In a world where borders and boundaries are very important.
Where hugging or embracing each other has been slowly replaced by hi fives and verbal only exchanges.
Where handshakes with out eye contact even at church is normal.
There are still moments where the hearts just knows what is necessary….
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Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. –Eric Fromm
The Miracle Birth:
 After giving birth to premature twins, Kate Ogg was informed that one of them didn’t make it.
Devastated, she held her limp 2-pound infant against her bare chest. For two hours, the mother and her husband said their goodbyes, cradling and hugging their son as if he were alive.
Two hours later, the newborn began moving and gasping.
Ogg instinctively fed her son a few drops of breast milk and soon his gasps turned into real breaths. “A short time later he opened his eyes. It was a miracle,” the mother recounts.
Now five months later, the radiant parents are highlighting the virtues of skin-on-skin care for sick babies, a technique known as ‘Kangaroo Care’ for the way Kangaroos hold their young in the pouch.
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Steve Ashworth has been creating sweet delicacies for 23 years.
A renown confectionier in Savannah, Georgia as well as a chocolatier for Godiva.
Steve Ashworth’s mastermind brought it all together right here in Tampa Bay nearly
three years ago with his creation
of
City Street Sweets Chocolates & Confections.
On a rainy Wednesday evening in August when most people are home and dry, his chocolate and
confection store was crowded with guest eagerly tasting the most interesting combination of
flavors and enjoying tasty drinks.
City Streets Sweets
serves up great events served around the creation of treats such as
The Chocolate Bar Therapy
where your party can learn , sample and create.
Chocolate Pizza Maker
where your group will learn to ‘temper’ chocolate.
Chocolate Bar Creator
where everyone at the gathering becomes their own Willie Wonka
and last but not least
Candy College
where gummies, sprinles, and M&M’s takes the place of books, pencils and paper.
City Street Sweets Chocolate and Confections
is the place to be for anyone who loves
chocolate
candy
and
ice cream
Remember City Street Sweets is fun
Steve and his team are very friendly
there is plenty of comfortable room for good conversations and parties
and this
makes a great gift idea for that hard to please chocolate and candy fanatic.
Check out City Street Sweets website here for more information!
Thank You Steve your place is a pleasure!
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Click here if you like Vanilla Maple Bacon Fudge for a closer view!
Every now and then you get a glimpse of the real thing.
A person on purpose who makes a real difference and seems to have a lot of fun doing it!!!
You will love this moment…Click Here
Enjoy!!
As 145 soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan walked through the double doors in Terminal D at DFW Airport last week for two weeks of R&R, they were greeted not only by their families, but by former president George and Laura Bush.
AFA’s long-time friend, Bert Brady, who helps coordinate the welcome home project to our troops coming home for furlough at Dallas Fort Worth airport sent us an amazing video of President Bush welcoming the troops.
It is refreshing to see how pro-American and patriotic our former Commander-in-Chief is.
Please take a moment to watch this heartwarming and inspirational video of President Bush welcoming home our military heroes.
Brady said bout 40 people, among them retirees and veterans, show up almost daily to help welcome home soldiers with ovations as they depart customs and enter the main terminal. More than 750,000 service members have been welcomed as part of the program, he said, and some purposely ask to reroute their return to the U.S. so they can come through DFW.
TAKE ACTION
Help us send 100,000 “Thank You!” messages to former President George Bush for his patriotism and support of our military! Let’s let him know we are grateful for his continued leadership.
Please continue to remember our troops and their families in your daily prayers.
Watch the video and send your “Thank You” now!
| Sincerely,
Tim Wildmon, President
American Family Association |
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Drawings and Memory
You may have heard it said before that “a picture paints a thousand words” well it’s true!
If you have put away your crayons or color pencils long ago it’s time to get them out agin. Studies show that goals without a clear vision are harder to achieve than one’s you’ve painted a picture of not just in you mind but on paper.
Did you know that Thomas Edision in one page of his journal not only wrote down the goal of creating a light bulb in 3 years but he also drew a picture of it. If a great goal setter and visionary felt the need to do this in order to achieve his dream can’t we followed his lead?
The sculptures of ancient times and builders of catherdral,skyscrapers and space ships know what the power of a drawing brings.
What is on your drawing table?
P.S.Click on the picture above to find out who the artist is!
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If you are or want to be a powerful goal setter join http:// www.BAGSROCK.COM!
This one is in memory of my friend Tony and my dad’s friend Steve
who have and are running their race with the catastrophic illness called ALS.
You may have a ‘courageous one’ living out this experience in your life and this one is for you too.
