Monday, December 29th, 2008

Be the Victor and Not the Victim

“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I
do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward
to those things which are before, I press toward the mark
for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Phil. 3:13,14

I firmly believe that every person born on this planet is here [...]

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Friday, November 21st, 2008

A New Beginning - November 21, 2008

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show
up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch
and work: you don’t give up.
Anne Lamott
(American Writer)
I’ve had a really stressful week so far.  It all started with my pug Elvis’ scratching and flinging himself all over [...]

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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

It’s All About Hope

I’m wearing a button on my shirt to school today that has a picture of President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama on it with one word printed largely across his chest.  That word is HOPE.  Hope is what attracted me to Obama to begin with.  I recognized him as a man who not only lived with hope [...]

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Friday, August 29th, 2008

A New Beginning - August 29, 2008

I debated whether to use this picture and whether to mention this very special day, but then I thought, it’s my life, my moment of jubilation, so why not?  It’s the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.  What a powerful speech that is.  I never get tired of hearing [...]

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