July Sharing!

                        https://www.thewrap.com/tulsa-race-massacre-the-gap-band/

https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/prayer/8-prayers-for-strength-and-power-in-prayer.aspx (from Wallace)

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

Alexander Graham Bell

"Discovery consist of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

Albert Gyorgyi

"Once we know our weakness they cease to do us any harm."

George Lichtenberg

(above quotes from Wallace)

"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."
~Bernard Williams

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/08/us/spelling-bee-winner-zaila-avant-garde/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1l5pD-6YbMgSEH5ZeOWqbIRElEdRMyOAyqZGPvfZQUjHmqx9wX6KPMsvE

(First African American to win National Spelling Bee)

(From my Daily Challenge Group)

Wishing everyone a very Blessed and Soul-Full Sunday!

I love this analogy!

You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere.

Why did you spill the coffee?

"Because someone bumped into me!!!"

Wrong answer.

You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup.

Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.

*Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.*

Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It's easy to fake it, until you get rattled.

*So we have to ask ourselves... “what's in my cup?"*

When life gets tough, what spills over?

Joy, gratefulness, peace and humility?

Anger, bitterness, harsh words and reactions?

Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.

Today let's work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation; and kindness, gentleness and love for others.

(Shared from a friend whose cup is full of goodness and inspiration.)

Wear your day well!

Verse of the Day (July 23rd)

“I tell you, love your enemies. Help and give without expecting a return. You’ll never—I promise—regret it. Live out this God-created identity the way our Father lives toward us, generously and graciously, even when we’re at our worst. Our Father is kind; you be kind. Luke 6:35 MSG "Prayer says 'I'm depending on you'" - Pastor Tosha Explosive Fire Rips Through NJ Apartment Complex, Displaces 75 Residents – NBC New York https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/video-roof-explodes-at-large-apartment-building-fire-in-nj/3171199/ (news shared by Ursula - this is around the block from her old apartment) https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study (Above: Reminded by Billie) "The wise does at once what the fool does at last." Balthasar Gracian (from Wallace)