Over the years working with many women's advocacy groups, I've met many powerful women, strangely the most powerful are survivors of oppression and abuse.
Whatever your past is...it is in the past.
Dianne Burnett
208 851 2003
Monday, May 30, 2016
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
This post is an attempt to gather stories that encourage us all to live a better life.
I received a story recently that expressed the negative society that we live in. It was filled with blame, and the author’s victimization.
I want all to know that I too am struggling and still filled with hope: I see my property being sold off, business opportunities vanishing, friends are hard to find at times. I see that we have a legal system that is manipulated by attorneys knowing the system. People that feel entitled when they have been perpetrators of pain and loss. However we are here to learn. Just recently I just learned that those that feel they are victims often become lawless and imagine they are entitled to lie and harm others. I do not believe this explanation, I think these are people that have always been takers and use the guise of being victims to continue to victimize others, just as they always have. I have been molested as a child, rape twice and almost murdered as a teen, kidnapped and held hostage as an adult at gunpoint. I have lost several businesses. In 2002 at one time had a mere $8.23 to my name and was destroyed by a business colleague (that went to prison for a very long time), and I was embezzled and ripped off by my attorney back then and several times since by others. Just recently blackmailed (I did not pay the extortion money and so I was defamed, slandered.) I have been threaten time and time again, had my life threaten several times, as well as had those threats put into action by defendants that I exposed for child rape when assisting as a child advocate. I have been poisoned deliberately with in an attempt to be murdered, my ex husband gave me several venereal diseases. I now have EBV’s, I’ve been slandered so many times, I just block it out in order to survive. I have suffered web extortion, been robbed on nearly an annual bases, had another business destroyed just recently, invested heavily in Real Estate with no foreseeable recovery. I will be losing all material goods that I have not already lost soon, and not much is left. I am still getting back up, and I encourage all to do the same. Get back up!!! Make a better YOU, a better world, re-create yourself, serve your family, unite for a better purpose.
We must not allow ourselves to see the world as all bad. We all have a choice to re-invent ourselves, we have a choice to progress, to learn, to share and love.
Those things I’ve written about above were mere incidences of my life and believe me it was much worse. however things happen beyond our control. I think betrayal is the worst of all the things I’ve gone through. As a single mother of 6 and with a broken heart 11 years back, I realized that the love for my children would make me strong and would negate the fear of failure. Love would get me through the tough times. I loved my children, I could not despair and sulk, or give into weakness and frailty at a time where they too were hurting and in pain. So increase your love, think of others, what a blessing it is, and it is a choice that only you can make!
We have many hardships a head of us, and the words I have to give to you are those of hope & encouragement, “Get up, choose to love” and that love will make you strong. Choose to carry another’s burdens and you will find the strength of miracles, you will see miracles all around you. Be gracious and show gratitude for all that you are, and all that you have. Showing and expressing gratitude for being able to love. Be grateful that you know that you do not have to allow yourself to be a victim of hate, and that in its self is a blessing.
We have much to be thankful for. I am thankful.
A short story of turning the tables and finding gratitude; As a Young and Inexperienced mother, my daughter came home from school, she had been crying, she had been betrayed by a friend. Rude things had been said to her, and she had been hen-pecked that day by people that she thought were friends. As we conversed, I had discovered that the trouble came from one girl that had repeatedly picked on my daughter and bullied her. Then I smiled and said, I know something that will cheer you up, my daughter was puzzled and trusted me while looking into my eyes, "Tell me, would you rather be the one picked on or the one picking on others"? She smiled and said, "I'd rather be picked on, than be a bully". I responded, then be happy, you have what you want, for you are not a bully". She at a young age realized how grateful she was to not have been a bully, further had pity on the bully, for how miserable would it be to be a bully. Even in the midst tribulation, we can find gratitude. I have added to my family and now have 10 children. I hope to adopt 10 or so more children in the near future.
It is not about all the bad things that happen to you. It is about the good that you can do.
What is the greatest pain caused by? It is caused by ourselves.
Have faith, increase your love, hope to do better and learn to impart of your goods to others in need, wanting nothing in return. Please do not ignore the blessings that loving brings to us all, please reach within, turn to God, and ask God, “what good I can do for others”. By not doing so will bring about the greatest tragedy of your life.
What others have done to you or I and others…they have done. The greatest crime against each of us will be the crime we commit against ourselves for being less than we were designed and or able to be. The question is,
Will we unite for a good cause?
