#0707 Those who believe

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# 0707 Peace and Blessings Every Day

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Those who believe

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For those who believe, no explanation is necessary.

For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.

~Author Unknown~

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#0706 Unless you let it in

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# 0706 Peace and Blessings Every Day

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Unless you let it in

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All the water in the world

However hard it tried,

Could never, never sink a ship

Unless it got inside.

All the evil in the world,

the wickedness and sin,

can never sink your soul's fair craft

unless you let it in.

All the hardships of this world,

Might wear you pretty thin,

But they won't hurt you, one least bit...

Unless you let them in.

~Barbara Johnson~

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#0622 Ramadan 2013

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# 0622 Peace and Blessings Every Day

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Ramadan

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Today marks the first day of Ramadan for Muslims

around the world. Ramadan happens once a

year based upon the lunar calendar and lasts for

30 days. This marks the time when revelations were

given to the Prophet (peace be upon him) from God through

Angel Gabriel.

During this time period, Muslims ultimately work to attain

righteousness and inner peace. Muslims do not

eat, drink, smoke, or engage in sexual relations with their spouse from

sunrise to sunset. While these are geared more toward

the physical body and the physical needs of humans,

Ramadan also works on the spiritual.

During this month Muslims should refrain from backbiting, speaking

poorly of others, negative thoughts, keeping the eyes from improper

sights and ears from improper talks, getting angry, losing one’s temper,

harming others, and truly engage in behavior that

will replenish and soothe the soul. By refraining from the physical needs

of the body, the mind is too weak to engage in the other non-physical

activities, which would normally weaken and tarnish the soul.

So why do I write this for Inner Peace Be Upon You subscribers? There are

people of numerous faiths who subscribe and read these newsletters, and

perhaps even those who do not identify with any specific faith. Well, to

attain the benefits of fasting you don’t have to be a Muslim. In fact, Jewish,

Christian and Catholics have some form of fasting within their rituals.  I personally

believe that if you are a person of faith and fast for the sake of God, then

you will gain more from fasting, but if you are ever reaching a point

where your spirit and soul needs to be rejuvenated, then fasting may

be part of the cure and remedy.

Some times by limiting the physical needs of our body, we are able to reach

limitless boundaries for our spirit and soul.

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#0621 Two voices

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# 0621 Peace and Blessings Every Day

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Two voices

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There are two voices in your head. No, you are not crazy, but you know

very well that there are two voices in your head.

There is the “old” you and then there is the “new” you.

You have to be careful who is the one taking charge.

The voice of the "old" you judges.

This is good. This is bad. This isn't worth it. This is stupid. This is

idiotic. This will never work.

It's very closed minded.

The voice of the new you is open.

Let me see. I don't know. Let's try. Let's see what happens. Why not

give it a shot? You never know.  

One voice will keep you on the same track for the rest of your life.

The other will get you off it and allow you to see the same things

much differently.

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#0620 Sleep Training and Teething

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# 0620 Peace and Blessings Every Day

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Sleep Training and Teething

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Yesterday’s issue #0619 Sleep training was about my wife Asia and I sleep training

our son Zayan Zayd. The issue focused more on the parallelism between us as parents

with our children and God’s relationship with us as humans.

An interesting thing happened last night: we had to break our sleep training routine.

Asia and I just came back from vacation and toward the latter half of it, Zayan’s two upper

teeth were painfully starting to come out. We had told ourselves when we come back

from vacation we are going to try to get him on a more routine schedule with sleep

training so Zayan can be more established in his sleep.

Well, we were getting ready for him to sleep so we went through his routine

of feeding him, Asia singing him a lullaby, and taking him up to his room. Everything

was the same, but the moment we put him down, Zayan started wailing. It wasn’t

a normal cry, but more that he was in need of comfort because he was hurting.

Asia went to pick him up and started comforted him. We tried putting him down

again. Once more, it was the same pained cry that broke our hearts as parents

into a million little pieces. Asia picked him up again, and we had a talk. We knew

that as much as we wanted to continue his sleep routine, right now he needed

to be comforted and in our arms.

We decided to let Zayan sleep with us and for the most part he was much more

in ease than by himself. The continued parallelism from the previous issue hit once more.

The previous issue focused more on us as humans not getting immediate comfort from God

when we are in pain, and in the long term that helps with our growth. Well, this particular

instance with Zayan proved to me that there are instances when we do feel the power of God’s grace

much more immediate. There are times when we really do need comfort and help. God will send that

in many forms: through friends, our children, spouse, random acts, etc.

Although there are many instances where we have to be patient and stick through whatever

challenge or obstacle is before us, there are also many times when we will get immediate comfort

and support when we ask of it.

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#0619 Sleep Training

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# 0619 Peace and Blessings Every Day

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Sleep Training

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For any readers who are parents you will understand when I say it is difficult to sleep train children but it is extremely important for their development. Sleep training refers to the process of getting your child to sleep longer throughout the night without waking up every two hours, which is a habit formed from the earlier months.

Currently, Asia and I are working to sleep train our son Zayan Zayd who is beyond 7 months which means that he should be sleeping at least 7-10 hours without waking up. Although there are different theories to sleep training, what Asia and I decided to train is a gradual weening method. Zayan will wake up, start crying and we will not enter the room for 5 minutes in hopes that he learns to put himself back to sleep and break out of the habit of waking up every 2 hours. If he continues, we will enter and tap him to sleep--avoiding picking him up as a last resort. Each night thereafter we increase by a marginal minute or two.

The process is easier said than done. When your own child starts crying at night and you enter the room and see the tears running down his or her face, a parent can’t help but break and immediately want to help the child. In doing so, as parents we are helping the child get immediate comfort, but long-term wise it is also hurting the child because of the importance of being able to also self-soothe.

As we went through this process and I entered into Zayan’s dimly lit room with Asia when the 5 minutes were up, the moment I saw Zayan’s crying face, it broke my heart. I know Asia felt the same way--though I feel that for mother’s it is much harder. As I was there trying to console Zayan, I had an inner peace and blessings moment. It is remarkable the lessons you learn as parents, which help give you a better understanding of your own relationship with the Creator.

There I was watching over him as he was struggling and crying. I really wanted to help him, but the most I could do in order to help him was to let him learn to help himself fall asleep without our assistance. It hit me that God works in the same way. I am by no means attributing any traits of God to myself. The concept is the same however.

Most often we as humans are struggling and in pain and want immediate comfort and help, but we don’t get it from God as fast as we want it. God can ease the burden quickly, but most often it will be at the expense of our growth just like in Zayan’s case. God is there watching over us and helping us along the way just like I am watching over Zayan with Asia to make sure he knows that although we can’t pick him up, we are in the room taking care and notice to make sure he feels our presence.

So whatever hurt or struggle you are going through right now, and you feel that God is not there with you, just remember that although God isn’t giving you the immediate help you think you require, God is there helping you every step of the way.

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#0618 Temptation

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# 0618 Peace and Blessings Every Day

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Temptation

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People don't err because they fall into temptation.

They err because they stand at the edge of temptation

and peer into the abyss.

~Nathaniel Bronner Jr.~

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