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Text Box: the main and most consistent perception. One of them will be the main attitude. The Godlike attitude is that our living adult ancestors are persons who are to be cherished, and as necessary, protected and assisted, always with love and affection. Even if the parents and grandparents are and always have been oppressors, they should be so cherished, even while acknowledging and taking appropriate measures to protect one’s self from their oppression. But those who perceive their living ancestors only as a treasury from which material benefits are to be obtained, who do not also cherish them in a Godlike manner; these individuals have by-passed a spiritual life in Christ Jesus, and have embraced the materialism which leads to eternal damnation. As always, prayer is the key which unlocks the door to this self-imposed prison. Do you have a consistent time during the course of each day during which you always pray? If you do not, then establish such a time. If you are one of the ancestors who should have the expectation of being cherish, but are not, and especially if you are cherished, establish this time of prayer. If possible, establish it during a time when your descendants are present. If you are an adult child who is the care-giver for your parents or grandparents, you should also establish this prayer time, especially if the ancestor for whom you give care is obnoxious or otherwise difficult. Make the prayer time at a convenient time and pray in a convenient place that is common to the household. Be consistent with the time and place, so that it becomes an established matter in your mind and in the minds of the members of the household. Pray in a manner which does not interfere with others in the household, but which does allow them to join in with you should they desire. Keep it short, simple, and without histrionics - do not emulate the

Text Box: television and radio Protestant preachers who pace about and say J_E_E_S_S_S_U_S_S, or who yell and scream while jumping up and down like chimpanzees in a zoo. Ideal prayers are The Rule Of The Mother Of God, The Rosary, The Chaplet Of Divine Mercy, and other, similar, easy to learn, ritual or liturgical prayers, which can be prayed from memory. It is always best to begin and end each day with prayer, but these prayers are often personal prayers, such as a morning offering prayer which offers the entire day to God with intentions for the one praying and that person’s family and friends. Prayers before sleep often also are the private type of prayer, in sorrow for one’s sins during that day, seeking help to overcome those sins, and for one’s self, family, and friends. If it is possible, one of the best times for prayer is at 3:00 O’Clock PM, which is when Christ died. If your favorite game show, soap opera, or celebrity show, comes on TV at that time, all the better - stop watching the TV and pray instead. It will be of greater benefit. But if there is someone in the household whom you wish to induce to pray with you, who watches TV at that time, them sit there with them and pray quietly, or find another time. In whatever the situation you find yourself, remember to assess the situation and the persons involved in that situation. Determine the positive factors and negative factors. Assess what will help to strengthen the positive factors only by using Godlike means; and enjoy the contemplation of those positive factors and those means while you are implementing those means. Assess what will modify the undesirable factors into desirable ones, or remove them or minimize their negative effect if modification does not seem possible, again only by using Godlike means; but do not dwell on the wrongs committed against you or by you to any extent greater than is necessary for modification or removal of them; and implement those Godlike means.

Text Box: And always remember to pray, and to actually pray. Ref: 1 Cor. 1:4-8; Mat. 9:1-8 +

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