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Encouragement

  • Getting Out of Hot Water with People Skills

    One seldom gets in hot water for what is said. The problem is usually how it is said. Continue reading

  • Hard Times

      Isaiah 48:10"See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction."Hard times are creeping all over.   Everyone looking for a four leafed clover. Life as we know it isn't so… Continue reading

  • Water Walking in the Wee Hours of the Morning

    In the Fourth Watch of the Night – That is when it happened, perhaps at about 3:00 A.M.. It is that unique time when the extreme night owls are thinking of retiring and the extreme early birds are rising. It… Continue reading

  • The Grow Flow

    We dream; we grow;We move; we flow;We laugh; we glow.While here below,We live in anticipationOf pomp and circumstanceAnd graduation.We are matriculated in the school of lifeArticulated by toil and tears and strife.We are students of all that passesWork and play,… Continue reading

  • Now Is the Time! Recession Is No Excuse for Recess!

    Contrary to the human tendency toward flight in times of danger, these are days for entrepreneurs to venture forth into the unknown and strut their creative stuff. The time is right for new ideas, for niche thinking, and for bold… Continue reading

  • Big Rocks

    In "First Things First," Stephen Covey tells a story that was told him. I don’t know the sources, so I will embellish a bit.   There was a speaker who was called upon to address a group of young people. As… Continue reading

  • The Strength of the Wolf = Teamwork

    THE WOLF “Now is the Law of the Jungle—as old and true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.   As the creeper that girdles the… Continue reading

  • Getting Up and Getting Going

    You are sitting there, quite possibly stumbling upon this blog by accident because you are surfing the internet via a stream of consciousnesses in dedicated avoidance of whatever it is that you need to be doing right now. I say… Continue reading

  • Be Blessed

    Times are tough. You are tougher. Face the times. Life is hard. You are resilient. Keep moving forward. The future is uncertain. God is already there. Do not be afraid. Hope is a rare commodity. Hope is within the grasp… Continue reading

  • Hattie May Wiatt

    For those in church Sunday who wanted a copy of the original sermon by Russell H Conwell about Hattie May Wiatt and her gift of 57 cents which has multiplied through the generations, it can be read here beneath a… Continue reading