· Will we get up and love,
· Will we reach out to our family, friends and would be enemies at this time & show kindness?
I am not saying, “Make yourself a large target for punishment, or allow people to steal, and rape you”. I am saying we have a choice to become a kinder more gracious people. I am saying that your choice to love will motivate you to take action, to becoming more than you though capable.
By increasing the determination of your love for your fellow human family will lead to greatness. Let us build our character, and not dwell in the past. Let us not ignore the needs of children foremost. We must care for the children of this world, for the orphans, the windows, our neighbors.
If you need help, start with a simple prayer; Father, I am thy child, I am in pain, at times I am numb. Please Dear Father, help me to be thy hands here on earth. Help me serve my family and my neighbor; give me strength I pray to be filled with love and strength to do thy will. And thank God for all that you have, all that you are. Express gratitude to be His servant and His hands here on earth.
Start and converse with your Father in Heaven, with your God, with yourself.
Unite on common ground with those around you, and remember all that you have and what you have been blessed with. Look at the possibilities to do good, and do all that you can.
Get rid of the , “what’s in it for me attitude” and choose to love, give, and really live.
your friend Ayla
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Posted by peaceandcourage
UP DATE THE TV SERIES WAS PITCHED TO KEVIN ALLEN AND REJECTED, YES AMERICAS TOP MODLE and shows like that are what he is looking for.
I will post some incrediable stories recieved on here when time permits
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peace & Courage is gathering news stories and we’d like to hear from you.
May 20, 2008
I need your help, from the smallest degree to a larger degree
· Promoting This TV series
· Promoting the change of each heart, to get rid of stereotypes, and stigmas. Changing damaging attitudes and misconceptions concerning nationalities and ethnic groups that continue due to most citizens of the world being tainted by news and media that exploit anger, controversy, hate, war and destruction
· Interviews and news stories/Promoting the positive acts of goodness and redemption of mankind so that it will receive attention
· Getting the news stories, interviews
· Money; is always a need & so are volunteers
· Getting the real inside scoop
While Reality Shows are about money and adrenalin, this, in contrast is about personal sacrifice,
gratitude, selflessness, faith and courage, peace, brotherhood, people meeting on common ground, and working together to accomplish good.
The show will consist of 8 commentaries/investigative reporters each telling their chosen story every other week, spotlighting 4 commentators and their stories each week.
We are searching for the right people.
Interviewers, Charitable Organizers, Sponsors. People with no hidden agenda. I am searching for 8 morally sound persons as these reporters, each from a different culture and actively living within that culture. I am looking for inspiring stories, I am continually asking for people to help me gather these stories, these interviews, I am asking for your help in anyway and or measure.
Please promote this site and spread the word that there is a media movement that is seeking to educate our nation, a news interest group seeking to spread peace and change one heart at a time.
With God as our Father, Brothers all are we.
Let There Be Peace On Earth, Let This Be The Moment Now.
Let This Be Our Solemn Vow
Peace & Courage is gathering news stories and we’d like to hear about daily hero’s, people of strength, courage, kindness, wisdom, action, peace.
Please send us your stories. For private entries peace.courage@gmail.com
To join our “think tank” email directly.
Stories needed: Arab leaders seeking world peace
I received a story recently that expressed the negative society that we live in. It was filled with blame, and the author’s victimization.
I want all to know that I too am struggling and still filled with hope: I see my property being sold off, business opportunities vanishing, friends are hard to find at times. I see that we have a legal system that is manipulated by attorneys knowing the system. People that feel entitled when they have been perpetrators of pain and loss. However we are here to learn. Just recently I just learned that those that feel they are victims often become lawless and imagine they are entitled to lie and harm others. I do not believe this explanation, I think these are people that have always been takers and use the guise of being victims to continue to victimize others, just as they always have. I have been molested as a child, rape twice and almost murdered as a teen, kidnapped and held hostage as an adult at gunpoint. I have lost several businesses. In 2002 at one time had a mere $8.23 to my name and was destroyed by a business colleague (that went to prison for a very long time), and I was embezzled and ripped off by my attorney back then and several times since by others. Just recently blackmailed (I did not pay the extortion money and so I was defamed, slandered.) I have been threaten time and time again, had my life threaten several times, as well as had those threats put into action by defendants that I exposed for child rape when assisting as a child advocate. I have been poisoned deliberately with in an attempt to be murdered, my ex husband gave me several venereal diseases. I now have EBV’s, I’ve been slandered so many times, I just block it out in order to survive. I have suffered web extortion, been robbed on nearly an annual bases, had another business destroyed just recently, invested heavily in Real Estate with no foreseeable recovery. I will be losing all material goods that I have not already lost soon, and not much is left. I am still getting back up, and I encourage all to do the same. Get back up!!! Make a better YOU, a better world, re-create yourself, serve your family, unite for a better purpose.
