Divine customer service call centre

I got sent this via email and believe it should be shared! enjoy and share the love.

Customer Service Rep: how can I help you today?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install love. Can you guide me through the process?

CS Rep: Yes, I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready to install now. What do I do first?

CS Rep: The first step is to open your HEART. Have you located your HEART?

Customer: Yes I have, but there are several other programs running right now. Is it okay to install while they are running?

CS Rep: What programs are running?

Customer: Let's see, I have PAST-HURT.EXE, LOW-ESTEEM.EXE, GRUDGE.EXE, and RESENTMENT.COM running right now.

CS Rep: No problem. LOVE will gradually erase PAST-HURT.EXE from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory, but it will no longer disrupt other programs. LOVE will eventually overwrite LOW-ESTEEM.EXE with a module of its own called HIGH- ESTEEM.EXE. However, you have to completely turn off GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM. Those programs prevent LOVE from being properly installed. Can you turn those off?

Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

CS Rep: My pleasure. Go to your Start menu and invoke FORGIVENESS.EXE. Do this as many times as necessary until GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done. LOVE has started installing itself automatically. Is that normal?

CS Rep: Yes. You should receive a message that says it will reinstall for the life of your HEART. Do you see that message?

Customer: Yes I do. Is it completely installed?

CS Rep: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Heart's in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops. I have an error message already. What should I do?

CS Rep: What does the message say?

Customer: It says "ERROR 412 - PROGRAM NOT RUN ON INTERNAL COMPONENTS." What does that mean?

CS Rep: Don't worry, that's a common problem. It means that the LOVE program is set up to run on external HEARTS but has not yet been run on your HEART. It is one of those complicated programming things, but in non-technical terms it means you have to "LOVE" your own machine before it can "LOVE" others.

Customer: So what should I do?

CS Rep: Can you pull down the directory called "SELF-ACCEPTANCE"?

Customer: Yes, I have it.

CS Rep: Excellent. You're getting good at this.

Customer: Thank you.

CS Rep: You're welcome. Click on the following files and then copy them to the "MYHEART" directory: FORGIVE-SELF.DOC, REALIZE-WORTH.TXT, and ACKNOWLEDGE-LIMITATIONS.DOC. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching any programming. Also, you need to delete SELF-CRITIC.EXE from all directories, and to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back, you will need to empty your recycle bin.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My HEART is filling up with new files. SMILE.MPG is playing on my monitor right now and it shows that PEACE.EXE, and CONTENTMENT.COM are copying themselves all over my HEART. Is this normal?

CS Rep: Sometimes. For others it takes a while, but eventually everything gets downloaded at the proper time. So, LOVE is installed and running. You should be able to handle it from here. One more thing before I go.

Customer: Yes?

CS Rep: LOVE is freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everybody you meet. They will in turn share it with other people and they will return some similarly cool modules back to you.

Customer: I will. Thanks for your help. By the way, what's your name?

CS Rep: You can call me the Divine Cardiologist, also known as The Great Physician. Most people feel all they need is an annual check-up to stay heart-healthy, but the manufacturer suggests a schedule of daily maintenance for maximum efficiency.Give a little love away ... keep in touch

I QUIT!!

Do you know those days when you just want to quit? I had one of those days today, it started off bad and it got worse. I was late for work, because I had overslept, I had horrible managers shout at me all day to 'work harder, faster, don't stop, clean, do something, don't just stand there'. I thought 'let me get my breath!'

I asked work for a favour and they will do it maybe or maybe not, depends if Dave feels like it. How the power pf being a schedule manager has gone to his head, he enjoys so much controlling people's lives so much. Yet God still loves him so I must too and I must forgive him for being so horrible to me.

Work has been really getting to me lately. I'm stuck in a rubbish job and I know for sure that its not for long. I know that I'm going to go into the training college hopefully in 2009.

But till then I can't stay there where today I just wanted to shout at Dave, 'well stuff, your crumby job, that pays rubbish, that doesn't help me out but I'm always helping you out when your short staffed. Stuff this job which I work myself into the ground while you stand around "managing" which really is doing nothing!! How I hate this job and I QUIT!!!!'

How now I wish I had said that, but I know that I cannot afford to be out of work for very long and wouldn't have another job to go into. Through I've tried so hard to get another job, but nobody wants me!

However there is one person I know who will always want me, whether I'm qualified or not. Which I know for a fact... I'm not. Whether I have enough experience or not, which I do not. Someone who has hired me already and I get paid more than the minimum wage!

I know someone who will never want to shout 'I QUIT!' at me or want me to quit from Him!

He is Jesus and He never QUITS!!

