Forwarded Messages

Hello God, I called tonight To talk a little while I need a friend who'll listen To my anxiety and trial.

In the movie "Shenandoah," Charlie Anderson, James Stewart's character, sits down to eat with his family and prays the following:  Lord, we cleared this land. We plowed it, sowed it, and harvest it.  We cook the harvest. It wouldn't be here and we wouldn't be eating  it if we hadn't done it all ourselves. We worked dog-bone hard for  every crumb and morsel, but we thank you Lord just the same for the  food we're about to eat, amen.  Whether we admit it or not, that's a fairly common attitude. In fact, it's so common that God warned His people about this ungratefulness thousands of years ago. In the book of Deuteronomy, He told them:

A little boy was selling newspapers on the corner. The people were in and out of the cold. The little boy was so cold that he wasn't trying to sell many papers. He walked up to a policeman and said, "Mister, you wouldn't happen to know where a poor boy could find a warm place to sleep tonight would you? You see, I sleep in a box up around the corner there and down the alley and it's awful cold in there for tonight. Sure would be nice to have a warm place to stay."

Mother of Most Surviving Children From a Single Birth (8 babies) Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman Gutierrez, known as Octomom in the media, is an American woman who came to international attention when she gave birth to octuplets in January 2009. The Suleman octuplets are only the second full set of octuplets to be born alive in the United States and, one week after their birth, surpassed the previous worldwide survival rate for a complete set of octuplets set by the Chukwu octuplets in 1998.  

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war . - Norman Mailer Reader's question : What do I do if I’m bored out of my skull at work? It gave me pause, to think about why I can’t recall ever getting that bored at work. And I realized: I always keep myself busy, doing something, whether it’s productive or not. Sometimes, I’m creating a new project, or improving myself somehow … but sometimes I just find interesting stuff to read online or find a cool solitaire game to play. So the short answer : just find things to entertain yourself . Keep your mind busy. Challenge yourself. Talk to somebody. Break out of your mold. The longer answer has to do with analyzing why you’re bored in the first place . Is your job that boring? Are you really doing what you want to be doing? Is there a way to start pursuing something better? Or are you already in a great job, but something or some...

I have learned along the way that failure is riddled full of success, if you open your eyes to it. Even though most people would count our venture as failure, it was the start of our 'adventure' to get a grip, and swing it all back around. Objectively speaking, it is our finest moment. To come back from this type of overwhelming adversity in the present economic climate is utterly amazing. So many things that could have sunk our battleship along the way have not presented themselves. We dealt with situations that came up. But, we always seemed to come up on top. We have been blessed time and time again. The Fight is Engaged: If you find yourself at the bottom of the stack and you are retching because you feel that you have been kicked in the gut from all directions -- that is where we were. We decided to 'fight'! But we decided to fight in a different way . *** FOCUS  We decided what we wanted -- our 'target' at the end of the tunnel we could focus ...