We must not allow ourselves to see the world as all bad. We all have a choice to re-invent ourselves, we have a choice to progress, to learn, to share and love.
Those things I’ve written about above were mere incidences of my life and believe me it was much worse. however things happen beyond our control. I think betrayal is the worst of all the things I’ve gone through. As a single mother of 6 and with a broken heart 11 years back, I realized that the love for my children would make me strong and would negate the fear of failure. Love would get me through the tough times. I loved my children, I could not despair and sulk, or give into weakness and frailty at a time where they too were hurting and in pain. So increase your love, think of others, what a blessing it is, and it is a choice that only you can make!
We have many hardships a head of us, and the words I have to give to you are those of hope & encouragement, “Get up, choose to love” and that love will make you strong. Choose to carry another’s burdens and you will find the strength of miracles, you will see miracles all around you. Be gracious and show gratitude for all that you are, and all that you have. Showing and expressing gratitude for being able to love. Be grateful that you know that you do not have to allow yourself to be a victim of hate, and that in its self is a blessing.
We have much to be thankful for. I am thankful.
A short story of turning the tables and finding gratitude; As a Young and Inexperienced mother, my daughter came home from school, she had been crying, she had been betrayed by a friend. Rude things had been said to her, and she had been hen-pecked that day by people that she thought were friends. As we conversed, I had discovered that the trouble came from one girl that had repeatedly picked on my daughter and bullied her. Then I smiled and said, I know something that will cheer you up, my daughter was puzzled and trusted me while looking into my eyes, "Tell me, would you rather be the one picked on or the one picking on others"? She smiled and said, "I'd rather be picked on, than be a bully". I responded, then be happy, you have what you want, for you are not a bully". She at a young age realized how grateful she was to not have been a bully, further had pity on the bully, for how miserable would it be to be a bully. Even in the midst tribulation, we can find gratitude. I have added to my family and now have 10 children. I hope to adopt 10 or so more children in the near future.
It is not about all the bad things that happen to you. It is about the good that you can do.
What is the greatest pain caused by? It is caused by ourselves.
Have faith, increase your love, hope to do better and learn to impart of your goods to others in need, wanting nothing in return. Please do not ignore the blessings that loving brings to us all, please reach within, turn to God, and ask God, “what good I can do for others”. By not doing so will bring about the greatest tragedy of your life.
What others have done to you or I and others…they have done. The greatest crime against each of us will be the crime we commit against ourselves for being less than we were designed and or able to be. The question is,
Will we unite for a good cause?
· Will we get up and love,
· Will we reach out to our family, friends and would be enemies at this time & show kindness?
I am not saying, “Make yourself a large target for punishment, or allow people to steal, and rape you”. I am saying we have a choice to become a kinder more gracious people. I am saying that your choice to love will motivate you to take action, to becoming more than you though capable.
By increasing the determination of your love for your fellow human family will lead to greatness. Let us build our character, and not dwell in the past. Let us not ignore the needs of children foremost. We must care for the children of this world, for the orphans, the windows, our neighbors.
If you need help, start with a simple prayer; Father, I am thy child, I am in pain, at times I am numb. Please Dear Father, help me to be thy hands here on earth. Help me serve my family and my neighbor; give me strength I pray to be filled with love and strength to do thy will. And thank God for all that you have, all that you are. Express gratitude to be His servant and His hands here on earth.
Start and converse with your Father in Heaven, with your God, with yourself.
Unite on common ground with those around you, and remember all that you have and what you have been blessed with. Look at the possibilities to do good, and do all that you can.
Get rid of the , “what’s in it for me attitude” and choose to love, give, and really live.
your friend Ayla
No Comments » | Uncategorized | Permalink
Posted by peaceandcourage
UP DATE THE TV SERIES WAS PITCHED TO KEVIN ALLEN AND REJECTED, YES AMERICAS TOP MODLE and shows like that are what he is looking for.
I will post some incrediable stories recieved on here when time permits
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peace & Courage is gathering news stories and we’d like to hear from you.
