Empowering people to make strengthening choices
In a small city in Ohio, police offers make a monthly visit to all members of the city council to deliver a package of information for the upcoming council meeting. One Tuesday morning, officers arrived at one council woman’s home to find the door ajar. The officers knocked and called but no one answered and […]
New Zealand writer, poet and educator Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner once said, “You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.”
Why are you here? Is your existence a series of reactions and habitual behaviors, just moments strung together like beads until the string runs out? “The purpose of your life,” writes Rick Warren in The Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For, “ is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your […]
We’ve been talking about how you can attain self actualization, and specifically, right now, we’re taking a look at some of the important relationships that can make or break us. Take this quiz about your friendships to highlight some of the areas that might need work.
They say it’s the little things in life that matter, and if you think about your most precious memories, you’ll know it’s true. You probably can’t remember most of the Christmas gifts you gave in the last few years even though you agonized over the purchases at the time, but you can remember the way […]
“With a clue like this, by Christopher, we’ll have Flint’s treasure if it takes a year!” You probably remember the story of Treasure Island, although, depending on your age, your exposure to the story might have come via the original story by Robert Lewis Stephenson, the movie by Disney, the wacky Muppets version, or even […]
“Sounds confusing!” This line is funny because, of course, the basics of money management aren’t confusing at all. They can be summarized in a few simple steps:
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.
