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Rosa Parks is one of my heroes. Through her courage one of the seminal events of the Civil Rights movement occurred. When Mrs. Parks refused to yield her seat to a white male passenger, she was arrested. Soon thereafter, Reverend Martin Luther King and others organized the Montgomery bus boycott....
[38] Read 1 Samuel 17 When Eliab, David's oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he asked, "Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the desert? I know how conceited you are … you came down only to watch the battle." "Now what have I done?" said David....
clipped from www.psychologytoday.comWe devour stories of personal transformation: the uptight guy who learns to cut loose, the wallflower who becomes the life of the party. But psychologists have long believed that major personality makeovers are impossible. In fact, the big themes of...
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. - Pablo Picasso Every act of destruction is first of all an act of creation. - Citrine By now we know nothing stays the same and playing the game means change, change and then change again. Create, destroy, create, destroy, the more fluid...
It really makes a big difference if you have happy people around you...Even if you just live a simple life..it makes you feel satisfied already... My mother had difficulty walking but it seems like she doesn't worry much about it...So now I have to show her the same thing.....So we manage to have...
Jewdysseos: Passing Through Fire by Robert Michael The first word was as black as black wool. BEGINNING 1938 had been a rough year for Jeniya and Aaron Kohan of Hope, Massachusetts. They sat in their Bryant Street tenement apartment by their radio as Hitler marched into Austria, seized a chunk of...
"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." ~Confucius
Excerpt from New York Times Article: Zimbabwe’s Rulers Unleash Police on Anglicans http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/world/africa/16zimbabwe.html JOHANNESBURG — The parishioners were lined up for Holy Communion on Sunday when the riot police stormed the stately St. Francis Anglican Church in...
I'm reading the book of Joshua right now with my God Mom and so last night got started with the first chapter and the concept of courage. It's kinda got my brain churning on the topic. Cause see, I think being "Strong and Courageous" as a believer in some ways is rather different than the meaning...
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward When was the last time you expressed your gratitude to a firefighter? Yes it is there job to risk there life to protect and help us but don't think they need to hear that it is appreciated?...
It may interest you to know your Citrine was born in the Year of the Tiger. Perhaps that explains our deep affinity for felines in general and big cats in particular. We seem to attract tiger related items, most recently a white tiger totem. In honor of that recent gift, here are some wonderful...
In the wake of devastating tornadoes this past week, I have read through some sad stories of loss and destruction. But I did find a few messages of hope, of courage in times of adversity. They help us see good things can blossom from challenging circumstances ~ Please enjoy Out of the Wreckage A...
Barack Obama showed all the backbone of a jellyfish. All he had to do was say that Rev. Wright is entitled to his opinion, and that he didn't agree with some of the things he says. Then he should have laid out a plan to rescue the economy, end the war, and fund Universal health care. Instead, he...
你的身边啊一定会有这种人。明明不是小妹，却帮着大家跑腿。明明自己很忙，却从来都不敢拒绝别人的要求。因为啊，她很平凡。不只长相平凡、个性平凡，就连她的名字，也有够平凡的。 我的个性呢，说好听一点，是善解人意、乐于助人。就算自己吃亏，也完全不会跟人家计较。但其实，我是个胆小鬼！我是一个怕拒绝人家、怕得罪人家，就算吃了亏也不敢吭声，一个彻彻底底没有自我的人！没有个性...就是我的个性。 Translation: I'm sure there must be someone like her existing around you. Even though she's not anyone's per...
Which we have in Christ Jesus. Those famous words which close out Romans 8 were some of my late father's favorites for summarizing God's love for us. One of my favorites is "God demonstrated His love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (He took pity on us, reached out to...
PENTECOST Read: Acts 2:1-47 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. Acts 2:2 NIV Jesus told His disciples that they would receive power from the Holy Spirit and that they would be witnesses to the world, beginning at...
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love...
SECRET DISCIPLES Read John 19:38-42 After this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. John 19:38 NKJV * * * Here are two Jewish men, one of them Nicodemus, a Pharisee and the other Joseph of...
All my life I've been a rock for others. Like rocks, when water seeps into their cracks, some eventually break apart inside where they are most vulnerable or erode from constant bombardment of the elements, if the vulnerability is near the surface. People have seeped into my weak places and broken...
