SOME THINGS TO PONDER...

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.

Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

Never buy a car you can't push.

Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you don't have a leg to stand on.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

The early worm gets eaten by the bird, so sleep late.

When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.

Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.

PROBLEMS IN OUR LIFE

"My troubles turned out all for the best-they forced

me to learn from your textbook. 
Truth from your mouth means more to me than striking

it rich in a gold mine. 

Psalm 119:71-72

Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you - depending on how you respond to them.Unfortunately, most people fail to see how God wants to use problems for good in their lives. They react foolishly and resent their problems rather than pausing to consider what benefit they might bring.

Five ways God wants to use the problems in your life:
by: Rick Warren

• God uses problems to DIRECT you -

Sometimes God must light a fire under you to get you moving. Problems often point us in a new direction and motivate us to change. Is God trying to get your attention? "Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make us change our ways." Pr. 20:30.

• God uses problems to INSPECT you

- People are like teabags ... if you want to know what's inside them, just drop them into hot water!Has God ever tested your faith with a problem? What do problems reveal about you? "When you have many kinds of troubles, you should be full of joy, because you know that these troubles test your faith, and this will give you patience." James 1:2-33.

• God uses problems to CORRECT you

- Some lessons we learn only through pain and failure. It's likely that as a child your parents told you not to touch a hot stove. But you probably learned by being burned. Sometimes we only learn the value of something - health,money, a relationship - by losing it. "It was the best thing that could have happened to me, for it taught me to pay attention to your laws." Psalm 119:71-72.

• God uses problems to PROTECT you

- A problem can be a blessing in disguise if it prevents you from being harmed by something more serious. Last year a friend of mine was fired for refusing to do something unethical that his boss asked him to do. His unemployment was a problem - but it saved him from being convicted and sent to prison a year later when his boss's actions were uncovered. "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good ...." Gen 50:20.

• God uses problems to PERFECT you

- Problems, when responded to correctly, are character builders. God is far more interested in your character than your comfort. Your relationship to God and your character are the only two things you're going to take with you into eternity."We can rejoice when we run into problems ... they help us learn to be patient. And patience develops strength of character in us and helps us trust God more each time we use it until finally our hope and faith are strong and steady." Rom. 5:3-4

Here's the point: God is at work in your life - even when you do not recognize it or understand it. But it's much easier and profitable when you cooperate with Him!

WORDS AND QUOTES TO STIR THE HEART AND MIND ABOUT WRITING

By words the mind is winged. Aristophanes, Patches of Godlight

When you re-read a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play

I think of the reader as a cat, endlessly fastidious, capable by turns of mordant indifference and riveted attention, luxurious, recumbent, ever poised. Whereas the writer is absolutely a dog, panting and moping, too eager for an affectionate scratch behind the ears, lunging frantically after any old stick thrown in the distance.Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories


It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious of their possessions to things so unstable and ever changing, alas, as words.Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest

If any man wishes to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, quoted in the electronic newsletter, A.Word.A.Day

I have always known that writing is indecent exposure. By publishing a book, one asks to be attacked.Peter F. Drucker, Adventures of a Bystander

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.John Sheffield, Essay on Poetry

We read to know we are not alone.Student to C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

Make careful choice of the books which you read. Let the Holy Scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and next to them, the solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the Scriptures . …But take heed of the poison of false teachers.Richard Baxter, Christian Directory

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.E. M. Forster, "A Book that Influenced Me," in Two Cheers for Democracy

I, who live by words, am wordless when I try my words in prayer. All language turns to silence … Madeleine L'Engle, from "Word" in The Weather of the Heart

I LOVE TO WRITE

I LOVE TO WRITE

For many years, I haven't recognized my gift in writing.
All I know is ... I love to keep a journal even during my teen-aged years. Writing has helped me a lot while growing- up without my parents' guidance. Feeling so alone, it helped me to express what and how I felt. My pen and paper have been my companions in this journey called life. 
I don't consider myself as a good writer and always feel incompetent to do it. 
I write for myself and always feels good with what I do. My passion for writing