Power In Love

 ¹ If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
 ² And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
 ³ And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
 ⁴ Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
 ⁵ doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
 ⁶ rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
 ⁷ beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
 ⁸ Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.
 ⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
 ¹⁰ but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
 ¹¹ When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.
 ¹² For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
 ¹³ But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13

If You’re Struggling Over A Difficult Decision…..

My best advice to you is to give it “the rocking chair test.”

Imagine that you’re ninety years old, sitting on the porch and rocking in your chair

as you reflect back on your life.

Will you regret doing this ----or not doing it?

Pick the decision you can live with, and have no regrets in your choice. 

Believe in the choices you make.

Anne Larnella Hood

Let Your Heart Show You the Way

Listen to the song in you.

It’s there in whatever puts stars in your eyes and makes your heart sing.

Listen to your feelings and you will hear who you are and what you must do.

Listen to your needs and you will know where to find what you are looking for.

Listen to the wisdom within.

It is trying to lead you to your destiny.

Listen to the song in you and your life will be full of harmony.

You will be who you were meant to be.

You will be complete and at peace and happier than you have ever been –

If only you will

Listen to the song in you.

Nancye Sims

Success Has No Limits

There are no limits to what you can do.

Your talents and abilities, your uniqueness and warmth, your strength and dedication in everything you do --- all of these will help you reach your dreams.

There are no limits to what life has to offer you.

The world is full of possibilities, just as you are filled with promise.

Seek, discover, and embrace with openness the richness of experience.

Believe in yourself, and you will always know success.

Michelle Richards

To Get What You Want Out of Life

It takes believing in your dreams and in what you know to be true.

Surviving disappointments and the times when you’re truly alone.

Awakening to see that you have made it through the difficult times with only yourself to depend on.

It takes facing the truth that only you can shape your destiny.

Realizing that the footsteps you take today are the ones that will lead you into tomorrow, and they must be guided by an unswerving faith in yourself.

Understanding that the failures, setbacks, and hurts life often gives us all only serve as steppingstones to true happiness--- and if you follow the trail instead of turning back, only then will you recognize your strengths and be able to view life from the summit.

Debra McCleary

Be Strong and Don’t Give Up

Remember… there is a deeper strength and an amazing abundance of peace available to you.

Draw from this well; call on your faith to uphold you.

Life continues around us, even when our troubles seem to stop time.

There is always good in life.

Take a few minutes to distract yourself from your concerns --- long enough to draw strength from a tree or to find pleasure in a bird’s song.

Return a smile; realize that life is a series of levels, cycles of ups and downs—some easy, some challenging.

Through is all, we learn; we grow strong in faith; we mature in understanding.

The difficult times are often the best teachers, and there is good to be found in all situations.

Reach for the good.  Be strong, and don’t give up.

Pamela Owens Renfro

Never Let Go if the Dreams in Your Heart

Sometimes it seems that our dreams crumble in our hands.

We think that we have failed and that all we tried so hard to attain will now always stay slightly out of reach.

But one failure cannot crumble the dreams that years of hard work and dedication have built.

So hold on to your dreams.

Believe in yourself, and you will find that a bright tomorrow waits just around the next turn.

You will make it.

You will be successful.

And your dream will come true… just keep believing!

          Jennifer Eller