with your dream and you can make it even without them.

9) Make a record of your achievement

There are many ways of keeping some records of achievement. Some are using diaries, and some are through blogs. Whatever ways will that be, whether you want it on private or through public, it will all depend upon you on how would you like it to be.

One of the best ways is by making it a content to a website and so that all your wonderful experiences can be shared to the public and then they can also benefit from it for their own lives.

The more you have a record of your achievement is the more you become inspired in keeping it to the best as possible.

10) Believe in yourself that you can do it, and try Doing is more important than thinking.

Stop on the thinking of being afraid of what might go wrong and start being positive about what could go right.

It is a long journey of life when we talk about improving ourselves. Be all aware about all areas of life that we can improve. Then you will have something to gain for yourself that can bring you happiness and fulfillment.

You can achieve whatever you want in life, all you have to do is to believe that you can. Always remember that whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Just thinking about improvement will do you nothing because it needs action in order to see the result. You are what you do for yourself. Knowledge can be nothing without action, it’s not right to say knowledge is power if without action instead, the right words should be, “knowledge is power if applied.”

So all good things don’t come to those that will only wait, but only for those that will find a way to learn something and move forward.

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I hope you learn something from this article, if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, and even reactions, please feel free to write them below and I will be more than happy to hear it.

Francisco,

Founder of Bookworm Website or https://franciscorondinalaurito.com

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There are a lot of ways in which you can do to slower down your clock and live longer life. It’s never too late to start a healthy habit.

How to live longer and healthier? What are the things you might need to stop for the sake of your longevity program.

For us to understand why we can live shorter or longer, we need to find out the factors, and what are the elements that can possibly shorten or lengthen our lives.

Although the biblical insight has already foretelling us that there is an appointed time set for all of us, like what we can read in:
Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

The good news is that there is the same biblical insight that is telling us that if we do this like what we can read in: Proverbs 10:27 The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.

So the fear for the Lord can prolong life, fear meaning to do the will of God.

But this article is not intended for biblical basis but, we are gonna be sorting out about how our body is designed and what do our bodies need to live longer in a natural way of application and discoveries through healthy way of lifestyle.

Vitamins and Minerals, What are they?

Vitamins and Minerals are the chemical compounds needed for proper functioning of the human body.

Vitamins are of two types, 1- is the fat soluble and the other is water-soluble. Fat soluble vitamins are those vitamins- A, D, E, and K.

These are the vitamins that can be dissolved in fat and can be stored in the body. The water-soluble vitamins are those vitamins- B- complex and C. and this can be dissolved in water.

Minerals are an inorganic element. Vitamins and minerals have a specific functions and are derived from a variety of food sources and one of them is Vitamin A

One of the known vitamins which we can obtain from sunshine is the Vitamin D, because it is produced by the body after the exposure to the sunshine.

Vitamin D is found in mostly dairy products, fish, sunflower seeds, and egg yolks, however, it’s only very little Vitamin D is needed from the dietary sources, as long as there is a sufficient Vitamin D is absorbed from sunlight.

Vitamin D function is not only to strengthen bones but also it is necessary for the absorption and maintenance of calcium and magnesium in the body.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, which protects the body tissues from oxidative damage.

It is also important in the health of red blood cells and the use of vitamin K. It aids in healing, prevention of scarring,

and it soothes broken or stressed skin tissue. Green leafy vegetable, wheat, whole grains, nuts and vegetable oils are good sources of vitamin E.

Vitamin K

The primary function of vitamin K, is its crucial role in the blood clotting process. Vitamin K aids blood clot formation, stopping bleeding when necessary.

B Complex Vitamins

There is also a lot of Vitamin B that can be found in vegetables and fruits but, sad to say that it is mostly thrown because this is normally found in the skins of vegetable, fruits, etc. however, animal products also contain Vitamin B.

Vitamin C

Vitamin C is playing a vital role as an antioxidant, it is protecting the body from tissue damage by oxidation.

Free radicals, which are byproducts of normal metabolism and environmental factors, cause cellular damage, leading to disease and illness. Antioxidants stabilize free radicals, preventing damage to the body.

Calcium

Calcium performs a number of basic functions in your body. Your body uses 99 percent of its calcium to keep your bones and teeth strong, thereby supporting skeletal structure and function.

