Free Spirit Boutique

DavidPaul Doyle asked:


Even though I could remember talking to the Holy Spirit as a kid, when I was an adult and thought about talking to God, what came to my mind was: “Who are you to think that you can talk to God?” But the truth is, who am I not to? Who are YOU not to? When we think, “Who am I to talk to God?” we deny ourselves a relationship with God and the Holy Spirit. So even though the thought might arise, “who am I to think that I can talk to the Holy Spirit?” it is important to remember that it is just a thought. It’s just something that arises within your mind when you entertain the thought of connecting with God’s Voice.

There are lots of thoughts that arise just like that: “Talking to the Holy Spirit is impossible. Talking to the Holy Spirit is something that only very Holy people can do. Talking to the Holy Spirit is something that takes years and years of devotion and dedication.” All of these thoughts are untrue and keep you from connecting with the Holy Spirit in your life.

When you begin to think about talking to God and hearing His Voice, become aware of what thoughts arise. If you become afraid at the thought of talking to God, that just means that a thought has arisen within your mind that caused you to become fearful. A fear thought could be as simple as, “I’ll never be able to hear the Holy Spirit.” It could be a thought that says, “I’m not worthy of talking to God. God would never talk to me.” It could be, “Look at all the things that I have said and done. Why would God bother with me?”

Allow yourself to become aware of the thoughts that arise when you think about joining with God in the Holy Spirit in dialogue. Do your best to notice those thoughts, emotions, or beliefs as lovingly and kindly as you can. They are just thoughts that arise. They are not the truth. They are not a reflection of you. They’re just thoughts that arise, these little flea bites that distract you for a moment. When you notice them for what they really are and respond to them with truth, love, and kindness, you are free to continue to focus on your connection with God.

Let’s say, for example, that you have the thought: “Who am I to think that I can talk to God?” You can then remember: “Oh yeah, who am I NOT to? It’s my job to be connected with God in the Holy Spirit. That’s my job. That’s all God and the Holy Spirit would ask of me. Who am I not to?”

Or you have the thought: “Why would God want to talk to me?” You can respond, “Because God created me and God only sees my perfection. God wants nothing more than to talk with me through the Holy Spirit.”

“I’m not worthy. I’ve done these things, said these things, or thought these things. I’m not worthy to talk to God,” and you remind yourself, “God just loves. God wants to be in communication with me.”

Whatever thoughts arise, allow yourself to respond to them with Love and Truth. You know the truth in your heart. You know that God only loves you and wants to be in communication with you. So when you have the thought: “Oh, I’ve done these things or said these things. God does not want to communicate with me” you can remember, “Actually, God only loves me,” and continue to move past that thought or move on from that bug bite. Allow yourself to continue to move in the direction of connecting with God in the Holy Spirit. It’s as if you are maneuvering your way around these little distractions or obstacles, the little thoughts that arise, but you respond lovingly to them and remain on the pathway to God.

There is nothing that can stop you from getting to God. There is nothing that can keep you from your Father. Even if you’re not sure how to respond with the truth to a thought that arises, just remind yourself, “Nothing can keep me from my Creator,” and continue to move along on that path.

Since it is only a thought that can keep you from hearing God’s Voice, let yourself notice what thoughts have arisen in the past few minutes. Make note of the thoughts that sound familiar or the thoughts that have come to your mind and allow yourself in the next few days to continue to become more and more aware of what thoughts come up when you think about talking with God in the Holy Spirit. Really look at each thought and allow a truthful response to each one to come to you so that you know no matter what thought arises, there is nothing that can keep you from having a relationship with God and God’s Voice in your life. Focus on this in the next few days and find out how much more connected you feel to God in the Holy Spirit in doing so.

Martin Dev asked:


The number of mobile phone users in the UK is increasing day by day. The advent of the Internet has further ignited the spirit in the Britons to own the best and the latest mobile handset. The Internet is a very rich source in catering people with information on mobile phones. Moreover, there are many sites online which deal in mobile phones. Today, just with a click of a button, you can get the handset of your choice right from the comfort of your home.

