Sometimes I like to walk, to ease the mind, to escape the world for a bit. The longer I walk the more the pains of life seem to disappear. Its as though your mind becomes easy, relaxed, free to consider happiness.
It is almost impossible in this life not to feel pain. We often let people into our space, bringing in pain with them. It seems really innocent at first, but the more they learn about us, the more the pain seems to increase. Its not just the pain of them hurting us, but its whether we will hurt them.
Most times we want to blame others for our sorrows. But as a famous Jamaican proverbs states, "it takes two hands to clap". It takes two people to create pain, no matter how we want to hide from it. Pain is never good. Although many may try to say there is good pain. That's just crazy. The effect of pain may bring about relief at some point, but the pain itself is never good.
So why do we want to cause pain? Why do we want to hurt each other? These are two questions that are hard to comprehend. Sometimes there is no intention to cause pain, but we are thrown into it. Often times we deliberately "ruffle feathers" to cause pain. We delight in seeing others hurt, considering only what we want.
It could never be desirable to want to live in pain. As we mature we learn that pain makes us bitter, even though it teaches us lessons. Jesus Christ had to suffer pain for us to have salvation. In the midst of his pain, he asked his Father to take away his pain [ "saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." - Luke 22:42]. But in the end he faced his pain for the greater good of all. So that we who choose to follow him could have our sins forgiven and have the hope of eternity with him.
The example of Christ, teaches us that even in the face of our pain we should turn to God for help. He has a purpose for us all, he can bring peace to our hearts, and leave pain at the doorstep....
Consuming,
mushrooming,
draining the heart of love,
a time bomb fully charged,
waiting to explode into sorrow,
it shatters common sense,
making thoughts bitter and gray,
the shouting,
the arguing,
tears appear often,
bleeding the soul of forgiveness,
who will stand strong?
which tower will emerge,
will egos embrace defeat,
or will ids separate,
the torment,
the emptiness,
the burning within,
can peace be born?
will eyes meet again,
or will sadness breed,
without God all is lost,
only remnants remain,
but pain remembers not love...
Dayne-Christopher
mushrooming,
draining the heart of love,
a time bomb fully charged,
waiting to explode into sorrow,
it shatters common sense,
making thoughts bitter and gray,
the shouting,
the arguing,
tears appear often,
bleeding the soul of forgiveness,
who will stand strong?
which tower will emerge,
will egos embrace defeat,
or will ids separate,
the torment,
the emptiness,
the burning within,
can peace be born?
will eyes meet again,
or will sadness breed,
without God all is lost,
only remnants remain,
but pain remembers not love...
Dayne-Christopher
"If one could read the mind of pain, then help could be forthcoming."
DCA
DCA
Olint’s Smith pulls $20M from local bank account
David Smith — trying to withdraw funds from personal accounts from some local financial institutions. (File photo)
Olint’s boss, David Smith pulled over $20 million from a local financial institution, one of several holding millions in personal accounts, according to well-placed sources.
This latest development along with requests from Smith to other local financial houses triggered a warning from the Financial Services Commission (FSC) to local financial institutions to be careful as to how they release funds to the beleaguered Ponzi scheme boss.
But in the absence of a world-wide freeze on Smith’s accounts, the FSC warning seems useless, as financial institutions have no legal legs to stand on if they fail to honour Smith’s request.
Smith was forced to draw down funds from local sources because the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI)government has frozen the $13 million in liquid assets discovered by the authorities and he knows that local institutions would have to honour his claims in the absence of a local freeze on his accounts.
Responding to a question as to why there was no freeze on the local assets of Smith, Cadian Campbell, who is an agent of the liquidator stressed that he could not answer that question, while stating that his boss, liquidator Joseph Connolly would be in a better position to respond to it.
He also suggested that contact be made with the FSC to find out why this was not and still has not been done. The job of the liquidator is to locate and distribute the assets of a failed company, based on a certain formula, which would lead to the payment of taxes, creditors, agents and servants first and then shareholders with whatever is left.
The Sunday Herald understands that the FSC also wrote securities dealers a year or so ago to find out how much money they held on behalf of Olint, however, the funds were never frozen.
Many securities dealers confirmed that they have received copies of the letter from the SDA, but stressed that they would have to honour their commitments to Smith if no freeze is imposed on his local assets.
Several efforts made to get comments from FSC executive director, Rohan Barnett, and deputy executive director, George Roper, proved to be futile up to press time.
