Remember when I said to communicate? Well, here is another way you can let me know what you think. Just click on your choices, yes, on more that one choice and vote. You can also comment and tell me how I can improve. I also added to the menu bar on my site so please … Continue reading Readers, Give Your Thoughts
Readers, Please Communicate to Bloggers
The one thing I can't figure out is why, with all this technology, people don't communicate more. What I mean is, in the comment sections. Writers spend time writing in hopes that people will read and enjoy what they write. People are so scared that if they say the truth someone will be hurt. … Continue reading Readers, Please Communicate to Bloggers
People Need to Grow Too
Whether you are a child or an adult, you never stop learning and you should never stop growing and changing. The moment you stop growing, changing or learning, might be your last moment on Earth. The same goes for Churches and denominations. They should also grow and change and learn. People need to step … Continue reading People Need to Grow Too
Part 2: It Only Takes One Choice
The “It just takes one” series has some good thoughts…Enjoy!
In this series I want to show how it only takes one person, one choice, one word to make a difference wether it be bad or good.
Choosing how we view the day when we wake up, choosing to eat breakfast or not, choosing to go 10 or 20 miles an hour over the speed limit or not, choosing to stay mad or not, choosing to take an opportunity that is given to you, choosing to create good memories…. I could go on. The point is we make many choices throughout the day.
In the beginning humans were given free will by God. He wanted us to be able to make the choice to go to him freely. In a time many years ago, a little girl who only heard stories about Jesus and God, sat up one night in her bed and started to cry. She realized she was…
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Faith is Love; Love is Having Faith
4 years ago, but it still has a point….
When I was living with my grandparents, the only safe school for this Protestant to attend in a 10 mile radius was a catholic school in South Orange. I was taught that God punished and gave and took etc… So I thought God took my mother away and made my father sick for some good reason.
Fast forward to a night when I had a night mare. I was probably around 13 I guess. I wondered down stairs and my uncle was up doing some paperwork or watching a movie or something. All I remember is that at some point I made a comment about how I understood why God took my Mom. My uncle looked at me in shock and said, “Is that what you think, that God took your mother?” I was a little taken back because I thought this man should understand, after all , he was…
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Humans Tolerate, God is Acceptance
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Success: What is it?
I apologize for not as often as I should....my only excuse is that this past year has been more difficult to get time to myself and my writing. In December there were some deaths of people that got me thinking. What will I be remembered for when it's my time? Have I been … Continue reading Success: What is it?
Humans Tolerate, God is Acceptance
I remember stories of a time long ago, when a church put in microphones, to record the pastor's sermons, so that people who could not come to church due to illness or whatever, could get the tape and still be given the message. There were people who opposed this technology entering the sanctuary and … Continue reading Humans Tolerate, God is Acceptance
Picture Book Possibility
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It’s Memorial Day……..Again
I was looking back at a blog I posted, New Traditions: What Is Memorial Day? It was pretty good, if I do say so myself. Memorial Day was known as Decoration Day after the Civil war. It was a day to remember all the people who served in the military and who died. This is different … Continue reading It’s Memorial Day……..Again
New Traditions: What Is Memorial Day?
Memorial Day Weekend: It’s not just about the military.
Memorial Day can be defined as a day established for people to remember significant people or events. We inherit memories of people and events that effect us as individuals, families, and as a country.
Memories can be foggy
As a country we remember the military who sacrificed their lives in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, WW 1, WW2, the Korean War, Vietnam, the Gulf War, and of course the most recent war in the Middle East. What we forget are the little “battles” and assignments that military personal still have to do such as “man” the bases we create after a war. There may not be any physical battles in Germany or Australia but ask any military personnel and they will tell you they are fighting to learn how to be better soldiers. They are learning from the soldiers that fought in the previous wars. That is their “inheritance”.
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Animals Can Bring Out the Best In Us
Placed in a residential youth facility, Andrew* was full of rage, fear, and sadness. It only got worse after he lost a brother to a drug-related incident. Having been severely neglected and abused for years, his anger found an outlet in his fists – with the walls, residents, and staff as his punching bags. He […] … Continue reading Animals Can Bring Out the Best In Us
Mother's Day, that one day to say thank you to someone who, for 364 days, will love, worry, nag, cry, cheer, pray, and care for you. Mothers come in all shapes, sizes and names. There is, naturally, the "biological mother", otherwise known as one who carried you in her womb for 9 months then went … Continue reading Mothers in Every Form
Mothers in Every Form
Many Ways To Grow
I am so excited! I have had a request! Someone from asked me: how can the youth show such significant growth in the standardized test I give them? The answer is multifaceted. First I need to explain the testing we do, and the circumstances with which I work with. The group home teachers are instructed … Continue reading Many Ways To Grow
Connections
It feels like my whole life I have been “the connector”, “the hinge”, or the “bridge” between everyone. When I was little it was between my grandfather and my br… Source: Connections
Connections
It feels like my whole life I have been "the connector", "the hinge", or the "bridge" between everyone. When I was little it was between my grandfather and my brothers or my paternal family and my maternal family. I have been a "link" as long as I can remember. There was a time I didn't … Continue reading Connections
Blogging For God
I have added a new category to make it easier for you all to find the ones on my work.
I have always said that even though I seem to be a mild mannered teacher, I really work for God. So, I guess you could say I also blog for God because he wants people to know about these children and this organization I am blessed to work in. He also wants to bring people together when they connect through this organization. There are many opportunities that God has placed here.
God placed me in a multipurpose residential home for juveniles who have made some bad decisions and a judge has made one good decision for them by sending them to us. We are
We teach skills that we all know but we have broken them down into specific actions. We teach using the “Model of Care”…. it’s like the “catch ’em when their good” but tell them what they’ve done wrong so they can learn how to improve themselves…
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Part 4: It Just Takes One: Book
It only takes one book to change the way you see things. For me, it was a book by Harper Lee. "You have to step on another person's shoes and walk around in them" From then on I would stop and think before I judged. Many teachers have taken the classics out of the … Continue reading Part 4: It Just Takes One: Book
Easter: Living for a Greater Purpose
What if we were to live our lives the way one Jewish man lived his last 3 years on this Earth? He loved everyone, prayed incessantly, served humbly, spoke boldly and honestly, healed without expectations, took ridicule with dignity, took punishment for sins and crimes he did not commit without complaint, and always did … Continue reading Easter: Living for a Greater Purpose
Thankfulness Is An Everyday Event
Everyday, be thankful!
Thanksgiving brings out the “what are you thankful for?” thoughts. People on Facebook post what they are thankful for each day during the month of November. That’s 30 things people are thankful for. I can’t help but think, why are they doing that? I am thankful that I am not doing that. It’s hard enough to keep up with the blogs let alone feel obligated to shout to the world what I am thankful for , for 30 days straight. Shouldn’t we be showing our thankfulness every day and at the moment it happens? I am also thankful that I don’t shout it out to the world every second I am thankful for someone or something because I would lose the few followers I have been blessed with.
It is good to share with each other what we are thankful for but to do it too far after the fact…
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Our Life Is Not Ours, It's God's 