Encouragement
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One seldom gets in hot water for what is said. The problem is usually how it is said.
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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 easy. Verses like this getting mighty cheesy, Days are long. Rewards come slowly. More time…
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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 is also at that time when "graveyard shift" workers are starting to yawn and requiring…
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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, day by day, our classes.We are classmates with our fellow creatures.These also are our students…
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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 initiatives by men and women who will not be ruled by fear or passing circumstance.…
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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 a prop, he pulled out a wide-mouth gallon jar and placed it next to a…
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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 tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back— For the strength of the pack is the…
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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 this not as a prophet as much as a practitioner. I can avoid tasks as…
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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 of your imagination. Let it soar. Money is scarce. You have all you need in…
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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 [picture of the little girl: 57 Cents
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