I want to Live…

Good Morning Friend, As she laid in her hospital bed, she thought about the words spoken by her doctor. ” If you continue living this way, you will die in 3 months…” Those words pierced her to the core. She wanted to live…So, as the doctor entered the room once again, she turned to him [...]

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Peace and Quiet

Good Morning Friend, The alarm went off at 4 a.m. The kids were screaming during the entire ride to school. My husband and I got into a big argument. The traffic on the beltway turned my 30 minute commute into a 2 hour commute. My boss is yelling at me. There is more money going [...]

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Prepare for Action!

Good Morning Friend, In life there are many things that we must prepare for. We must prepare for exams, graduation, work, events, and many other situations. This preparation for action can also be seen in many organizations throughout our world. Soldiers prepare for action by training in the woods for long hours. Basketball players prepare [...]

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Do you trust me?

Good Morning Friend, The tension mounted as they hung on for dear life to the wooden platform that was slowly giving way. She looked at him with eyes full of fear wondering if this is how their life would end. He turned from her gaze to look at the map they both had spent all [...]

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Conversation Etiquette

Good Morning Friend, Have you ever wanted to be a great conversationalist? Well, advancedetiquette.com has a list of 8 tips for becoming a great conversationalist. #1 Begin conversations with a cordial question #2 Converse in equal time slots #3 Listen #4 Make sure people are interested in what you have to say #5 After asking [...]

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It’s good!

Good Morning Friend, Basketball has become one of the most popular sports played in the world. This popularity has led to many enthusiastic fans and sports announcers. Once such announcer was a man named John M. “Johnny” Most. In one exciting 1985 regular season game between the Celtics and the Portland Trail Blazers, with a [...]

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Acceptable

Good Morning Friend, Throughout our lives we find ourselves in various environments. These environments usually have an ‘unwritten’ list of what things are acceptable and what things are unacceptable. In the job environment it is unacceptable to carry on as if one is in a baseball stadium, but it is acceptable to hold civilized business [...]

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Feed the hungry

Good Morning Friend, We have all seen them at one time or another. The tattered clothing, disheveled hair, and shoes with the worn out soles are telltale signs. They spend their nights on the streets looking for a warm place to sleep and then wake up to beg for a little change. As we sit [...]

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Words

Good Morning Friend, The Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words. This collection of words is steadily growing and the use of these words is extremely powerful. They have the ability to strengthen us or break us down. The words of a friend can comfort us, while the words of an enemy can [...]

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Joy

Good Morning Friend, The emotion that we call joy is defined as, ‘a feeling of great pleasure and happiness’. We experience it at many different points in our lives. For example, we experienced joy when we received an ‘A’ on our report cards in grade school, when we graduated from college, when we bought our [...]

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