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The Feast of Firstfruits & Easter Go for Broke Day If it scares you this is the day to go for it no matter what. One Day Without Shoes Day Today is to raise global awareness for children’s health and education.  Why shoes? Because shoes help protect from bacteria in the dirt, rusty nails, dirty needles and shoes enable feet to withstand the long distances most children in developing countries need to walk to get to school. Join TOMS One for One There is plenty of criticism out there for TOMS and its short term solutions. Critics don't even buy the "at least they are doing something" statement.  However, you have to start somewhere. And every bit of awareness helps something go from short term to long term.  We all have a part to play. Read a Road Map Day One of the many reasons I would stink at The Amazing Race is because I never did learn how to read a road map well.  I remember doing worksheets and class lessons on maps and I was able to skate by ...

The next time God calls you to do something completely inexplicable, be open to it. And say yes. Jim Mellado, Compassion International's next President Ever wanted to do something but thought to yourself, or had others tell you, things like: That's crazy to even consider! But that makes no sense! There's no way that can work out. etc etc etc Right?  We've all done that or perhaps are currently doing that.  Usually we stall out and never take action on what it might be.  But a few have been willing to say yes and those are the few that we hold up in high esteem for being courageous and risk takers.  The good news is we can be courageous and risk takers also.  We just have to be open to the adventures we will most certainly travel through to get to the destination.  We have to take the first step which is say "yes" to that thing and then trust the path that God opens up in front of us.  If God calls us to it, asks us to go on adventure with him,...

A year from now you will wish you had started today.   Karen Lamb A friend and I were talking about this very thing yesterday at work so I thought today was a good day for my quote since the topic is fresh for me. We humans (Americans?  Or is it universal?) have a problem.  We wait to do something, say something, buy something, have something (a kid), be something until everything is "just right"- according to our standards of course.  But the fact is, it will never be "just right".  There will always be something or someone that enters in and messes with the perfection.  So just do it.  Even if there are quirks, flaws, obstacles, doubts, etc - just do it so that a year from now you are wishing you had started but you will be that much further down the road.  This is part of risk taking .  And we deceive ourselves into believing that if we get everything "just right" then the risk is minimized.  Newsflash:  it's not. ...

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.    Jim Rohn Risk is  loosely  defined as the chance of loss.  Settle is  loosely  defined as "to come to" and "to become quiet and orderly".   You  have decide what kind of life you want to lead.  One that will be filled with chance but few regrets or one that will be played safe, quiet and orderly and also filled with longings unfilled because the "what if" of loss seemed to overwhelming.   I'm not a risk taker by nature.  It's scary and I don't like scary.  But at some point in my 30's I decided I had better start taking some risks on things that seemed scary to me (but clearly weren't to others!).  For my own personal beliefs I knew that the "what if" of the thing I felt God asking me to risk was not near as scary as the idea of disobeying the One who I call LORD.  I was, I still am, much more "frightened" * of disobeying...