Celebrate Life.

MY HEART BREAKS…. My heartbreaks when I hear some upsetting questions and painful assumptions. Especially from the opposite sex..... A good example is when a man tells you his wife stopped giving him attention when the babies started coming… An excerpt from Gary Chapman’s ‘The Five Love Languages’ says :   “In my first marriage, we had three or four good years before the baby came. After the baby was born, I felt like she gave her attention to the baby and I no longer mattered. It was as if her goal in life was to have a baby and after the baby, she no longer needed me” Why on earth would a man ever think this? Why would a man think he is in competition with his own child? It is just a natural phenomenon for a mother to care and nurse her new born…in fact, even any of her offspring’s for all of eternity, perhaps if a man could conceive and carry a child for nine months they would understand;  ‘A child whom you gave life to, is your responsibility f...

VALUE Todays Thought. What’s the difference between Paper plates and Fine china? VALUE! Paper plates are used once and then thrown into the trash, but fine china’s kept for generations and treated with the utmost care. We place a higher value on Fine china’s than we do on our paper goods. When we use other people or take advantage of them, we’re treating them like paper plates- Worthless and disposable. But the bible tells us that all people have lasting value-so much more than fine china. Each person is a special creation with a special purpose and deserves to be treated with the utmost respect and care. Plan: Do you have the courage to ask your closest friends to hold you accountable when you take advantage of others instead of valuing them? Culled from my book of promises (Student edition)