I know people who are struggling, people who have cut back in every conceivable way to save money just to stay afloat. I also know people who are living very comfortably in nice homes, with fancy vehicles, going out to eat regularily and have no worries when it comes to bills or their health. [...]
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A Compassionate Call To Action-Giving
Posted in Advocating for special needs, Heart, Impact, MONEY, Opportunities, accomplishments, attitude, charity, commitment, compassion, culture, emotions, encouragement, finances, giving, help, home, inspiration, leadership, life, love, mentoring, observations, of connections, opinion, pain and misery, relationships, responsibility, service, spiritual, success, support, talents, teens, values, tagged attitude, bills, blessings, call to action, challenge, change, comfort, compassion, compassionate, eating out, expectations, experience, fancy vehicles, finances, gifts, giving, gratitude, health, knowledge, life style, MONEY, packages, positive, possessions, sharing, strengths, struggling, talents, Time on March 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Nicole Richie Adds To Her Family
Posted in Faith, Fame, adoption, baby, birth, celebrity, children, divorce, entertainment, family, kids, life, marriage, music, news, observations, opinion, parenting, pregnancy, relationships, tagged adopted, baby, band, blessings, celebrity, children, commitment, divorced, Fame, family, foundation, God, Harlow, joel madden, life, married, news, nicole richie, Oscar, parenting, parents, pregnancy, role models, young people on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today it was announced on Joel Madden’s bands website that he and Nicole are adding to their family. Their daughter Harlow is going to have a younger sibling. Having children who are close in age is good for the children; but, can be a little rough on the parents. However, Joel says that finding out [...]
A Nursing Mother Can’t Ignore A Hungry Baby-Salma Hayek
Posted in Advocating for special needs, Amazing, Beauty, Fame, Fear, Frustration, Heart, Impact, MONEY, Opportunities, Sisterhood, attitude, baby, birth, charity, children, comfort, compassion, death, emergency, emotions, family, finances, future, giving, health, help, inspiration, kids, leadership, life, loss, love, media, mental and physical health, mom, mother, news, observations, opinion, organizations for special needs, pain and misery, parenting, poverty, pregnancy, publicity, respect, sadness, service, support, travel, water shortage, well-being, tagged abundance, African, American, attention, attitude, baby, blessings, bonding, breast milk, child, compassion, crew, criticism, desperate, Difference, fulfillment, Heart, help, humanitarian mission, love, milk, mother, necessity, need, newborn, news, Nightline, nursing, nutrition, Pampers, poverty, publicity, Salma Hayek, Sierra Leone, starvation, tetanus, Unicef, vaccines, world on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you were traveling through a poverty striken area and you had a baby of your own that you were still nursing…could you walk away from a hungry newborn baby that had nothing to eat? Actress Salma Hayek was in Sierra Leone on a humanitarian mission…she nursed an African newborn who was starving because [...]
Between Fear and Faith
Posted in Faith, Fear, Heart, attitude, cancer, courage, diet, elderly, emotions, family, fathers, finances, health, help, history, hospital, life, loss, love, medical, mental and physical health, mom, pain and misery, patience, relationships, support, surgery, tagged attitude, blessings, cancer treatment, challenges, compassion, complications, courage, discouragement, Doctor, Faith, family, Fear, finances, God, healing, health, hospitalization, isolation, Jesus, love, medical tests, mercy, negative, patience, positive, purpose, sharing, strength, support, surgery on December 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As a Christian I am struggling with the line between fear and faith. My parents are both cancer survivors. However, right before Christmas they both had tests done that have come back with suspicious results.
I listen to my mother say that she is not going to get worked up until she talks with [...]
