Empowering people to make strengthening choices
After a life-time of juggling a job, kids, and a busy household, Kate lives alone in a small house in a quite suburb, where she keeps her garden, reads volume after volume of historical fiction, and has her dearest friends over once a month for a Bible study. She is happy.
I heard a song on the radio this morning that really struck home. You might have heard it: 100 Years by the band Five For Fighting. “I’m 15 for a moment, caught between 10 and 20 . . .” The singer is fifteen, then twenty-two, then thirty-three. Then “the sea is high” and he’s forty-five. […]
How often have you read a self-help book, listened to a great speech or attended a powerful seminar only to fall back into old habits within a short time? It happens to most of us. The challenge in personal development is not a shortage of ideas. It is how to make those ideas stick; to […]
After a long week of classes, Eliza Cameron, 19, Loren Niurka Mora, 20, and Caitlin Petro, 20, were ready to unwind. They settled on the shores of Sarasota Bay to take in the sights, chatting and idly watching a fisherman in waders, casting his rod. When the man dropped out of sight , it took […]
Do you ever read the headlines on the celebrity rags in the grocery store check-out lines? This one is in rehab. This one is getting a divorce (again). This one feels (or at least looks) like a new woman after massive cosmetic surgery. What would it take to make you happy? The answers that pop […]
A short time later, he heard Kathy’s SUV pull into the garage. He was surprised she didn’t immediately burst into the shop and light into him for not accepting Sam’s offer. When Susie called him to dinner, he realized why. Kathy brought the subject up not more than a couple minutes into the meal. “Sam […]
Why is Brock blindfolded? In this video from Facing The Giants, the coach asks Brock, “You already written Friday night down as a loss, Brock?” Brock shrugs. “Well, not if I know we could beat’em.”
Little Maria Monique came down with a severe lung infection. It might have been treatable in the US, but in her home of Indonesia, the doctors weren’t able to treat her. Her mother, Tjahja, sold everything she owned and flew with her daughter to Singapore for more advanced medical care. Doctors there were more equipped […]
