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Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life 1. Smile like you mean it. Knowing that today is the first day of all your tomorrows, you’re presented, in a sense, two options: a smile or a frown. Which way will you be motivated? A frown is a form of resistance toward...
Times When You Sit And Wonder You will question relationships. I felt compelled to answer a thoughtful question on Twitter recently. “Ladies: what gentle advice can you tell a single guy about relationships?” I have been married a long time to the one person I...
A Treasure Passed Down If you are the anonymous South Carolinian who recently won the largest jackpot in United States history, congratulations! $878 million is a lot of buckage. How does one begin to embrace a fortune so immense? Personally, I received a dollar every...
What's Happening In Your Neighborhood? Child sexual abuse is most likely happening in the city you live in. It might even be happening to someone you know. It may be happening in your neighborhood, and possibly the person who pulls into the garage within eyesight is...
Navigating The Road Ahead If you have ever thought of life as a journey, you might have pictured a road. I can remember driving my car at 70 mph on the highway for the very first time. I was not thinking of my destination, but rather of holding my car in the...
A Little Girl Dream What little girl hasn’t loved dressing up as a princess? Cinderella made little girls dream of finding a handsome prince, marrying him, and living happily ever after. Unfortunately, for the many thousands of victims of human trafficking, hope to...
Baby, It's Cold Outside It’s another of those compassionate moments. Darn, they have a way of tracking me down. With the temperature in my area at about 42 degrees one day last week, there weren’t many people in sandals walking the streets. The wind chill factor was a...
Be Aware of Human Trafficking She did not see any of it coming—not the deep darkness and not the shame that goes with it. “She” can be anyone. Unsuspecting individuals become victims of sex trafficking and find themselves caught in bondage. Did you know that...
Kicking Back Of course! Christmas was the best ever. With six grandchildren at my house for seven days and seven nights, how could it be anything else? They've returned to their homes, settled in, and have returned to school. With the New Year under way, it’s time to...
Scotland — Right Here In America I doubt if I’ll ever see anything more beautiful than the three-hour drive in springtime, going north from Lexington, Virginia toward Washington, D.C. Highway 81 winds through the Shenandoah Valley, and on a sunny May morning the...
Be Safe Dogs like safe places! And there are some thoughts about hiding out that are relevant to us as humans. Hiding out in their kennels where they are safe from all alarms, dogs have the perfect place to land after a day of rough play and rowdy interactions....
Because He Lives The first time I heard the song Because He Lives written and sung by Bill Gaither, something about the melody and the lyrics grabbed my attention—and held it. I was mesmerized by the words. They filled the room with a sense of power and promise. Why?...
Something Beautiful Springtime is quite simply miraculous! The fact that it’s filled with wonderful surprises gives hope for the future. Springtime shows us new beginnings and new life. There is a song sung by the Gaithers with the lyrics by Bill Gaither. It’s words...
Belonging To An Ideal Friend A friend once asked me if I was a “mommy’s girl” or a “daddy’s girl.” For whatever reason, I felt embarrassed to tell her I was neither. “But!” I wanted to say, “I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.” It was one of those little...
Brokenness Was Not An Option I clearly remember as a child going into a neighbor’s attic while my mother and the neighbor talked in the living room of the neighbor’s home. It’s for sure, they had given me permission to climb the stairs and entertain myself, poking...
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“Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, And tolerant of the weak… Because someday in your life you will be all of these.”
George Washington Carver
“Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, And tolerant of the weak… Because someday in your life you will be all of these.”
George Washington Carver
“Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, And tolerant of the weak… Because someday in your life you will be all of these.”
George Washington Carver
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