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motivation

  • Timing

    We set urgent goals, make urgent plans, play urgent roles,Pray urgent prayers, seek urgent interventions for urgent cares. God quietly, silently, patiently hears our cries, our fears, our sobbing tears. God speaks and cage-rattles as silently and patiently to our rage-… Continue reading

  • Staying Alive: Jive or Thrive

    Life is its natural state of being. Some flowers are in full bloom and some  a wilting and waiting for death. At any given time, depending on your perspective and the narrative through which you filter life's events and trends,… 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

  • Getting It Done – Quotes to Motivate

    "We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough."  – Helen Keller " If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.… Continue reading

  • Don’t Give Up … Today

    At this very moment, out of the 1470 people receiving this bulletin, someone is considering quitting. It is not their job that they are tempted to walk out on, or necessarily their marriage, or anything that anyone will immediately notice.… Continue reading

  • Do It

    What is that on your heart?Is it just another attachment,Or is it part of the whole?Can it be severed as part?An incidental detachment ?Or must it remain as your very soul? I think it is more than you knowMore than… Continue reading

  • Losing Heart Is Not an Option

    Broken hearts can be mended. In fact, they can be made stronger in the broken places. Broken-heartedness is actually seen, at times, in a positive light in the scriptures. Psalm 51:7 says that the sacrifices of God are a broken… Continue reading

  • What About Now?

    For instance, there is an emerging sense of the power of a moment to whittle away at a long term task, the energy of a few minutes focused on a job that may even facilitate completion. I can do something… Continue reading

  • WHY NOT?

    A question was raised about innovation and innovators at Toastmaster's  morning. It put my brain in gear theologically and entrepreneurially. I moved from the "creatio ex nihlo" to James Weldon Johnson's" Creation." It triggered the concept of co-creativity among those… Continue reading