The rest of the calcium in your body plays key roles in cell signaling, blood clotting, muscle contraction and nerve function.

Iron

Iron is an essential component of hemoglobin, a protein responsible for helping red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body.

Iron-rich foods include: Fortified breakfast cereals, cooked oysters, white beans, dark chocolate, organ meats, soybeans, soybeans, lentils, spinach, tofu, sardines, etc.

One of the rich sources of natural vitamins and minerals can be obtained from eating lots of fruits and vegetables.

Fruits and vegetables are very essential to your body’s needs, because it can improve your immune system or your body’s ability to fight infections. It also contains antioxidant properties that help you live a longer life.

Don’t stress yourself

Anger and stress is secretly eating your inner self inside your body and may actually shorten your life if you don’t know how to handle it, so to do an effort to reduce stress, will make you improve your health in the long term, and quality of life in the meantime.

Making a habit of reading and writing, and meditating is a kind of practice in the multiple longevity benefits, and learning to relax are wonderful ways to destress.

Working in just a few minutes of meditation a day- even at your own desk, can already give your brain the little vacation from anxiety and tension it needs.

Sleep very well as much as possible.

Sleeping can be a big factor for the lifespan, and not just because a sleepy driver is at risk of a car accident.

In epidemiological studies, sleeping too little (fewer than six hours) or substantially more (over nine hours) has been shown to put people at greater risk of death. A good night’s sleep can help you ward off stress, depression, and heart disease.

There are many ways in which you can learn how to fall asleep quickly and take some action that can help you with the sleeping problem.

To fall asleep quicker you need to make your bedroom a little darker and a distraction free with the air conditioning control to the cooler level.

Prayer and meditation exercises to set a good night’s sleep. But if you still having a problem in sleeping, you need to consult your health provider for further help.

Avoid Keeping it all to Yourself

Managing stress and by strengthening your immune system, can be a good source for longevity booster. Good relationships keep you strong, while bad relationships can leave you in a negative frame of mind, and put you at risk of depression and even heart attacks.

To be always being connected is not an easy task specially when you are feeling down, or have lost someone who is close to you, or to be away from extended family and friends.

There are a lot of ways to re-engage and meet new people even if you are in a new city, including volunteering and reaching out to others with similar interests through networks like business groups and book clubs.

Stop Eating Mainly Processed Foods

Consuming more processed foods is one of the major dietary changes that have taken in many countries around the world.

Consuming processed foods can increase the content of sodium consumption, saturated fats, more sugar, and less fiber. And this results for the more possible risk for cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cancer, and diabetes.

Americans eat on average about 3,300 milligrams of sodium a day. The U.S. Dietary Guidelines recommend limiting sodium to less than 2,300 milligrams a day.

If you are in the following population groups, you should consume no more than 1,500 mg of sodium per day, and meet the potassium recommendation (4,700 mg/day) with food.

Most of which salt comes from restaurant and convenience foods, like baked goods, cured meats, and soup.

Trying to eat a fresh and clean food more often is a big favor you have done for yourself. To eat food including those that are high in fiber and other ingredients you purchase and prepare yourself.

If you don’t have enough time, you can cook ahead of time in big batches, or splurge on ready-made salads and other fresh or frozen vegetables while you are making sure that you are having a look on its sugar and sodium contents.

Quit Smoking

Quit smoking is the most difficult thing to do, once you are already addicted to it.

Smoking is not good for health as everybody knows and if your goal is to live longer, smoking is the big factor for you to fail for your desired goal of life longevity.

Smoking can also affect men’s sperm, which can reduce fertility and also increase risks for birth defects and miscarriage. …

Smoking can affect bone health. …

Smoking affects the health of your teeth and gums and can cause tooth loss. …

Smoking can increase your risk for cataracts (clouding of the eye’s lens that makes it hard for you to see). …

As soon as you quit smoking, blood pressure and circulation improve soon after quitting, and your risk of getting cancer decreases every year thereafter.

Your family will also benefit from your staying tobacco-free because they’ll no longer be exposed to dangerous secondhand smoke, and then you’ll look younger, too.

Minimize on sedentary habits

You don’t need to hit the global minimum requirements of 30 minutes a day, five or more times per week, to extend your life.

It’s being examined that the activity habits of people who were found just getting 15 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise each day it can help them to live another extra years.

