Encouragement Quotes

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I never heard of this YouTube artist until just a few minutes ago. Take some time to listen to this and read the lyrics. It is awesome. Pass this on, share this, get the word out that there is hope, but it has to begin with each of us.

What IF we all said YES I CAN, instead of doom and gloom thinking that is spoon fed us each and every day.

Christian Beadles is the artist, and gets all the credit for the original video. This one is going to soar. It is what everyone is ready to hear.

I finally like rap. Lets have more.

This is a great video I just ran across. The sound is great. If you are not familiar with these artists, this is a great look at Phil Keaggy and Randy Stonehill. Time is moving on and it is nice to always have videos like this to see the progression of these musicians.

This one is good, too. Phil Keaggy, Randy Stonehill and Mike Pachelli covering The Beatles, This Boy. Not as good as the first video but if you want to see more of this treo here look at this one. The sound could be better.

A lot of help is pouring into the Gulf Coast of the USA with the largest oil spill on record. Since I can not go there first hand to see all the damage, I have to go on faith of what I hear in the media. Well, yeah.
I have never been to Louisiana or and of the Gulf Coast for that matter. I have seen pictures and it looks beautiful. It is on my list of places to visit one day. How about you?
I did grow up on the beaches of Southern California, and remember seeing water so dirty that it was scary swimming in it. I remember getting eye and ear infections almost every summer when I was a child. I spend countless hours at the beach and in the water, no matter what it looked like.

I remember tar sticking to my feet and then getting on my bathing suit and not being allowed into the house until I washed my feet off with gasoline. That seemed to be the only thing that worked the best at taking the tar off. The bathing suit was ruined though.

There were a lot of oil wells in Huntington Beach, and Long Beach could be dirty, too. Going to the Redondo Beach area always meant coming home with tar stuck on you. I remember the beautiful beaches of Santa Barbara and big globs of tar on the sand so you had to be careful where you walked.

Did they ever know what this was like on the Gulf Coast? When I was a kid I just thought that was part of the ocean. Somehow oceans produced tar. Nothing could ever be perfect.

How can life remain the same in the Gulf Coast? Families that rely on the economy driven by the fishing industry have taken a huge hit. This effects everyone. Fishermen and women can not work. Processing plants can not work. There is no money coming in. Families in difficult economic times have to cut back more or rely on aid. People who work in the local industries such as retailing, banking and insurance notice that their business is effected, too.

BP says they are getting money and help to the families. Are they? There are more than just the fishermen and their families impacted by this.

Bloggers Unite is calling attention to this with a Citizen Gulf National Day of Action on August 25. What can we do? Visit this site for more information or to participate. If you can donate there are lots of listings where you can be a part of the solution.

It seems that when there is a disaster around the world, the USA is among the first to step in and help out. We have people here, in the USA, right now who will appreciate your help. Even if you can share some links on your blog, or web page, or social site you are doing your part to help. Thank you!

Some people love to sew. I wish I was one of them. I would love to be able to make my own clothes. It would be great. However this video shows what happens to me when I get near a sewing machine. It has been this way my whole life and that is just sad.

Maybe one day I will take lessons. I can knit and crochet and sometimes sew a straight line, but usually I spend all my time fixing the machine. However I really still feel that one day I will master sewing.

Maybe this is not your idea of encouraging music. However this video is encouraging when you see the quality of talent here. Stevie Winwood, Eric Clapton, and others sharing their music. It would be incredible to be at one of these festivals, but when you can’t it is great that You Tube is making them available for us. It is amazing that this is a song from the late 60′s, and then is at a music festival in 2007. It sounds really good to me.

Sometimes being alone with great videos and music to listen to can be highly encouraging. Share with a friend.

This it a great video that I found courtesy of the people I follow on Google Buzz.
I am finding a lot of great information on Buzz, and it is very easy to use if you have a gmail
account. Some people do not want to get them for one reason or another, but I have
used Gmail for years and there is no turning back.

However this video is part of my Words of Encouragement series of posts. I feel that we
all are born with the ability to be creative, however so many of us become so caught up
in the rat race of life that our creative side goes dormant.

This can happen at a very early age. A lot can happen when you find time to be still.
Can you find time to listen to this 10 minute video? I found the last 30 seconds to have a
certain impact on a situation I have been going through in life and it gave me my Ah Ha moment.

Let me know how you like the video.

It is about 10 years now that my picture perfect life turned into a train wreck, or so I thought at the time. I found myself suddenly alone. Life and my future as I had planned it and always thought it would be was suddenly empty. It was a crazy time for me.
I am sure several of you have been through it.

This is just a random reflection of the past.

I was alone for 5 years, and really enjoying it after I got used to getting rid of mice and spiders who liked to live with me…eeks… and then out of the kindness of my heart took in a homeless relative so he could get back on his feet financially (which he never did), but even then I came home from work to a thank you note. He decided to go back home. That was about 5 months ago, and the peace and tranquility that are back in my life after 4 years of sharing my house is amazing.