In a report submitted recently, liquidator Connolly confirmed that Olint was a Ponzi scheme because the US$220 million invested by its 6,000 clients was not being traded on the global foreign exchange market, as Smith led them to believe.
He also pointed out that Olint TCI, which was established on April 2006 with a share capital of only US$1,000, split 60:40 between Smith and his wife Tracy Smith, was supposed to be an investment manager of public funds through various subsidiaries such as Hallmark Bank and Trust.
Jamaica Herald
The Woods
The number 1 golfer in the world, Tiger Woods suffered injury in what seems to be a freak accident near his home in Orange County, Florida on Friday. It is still unknown as to the reason for the accident. However, his wife Elin had to use a golf club to shatter the back glass of his 2009 Cadillac Escalade to free him. He sustained minor injuries to his face. Woods is expected to give a statement to the police today....
There is a vicious rumour circulating that his wife may have caused the injury to Tiger, as it is alleged that he is having an affair with another woman. However, there is no evidence to suggest that this is the case at this time...
"If we compromise our faith, then we leave God in the sunset."
DCA
DCA
They often say that the truth hurts. Oh yeah, the truth hurts, but guess what, its good soul food. It is never easy to say the truth, especially when it is someone you care about.
But ask yourself these questions:
1) Will lying make the truth easier to bear?
2) Does sugar coating a lie make it easier to swallow?
3) Will you sleep easier when you lie to someone?
4) Does it make the person stronger when you withhold the truth?
The truth be told, a lie can never make anyone feel better. The bible teaches us that when we intend to speak the truth to someone or to correct, we should do so gently [ A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger - Proverbs 15:1] You should never try to be harsh or overbearing, your words should be seasoned with salt. Wisdom teaches us that the more we push against the truth, the more the lie is exposed. Its like an old Jamaican proverb, "the more the monkey climbs, the more he is exposed."
When we tell someone the truth, we should do so in love. We are not taking our love away, we are building our love for that person by laying that rock solid foundation which is honesty.
When I was 14 years old I told my parents, "oh Mom and Dad I want to be an artist, so I want to study art." My Dad looked at me and said "no". I was hurt to the bone, it was my passion and my love. So I said, "why?", any reasonable child would ask that. He said, "son you could never pay your bills, adn you would have to be an exceptional artist". I was so mad. But when I thought about it carefully and analysed his words, he was so right. I wasn't a great artist, and you had to be in the business for at least 10-15 years to make a name, and even that wasn't guaranteed. It hurt real bad, but it was the truth. If they had lied, it may have ended in disaster.
Often times we have friends who say what we to hear. But is it good? No way. Jesus when he was on earth would be willing to say the truth without even pausing. He wanted persons to be aware of their sinful condition and there was no compromise. Jesus was never afraid to be honest or truthful. Lets look at how he spoke to the ruler of the synagogue regarding sabbath keeping, " But the Lord answered him, and said, Ye hypocrites, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? Luke 13:15" In Matthew 16:4, he refers to the Pharisees and Sadduces saying, " An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of Jonah. And he left them, and departed." There are so many other instances of Jesus's truthfulnesses that it would fill many pages. A truth saves us, not a lie. A lie only makes a bad wound deeper, it never heals.
In relationships with each other, if we chose to tell the truth whatever the outcome, things would be better. People would know where they stand, and they would not have to assume or guess what we think. This applies to every single relationship that we have in this life.
But the starting point must begin with love as the cornerstone. If we do as the bible teaches us, "that we should love our neighbours as ourselves - Mark 12:31", then it is here that we truly appreciate what being truthful does. If we love someone, then we will tell them the truth without even thinking. We just have to "suck it up" and start doing it today. Start with the simplest situation. For example, if someone comes to you and says I want to buy a phone that costs $500. You should ask, do you need a phone that costs so much? If the response is no. Then our answer should be no to them. But with our answer there should also be an explanation, such as, "you can get similar phone for $150 that would do the same thing."
So you see, even when you tell the truth, you should always explain why. You can't just say the truth without explanation, as least in some situations. Jesus Christ said the truth but he often explained the why? He even went further to speak of the consequences of one's actions versus the next route. Take the truth about one's salvation. The bible teaches us the painful truth that there are two roads. One road leads to heaven, and the other road leads to hell. It teaches the truth that if we live our life in an unrighteous manner, then we will go to hell. But if we live righteously, submitting totally to God, then we will go to heaven.
So we can see that the truth can have painful choices, but in the end the result is like sweet aroma sailing into heaven...
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