Unlike yesteryears, you need not stand in a queue to get a network connection or buy a mobile phone. With the availability of the Internet, you can easily search online for the best handsets along with the best deals. Mobile phones from Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, LG and Motorola can be purchased online with attractive mobile phone deals. Sim free mobile phones can also be purchased online.

Unlike most of the mobile phone deals, sim free mobile phones come with no network connection. The user buys a phone and opts for a network connection of his/her choice. In a way, sim free mobile phones are the best phones for enjoying complete freedom. It’s because the user need not be bonded in a specific deal. That’s the edge of sim free mobile phones over contract and pay as you go mobile phones.

Nowadays, sim free mobile phones are available for very pocket-friendly rates. Online mobile phones have literally brought down the price tags for these phones. Competition among the online players is getting bigger by the day. But it’s becoming productive for us from a buyer’s perspective.

Sim free mobile phones are normal mobile phones with all the features and functions intact in them. The prime advantage with them is that you are your own decision-maker. You can subscribe to the network connection that you like. If you are not satisfied with the service offered by your present network service provider, you can always jump to another network service provider.

For cheap sim free mobile phones, online mobile phone shops are the best place to be in.

Nisha Garg asked:


Are you frequently terrified by the nightmare of huge phone bills? In such a case, VoIP can heal you as it works as the panacea to heal all the communication related issues. In fact, this high-end technology came as a breaking news in the telecommunication sector and has hit the headlines at ease. People are very optimistic regarding the positive factors of VoIP. Actually, almost all the telephone users have been smitten by the hefty monthly telephone bills. As such, just an assurance to minimise the monthly telephone bills can be enough to rise the spirits of these people. But, however, it is not an assurance, it is a fact. To access free PC to phone calls, you would just require a computer, a high speed internet connection, a microphone, a sound card and most importantly, a special software.

Though initially, it took some time but gradually this high-end technology started gaining grounds. People from all over the world are eagerly switching over to the VoIP technology to enjoy free PC to phone calls and save money at ease. With the support of this technology you can can make a call to anybody residing in other part of this globe. As such, free PC to phone are these days enjoyed by people all over the world. You can access such calls in any time of the day. The ultimate technology of VoIP works on the principle of special software which converts human voice into digital data.

However, to use this technology you would require a special gadget, that is an IP phone. IP basically stands for the Internet Protocol. This high-end technology efficiently transmits the data over the Internet. In such a case, the IP phone has to be connected with the Internet directly. After that, the task of the special software starts. The software basically receives IP data, converts it and sends it back to the Internet. Here the Internet transmit the data to the end user on the other end who is also actually using the IP phone. On the other end, the computer efficiently converts the data into voice data.

Nowadays, you would find lots of offers and schemes available in the market and that too at very affordable rates. It has been proved that PC to phone calls are actually handled by a special software. You can easily install this software without any hassles. However, there is a reason behind this strategy of offering free calling from PC to phone to the users. These free PC phone calls, are offered by various VoIP service providers. Actually, the cost of the calls are efficiently handled by the revenues which the concerned websites earn form lots of top-notch companies. Actually for the purpose of effective advertising the top renowned companies put the advertisements of their products on the websites of the service providers.

However, in this process, the companies are also benefited. As most of the Internet users are now seeking for avail such high-end services, they frequently browse the websites of such service providers. In this process, the advertisements also get highlighted and come to the notice of the targeted audience.

Moreover, the special software is also very user friendly. You can easily install it and start accessing PC to phone calling and free phone calls at ease. You just have to grab the best deal available in the market and get the best benefits at ease. Enjoy distant calling at ease and that too without any concerns about money.

camila bella asked:


or any (brasil) portuguese words that are similar to free spirit i need to keep it short. THANKS!

buttercup asked:


I’m looking for a new tattoo… I’m half Irish half Scottish… I was looking for a knot/symbol/word that would represent this but can’t find anything…
Is there a celtic knot or symbol that also represents free spirit?

vick6740 asked:


My daughter is 13 and i don’t know what boundaries i should set on her. I don’t want to be too controlling but i don’t want her to end up pregnant either. She is starting to like boys. What is your opinion on this? She is also a very well behaved kid.

hairy headache asked:


scarves and shorts, punk rocker-ish, beachy so yeah….i need a place online that has that style for cheap. any ideas?

