Stay Focus on Your Dreams

With all the madness and chaos going on in the world it is easy to become distracted. However it is important that you do not lose focus of the things that are important to you. Do not  get caught up in the hype or spent valuable time concentrating on the successes of others. You don’t know what they had to do to get to where they are. Do not set your goals based on the expectation of others or with the idea that you have to keep up with the Jones-es.

Do not put on false air or pretend to be someone you are not in the hopes of pleasing others. Remember that we all have issues and problems at one time or another. No one has the perfect life. At all times be yourself. Go after your goals with confidence and let no one make you feel inadequate. Focus not on riches instead pray for good health and happiness, in these days these are rare commodities. In all that you do stay focus and you will see those dreams come true.

Vanishing Dreams

She tries to keep herself afloat,
Her dreams took a nose dive and vanished.
Like a bird she went out on a limb,
But the limb got broken,
So did her wings.
Her shattered dreams were
Blown away and scattered.
So she faces the new day
Trying to find the pieces of
her broken dreams.

A Thought for Today

Be careful of the people you let into your life, the smiling face and cheerful countenance could be part of a disguise.
Let no one take you for granted and you should do the same.
From gossip and words of hate let your tongue refrain.
Give thanks for each new day and for the blessings from up above. Treat the people you encounter with kindness and love.

Inspirational Story

Struggle

 

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through the little hole at the end.

Eventually, the butterfly stopped making progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther. The man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily, but it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.

Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were nature’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If nature allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. And we could never fly…

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How Much is Enough

THE DOG AND HIS REFLECTIONImage credit mythfolklore.net

 

Many of you may have heard the story of The Greedy Dog but how many of you grasped the moral of the story. In life there are people who behave like this dog.  Life pours many blessings on them but it is not enough.  They get opportunities that others are denied but it is still not enough. The more they receive the more their desire for more increase.  It is always more, more, more. Well we all know what happened to the greedy dog.  He saw his reflection in the water and of course he wanted the other bone. He opened his mouth to bark at what he thought was the other dog and in the process lost his own bone.

In life always give thanks. If your blessings are small, give thanks. If they are many, give thanks. Do not be like the greedy dog who was envious of his own shadow.  Be satisfied and give thanks.

Have Faith

Each day we take a step of faith although at times we are unaware. We go out each day with faith that we will get through the day and make it back home. With all that is going on in the world today sometimes all we have is faith that God will see us through. So have faith always. Have faith in your potential for greatness. Have faith in your ability to succeed. Have faith that you will conquer the enemy. Have faith that you will fulfill your dreams. Have faith that you will see a brighter tomorrow. Have faith that no matter what comes your way you will survive and you will overcome. Have Faith!

Relationships

Financial Security

Women are very trusting and are often taken advantage of. Many take it for granted that their partners will stand by them and take care of their finances so they have nothing to worry about. This is a false sense of security.

Every woman must ensure her financial security. Do not leave it up to the man, you need your financial independence. It is okay to have a joint account but you also need a separate account for yourself. It is not that your don’t trust him but it is good to have something of your own that you can fall back on just in case.

Always ensure that any property that you acquire together have both your names on it and not just his. Trust is a good thing but when things go wrong that is the time when you realize that trust is not enough. Always get something in writing to back up your claims or you might not have a leg to stand on.

Stupid Yahoo Questions



You would be surprised at some of the questions people ask. Here is a few that I want to share with you.


I slept with a girl and now she is pregnant. There are two possible fathers and neither of us think it is us anyways. What if she is not the mom to begin with, will it be another guy’s child? HELP!

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I don’t know if my daughter is mine. I gave birth to her but I’m not sure if it’s my boyfriend cheating on me and I had his other girlfriend baby. Can someone help me?

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I swallowed an ice cube whole and I haven’t pooped it out. I’m really scared…is it stuck?

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My girlfriend is pregnant and we didn’t have sex. How could this have happened?

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These are some of the dumbest questions that people ask on Yahoo.  Makes you wonder…was everyone born with a brain?

	


	





	

		
		
Indian Girls Raped and Murdered
	


	
	
	

		


This story is so heart wrenching and barbaric it makes you sick to the stomach. On Wednesday May 28, the bodies of two girls age fourteen and fifteen were found hanging from a tree hour after they went missing. The girls had gone into the field to relieve themselves because they had no toilet.


Reports say the father went to the local police station to report them missing but was ignored. Interestingly two police officers were among those arrested in connection with the deaths.


Autopsies carried out on the girls found evidence that they were raped and strangled before they were hung.


India is a place where no woman is safe. A rape occurs every 22 minutes and activists believe this number is low as many of the cases go unreported. Rape is tolerated and accepted as a part of the culture and the victims are often ostracized.


The women of India need outside intervention to pressure the government to do more to protect the women. They are helpless and defenseless because the very people employed to protect are themselves carrying out some of these atrocities.

	


	





	

		
		
Of Pastor and Seeds
	


	
	
	

		


Old Liza was such a miser

She refused to part with a cent.

She went to church without her purse

and got the pastor incensed.

He spoke of greed, he spoke of weeds,

He spoke about those who came to church

and left without planting a seed.