Category: Life Issues

Do What You Can

Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.

— Teddy Roosevelt via Squire Bill Widener —

Random Quote Reflections The opening quote came to me several times while riding my bike on the Miami River Corridor path this past Saturday. Why that quote? I’m glad you asked. Over the past couple of months, I’ve had to live with my heart in Atrial Fibrillation, which causes it to beat much faster when…

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Another Father’s Day of Fond Memories

Dad...remembering you is easy; I do it every day. Missing you is the heartache that never goes away.

— Unknown —

Dad…remembering you is easy, I do it every day. Missing you is the heartache that never goes away…

Never Ending Journey

Never limit your view of life by past experiences.

— Ernest Holmes —

Never limit your view of life by past experience…

Body Waste

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and the one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

— Gandhi —

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and the one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever…

Best. Job. Ever.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person; he believed in me.

— Jim Valvano —

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person; he believed in me.

The Enemy

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but it is fear.

— Gandhi —

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but it is fear…

Focus On The Light

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

— Aristotle —

Quote Reflection There was no darker moment in my life than when I began to find myself after losing myself in my three year “lost weekend.” I was in a deep depression with only a glimmer of hope of ever conquering a substance abuse addiction that had tried its hardest to kill me. In that…

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Do vs. Say

Well done is better than well said.

— Benjamin Franklin —

Quote Reflection Well done is also better than well thought. We cannot talk or think our way into achieving our goals and making positive changes in our lives. Question What has God been calling you to change? Write it down. Pray about it. Seek help from others if you’re unable to make the change alone….

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Two Stepping

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

— Henry Ward Beecher —

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started…

Give and Get

He who is kind to the poor, lends to the Lord and He will reward him for what he has done.

— Proverbs 19:17 —

He who is kind to the poor, lends to the Lord and He will reward him for what he has done…