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Carol H Tucker
Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
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Good Friday
Today is the 6th day of the 15th week, the 14th day of the 4th month, the 104th day of 2017, and:
- Children With Alopecia Day
- Dictionary Day
- Dreams of Reason Feast Day
- Good Friday
- International Moment of Laughter Day
- Look up at the Sky Day
- National Dolphin Day
- National Ex Spouse Day
- National Pecan Day
- Pan American Day
- Pathologists' Assistant Day
- Reach as High as You Can Day
- Takayama Spring Festival (Takayama, Gifu, Japan)
ON THIS DAY: In 43 BC Mark Antony, besieging Caesar's assassin Decimus Brutus in Mutina, defeated the forces of the consul Pansa, but was then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, Aulus Hirtius at the Battle of Forum Gallorum. In 1434 the foundation stone of Nantes Cathedral, France was laid. In 1828 Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary. In 1865 President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. In 1871 Parliament passed the Act to Create Uniform Currency in Canada setting denominations of currency as dollars, cents and mills In 1894 the first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films. In 1900 the Exposition Universelle began. In 1912 the British passenger liner RMS Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th). In 1927 the first Volvo car premiered in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 1928 the Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reached Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west. In 1939 The Grapes of Wrath by American author John Steinbeck was first published by the Viking Press. In 1958 the Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 fells from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days -- this was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika [died within hours from overheating, possibly caused by a failure of the central R-7 sustainer to separate from the payload]. In 1970 an explosion on board Apollo 13 has caused one of the most critical situations in American space history and put the lives of the three astronauts on board in severe jeopardy. In 1981 STS-1, the first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completed its first test flight. In 2003 the Human Genome Project was completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
One of the beliefs that I have run across in my spiritual and philosophical meanderings is that of the Sacred Contract – the concept that we as eternal souls in search of enlightenment, choose to be born at a certain time and place and to certain parents so that our lives can play out and teach us what we need to understand. After our physical lives are over, we sit down and review what happened, sharing with those souls who crossed our path what accomplished our instruction and fulfilled our mission, and what went awry. Sometimes we find that we didn’t accomplish anything that we wanted to do – which isn’t as negative as that might sound because of course we accomplished something – and we decide to either give it up as a bad job for now or try again. I find this point of view rather comforting, both because there is an explanation for why bad things happen to good people and the prospect of ongoing, continual improvement as you struggle to approach the perfection that is the Creator.
Of course, only a few enlightened souls are conscious of their choice once they are born and truly understand their reason in being here therefore are able to live their lives purposefully. In this system of belief , Christ was one of those fully enlightened souls – He knew from the beginning He was a son of the Father, that His purpose was to take on the sins of the world and be executed to reconcile mankind to God, and He never wavered from his course or His purpose.
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