Tag: faith
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Optimists live longer and better
I often blog about the importance of being optimistic, or to put it another way, to have faith. Some call it a Positive Mental Attitude. But no matter what you call it, everyone seems to agree that your life will be better in many ways if you are optimistic. The following is from a free…
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What faith can do
This is an ancient story with a powerful moral for a better life: The wife of a dead man cried out to a powerful man, “My husband is dead, he owed money to people. Now they are coming to take my two boys as slaves to pay off the debt.” The powerful man replied to…
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Belief brings good things
They didn’t believe Over 3000 years ago Moses led the Jews out of Egypt. They saw many miracles in Egypt before they left—the ten plagues. They were showered with gifts by the Egyptians as they left Egypt. At the Red Sea they saw the Egyptian army descending upon them. They doubted God. They didn’t really…
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A little humor with a big message
A mayor of a city and his wife were driving down the street when they passed a gas station. The mayor saw a man who had dated his wife before they were married. “Wow!” he said. “Just think, if you had married that man you would be spending your life with a gas station owner.…
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Grasshopper mentality causes problems
More than three thousand years ago several million people were released from slavery and they traveled to a land that was promised to them. But because they had “grasshopper mentalities” (we are not tough enough or good enough,, we are like grasshoppers compared to them) they didn’t have the confidence to fight for the land…
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