Author: Cynthia Noble
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Jul
Nations, like people, have destinies. And the United States of America has the most noble destiny of all....
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Lessons by Omer B. Washington
I’ve learned- that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.
I’ve learned- that it’s taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.
I’ve learned- that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
I’ve learned- that you can keep going long after you can’t.
I’ve learned- that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
I’ve learned- that no matter how much I care, some people just don’t care back.
I’ve learned- that it takes years to build trust and only...
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Have you ever had days when the “same ol’, same ol’" feels like it’s just sucking the life right out of you? Have you ever felt like you’ve “missed it” somehow – destroyed the destiny you might’ve had by making a wrong choice, a huge error, or even just wasting time?
Have you ever looked up to the sky and asked, “Why am I even here?”
We’ve all been there. But the fact is, it’s never too late to discover your destiny or to make course corrections and get back on track to it. How? Because our God is a God of “do-overs”!
Look at Moses who got a do-over after killing a man (his fault). Look at...
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One of my dreams is, eventually, to retire on some beach in North Carolina. However, as I have discovered, when any Yankee travels south of the Mason-Dixon, there are some rules you really should know. Unfortunately, I don’t find out about them until, well, too late.
For example, RULE #48: Evidently, in the south, it’s considered polite conversation to ask about one’s mama. As in, “How’s your mama?” Now this wouldn’t sound so odd if the mama in question belonged to a friend or even to an acquaintance. But no – this applies to any mama belonging to anyone you meet.
So okay, not my thing exactly but, hey, I’m open-minded – go ahead – ask. But no again. Apparently...
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Have you ever felt like you’ve been called to great things, impossible things? That would be because you have. The problem is we say we believe that but – do we really? The fact is that we’ve lost sight of the bottom line: “Nothing is impossible with God” (Luke 1:37). Maybe it’s time for a quick reminder.
"Then the Lord said to Abraham, 'About this time next year I will return, and your wife Sarah will have a son.' Now Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent nearby. And since Abraham and Sarah were both very old, and Sarah was long past the age of having children, she laughed silently to herself. 'How could a worn-out woman like...
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Once upon a time, there was a young man who longed to climb a mountain. He’d seen pictures of the tall, dangerous mountain called Everest, its peak shrouded with blizzards; pictures of the craggy peaks of the Rocky Mountains, white-tipped with snow in August; and movies with James Bond speeding down a steep Alpine peak on skis, spraying glittering snow as he flew.
The problem was that the young man didn’t like snow. Too cold.
No worries though, he thought. There were other mountains – ones, he was sure, more suited to his climate tastes. There were, for example, lush mountains in China and Brazil, blanketed with breath-taking forests, mysterious jungles and – oh, yeah – snakes.
Well,...
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