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Talent doesn't mean a thing if you don't have humility, work ethic, and vision.

K.O. Olusola

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. 

Annie Dillard

Every week, usually on Wednesdays, I post a picture or a quote that I found floating around the internet.  It's just something short & sweet.

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Go on!  Live your adventure.

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It's amazing the miracles that happen in the darkness.  It's just like little seeds that are planted in the black soil.  We can't see what is happening under the veil of the cold earth.  But in time those little green buds will burst through the blackness and soak up the beautiful rays of light.

Hang on.  There's a miracle in your darkness.

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No matter how hard you try...no matter what you do there will be people you will never please.  Literally, you could give them your right arm and they would want your left.  The real test of your character comes when they do ask for our left arm instead of your right.  Jaw dropped open you're left with some decisions.

Will you become outraged and lash out at them for ungratefulness?  Will you respond in anger?  Or will you hold your tongue and realize that their deep ungratefulness stems from somewhere in their past?

Honestly, I'm trying to be the person that holds her tongue, but usually I'm somewhere in between.

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"A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.  I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you out to do the way you should do it."

-Barbra Streisand

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Just when you feel you can't take the heat anymore, there's a shift in the morning light and the sound of geese in the air and the lightening of leaves.  And that's when you know...know it deep in your soul.

Fall is coming.

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Happiness is a place.  You can choose to live there.  Or, you can choose to have a miserable life feeling sorry for yourself and throwing yourself a pity party.

The choice is yours.

For me--for today--I'm choosing to live in that happy place.  It might be difficult, but I'd rather live happy than to live in the darkness of unhappiness.

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For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

     a time to be born, and a time to die;

     a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

     a time to kill, and a time to heal;

     a time to break down, and a time to build up;

     a time to weep, and a time to laugh;

     a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

     a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

     a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

     a time to seek, and a time to lose;

     a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

     a time to tear, and a time to sew;

     a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

     a time to love, and a time to hate;

     a time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

All trouble will eventually come to an end.  Hang on until it does.

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Short & Sweet: Look Out and Reach Out

Today's Short & Sweet is a little different.  Normally, I'd just share a picture and quote and be done, but when this video came popping up in my Facebook feed, I knew it needed to be shared here.


I think this video illustrates a very real truth.  From time to time, we all need some help.  That's just how life is.  That's how we were designed.  We are designed to need other people.  Even the most self reliant, introverted person needs help.  They just seek out one or two friends.  Other's desire to be surrounded by many people.  Both are fine.  Both work.  But both need relationships and help to succeed.

What's more, we have to recognize when we're needed.  It's so important to look out and to reach out...to keep our head up and looking for opportunities to serve our friends, our family, and our community.

Recently, I finished J.K. Rowling The Casual Vacancy.  I have to tell you, this book moved me.  There is a lot of language in the book--more than I would usually read--but I was so moved by the story.  I don't want to give the book away, but in the story a child dies as a result of a completely avoidable tragic accident.  On his way to certain calamity, the young child passes three adults all of which could have saved the child's life if only they had been paid closer attention.  Instead they were focused on their own circumstances.  Unfortunately, far too ofter we're focused on our own circumstances too.

Today, can I challenge you to help someone.  Look around you, I'm certain you will find a person in your sphere of influence who needs help.  What if you're the only one who even notices?

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Some day we will find what we are looking for.

Or maybe we won't.

Maybe we will find something much greater than that.

-Unknown

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It's amazing how different a path looks when you walk the opposite direction.

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Every week, usually on Wednesday, I post an inspirational picture or quote that I found floating around the internet.  It's just something short & sweet.

June is an exciting month at Mary & Martha.  We are having three flash sales.  Plus, there are a couple of great deals.  Tomorrow starts one of our flash sales and it's super good.  Let me know if I can order you something.  Just email me if you want {danetteleah [at] gmail [dot] com}.  Or, if you'd like, you can view the catalog and place and order here.

Here's the deal...

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Well, there ya go.

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"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying somewhere you don't belong."

Mandy Hale

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Wisdom is like frequent-flier miles and scar tissue; if it does accumulate, that happens by accident while you're trying to do something else.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Every week, usually on Wednesday, I post an inspirational picture or quote that I found floating around the internet. It's just something short & something sweet.

Looking to host a birthday party that's over the top?  Check out PartyOpedia, an online store for all your party needs!

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