God is great indeed, if you believe in the everlife!!! ~loving LIFE~ My, My, My....;-) THANK YOU JESUS!!! (Philippians 3:13-14)

I believe we are going to make it through the winds of change... YES! ~faith~

I believe that all of us who are interested in self-improvement are fellow students in God's great spiritual laboratory. ~e84 challenge~

Chinese food...got to love it!!! A financial investment will yield returns beyond your hopes. ~fortune cookie~ 2 funny...;-)

EXPECT TO SERVE

There is nothing wrong with having expectations. But an expectation must be based on the truth of God's Word...Unrealistic expectations can cause us to be disappointed, discouraged, and even angry...Expectations usually have their root in our desire to control our circumstances or other people. This desire is not from God. --Howard and Bonnie Lisech

~perspective~

I Am with You Always ~accountability~

BLESSED TO BLESS

God never intended for us to be mere recipients of His love; He calls us to share it with others. We are not to be reservoirs, but channels by which His love can reach the world. When He pours out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, He wants us to leak like a sieve...The whole point of being blessed is to pass the blessing on to others. --George Foster

CROSS-CULTURAL MINISTRY

Go as a learner, a teachable newcomer. Being a cross-cultural minister means you're working blind and need someone to interpret the context for you. Only as you embrace and appreciatae the culture can you share in a culturally relevant way. Jesus identified with us, and we must do the same where we serve. ~scepter promises~

Let’s face it—life is tough. It can hit you with its troubles and trials without a moment’s notice. ~faith~

ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER

Encouragement is awesome. It has the capacity to lift a man's or woman's shoulders. To spark the flicker of a smile on the face of a discouraged child. To breathe fresh fire into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life. --Charles Swindoll

That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! --2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-17 NLT

CHANGED VALUES

He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. --Jim Elliot

Missionary to Ecudador

Navigating the New Online Universe ~Social Media~

playin' it safe in this economy is VERY RISKY... ~evolv84 challenge~

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if you don't do nothing, you don't get nothing... DADDY ain't paying for it no mo... ~scepter promises~

lived through too many dangerous encounters on the streets to be remotely fazed by anything in the corporate world...

a kind of hip-hop Napoleon Bonaparte...

last week of Summer...WOW!!! Summer 2011...Lord...My Lord...You are deep! Mother & Father...please watch over my steps along with THE GREAT I AM... "missin' YOU BOTH" this is deep!!! ~scepter promises~

The old musicians stay where they are and become like museum pieces under glass, safe, easy to understand, playing that tired old shit over and over again...bebop was about change, about EVOLution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating the have to be about change. -- MILES DAVIS

We both looked past people's benign explanations for their behavior and tried to figure out what they were really up to.... ~artifcial intelligence~

What struck me most was that we had a remarkably similar way of looking at the world, one that transcended the great differences in our backgrounds...

if only I would have caught at least one fish...yeah right... the lake was beautiful... ~fishing NFL weekend~