Watching a loved one or friend live through continuous and unending challenges
is often maddening and heartbreaking.
Definitely it has a profound effect on how you and I see our own challenges.
Bearing one another’s burdens is not always fun but always bears rich rewards.
Enjoy Jon Blais’s story of how he and his family
are doing exactly that.
Then be encouraged, not to stop trying, in over coming your own challenges.
BE BLESSED!
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How long should you try? Until. –Jim Rohn
Inspiration of the Day:
Completing in an ironman triathlon is no small feat – a 2.4 mile swim followed by a 112 mile bike ride followed by a marathon (26.2 mile run)! Jon Blaise recently completed all of this while having a debilitating disease called ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), which attacks the motor neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain and spinal cord. “I think when I’m sitting in a wheelchair, down the road, I’ll know that I’ve fought the great fight,” Jon smiles. “This is it. Your life. Face your fears and live your dreams.” [ more ]
Be The Change:
Learn more about ALS and Jon’s mission to find a cure! [ more ]
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The subject of Autism is a very challenging one and most of us have encountered the need for more understanding on this subject. To date the diagnosis of Autism is increasing in numbers here in America . Maybe Autism has always been there in one degree or another through the ages but just not understood enough even for a medical word to be associated with it. Already Autism has moved from being a disorder assumed to be based in psychology to one study now through the lens of biology.
This wonderful gift of awareness is brought to you by Daily Good which you can resource through CharityFocus.Org and features an extraordinary person who has not only helped us know what it is to be Autistic but has helped to contribute massively to the well being of animals and industry.
Please be introduced to the renowned Dr. Temple Grandin and hear her amazing interview…You will laugh and you will learn!!!!
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“I think in pictures. Words are like a second language to me.”
Dr. Temple Grandin is one of the most fascinating and
respected figures in the world today. As a child whose
parents almost sent her to a mental institution, Grandin
became the first autistic individual to publish an
autobiography. She has utterly transformed how we view
people with autism and how we treat animals, specifically
in the cattle industry. She explains to us what it is like for
her to live in this world, having an autistic mind, and how
it helps her relate to animals. “We need all kinds of minds”
and beautiful things happen when we make an effort to see
what other see. [ more ] 30 min Interview
Be The Change:
How does the world appear with autism? Discover the top 10 things every child with autism wishes you knew: [ more ]
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It is often very hard
to maintain our perspective
In the daily movement of our lives
on what
are important things to focus on.
With so many so many demanding expectations to fulfil and to do list to make hay of ,we often get side tracked and are left wondering why we feel
finished, tired but not exactly satisfied.
CoCoToYou hopes you will
take a 5 minute break
consider a perspective of a miraculous nature
then breath in deeply… Click HERE
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Thank you KarmaTube.Org
Gifts from life show up just about everywhere like the other evening when out to a movie with a friend we saw” The Karate Kid” . As I drove home many scenes from the movie along with life experiences from the month I had just lived through merge together creating a moment of realization that everything is happening very much on purpose and planned in advance so that our personal days are rich with opportunities to learn our most important lessons. Lessons that move us forward on our personal paths of life and life more abundant.
Here is yet one more gift that has crossed my path at a very timely moment when I needed to be reminded that life needs much patience to really enjoy. Thank you Pavithra and IJourney.org, the original place for this gift of discovery.
I would highly recomend this interesting platform of thought… for those who have the luxury of time to think.
A Portrait in Patience
–by Pavithra Mehta
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I am looking forward to our soon coming Independence Day Celebration Fourth of July.I have always loved the sounds and sights of this unique celebration. The day we as Americans together remember that our freedom came with a price. Men of independent thinking who willing placed it all on the line to win our nations freedom to self govern. I find myself this week being surrounded by the idea of independent thinking as I am reading Bill O’Reilly”s ‘Bold Fresh’ and this evening as I write I am watching the biography of General David Petraeus.
Not only am I a patriotic lover of my country I also come from a faith that was begun by an independant thinker named Abram whose name was later changed to Abraham because of his ability to think and question, changed by the unique God he followed. There might be a thread here… that being I love independant thinking. I have always believed that truth was worth sacrificing for and independant thinking was the only path on which one would be able to find it.
Independent thought however requires the foundation of strong study and awareness of common sense so that even a common or a very educated person can be capable of independent thought. Ours is a country whose origins were strong in the knowledge of the Judeo Christian principles and at the same time good old fashion horse sense. It’s no wonder that we have had such an incredible independence in our past. A past that was a product of men and women who together asked hard questions of themselves and each other, that I hope will continue as years go on.
To mine and your well thought out Independant thinking and our Independence Day!