You never know what life has in store for you. That is the mystery. I think of the Serenity prayer, and learn to accept what you can not change. I think of how much I have and feel joy in each day and like to listen to the sounds of nature more than the sounds of motorcycles racing down my street.

The most difficult part of being alone is when you get tossed into it unexpectedly. You tend to feel like a person just thrown overboard into a raging sea, and you do not know what to grab, but you know you need a life line, just something to hold onto or you are going to drown as a victim of your circumstances.

There is no shame in crying when you face a loss that leaves you alone. This can be from a person or a pet. Do not run to the doctor for anti depressants or the the bar to drink away the pain.

If you never live through the pain, you will never start to heal, and a part of you will be buried forever.

Life is a series of experiences. Like they say, what does not kill us makes us stronger. I hope this might help someone along the way.

My answer to the question: What are 3 things I think of when I hear the word Life.
This was written in reply to a survey question I was asked on the SOS radio station music board.
Wow, it is funny you ask that now. Since December my mother has had so many heart attacks. She is still alive. I remember sitting in the hospital with her Christmas Eve and she was saying maybe she should just die because she was such a burden on everyone.
It is difficult to convince someone in poor health to keep fighting when you and she both believe that you shut your eyes here and open them in Heaven. There would be no more pain and no more tears, yet we continue to fight for life here. That just makes me wonder why do we do that?
I had so many talks with God over the past 8 months about her life, and asking God to help me deal with His decisions no matter what.
She has told me in the worst of times that God is not ready for her yet. It makes you wonder, what more does she have to do? How is God going to use her life here in a mighty way? I do not doubt that He is going to do something great.
She almost died again over a week ago due to prescribed drugs not being given to us with the correct directions for administering.
God allowed us to have a cardiologist appointment at just the right time when if we did not have that appointment her heart probably would have stopped.
There are no coincidences when you believe in God.
For 8 months I have been asking if they can give my mother a stint, or open the clogged arteries. The answer is always no. There are so many people praying all around the world.
Long story a bit shorter. My mother was transferred to a hospital in Los Angeles where she was examined by even more cardiologists. They saw things the other doctors did not see, and God’s timing again, my brother and I were there when they said they thought the stint procedure could be done.
God gets the glory. We are going to pick my mother up tomorrow and take her back to her house. It is a long drive, and I have to believe that God would not have taken her this far and then not give her the strength
for a 3-4 hour ride home.

There is so much to be grateful and thankful for. Our life is a gift from God. I am not sure what is waiting when we leave life on planet Earth and go to life in Heaven. Eternal life with no sorrow and tears. I am not sure of all the details, but it will be nice to lose the sin nature. The music in heaven is going to be incredible.
Life is a journey. My GPS is prayer, God gives the directions. When I don’t listen I get lost, but all I have to do is seek the rerouting and forgiveness and I get back on the right path.

Hello everyone. This is a fast video-less than 3 minutes long and you should really check it out to see Elvis Presley in Cheetos Art. It looks like they used the puffs and not the crunchy kind, but maybe they used both. What do you think?

I think this video is definitely encouraging to watch. I would never have thought of making art with Cheetos. I usually just eat them. You can see by the labels that they used the real things, not the imitation ones. I wonder if it makes a difference.

I hope you enjoy the video and that it adds a smile to your day. I am not the artist in the video although I would really like to have some of that talent.

This was posted on the Social Site WomVegas in the “Coffee Shop”. I thought it was so great that I wanted to repost it here, too. It is from the member named Harry Joseph, and I am not sure where he got it from. There are lots of words of encouragement and encouragement quotes you can get from that site. I always leave there smiling.

Here is the story:

harryjoseph RE-post:How often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day?

Unless you’re the Terminator, for an instant you’re probably set back on your heels. However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly she can get back her focus on what’s important.

Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here’s what happened.

I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car’s back end by just inches!

The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us.
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was friendly. So, I said, “Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!” And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call,

“The Law of the Garbage Truck.”
Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you. When someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally. You just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on.

You’ll be happy you did. So this was it: The “Law of the Garbage Truck.”
I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people: at work, at home, on the streets? It was that day I said, “I’m not going to do it anymore.”
I began to see garbage trucks. Like in the movie “The Sixth Sense,” the little boy said, “I see Dead People.”

Well, now “I see Garbage Trucks.” I see the load they’re carrying. I see them coming to drop it off. And like my Taxi Driver, I don’t make it a personal thing; I just smile, wave, wish them well, and I move on.

One of my favorite football players of all time, Walter Payton, did this every day on the football field. He would jump up as quickly as he hit the ground after being tackled. He never dwelled on a hit. Payton was ready to make the next play his best.

Good leaders know they have to be ready for their next meeting. Good parents know that they have to welcome their children home from school with hugs and kisses. Leaders and parents know that they have to be fully present, and at their best for the people they care about.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let Garbage Trucks take over their day. What about you? What would happen in your life, starting today, if you let more garbage trucks pass you by?
Here’s my bet. You’ll be happier. Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so . . . Love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don’t. Believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance , TAKE IT! If it changes your life, LET IT! Nobody said it would be easy . . . They just promised it would be.

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