The longevity boost went up to four years of longer life for people achieving the threshold of 30 minutes a day.

The result held true even for those with health problems like cardiovascular disease- and for overweight people who didn’t lose any pounds through their activity.

Brisk walking was one of the “moderate intensity” exercises recommended that can already benefit if you have the conscious effort to do it in your daily routine, even the only 15 minutes of activity is already sufficient to gain another extra three years of life.

Don’t hold a Grudge

It’s not bad to get angry but make sure you will not sin as a result of it, or don’t let the sun go down on your anger, meaning, don’t let your patience and good judgment to go down with your anger.

Ephesians 4:26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

It’s really so difficult to control anger, it’s a very tough emotion to release, especially if you feel justified in your outrage.

It’s maybe the best question to ask yourself if this worth it, when your level of stress hormone go up when anger is uncontrollable. It’s creating a negative effects on your heart, metabolism, and immune system.

Never think That you can count on big changes only

Lifestyle can be inspiring if there are some radical, sweeping changes, but they can also be too daunting, and therefore, will not last long, for the ordinary mortals.

The next time you eat healthier or exercise more, you just have to try aiming a little lower. Better to try one small changes at a given time, like getting earlier in the morning in order to fix yourself a healthy lunch for work,

instead of a major life makeover. Like the previous example of this article about the just a little body activity which is letting you reap big benefits for your lifespan.

Few shifts can fly under your own radar, but it’s adding up a big benefits over time without causing any stress in your busy world. Consistency is more important than a short-term, grand gesture.

Besides, looking at what’s already working in your day-to-day routine can help you feel energized and motivated to tweak a little more in a healthy direction.

Don’t let your Fear (or Denial) Keep You From Being Healthy

It is affecting so much to the personality traits when we talk about longevity, the only most important ones is the conscientiousness who will consistently ranking as an important characteristic.

Why? Because the conscientious people tend to engage in a healthy behavior, like eating well, exercising, and following their doctor’s advice while avoiding risky behavior like smoking and driving too fast.

However, don’t confuse being conscientious or diligent with being neurotic about your health, a trait that may be linked to negative emotions like anxiety, anger, and depression.

A simplified example might be that a neurotic person worries he might have cancer, and fearing the worst, doesn’t go to his doctor. By contrast, a conscientious person may still worry, but gets screened or tested, learns about the disease, and gets treated in a timely fashion.

Don’t rely on (or Blaming) Your Genes, or your ancestors.

Your ancestors like your great grand parents down to your parents, or other family members who live an extra ordinary age of over ninety or beyond, might suggest that you will reach on those age too,

specially if you are a healthy conscious individual. But you don’t need to rely too heavily on that family history, because our healthy diet will also play a big factor for a longer lifespan.

Nowadays, there is a good news for those of you who don’t such exceptional ancestry. Environmental and lifestyle factors like diet, how much exercise you get, even if you are exposed to workplace toxins, how much stress you experience,

how conscientious you are about medical tests and screenings, and even the strength of your social relationship all play a huge role in how fast you age and how long you may live.

Besides, in focusing on the genetics, you can’t control when the factors you can benefit from your attention?

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I hope you have learnt something from this article, and if you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to write them below and I will be more than happy for it.

Francisco,

Founder of the Bookworm Website or https://franciscorondinalaurito.com

What should a marriage be?

First of all marriage is not about age, but it is about finding the right person to be in your life. So to keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it, and whenever you’re right you should shut up.

Happily ever after is what the couple are wishing with their wedding, but without their efforts to make it happen, there will be no wishes to come true but will only remain a wish or a dream.

There are many reasons why people have decided to marry, and one of it is to have a lifetime partner.

Once you married, the focus of your mind will stay in one place, and your life will start to have a direction because you already have another responsibility which is bigger than yourself.

When you were single, your only concern is yourself but when you married you have to consider that you’re not anymore one but two as one, in other words to be in a marriage relationship is not an easy task because you are dealing with another person which is your second you.

Your wife is already a part of you, that is the reason why her dignity is your dignity, her shame is also yours, her reputation is also yours, so you are sharing one honor and reputation being two who became one.

Marriage is not for fun, marriage is not trial and error, but marriage is a commitment, a lifetime commitment and responsibility, it is a total subjection, and a total surrender.

