DAD HELP!

When I was a little boy we lived in a house by a river. The only way to reach our home from
the road was to walk across a rickety, old, swinging bridge. It made for a long trip unloading the
groceries from the car. Once when I was six years old I decided to help my Dad and big brothers
carry the things in from the store. As soon as my brothers started across the bridge with their
bags I quickly grabbed a big bag full of canned goods and left the bag of bread for my Dad. My
Dad smiled and asked if I needed help. "I can do it myself!," I said determinedly.

About half way across the swaying bridge, however, the sack began to feel heavier and
heavier. I took a few more steps, staggered, and yelled "Dad, Help!" Quickly my Dad steadied
me and switched my bag of cans with his bag of bread. Then together we walked happily the rest of the way into our home.

Most of us go through life determinedly saying, "I can do it myself!" There always comes a
time, though, when life gives us too much to carry. There comes a time when we all start to
stagger and fall. Wouldn’t it be better if before then we wisely asked our Heavenly Father for
His help? It would be a lot safer, a lot easier and we would be a lot happier too.

Don’t wait until you are about to fall off the bridge of life before you ask God to help you. Do
so this morning, today, right now. Ask God to help you with your problems, struggles, and
difficulties. Ask your Heavenly Father to help you to do your work and live your life the best
you can. Ask the Dad of us all to help you to do His will and share His love. Life doesn’t have
to rest on your shoulders alone. Our loving Father is always ready to help you carry your bags.

His hand is there to steady you. His smile is there to shine on you. And His love is there to
uplift you. All you have to do is ask.

Joseph Mazella
joemazella@frontier.com

Peace, Prosperity, Security

"Work towards a peace of virtual equals: not of power, but a balance of mutual benefit: peace, prosperity and security.
Play a constructive role.
Be a responsible stakeholder.
Create a new identity politically, culturally, economically - one of co-operation.
Be more interconnected.
Balance competition and co-operation in order to prosper.
Govern your competetive impulse to dominate for the sake of the people and those who come after you.
Shake hands. Embrace each other. Attain peace.
We're all on the same ship; so, if you see a hole, plug it.
Be respectiful of the universal norms of co-operation and competition.
Create a positive trend. Continue to push it.
It will take hard work: caring, sharing, daring.
Be people oriented, far looking.
Win the battle - win the peace.
It was not the military, it was Mrs Ramos that changed my life.
After the devastation done by friends and enemies, I decided to become an engineer - I decided to build up.
Maybe I could do better by becoming an engineer using dialogue, diplomacy, courage and daring.
Forget confrontation.
Fortify yourselves to survive the threats from outside.
Become effective, influential, peaceful, relatively united as a social, economic, cultural unit.
Resolve differences diplomatically.
Be not a bad example.
Help build a better future.
Make one plus one equal more than two - it can be three, five, ten, eleven or more.
Encourage the synergy of the participants.
One plus one can equal zero - or minus five, minus ten.
We can do it!
Have a "Yes we can" attitude.
Assess, calculate, influence difficult, multi-faith relationships.
Create a regional block.
The cost of one supercarrier could finance ten universities.
Invest in education.
Transfer more budget to development, outreaching.
Defend through aliances.
Agree as virtual equals.
Act as partners instead of as enemies.
Join together to defend against natural enemies.
Say "I will try again."
Use economic and intellectual rather than military influence.
Keep the balance between the powers - neither of whom you want to antagonise.
Let cooler solutions predominate."
- Fidel V Ramos (Former Philipines President)
Wheatley Institute Lecture.

Wisdom

"Sometimes wisdom is knowing when to keep quiet. At the best of times, my teachers didn’t give advice. Their advice was how they lived their lives."
- Edward Jardine

Peace

"If we ourselves remain always angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. So you see, first our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world."
HH The Dalai Lama

Non Violence

"Non-violence is not a cloistered virtue. It is no impossible deal...
It is capable of being practiced by the millions...
It is the soul force within every human being...
The path of true non-violence requires much more courage than violence."
Mahatma Gandhi

Criticism

"His criticisms were thoughtful and carefully designed to encourage rather than to destroy."
said of Kessie Govender

Escape... Endure...

"Escape when you can. Endure when you must."
Joseph Smith Papers Project