May 20, 2008
I need your help, from the smallest degree to a larger degree
· Promoting This TV series
· Promoting the change of each heart, to get rid of stereotypes, and stigmas. Changing damaging attitudes and misconceptions concerning nationalities and ethnic groups that continue due to most citizens of the world being tainted by news and media that exploit anger, controversy, hate, war and destruction
· Interviews and news stories/Promoting the positive acts of goodness and redemption of mankind so that it will receive attention
· Getting the news stories, interviews
· Money; is always a need & so are volunteers
· Getting the real inside scoop
While Reality Shows are about money and adrenalin, this, in contrast is about personal sacrifice,
gratitude, selflessness, faith and courage, peace, brotherhood, people meeting on common ground, and working together to accomplish good.
The show will consist of 8 commentaries/investigative reporters each telling their chosen story every other week, spotlighting 4 commentators and their stories each week.
We are searching for the right people.
Interviewers, Charitable Organizers, Sponsors. People with no hidden agenda. I am searching for 8 morally sound persons as these reporters, each from a different culture and actively living within that culture. I am looking for inspiring stories, I am continually asking for people to help me gather these stories, these interviews, I am asking for your help in anyway and or measure.
Please promote this site and spread the word that there is a media movement that is seeking to educate our nation, a news interest group seeking to spread peace and change one heart at a time.
With God as our Father, Brothers all are we.
Let There Be Peace On Earth, Let This Be The Moment Now.
Let This Be Our Solemn Vow
Peace & Courage is gathering news stories and we’d like to hear about daily hero’s, people of strength, courage, kindness, wisdom, action, peace.
Please send us your stories. For private entries peace.courage@gmail.com
To join our “think tank” email directly.
Stories needed: Arab leaders seeking world peace
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Seeking News Stories
I need your help, from the smallest degree to a larger degree.
· Promoting This TV series
· Promoting the change of each heart, to get rid of stereotypes, and stigmas. Changing damaging attitudes and misconceptions concerning nationalities and ethnic groups that continue due to most citizens of the world being tainted by news and media that exploit anger, controversy, hate, war and destruction
· Interviews and news stories/Promoting the positive acts of goodness and redemption of mankind so that it will receive attention
· Getting the news stories, interviews
· Money; is always a need & so are volunteers
· Getting the real inside scoop
While Reality Shows are about money and adrenalin, this, in contrast is about personal sacrifice,
gratitude, selflessness, faith and courage, peace, brotherhood, people meeting on common ground, and working together to accomplish good.
The show will consist of 8 commentaries/investigative reporters each telling their chosen story every other week, spotlighting 4 commentators and their stories each week.
We are searching for the right people.
Interviewers, Charitable Organizers, Sponcers. People with no hidden agenda. I am searching for 8 morally sound persons as these reporters, each from a different culture and actively living within that culture. I am looking for inspiring stories, I am continually asking for people to help me gather these stories, these interviews, I am asking for your help in anyway and or measure.
Please promote this site and spread the word that there is a media movement that is seeking to educate our nation, a news interest group seeking to spread peace and change one heart at a time.
With God as our Father, Brothers all are we.
Let There Be Peace On Earth, Let This Be The Moment Now.
Let This Be Our Solemn Vow
· Promoting This TV series
· Promoting the change of each heart, to get rid of stereotypes, and stigmas. Changing damaging attitudes and misconceptions concerning nationalities and ethnic groups that continue due to most citizens of the world being tainted by news and media that exploit anger, controversy, hate, war and destruction
· Interviews and news stories/Promoting the positive acts of goodness and redemption of mankind so that it will receive attention
· Getting the news stories, interviews
· Money; is always a need & so are volunteers
· Getting the real inside scoop
While Reality Shows are about money and adrenalin, this, in contrast is about personal sacrifice,
gratitude, selflessness, faith and courage, peace, brotherhood, people meeting on common ground, and working together to accomplish good.
The show will consist of 8 commentaries/investigative reporters each telling their chosen story every other week, spotlighting 4 commentators and their stories each week.
We are searching for the right people.
Interviewers, Charitable Organizers, Sponcers. People with no hidden agenda. I am searching for 8 morally sound persons as these reporters, each from a different culture and actively living within that culture. I am looking for inspiring stories, I am continually asking for people to help me gather these stories, these interviews, I am asking for your help in anyway and or measure.
Please promote this site and spread the word that there is a media movement that is seeking to educate our nation, a news interest group seeking to spread peace and change one heart at a time.
With God as our Father, Brothers all are we.
Let There Be Peace On Earth, Let This Be The Moment Now.
Let This Be Our Solemn Vow
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