True perseverance knows no age and fears no defeat, finding victory not in swift success, but in the refusal to stop trying. This happened in November 2009. A South Korean woman celebrated…
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D-Day
Genuine leadership is measured not in the safe harbour of victory, but in the quiet courage to shoulder total responsibility when everything hangs in the balance. After giving the final order for…
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Have some trouble
Responsibility belongs to those who carry consequences. In their book Boundaries, psychologists Henry Cloud and John Townsend tell an interesting story about some parents who were having trouble with their 25 year old…
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Unexploded bomb squads
Courage is never measured by the absence of danger, but by the quiet resolve to stand in harm’s way so that others may live without fear. In Churchill’s Memoirs of The Second World…
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Humble beginnings
True wealth is built on the foundation of quiet diligence; humility and patience often outpace immediate reward. “In the year 1873, there was a country-bumpkin who applied for a sales job at…
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Mom’s wise counsel
A young wife calls her mother expecting sympathy, only to receive some unexpectedly candid advice about marriage. In his book Love and Respect, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs tells about one young wife who called…
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Heaven’s store
Great outcomes require constant personal effort. A woman had a dream in which she wandered into a shop at the mall and found (God) behind a counter. He said to her, “You…
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If the world were a village of 100 people
Shrink the world to a village of a hundred people, and humanity’s vast differences become neighbours we can no longer overlook. The Family Care Foundation posted on its website an article entitled…
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Let me be thankful….
Gratitude does not always change what happens to us, but it can change what we see in what remains. Matthew Henry, the great Bible commentator, was robbed one day. He wrote in…
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Mindfulness
Present-moment awareness turns ordinary routines into gratitude. Do you enjoy the blessings in your life, or are you always wanting more? Dr. Don Colbert, in his book The Seven Pillars of Health,…
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The male emperor penguin and childcare
Cooperative unity turns extreme adversity into survival. One of the oddities of nature is the male emperor penguin of Antarctica. What makes him so odd is that he excels at childcare —…
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Kindergarten
In the 1980s, the #1 bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten was published. The author, Robert Fulghum, realised one day that “what’s necessary to live a meaningful life” wasn’t…