Ross Heaven asked:


Our fascination with perfume began thousands of years ago, with the burning of scented plants mixed with gums and resins to create incense that was used for ritual as well as practical purposes – for merging with the natural world to increase the effectiveness of hunting, for example, as well as for calling “the owner of the animals” to ensure plentiful game, and protection on the hunt itself.

Anthropological evidence shows that from around 7,000 – 4,000 BC olive and sesame oils were combined with plants and flowers to make the first ointments. Some anthropologists speculate that early hunters, having covered their bodies with the scent of fragrant plants to mask their smell and attract game, noticed the healing properties of the plants they used and their curative effects on wounds sustained in hunting, and this is what led to the formulation of ointments and balms. Others believe it was women who first began to explore the effects of different fragrances as they met them in the plants they worked with and gathered.

Whatever the true origin of our use of fragrance, by at least 2,697 BC, it was certainly well established and we read in The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, for example, of many uses for scented herbs.

By 430 BC in Wales, the laws of Dynwal Moelmud show that plant medicine had also come to be highly regarded in the West and was protected and encouraged by the state, with commerce, healing and navigation known as ‘the three civil arts’.

One of the interesting folk uses for fragrant herbs within these Welsh traditions was the practice of ‘burying illnesses’ beneath aromatic plants. The sin eater, for example, would lay out wooden stakes in his garden, beneath which he would bury an animal bone with the name of a patient scratched on it. He would then plant flowers or herbs on top of these ‘graves’, according to the nature of his patient’s illness: thyme for colds and fevers, for example, rosemary for lethargy, parsley to purify the blood, and marigolds, among their other more spiritual virtues, to ease skin complaints and inflammations.

All of these plants might today be used by a herbalist to cure the same ailments, either as a tea or a salve, but in this folk practice, it was the energetic or sympathetic connection between plant and patient (represented by the name on the bone) that mattered. Each morning the sin eater would walk his garden, whispering to the plants and crushing a few of their leaves between his fingers. As they then released their aroma, it carried away a little more of the illness until the patient was cured.

As in all shamanic practice, these plants were regarded as spirit allies who brought healing to the body, rather than medicinal substances. Chinese Taoists also believed, for example, that a plant’s fragrance was its soul, a belief later endorsed by the Gnostic Christians of 100-400 AD, for whom fragrance was the spirit of the plant and a gateway to the greater soul of the world. In their ceremonies surrounding death, the corpse was washed in perfume and incense lit around it so the soul of the deceased would mingle with these fragrances and, through them, find its way to god.

It is, however, the Egyptians that are most associated with perfume and who left most evidence of their fascination with the mystical attributes of scents. Manuscripts such as the Papyrus Ebers (1,550 BC) describe the use of plants such as elder, aloe, cannabis, and wormwood. Others, from even earlier, record the use of herbs in temple incense, oils and salves. Cinnamon was used to anoint the bodies of the living, for example, and myrrh – considered more precious than gold – to embalm the dead.

Wall paintings, such as those at the temple of Edfu, show the distillation of perfume from white lilies. Others depict the use of aromatic cones (called bitcones) as adornments for the heads of temple dancers. These cones would melt into the hair and release their fragrance as the maidens danced for the pharaohs and gods.

Another use for aromatics was in fragrant sweetmeats called kyphi (which means ‘welcome to the gods’). This mystical substance was eaten in the temples of Ra to induce states of trance. Through the audience with the gods this brought, healing dreams would result, which were said to be the most potent cure for grief and a comfort to the soul.

Incense cubes made from scented plants, gums and honey were also used by the Egyptians to consecrate their temples. The earliest known use of perfume bottles is also Egyptian and dates from around 1,000 BC.

But the use of fragrance to engage the gods was not restricted to China and Egypt. Quite independently of one another a number of cultures evolved through their experience the conviction that beautiful smells provided a doorway to another world.

The Hebrews used fragrance in their religious ceremonies and to initiate priests, for example; their anointing oil consisting of cinnamon, myrrh, and calamus, mixed with olive oil. The ancient Greeks also believed that perfume was god-given and that sweet aromas were how the deities made their presence known. They used the word arómata to describe the use of fragrance, making no distinction between medicinal and mystical perfumes, incense and medicine, or between spiritual and pragmatic uses. Every plant contained magic. Bay, for example, is a staple of Greek cooking, but was also used by the oracle priestesses of Delphi, who would sit within its smoke, heads covered, to enter the otherworld and allow the spirits to speak through them during their divinations.

