Need help!!
Hi everybody!!! :)
Need help with a sentence please....
You don’t give Me ultimatums nor do you offer Me bribes! It is said that My Will be done, and this is a thousand percent so. In another sense, We can also safely say that it is your Will that be done. How can that be so?You would never request let alone order some of the curves that life has thrown you. No one would. If you can conceive that you requested what you do not want, you can change your order. You get better results when you accept responsibility and take it from there.
"You would never request let alone order some of the curves that life has thrown you.." it´s this part that i can´t understand...
It´s from heavenletter number 5075 and it´s in the end, the last part... thank you :)
Hi, Nuno. Always am I glad
Hi, Nuno. Always am I glad for questions.
This is from Heavenletter #5075 entitled Goodbye, Judgment. Hello, Responsibility.
There is an expression in English that I believe comes from baseball. A curved ball. The pitcher or one of the players can throw a ball that curves, meaning it doesn't go where it looks like it will, and so you don't catch. So a curved ball in life would be something you are not prepared for and something that makes life seem harder to you. We could even call a curved ball a blow.
In this whole Heavenletter God is asking us to take responsibility. and let go of blaming someone or something else. The first sentence of this Heavenletter is:
"Of course, certainly, you can hold Me responsible for everything in your life. You can hold Me responsible for your stubbing your toe, yet where does that get you?"
We have to keep moving forward in life. Blaming doesn't move us forward. We have to take responsibility for our lives now.
Does that help, dear Nuno?
ok
ok Gloria i understand that but what i don´t understand is this part... "request let alone order some " that belongs to the same sentence. I can´t find logic in it, i tried to translate in many ways but i am really not seeing... if you can´t help me and it is natural since you don´t speak portuguese i will ask for Diana to help me with this... Anyway thank you so much for your help :)
can you
can you try to use other words to say that sentence?
"request let alone order
"request let alone order some "
You're right! Request and order mean the same thing!
How about:
accept let alone order some.
I will fix it on the English as well.
Thank you so much, Nuno, for catching this!!!!!
Nuno, I wonder whether it is
Nuno, I wonder whether it is "let alone" that is the problem. If so, here is the explanation from thefreedictionary, com:
Adv. 1. let alone - much less; "she can't boil potatoes, let alone cook a meal"
not to mention
In Spanish let alone would be: mucho menos.
Thank you
Thank you both Luus and Gloria, I understand now. And Gloria glad I could help as well :)
Nuno, you seem to have
Nuno, you seem to have solved your problem but I want to point out that "request" and "order" do NOT mean the same thing in English and I think it would be a mistake to change them.
Request is a weaker action than ordering. Request ;means to ask for with the implication that your request may be denied. To order something means that you expect it to be done.
If you go in a restaurant, you could request to sit in a booth, but there may not be one available or you may need to have more than one person if you are alone. However whether in booth or not, if you order steak and potato, you expect to get that, not tomato soup. In the military you follow orders or you are in trouble.
God is saying that on a conscious level,we would never ask for some of the unpleasant things that happen to us, nevermind demand or insist that they happen. He goes on to explain that at some level we must be doing just that since there is a pattern of these things happening. We can do this with our careless thoughts and words without even realizing we are doing it.
Charles
Yes Charles you are right, i am not going to change it, i am going to translate into the proper manner, the important its that the message its clear for everyone to understand. thank you :)