Christmas gift suggestions:

To your enemy, forgiveness.

To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To all, charity.

To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.

Every Decision You Make Affects Your Life

Even one small drop can make a ripple in the water, and one small decision can affect your life in the simplest way.
The decisions that we make on a daily basis are the decisions that make our legacies, if we are even making one at all. Are you deciding to become better each day? Do you continually raise your standards, and set the bar higher and higher for yourself as each day comes to you? Or do you follow the same routine daily, and sit and wait for something in life to come to you, to change your life?

If you do the latter, then chances are, you may never make it to the places in life that you are destined to enter into. When we think about our own lives, we have to kind of compare them to things that are alive as well. For instance, if a plant isn't growing and thriving, what else could it be doing but turning brown, losing its necessary nutrients to thrive, so that it may only start the process of dying.

If you aren't growing and becoming better in everything that you do each day, then you, like the plant, are just on your way to dying. Start living, thrive, take humungous action each day, and use your faith in God to guide you!

Life is what we make it!

Life is a journey we take
its a hill we climb
a river we swim
a ground we play
and a road we tread;

Life is a shelter of storms
shaken by thunder when it rains
shattered into pieces by strong winds
and oftentimes, drown in raging waves;

But life is also a rainbow after the rain
when sun shines after a day of doom
spreading rays of beaming hope
painting a smile on a face of gloom;

It’s what life really is…
a spice of smile and tears
a blend of fate, triumph and loss
but always, a magic of love and hope…