The Lord is my real boss and I shall not want. He gives me peace, when chaos is all around me. He gently reminds me to pray before I speak, And to do all things without murmuring and complaining. He reminds me that He is my Source and not my job. He restores my sanity everyday and guides my decisions That I might honor Him in everything I do. Even though I face absurd amounts of emails, System crashes, unrealistic deadlines, budget cutbacks, gossiping co-workers, discriminating supervisors And an aging body that doesn't cooperate every morning, I will not stop-for He is with me! His presence, His peace, and His power Will see me through. He raises me up, Even when they fail to promote me. He claims me as His own, Even when the company threatens to let me go. His faithfulness and love Are better than any bonus check. His retirement plan beats every 401K there is! When it's all said and done, I'll be working for Him a whole lot longer And for that, I bless His Name.

The 23rd Psalm for working people

(Anon)

Amen that God does not QUIT!

Thankyou God for troubled times!

Yesterday I met up with an Old friend, Beckie. She is going through some hard stuff and trying to deal with a lot of issues. She is an amazing person and a great christian, but life has dealt her a lot of tough times. I know her from school and really regret not getting to know her better then, but at the same time I would not of been able to help her like I can now.

If this last year hadn't of been so tough, hard, painful, full of problems. If this year I hadn't overcome a lot of my 'daemons', long lived issues and come through to see light at the end... There would have been no way I could of sat down and listen to what she needed to say for whatever reasons. I wouldn't of been able to deal with her 'stuff' and baggage as well as my own, if God had not seen me through all that happened last year. I can really identify with how she feels, there have been times when I have felt exactly the same and I can empathise and pray into this situation without dragging myself down to where I was then.

So I thankyou Jesus for last year, I thankyou for all the troubles and pain that you have brought me through. I thankyou that in such a small time you have healed deep wounds and changed me so much for the better. I thankyou that I can look back now and see a purpose and that I can thankyou for those times! Amen

2 Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God’s glory.
3 We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. 4 And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.

Romans 5:2-4 (New Living Translation)

Touching Heaven changing Earth!

Today has been a very tough, hard day to get through. So many things have gone wrong, so many people have been hurt or felt let down by a lot of things.
So many times throughout today I've doubt my ability, I've doubted myself, decided that it was because I am insane (I'm not I have just decided that it must be me because everyone says the same things about me) and so many times today I have doubt God, doubted that this is His will, doubted that I'm in the right place, decided that God is trying to tell me that I've got it all wrong and that's why everything is going wrong.
Yet God is so good and has made this day not half as bad as it could of turned out to have been. I have just come back from an amazing time of worship as Church, with Churches together in Ashford. God knew what I needed to hear, God knew what I needed to feel, sing, see etc... God knew that I needed to know that I am where I should be and He provided it all for me. How amazing, how awesome is He?!
Tonight I saw a glimpse of Heaven, tonight I felt in the presence of the King once again. Tonight I touched Heaven and now I need to change Earth.
My little piece of Earth that God has commanded me to look after and bring it to God for all his praise and honour. I know now that I just have to keep going and God will show me the way to turn.
When I doubted myself I let God down. When I doubted God I let God down, but by His grace He has forgiven me and renewed me. Tonight I touched Heaven, tomorrow I will change Earth!
(but it will probably the smallest thing but step by step I with God will get there)

Our Father who is in Heaven,

Glory and Honour to Your name,

Your Kingdom come, Your will be done

On Earth as it is in Heaven!!

Amen

AWE

One thing I love about being a leader within the Church is the blessings you receive from the people you lead. The Young adults and teenagers that I have been leading in Flame (youth group) for about two years are amazing, brilliant young Christians growing so much in God's grace. I love to lead them and bless them like they have blessed me and somethings (well most of the time) they lead me more than I lead them. Flame has developed and changed a lot since I was the seventeen year old taking on leadership within this and it is still developing.

Shortly after I took on leading Flame, believing God had laid this on my heart and tried to be obedient to this calling, even though I felt inadequate for the job, God began to give me a vision. A vision for the youth in Ashford. For Christian youth from all churches to unite and come together for small worship and rally type events. At first I thought God must be joking if He thought I could do this and then His vision grew. It was no longer just Christian youth. It moved from uniting the Christian youth of Ashford to bigger evangelistic rallies for the unchurched and not-yet-christian youths of Ashford. I saw amazing Soul Survivor type one day events in Ashford, reaching out to the lost, searching people in and around Ashford. For a long time I ignored this thinking I was just making it up. Then I prayed about it lots and the pictures, visions and idea just wouldn't going away. I believe that God is doing mighty things among this generation in Ashford, but He wants to do bigger, better and mightier things. I know that one day this will happen. This needs to happen for God.

Please pray about this for it is beginning to happen and God's plan is slowly coming together. This is with AWE- Ashford Worship Experience. This will be awesome and full of God. But we need your prayers that God will be glorified through this. That many people will be saved by God's grace and that we as leaders and developers of this vision will come with humble hearts, that we will come obedient to God and let Him wear the crown. This is gonna be amazing!