In India, too, in ceremonies of prophecy, seers called dainyals would cover their heads with cloth and surround themselves with cedarwood smoke, the aroma of which would send them into trance and chanting.

Fragrant plants were also used extensively throughout Europe. In the Middle Ages, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was an ambassador for the connection between religion and the healing spirit of the plants. As well as an Abbess, Hildegard was a herbalist and is credited with the invention of sweet-smelling lavender water, which she saw as truly divine.

‘Carmelite water’ was also developed at this time and offered a ‘miracle cure’ for spiritual diseases such as melancholy (regarded as a form of soul loss) and for improving the powers of mind and vision. The monks who produced Carmelite water guarded its spiritual formula, but we now know it was based on melissa (a plant regarded as a ‘spiritual communicator’) and angelica (‘angel root’, which was equally effective against evil spirits and infectious diseases, both of them forms of ‘spirit intrusion’).

Another plant with a spiritually protective purpose during the Middle Ages was rue, which was also bestowed ‘second sight’. Indeed, rue was believed to be so powerful against conditions such as soul loss and melancholia that it was named from the Greek word, reuo (‘to set free’) and was used in many spells and formulas devised by the Welsh sin eaters, who knew it as gwenwynllys and used it as an antidote in cases of spiritual as well as physical poisoning.

It was France, however, which emerged as Europe’s leader in the therapeutic use of fragrance. The term ‘aromatherapy’, in fact, was invented in 1928 by Rene Maurice Gattefoss, a French chemist whose interest was stimulated in essential oils when he burned his hand in a laboratory accident and plunged it into a pot of lavender oil to cool the burn. It healed within days, faster than any other treatment available at the time. Gattefoss was inspired and began to experiment with essential oils and fragrances from that day.

He also inspired others, including Jean Valnet, a French doctor who worked as an army surgeon in World War II, and found essential oils such as thyme, clove, and lemon to be just as effective in treating wounds and burns. He later extended his work with fragrances, using them with equal effectiveness to treat psychiatric problems.

Today there are over 20,000 commercial fragrances on the market and the number of new releases each year has increased by more than 400% since 1973. The age-old associations between pleasant smells, a healthy soul, and the visionary calling of perfumes to and from the gods has not been forgotten, however, even in these times.

Cdmohatta asked:


Halloween is the time to send Ecards to friends. Halloween is the time to send Ecards to family. How to get Free Halloween Ecards? One must share the fun of Halloween but how to get very good quality Ecards that look different and don’t cost? Let me tell you.

Free Halloween Ecards – tips on selection

Internet offers paid and free, both kinds of Ecards. How to get the best at no cost? Let me give you few tips.



Search for Free Halloween Ecards. It is not necessary that the best Ecards will be always on the first page of search results. That may be even in the third or fourth page. Search engine searches with different criteria and the first result need not be best for you. Therefore look at few websites. The very first page – home of the website should give you idea about the quality of the content. Ask these questions- is the homepage well laid out? Are the fonts and colors pleasing? Does the design look professional? Does the website offer small content or large content? Once you are sure that you have located a good website, click the Halloween Ecards.



View few Free Halloween Ecards. Look at the colors. Is the size right? Or the Ecard is very small? Is the Ecard designed in flash or plain JPG? If they are JPG, move to another website.



What about the Ecards text? Does it evoke the spirit of Halloween? Listen to the music. Is the music matching the mood of the Ecards? If not, select another.



Does the Free Halloween Ecard open and begin playing immediately? Or you have to click the Ecard to play? The later is good because it gives you the opportunity to view the Ecard carefully and enjoy it. The Ecards that begin playing immediately as they open give no opportunity to the recipient to watch it and enjoy. He/she will have to replay it again to view it. Why trouble the recipient? Send an Ecard that has to be played. That will give enough time to watch the Ecard. Look at some of these Free Halloween Ecards .



