"Don't give up on your faith
"Love comes to those who believe it."
"Don't give up on your faith
"Love comes to those who believe it."
https://www.alojapan.com/1177206/grandmothers-joyful-return-brightens-hopes-for-majids-reunion/ Grandmother’s Joyful Return Brightens Hopes for Majid’s Reunion #chavil #chendar #Daral #fatima #grandfather #grandmother #HopeAgain #HopeInHardships #inspirational #LoveLove #Mahtab #Majid #MajidNomadicFamily #Nago #NagoDestinations #NagoTour #NagoTravel #NagoTrip #NagoVacation #NewBeginnings #NextToMajid #NomadicFamily #NomadicFather #NomadicLife #NomadicLifestyle #NomadicMother #plerd #SpreadTheJoy #SupportMajid #SurvivalMission #tir #WarriorsOfWinter #名護
Backslider, Return
Same old battles, and always troubled
It didn't get better. My woes doubled
What's the reason? I'm totally floored!
Frustrated and weary, I left the Lord
But where am I headed? I simply roam
Dare I think of going back home?
What, this time, will be made right?
I see no sun. Just the black midnight.
A voice so sweet, and yet so stern
reminds me that I know where to turn
Years have passed. Is it too late?
I wonder. I ponder, and I wait.
Time is passing. It's slipping away
Yesterday's gone. But there's still today
I'll never be happy. Never be whole
Until Christ is back in my soul
Dear God, I give up. I surrender all
Restore me, Lord. I've heard Your call
The way might be bumpy, rough, uphill
But I claim blessing, if I do Your will
©2024 First Page by HeavenlyManna.net
https://heavenlymanna.net/christianArticle.php?article_id=1393
#Backslider #LostSheep #ChristianPoetry #ChristianPoems #Inspirational
Hellooo People of the Internet!
The latest episode of A Walk Through the Mind is available.
Today, I would like to talk about "Let Your Imperfections Shine"
#podcast #ThrutheMind #inspirational
http://www.billybon3s.com/thepodcast.html
Hope you enjoy this inspirational butterfly painting called Let Your Spirit Soar!
Can be purchased here..https://tina-lecour.pixels.com/featured/let-your-spirit-soar-tina-lecour.html
Wow, it's 2024! I've spent a month or so away from social media and didn't miss it much. Taking time to enjoy all those little things in life can be such a joy. So refreshing and uplifting! A time to reflect and create!
I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all my friends and followers for all those little boosts and likes this past year. Y'all are awesome!
Stronger Than Fear - Solo Piano from Fearless Improvisations
#piano #solopiano #fearless #motivation #inspirational #newmusic #pianoalbum #DarkSideOfSynth
Donate your eggs now for a free freeze, repent in 18 years’ time
As a millennial who spends a lot of time on social media, I assumed I was desensitised to adverts. I thought I was ad-blind, until I started being bombarded with posts asking me to donate my eggs. It was a post from the London Egg Bank that first caught my eye, offering a “freeze and share” scheme.
In this country egg donors are only allowed to be paid £750 in compensation, but there’s nothing to stop them being given treatments in lieu of cash — and egg-freezing is expensive. The average cost of collecting and then freezing a woman’s eggs is £3,350. Medication and storage add at least several hundred pounds. To have the eggs thawed and implanted into the womb costs a further £2,500 on average.
The Egg Bank was offering me free egg extraction and two years of storage in exchange for donating half of the collected eggs for use in its IVF clinic. It’s presented as an altruistic project — though in 2021 (the last year for which data is available) the London Egg Bank registered a profit of £784,603. Couples struggling for a child will pay almost anything for a chance at a family.
It’s not just the London Egg Bank that’s on the hunt for donors. Almost all my young female friends have noticed a rise in the number of egg donation ads they’re being served on social media, from places such as Altrui, Care Fertility, Manchester Donors and many more.
One friend tells me she sees them “all the time” and feels as though the companies are competing for business by offering the best services — posts push the £750 compensation alongside a host of other incentives such as fertility monitoring and health checks, often illustrated with smiling families urging women to “gift a miracle”. Another friend says she thinks the advertising frames egg donation “as a second income stream”.
It’s all presented so breezily that you’d think this an entirely uncomplicated business, but it’s not. Young women are asked to give their eggs (an invasive procedure that has its risks) without having any of the downsides flagged to them. Here, everyone is #inspirational, but these egg banks make little reference to the fact that a child may be born sharing your DNA — and that child, your biological son or daughter, may well be in touch in later life. None of the adverts immediately mentions the psychological impact of becoming a mother to a child who won’t be yours. Legally, egg banks have to offer donors counselling, but that’s only once they’ve started the process of donation, and not everyone accepts it.
About 2,700 children a year are born from donated eggs. Since 2005 these children have had the legal right to contact their genetic mother once they turn 18. The first cohort of children to whom this applies will turn 18 this year, and many will exercise their right: biology and curiosity are a powerful mix. I’ve never known my father and, although I was born into a brilliantly loving family on my mother’s side, part of me will always wonder where I got my small nose and my wavy hair, and whether I have a relative who laughs like me.
Professor Allan Pacey, a fertility expert at Sheffield University, worries that the repercussions of this law haven’t been fully considered — although he agrees with the principle. “I worry about whether we have the right support mechanisms in place to make sure this takes place in a safe and supportive environment for all concerned,” he says. “I am still not convinced that we have properly thought this through.” He also tells me he thinks there will be a rise in the number of young women turning to egg donation to ease the strain of the cost of living — women who perhaps haven’t quite understood that, all things considered, a child will be born from their eggs at the end of it, and that it carries more serious consequences than can be conveyed in a chirpy social media ad.
Dr Shailaja Nair, clinical lead at the London Egg Bank, insists that the donors are altruistic and that the financial incentive doesn’t play a part. “Some of our donors just want to help. Those using ‘freeze and share’ may want to have a child in the future … they’re doing something to help, but they’re also getting help. Egg-freezing is expensive — younger women are coming forward.”
In a world where we’re constantly at odds with one another, let’s remember we’re all in this together.
There is no “us” and “them”, there is no “other”, we’re all human, we all want to belong.
Image credit to artist, illustrator and author Charlie Mackesy.
#Introduction: My Daily #Inspirational #Quotes email/blog at http://www.jlhuie.com supports #Positivity, #PersonalDevelopment & #JoyfulLiving-for-All through #ConsciousChoice. #Compassion #Kindness #Empathy
@lack @lack standards). No other #intellectual achievements of the past 500 years come anywhere near close. That’s why #Newton, who invented #calculus and founded classical #physics, said that he “could see far by standing on the shoulders of giants”. #science #debate #inspirational #quote #quotes
Check out this story about a 91 year old gentleman who started working out at age 90 and has made huge progress! I hope this inspires. I joined #Mastodon today to share and boost #inspirational stories and educational info about #SeniorFitness #Exercise #Health #Sarcopenia #Hypertrophy #Fitness #ActiveAging and being #Fit #FitOver70 #FitOver80 & #FitOver90 https://www.southernliving.com/news/anytime-fitness-semmes-al-lloyd-black-overalls
Always be in the lookout for the presence of wonders #quote #snail #photography #Nikon #inspirational