Finding Purpose in Tragedy: Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon

Be the One: Serve In life, it's not what happens to you, but what happens in you and through you that counts. When adversity visits your life, you have two choices: to be a victim or to be a victor. Victims allow life circumstances to get them down, and they spend their lives asking others …

The Cherokee Chief: Making My Life Count

I found this fascinating article via a link a facebook friend posted. It made me think about a lot of stuff. Not about the Cherokee nation, though I'm sure that was probably the intention of the article in the first place, but about life. And how transient it can be. She was on the board …

Preparing for the New Year – 10 Questions to ask

I got this questions from a fellow blogger and I just knew I had to answer them...for one, they make me think andreflect. If you like the questions, feel free to copy them and use on your blog, I don't think she'll mind. So, here goes! 1. What’s one thing you could do this year …

30 Day Neatness Challenge

I was reading a novel this morning where there was this extremely neat lady who was studying an untidy man and envying him his ability to be gloriously untidy, with abandon! OK. It’s obvious of course that I was not only reading fiction, it was romantic fiction. Neat people NEVER envy untidy folks, if anything; …

Something For The Week

No one can mature and accomplish their life purpose in a vacuum. No one succeeds without the help of other people. No one learns without interaction with other people. - Jan Silvious (Women of Faith Devotional Bible)

Journey to self…

I have heard and read stories about a man or woman who would leave family and friends to go and discover self. Since industrialists embraced the use of the production line and communism lost its hold in other parts of the world, the desire for self discovery has been burning bright in most people. Over time, …