5.Write whatever message you want below the Ecard. The message should be personal- between you and the recipient. Make it sound funny and nostalgic. The final test of a good message is simple- will it make the recipient feel good? If yes, go ahead. Send as many free Ecards as you wish.

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Patrick Roberts asked:


The Spirit and the flesh do not go together easily. To the person whose heart is affected by this world, God’s heavenly answers seem too inconvenient to accept without at least a little tweaking.

But this is the height of unreasonableness, that anyone might scoff at any answer God gives them directly. God demonstrates His blameless grace by answering men’s prayers, even if His answers aren’t what men were hoping for.

If we humans, as a whole race, have passed down and improved on anything throughout the generations, it has been an aptitude for rejecting God’s straightforward answers. So we should seek the Spirit’s help for praying, not only to petition effectively, but also to accept His answers unconditionally.

God’s answers will always reflect the fact that He knows better. This is a good thing because our minds and hearts are naturally saturated with the insanity of sin.

God is already telling those of us who dare to listen how to approach Him, dwell in Him and how to live in general. All the inconvenient answers that we need to hear are already close at hand. For example, right when I start getting interested in praying about this terrible, fallen world around me is the time that God’s grace bursts every self-righteous bubble I’m using to keep myself comfortable. Around the time when I get my religious diplomas framed and ready to hang on my church wall is the same time that God comes in to crash my party by informing me that neither diplomas nor walls have much to do with the kingdom of heaven.

However, in Christ we church professionals have the opportunity to press past ourselves and onward toward maturity. Because He is the Lord over this reality, we can embrace our true spiritual conditions, surrender ourselves to Him and let Him move us on from here.

Christ is commanding more truthful introspection, not because we need more attention for ourselves, but because we ought to be realistically humble in our dealings with the Almighty. If we’re sure beyond a doubt that we’re full and complete and content with ourselves as a western church, then our first order of business is to embrace God’s unmistakably devastating brand of self-emptying and self-death. When our old selves are completely annihilated in Christ, then we will be free to move on from our distracted crawls, toward a more mature, Christ-centered walk.

In light of God’s nature and my experience thus far, I am convinced that we western churchgoers possess barely enough spiritual motor skills to put one spiritual stone on top of another. But, as for now, let’s be encouraged that even the most rudimentary motor skills can be developed over time, through active practice.

I don’t mean that we westerners don’t have all the right answers. On the contrary, we pride ourselves in having all the right answers. But have we tried these right answers?

Truly, we are a well-educated bunch. But have we ever put our education to work?

We may have read all about the mechanics of putting one spiritual stone on top of another, to the point that even conducting a church service sounds simple enough. Most churchgoers are content to know the right answers so they can… what? Why, of course, go back to church again. And next Sunday? Go back to church again.

We westerners are a people who prefer ask our peers about “how we are doing” rather than ask Christ. We would rather crowd around each other for mutual encouragement, regardless of God’s opinion of us. That Christ is literally available to field every one of our questions might even seem silly to many churchgoers.

When we need confirmation for our work, we look inward at ourselves. And, when we want something tangible, we manufacture something to fit the bill. But this is contrary to sincere, Christ-seeking experimentation. And these things also point toward this general truth, that we are a spiritually underdeveloped people.

Mind you, if the lines of communication between you and the Lord are wide open, then you need not panic in any case. In fact, if you are on the same page as Christ, then you don’t even need me to tell you not to panic because He is already your direct Source of encouragement.

A simple truth is that God is no fool. He is not mocked by us little people. If wise men cannot be easily duped by people who claim to be something they aren’t, how much less can any mortal person deceive the Lord Omniscient!

But He will endorse a church that is on the same page as He, so that the world’s attention will be drawn to the people who draw attention to Christ. He approves of either all or none of a person’s life so that those who are His are thoroughly His, whether they work or play, eat or drink, speak or sit quiet.

No matter how many right answers we have accumulated for ourselves, the truth is that we western churchgoers cling to religious distraction before we cling to Christ. We would clutch our predictable shiny things rather than inherit heavenly treasure in Christ, even if this treasure applies to our lives right now. But blessed is anyone out of whose hands the Lord pries these things.

by Patrick Roberts. Find his book and additional material at www.BooksByPatrick.com