Tag: persistence

Overcoming the odds

May 28, 2015 | 4 comments

When I watch this short video about Noe Rueda growing up poor in Little Village, a neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side, I can’t help but feel hope for all of humanity. The social, environmental and economic odds were all stacked

Keep on praying

February 25, 2015 | 3 comments

Here’s a healthy reminder from Keith Wommack, CSB, in Texas, USA, on sticking with your prayers. As Winston Churchill decreed, “Never give up!” “You quit, you lose—we do too.”

Persistence Pays

September 10, 2014 | 6 comments

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius Thanks to God, we have all of eternity to experience all of Life’s blessings. And we will not be deprived of a single

An Effort Needs to be Made

August 7, 2014 | 11 comments

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ~ Frederick Douglass To break free from a status quo thought needs to go to new places. And it may take a struggle to get there because the human mind often

You can be a genius

October 29, 2013 | 1 comment

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~ Thomas Edison   Anyone willing to put in the work can live the life of a genius.