Tag: opportunity

A higher perspective on troubles

January 25, 2007 | 4 comments

Have you ever made great spiritual leaps forward then suddenly hit a brick wall that gave you grief or got side-swiped by an unexpected problem and then wondered why the trouble? “I was making so much progress,” refrains a common

Do you want to be great?

January 14, 2007 | No comments yet

From a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr…. (click on link to hear him speak) If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest

Nothing to agitate

January 9, 2007 | 1 comment

Here’s a quote I found at the bottom of a recent email sent to me… “..it is not the agitation of the waters (but) the sediment at the bottom, which troubles and defiles those ‘who sit in judgement’! Where no

Upholding qualities of true womanhood

December 1, 2006 | 1 comment

I’m a little late in discovering this piece, but Chris Raymond blogged a great article on “Honor the Woman You are,” addressing the hot issue of violence against women. She wrote in part There is one more article I want

No loneliness in God’s family

November 29, 2006 | No comments yet

A friend shared with me her prayer in conquering loneliness years ago. She was single, lived alone and craved some type of meaningful companionship. She prayed for months, looking for relief from isolation until she finally glimpsed a view into