If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep living the same sad small life. — Jean Houston
Dreams don’t work unless you do.
Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
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In celebration of American Heart Month (February) . . .
The American Heart Association works to teach people how to identify heart attacks and strokes as well as funds research and treatment for heart disease. Donate via http://www.americanheart.org, or by calling 800-242-8721.
Strong relationships are a core component of any fitness program. The stronger your relationships, the more support you will have to do good things for your body, mind, and soul.
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. — Booker T. Washington, educator
A strong relationship starts with two brave people who are ready to sacrifice anything for one another.
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In celebration of American Heart Month (February) . . .
The American Heart Association works to teach people how to identify heart attacks and strokes as well as funds research and treatment for heart disease. Donate via http://www.americanheart.org, or by calling 800-242-8721.
Heart Attack Warning Signs
Most heart attacks start slowly with mild pain or discomfort. Here are signs that a heart attack is happening:
Chest Discomfort: Most heart attacks involve discomfort in the center of your chest that last more than a few minutes – or goes away and comes back. It can feel like uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, pain, or fullness.
Upper Body Discomfort: Symptoms can include pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw, or stomach.
Shortness of Breath: This symptom can come with or without chest discomfort.
Other Signs: Nausea, lightheadedness, or breaking out in a cold sweat.
If you think you are having a heart attack, call 911 right away or have someone drive you to the hospital.
God sometimes takes us into troubled waters, not to drown us, but to cleanse us.
In the happy moments, praise God.
In the difficult moments, seek God.
In the quiet moments, trust God.
In every moment, thank God.
Storms make trees take deeper roots. — Dolly Parton
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Concern Worldwide since 1994 has been working in Haiti to transform lives through education, healthcare, emergency response, and small business development. Donate via http://www.YourDollarOurFuture.org.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. – Gautama Buddha
Four things you can’t recover:
The stone after the throw . . .
The word after it’s spoken . . .
The occasion after it’s missed . . .
The time after it’s gone.
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American Diabetes Association fights one of the fastest growing diseases in America. November is American Diabetes Month. Donate via http://www.diabetes.org or call 800-DIABETES (800-342-2383).
Stay true to yourself because there are very few people who will always be true to you.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Don’t let anyone’s ignorance, hate, drama, or negativity stop you from being the best person you can be.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you some thing else is the greatest achievement. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Good Shop: Shop at one of 2,800+ participating stores (from Amazon to Zazzle) and a percentage of what you spend will be donated to the cause of your choice at no cost to you. Bonus: Goodshop lists more than 100,000 coupons and deals so you could save money while doing good! Go to http://www.goodsearch.com/goodshop.aspx to sign up.
United Service Organizations (USO) provides support services to American fighting personal overseas (Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force). Let the GIs know that they are not forgotten by donating via http://www.uso.org.
Videos can be infographics. Listen in to this great TV ad for Ram Trucks narrated by Paul Harvey and aired first at the 2013 Super Bowl.
Here is the text for this ad:
And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe next year.’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make a harness out of hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. Who planting time and harvest season will finish his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon and then, paining from tractor back, put in another 72 hours.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle enough to yean lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-comb pullets. Who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the leg of a meadowlark.” So God made a farmer.
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, and brake, and disk, and plow, and plant, and tie the fleece, and strain the milk. Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft, strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh, and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says that he wants to spend his life doing what Dad does. So God made a farmer.
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Heifer International supplies cows and milk to needy families around the world. Their work has expanded to providing other animals as well: goats, geese and guinea pigs to bees, silkworms and water buffalo. Their goal is to end world hunger and poverty. Web: http://www.heifer.org/give.
Here are 10 ideas on how to pray for the men (or women!) in your life. These are by no means the only ways to pray for the men in your life. There are hundreds of ways you can pray for your husband (or wife). Pray without ceasing.
1. Pray for your husband’s relationship with God (2 Peter 3:18, Proverbs 4:23).
2. Pray that God would bless your husband (Proverbs 15:33, Eph. 6:6).
3. Pray for your husband to be a spiritual leader for your family (1 Cor. 11:3, Eph. 5:25-29).
4. Pray for your husband to love you deeply (Eph. 5:25-29, Col. 3:19, Peter 3:7).
5. Pray that your husband would have a heart for his children (Eph. 6:4, Col. 3:21).
6. Pray for your husband to make wise choices (Gal. 5:13-15).
7. Pray for your husband’s emotional, mental, and physical health (Rom. 12:1-2, 1 Cor. 6-19).
8. Pray for your husband to prosper at work (1 Cor. 15:58).
9. Pray for your husband’s power to resist sexual temptation (Proverbs 5:15, Song of Songs 7:10, Eph. 5:3-5).
10. Pray that you will show your husband respect, grace, and kindness (Proverbs 31: 11-12).
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The International Rescue Committee responds within 72 hours to the world’s worst conflicts and disasters, provides emergency care and referrals for victims of sexual violence, helps refugees safely rebuild their lives via health care, education, sanitation, clean water, and more. Their New Roots nutrition program provides refugees with fresh, nutritious produce. For more information, check out http://www.rescue.org.
