Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.
True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.
Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) was an American professional boxer and humanitarian. He was regarded as one of the greatest boxers to ever step into the ring.
God is for us. I want you to remember that God is for us. Say those four words to yourself, “God is for us.” Remember that tomorrow morning when you don’t feel like He is. Remember that when you have failed. Remember that when you have sinned and guilt slams you to the mat.
From Romans 8:31-32: What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold His own Son but gave Him up for all of us, how will He not with Him also give us everything else?”
America’s observation of Veterans Day lies ahead on November 11. As a nation gathers to honor anyone, past or present, who has served in uniform, may we remember and embrace our nation’s past.
Gathering for common good
Willing to make each sacrifice
Citizens answer country’s needs
Giving of themselves, any price
Putting aside differences
Deflating emotion’s sandbag
Spirit of Founding Fathers calls
Rallying around nation’s flag
Responding with efforts as one
Replenishing each empty soul
Tattered Old Glory proudly waves
Serving abroad, endless patrols
Overcoming every challenge
Witnessing each morning sunrise
Fears replaced with collective faith
Rising freedom fills daily skies
Bridging Lexington to Yorktown
Stepping up at Gettysburg’s fight
Battles from Marne to Normandy
Leading democracy’s daylight
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Behind every legend, strange to say, can be found a kernel of truth, a group of facts around which the legend was built.
Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957) was an American naval officer, aviator, and explorer of both polar regions. He was born in Westchester, Virginia.
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Walking this lonely road
Losing count of each step
Packing life’s hefty load
Careful not to misstep
Miles of infinite road
Where will it finally end?
Life scanned, like some bar code
What lies around the bend?
Few answers on this road
Walking day after day
Needing life to reload
Feeling like nature’s prey
Danger lurks on this road
Always staying alert
Life delayed in safe mode
Old, worn boots kicking dirt
Life resembles this road
Challenges come and go
Heavy, infinite load
Never walking too slow
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Originally published May, 2020.
May your future be limited only by your dreams.
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
Christa McAuliffe (1948-1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire. She will be remembered for her selection as the finalist in the Teacher in Space Project. She was a crew member on the ill-fated NASA mission on January 28, 1986, when the space shuttle Challenger was destroyed shortly after take-off.
From Psalm 86:11: “Teach me Your way, O Lord, that I may walk in Your truth; give me an undivided heart to revere Your name.”
In perfect world
Always scoring
Tasting success
Every inning
Imperfect life
Trials crashing
Testing resolve
Emptiness reigns
Lessons in trust
Spirit nurtures
Kneeling at cross
Jesus teaches
Answers come forth
Faith’s walk deepens
Learning God’s ways
Grace enters heart
Battle strengthens
Darkness vanquished
Walking with Christ
Light victorious
God’s mercy flows
Just as He planned
Steady guidance
Growing each day
From Ecclesiastes 3:14: “I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it; God has done this so that all should stand in awe before Him.”
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was an American author, poet, and civil rights activist. Her body of published work is found in autobiographies, essays, poems, and numerous credits in plays, movies, and television shows.
The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness.
It is impossible to control conditions that others have created.
Esther Hicks (born 1948) is an American inspirational speaker and author.
From Proverbs 19:21: “The human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.”
Gift of family unfolds
Relationships healthy and blessed
God’s love covers this home
Leading this grace-filled nest
Imperfections reverse tide
Frustrations fill with discontent
God witnesses each tear
Reshaping what is meant
Time healing deepest trauma
Days, weeks—sometimes months travel by
God breathes, never silent
Wiping every tear dry
Faith speaks, better days ahead
Hope generates from cherished love
God welcomes members home
Blessing life from above
From Joshua 24:15: “Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
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