The world sends us garbage, we send back music.” – Favio Chavez, Orchestra Leader Cateura, Paraguay is a city built on a landfill. The nearly 25,000 families there, who live in deep poverty, rely on garbage picking to stay alive. With their children, they rummage for something they might recycle or sell in the 1500…
Month: March 2013
Shield Your Eyes From the Sun
I’d been frustrated by various things for most of the day. Little things just kept going wrong and making everything take longer, become more difficult, and ultimately upset me worse and worse. Usually it all just adds up and I lose my patience, which leads to my poor husband having no choice but to listen…
Walk With Your Spirit
Walk With Your Spirit We were high in the Smoky Mountains, well on our way to our anxiously anticipated destination. Across a precarious land bridge and over a treacherous peak was the view of a precious waterfall that awaited our eager enjoyment. At that moment, however, we were 14 miles into our hike, and…
Be Your Own Superhero!
A guy once said to me: “I don’t approve of all those self-development, ‘be a better person’ books. If everybody read them and became perfect, life would be so boring!” For a minute there, I thought he had a point. Then after a while I strongly disagreed, but couldn’t convince him because I didn’t use…
Be Excellent To Each Other
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle Most people are probably familiar with this quote from Aristotle, the renowned philosopher of Ancient Greece. He is known for his teachings, which have influenced all of Western culture ever since circa 300 BC. The substance of this…
Mustaches for Maddie
A 9-year-old girl suffering from a tumor (the size of two golf balls) in her head is getting love and support through a Facebook movement of mustaches! A few weeks ago, Chad and Shelly Morris noticed that their 9-year-old daughter, Maddie, wasn’t using her left arm very much. Their doctor told them to take Maddie…
Questioning the Soul
Today I simply wish to ask you a question and discuss its answer: If you have never lost yourself, how can you ever find yourself? At various times in our lives we have all lost our way, suddenly realizing that we were miles from where should be. The question in that moment of realization is not…