John Powell
John Powell
seven-years play understanding
I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.
wisdom pain soul
There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.
let-it-go affliction might
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.
attitude painful pleasant
Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.
our-lives
Our lives are shaped by those who love us
bridges growth process
Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.
ifs-and limits enjoyment
What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?
god lonely heart
God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live, to love and enjoy the challenge. God's formulas are roadmaps to freedom and peace. God is saying to us: "The only way to live is to be free. So save your heart for love and save your love for persons. Don't ever let any 'thing' own you. Don't let money or fame or power or the pursuit of pleasure put a ring in your nose and lead you around. Love persons and use things." And of course, this is the only way to live, to be free.
love focus attention
Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.
past thinking different
If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered and prayed and I am different.
law reason cases
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
life pieces exciting
Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.
real communication world
Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.
children hunger should
What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.