From The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Shefali Tsabary. It reminded me of Aibileen Clark’s words in The Help. Aibileen is a black nanny to a little white girl, Mae Mobley, who is severely neglected by her mother. Every chance she gets, Aibileen whispers these words into Mae Mobley’s ears: “You is beautiful…you […]
Obvious to You. Amazing to Others.
This is a must-see, 2-minute video, if you ever doubt how remarkable you are. Yes, YOU! You fill a niche no one else can. Don’t believe me? Watch this, and I think you’ll begin to see… Derek Siver’s “Obvious to You. Amazing to Others.” [Post image: Word IDEA on the dices by hicks at stock.xchng]
Looking Past Appearances
My friend Ronda sent me Melody Ross’s brave and endearing post “We Must See Past What It Seems” on the Brave Girls Club website. You must read it. [Scroll over the title in the first sentence. The link is there.] It’s all about hurtful experiences…how we all have them…and how we treat others when they’re […]
Burqas in the Bible?
The following comment was a Facebook status observation by my friend Elizabeth Dahl Kingery, blogger at Unravel, a couple of weeks ago. Do you think this is fair? Is there any truth in it? How do you understand this commandment? In my humble opinion, there are two issues here. The first is of Jesus’s demanding […]
Do You Hate Your Family?
I know. I’m asking some tough questions. Are you still with me? Jesus says in Luke 14:26: ”If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.” Do you hate your family? […]