A big beautiful wedding is mostly assumed by a lot of people as not an ordinary matrimony, with all the bridesmaids, groomsmen, and a costly rings and a beautiful cake, young people are thinking of it to be the guarantee of a secured and a happily-ever-after ending.

I have witnessed a lot of expensive weddings attended by a lot of rich and influential people but just a year after, I heard they are annulling their marriages.

Sometimes we can’t understand what really is happening, of why they have decided that fast that supposed to be they were both making a vow to love each other for better of for worst.

What Does the bible say about marriage?

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

Marriage is defined by others as the relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!

So to keep a marriage stronger, even though you are right you don’t need anymore to prove it however, you have to admit that you are wrong.

This is really difficult to do but marriage life should be like that, you have to lower down your pride in order for your relationship to be harmonious.

So to value the beauty, perfection, and social approval, sometimes you need to accept that life is much less than perfect, than you had ever expected,

and you may be amazed at the ways in which you sacrifice your early expectations about your partner, and marriage as an institution- just to keep the relationship together.

It’s just normal for a relationship to have some fights, and it is allowed as strengthener of the relationship as long as it’s not involving physical contact.

In a relationship you should not hide your attitude, you have to show your full you at the very early stage of your life, so that it can be also corrected or accepted at the early stage of the relationship.

You have to show your best and your worst behavior, to your spouse and try to correct it to the best that you can because nobody likes it.

Marriage is a forever commitment, marriage is a total surrender whether you like that agreement or not.

Marriage also means that, for better or for worst in sickness and in health, no one should divide your united heart by God.

One of the reasons why you married is so that there is someone who will support you and love you through whatever challenges you may encounter in you relationship.

As couple you have to be in one mind, whatever you like should also be liked by your partner, learn to be supportive in all the activities of your spouse and be appreciative with whatever achievement he may have so that you can at least do a little moral support.

So marriage is about sharing everything including bed, kitchen, bathroom, and all those personal moments that will make you look sweeter and lovelier.

Marriage will also mean that in every challenge that you face, there is someone who takes it as personally as you do.

But remember, that you both are just human beings and not perfect, so be also ready to be considerate when your partner will sometimes fail to render his duties as spouse.

As a loving spouse you have to be the best partner as possible and try to be the best of all, and be loving and caring of each other and you will live happily as can be.

To whom should you marry?

You should make sure that you can see love for each other in the eye, be ready to accept on whatever weaknesses your spouse have.

There is something you didn’t know before and now you discovered which is sometimes not acceptable to you, but you should be willing to accept it in case it can’t be corrected.

Marriage is not for fun but a lifetime responsibility and commitment, so before getting into this matter make sure that you are ready to face all the possible challenge that may arise within your relationship.

You and your partner should be truly loving each other unconditionally, so that there will be no any possible reasons of breaking up when times get tough.

But the best one to marry is the one who is ready to suffer for any consequences that may happen as a result for loving each other.

To whom should you not marry?

Marriage requires a 100 percent consent and a 100 percent support from both partners, it’s needing the full acceptance, and a 100 percent respect for each other.

You will not be qualified for marriage if you are not ready yet to face the life of being married. You should already be able to live by yourself independently without any help from parents.

If you don’t have any house for your own at least you can afford to rent a house for you start a new family.

Some people they like to marry but they want to stay single at heart, and these kinds of people are not the one for marriage since they have the tendency to be an irresponsible spouse because they still take with them their single lives even though they are already married.

There are people who are still single at heart even though they’re already married. Living single is how they live as being married so they tend to be irresponsible because of not committing themselves to the proper obligations as married status.

Marriage mentally overvalues one particular relationship and undervalues a wide range of other relationships, some of which are relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.

So if the person has a lot of things to consider and a lot of conditions to require before he will marry, so he doesn’t deserve on the particular status yet.

Matrimony is the most common term they use for marriage, and it is the cultural recognition as the union between two people, called the spouses, who establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between their children and in-laws

The definition of marriage varies around the world, not only between cultures and between religions, but also throughout the history of any given culture and religion.

In some cultures, marriage is recommended or considered to be compulsory before pursuing any sexual activity.

When defined broadly, marriage is considered a cultural and universal. A marriage ceremony is also called a wedding.

I hope you have learnt something about this article, and if you have any questions or comments please write them below and I will be more than happy to hear it.

Francisco,

Founder of the Bookworm Website