My greatest wish for you

This is something I am sharing with all those who I have gotten to know online. The best thing you can ever, ever receive in life, is Jesus.

Scott Wesley Brown: I Wish You Jesus

Some explaining

Well well well well well, my dear bloggers!!! I have some explaining to do. First of all, I feel dreadful about not following through on my commitment to write about commitment. As my boyfriend would say "What's up with that?"

And so, the time has come for me to really really be straight with you. Writing this blog has been harder for me since my mother died. The idea for the blog "In the Position of Friend" came out of a really happy night of sharing on my Facebook page. Prior to that evening, the name of this blog was "My Sad Situation", which made me really feel ashamed. Life is hard enough without going around showcasing my misery!

And so, "In the Position of Friend" and the second "In the Position of Friend" were, I felt, good blogspots. I was able to stick with the subject of friendship and provide insights regarding different scenarios that can occur with friends. Then, shortly after my mother died, I began, "Always Your Friend". To be honest, without my mother, I have no one in my personal life who takes an interest in it. My mother was an avid reader. In fact, her appetite for literature was even something the Rabbi spoke of at her funeral. So I would write my blogs "In the Position of Friend" early in the morning. Then, when it was time to contact my parents (something I did every morning on a daily basis), I texted her the link to my published piece, and she always had a marvelous grasp of what I was expressing.

Now that I'm left doing "Always Your Friend" all by myself, I get terribly terribly tired each time I complete one. I'm so sorry to have to tell you all this. But you deserve the truth. Well, I'm running out of battery in my phone. So with no further adieu, I'll send this out to u. We'll chew on this and make a decision later, whatever it may be. Luv y'all!

Paul Simon: Loves Me Like A Rock

Decisions, DECISIONS

I want to share with you an insight I had at the age of 17, which caused a profound change in my attitude toward self-improvement. This is something I jotted down in my school notebook: "It's not enough just to know you can do it, you've got to do it." After this realization, I began to work much, much harder at my drawing and painting. I had planned to major in art in college, and I ended up going to a well reputed art school, where I did very very well.

And so, that small thought that I had; to get my dream out of my heart and onto what is now called "hard copy" propelled a good part of my education and my life. But you see, I couldn't allow it to own me. A person can be full of freshness and originality. But if she takes it up the ladder of success too fast, she will wake up one day and find that her life is not at all like what she was promised or what she expected.

Between proving you can do it and accepting candy from strangers, there is a vital median. Never cross a boundary that will make it impossible for you to go back into the arms of God. God will always be there, no doubt about that. But the tangles we create in our lives can make it really hard to go back to the place where we wanted to be when we started.

Twila Paris: True North