Endings and Beginnings
Posted in Opportunities, accomplishments, attitude, commitment, emotions, entertainment, failure, family, friendship, future, goals, happiness, holidays, life, news, pain and misery, relationships, tagged achievements, attitude, beginnings, blessings, co-workers, comittments, endings, expectations, failures, family, friends, future, goals, happiness, learning, neighbors, new year's resolutions, news, Opportunities, past, predictions, regrets, responsibility, reviews, souls, special on December 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As we once again approach the end of a year and begin another one; it never fails to amaze me how often we repeat the same old patterns. Oh to be sure…there will be the predictible year in review on the news programs…on the entertainment programs; and, even on the morning talk shows. Does [...]
When You’ve Given Your All…And Think You’ve Got Nothing Left To Give
Posted in Frustration, Impact, attitude, emotions, giving, service, spiritual, stress, well-being, tagged blessings, discouragement, emotions, giving, limitations, needs, physical, purpose, spiritual, vision, weariness, well-being on December 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When you have given your all and feel like you have nothing left to give…that is a great time to do a little Rest & Renewal. Stop, don’t make any decisions; or, take any actions when you are feeling burned out and overburdened. Stop, take a few deep breaths and re-evaluate the situation when [...]
I Am Living In A Real Live Snow Globe
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blessings, Christmas, gifts, snow, snow globe, weather on December 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today, I am looking outside of my window and it feels like I am living in a real live snow globe. We have travel warnings it is so snowy. It has been like this for days and the weather people are telling us that it will be this way for many more days. I [...]
Share What You’ve Got-With Those Who Don’t Have Alot
Posted in Faith, Heart, MONEY, Opportunities, Patriotism, Winter, charity, children, death, economy, emotions, family, finances, giving, health, help, home, ideas, life, loss, medical, mental and physical health, military, ministry, news, observations, organizations for special needs, pain and misery, seasons, service, teens, weather, well-being, tagged adults, agency, bless, blessings, boots, caring, challenge, charities, children, church, closets, clothes, coats, cold, death, desperate, donate, finances, food pantries, giving, gloves, Goodwill, groceries, hats, health, Heart, help, homelessness, homes, hurting, Impact, jobs, life, loss, medical, medical coverage, ministry, MONEY, necessities, run aways, Salvation Army, savings, scarves, sharing, shelter, shopping, storage areas, tents, veterans, weather on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
People are funny; when things get tight…their fists often get tighter; but not always. This year, like no other year in recent memory, people are hurting. They are hurting in many areas financially. Many have lost their homes, their jobs, their savings…along with medical coverage. It is a difficult time for many in our nation.
Most everyone [...]
Cancer Takes Talent-Paul Newman Passes Away!
Posted in Fame, Impact, cancer, celebrity, charity, children, death, family, fathers, giving, grief, health, husband, life, love, medical, mother, music, news, pain and misery, parenting, relationships, sadness, support, tagged American Cancer Society, blessings, celebrity, charities, death, dignity, giving, hold in the wall camps, Impact, life, Newman's Own, Paul Newman, race car driving, Remembering, Stand Up 2 Cancer, support, talent, thief on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have said it before, and i will say it again…cancer is a thief…it steals from us those that we love and it takes from us the talents & gifts that they were blessed with, as well. Yesterday, cancer stole another well known person of talent, Paul Newman passed away. Every person has merit and it [...]
Google Impacts Infinity
Posted in Green, Impact, accomplishments, charitable organizations, charity, children, commitment, culture, ecology, economy, environment, family, finances, future, giving, goals, health, hopes, ideas, inspiration, life, news, tagged $10 million dollars, agriculture, artistry, birthday, blessings, Dreams, environment, funding, future, Google, guidance, hopes, humanitarianism, ideas, Impact, implement, improvement, infinity, inspiration, MONEY, needs, opportunity, People, positiveness, potential, project, quality of life, support, technical skills, technology, thinking cap, thoughts, universe, world on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just heard an amazing thing…Google wants to impact the world with fresh new ideas…and what’s more…they are willing to reward those ideas of positive impact with some major money that could turn this world side ways on it’s axis! This is to celebrate their 10th birthday. The winning suggestion will come up with an [...]
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