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Cell phone vs. Bible: Ever wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phones?

What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?
What if we flipped through it several time a day?
What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?
What if we used it to receive messages from the text?
What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?
What if we gave it to kids as gifts?
What if we used it when we traveled?
What if we used it in case of emergency?

Something to make you go....hmmm...

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Crystal at SoulMate Coach found this poem that I love by Maryanne Williamson. It was used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light , not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make and manifest the Glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

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"If it were easy, someone else would do it."

Art Fry, Inventor of Post-It Notes

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A five minute skit I thought was powerful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84gfPg45xOo

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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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A fellow blogger, boylerpf (check her out here), posted this quote a couple of weeks ago and I felt it's so powerful that I wanted to share it with you all here. Awesome!

“Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind.”

Quote author unknown

The winner of the Vera Bradley purse is Jennifer Shirk! Congrats and thanks to all who played. Don't forget to check back November 2nd for the next Giveaway.

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OK Go!


I need simple delights as of late and this video always brings a huge smile to my face. It is a video by the group OK Go, and the totally amazing thing about it is that the video is done with no breaks in the camera. One long shot. The choreography is amazing and is definitely worth 3 minutes of your life if you haven't already seen it. Enjoy!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI

Side note: the "I'm Here For You Giveaway" starts tomorrow, so please check back! :O)

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Let there be peace on earth

And let it begin with me.

Let there be peace on earth

The peace that was meant to be.

With God as our father

Brothers all are we.

Let me walk with my brother

In perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me

Let this be the moment now.

With every step I take

Let this be my solemn vow.

To take each moment

And live each moment

With peace eternally.

Let there be peace on earth,

And let it begin with me.

.......any areas in your life that you could be this peacemaker?

The winner of the mousepad is Tina at Adorn Me Jewelry! I will be contacting you to get your address.

Don't forget to check back October 1st for the next super-dee-duper giveaway! It involves a designer with the initials V.B........ Hmmmmm.

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Benjamin Franklin quotes. I've heard many of them, but didn't know to attribute them to Ben.

Honesty is the best policy.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

God helps those who help themselves.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

These two are for all my writer buddies. They made me smile!

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

P.S. Teresa (one of our cats) has reappeared after a six day MIA status looking a little more frazzled than usual but seemingly fine. Phhhhhew!

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Prayer is, after all, a very dangerous business. For all the benefits it offers of growing closer to God, it carries with it one great element of risk: the possibility of change. In prayer we open ourselves to the chance that God will do something with us that we had not intended.

Clinging

by Emilie Griffin

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert Byrne

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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Comedian George Burns

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An excellent servant foresees the need of another and without request, takes care of it.

Made
with Jud Wilhite

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From Zig Ziglar

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

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Many of us have walls that have become our friends. We literally have a relationship with the walls and hide there any time we feel threatened. The walls protect the trauma hiding behind them. This makes us feel as though we are safe.

Open My Heart, Lord
Kathi Oates

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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

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What is life? If life has a purpose, then there must be a "Purposer", One who brought life into existence for a reason. Further, in creating life, this One would have designed it able to fulfill that purpose.

Brian Lake, Romancing the King

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Treat a woman like a thoroughbred, and she won't become a nag.

J. Earp

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"A good listener is not only popular every-where, but after a while he knows something."

Wilson Mizner

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I don't wanna spend my whole life asking,

"What if I had given everything,

instead of going through the motions?"

Matthew West song lyrics