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From a thought in 10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever by James MacDonald, (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) That is so important for us to realize. James says, “Someone argues: But I didn’t choose to have cancer or for my company to go bankrupt. I didn’t want my spouse to leave me or my child to rebel.” And that may seem to be true to us but he goes on, “Well, first of all, there is probably more personal responsibility in each of those situations than any of us readily admits. Secondly, your choices may not have entirely determined those outcomes, but there are many people who are doing better than you are in a similar circumstance, and their improved outcomes from such terrible conditions are 100 percent related to how they have chosen to deal with them. It’s not what happens to us, but how we choose to respond makes the difference. There is just no escaping the power of personal choice.” He says, “So why even try? Why no

From a thought in  Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small  by Mark Batterson.  (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) This thought hit me as I was reading.   God has entrusted us with so many opportunities to do so many difference things today but will what we do today last beyond today? What Mark asks is, “What are you doing today that will make a difference one hundred years from now?”   Oh I know it is hard just trying to survive today let alone to feel the responsibility of making a difference one hundred years from now but God has created us with a plan.   Mark says, “Every generation must steward what’s been entrusted to them. It starts with honoring the generation that has gone before us by learning everything we can from them. But that’s only half the equation when it comes to passing along a generational blessing.” He then says, “It continues by empowering the generation that comes after us. That’s how t

From a thought in  Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small  by Mark Batterson.  (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Mark then says, “Humility is the first chapter in the book of success. God won’t put you in a position of leadership until you take a posture of servanthood.”   Mark tells of “When he was a young man, Benjamin Franklin was quite scathing in his editorials, more than a few of which targeted the Puritan preacher Cotton Mather. In a rather magnanimous gesture, Mather invited Benjamin over for dinner one night and showed him his library. Franklin spent much of his time and money as a young man acquiring one of the largest libraries in America, consisting of 4,276 volumes. As they walked through a narrow passage into the library, Mather yelled back at Franklin, ‘Stoop! Stoop!’ Franklin didn’t understand the exhortation until it was too late and bumped his head on a low beam. Like any good preacher, Mather turned i