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A Powerful Lesson for Tough Times

posted by dprice | 7:48pm Thursday July 30, 2009

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Lessons
for life
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.

Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of
selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are
successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed
anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do
good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be
honest and frank anyway.
The biggest person with the biggest
ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind.

Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may be
destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help
but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the
world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give
the world the best you’ve got anyway.


Dr. Kent M. Keith



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Stefanie

posted August 2, 2009 at 1:32 pm


That pretty much says it all.
I’m going through such a tough time, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
What do you do when you keep giving and trying but you just can’t make any progress, instead you’re just going backwards and down?
No one wants to give a chance to someone who isn’t in their tightly defined clique.
Most of the time lately it seems that people don’t even want to share a smile or a kind word with someone who isn’t in their tightly defined clique.
All of my life I’ve helped people, made every effort to treat people the way I would like to be treated.
Now I need help but nothing is turning out.
I keep trying but I’m wearing down.



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Diane

posted August 2, 2009 at 4:49 pm


Okay, I agree with Dr.KEITH’S “LIFE LESSON”, but I can’t help but wonder why? I’m saying: RIGHT,RIGHT,RIGHT asI read the words, however I understand and can wholeheartedly understand Stephanies comments. I’m wondering, especially in my set of recent circumstances and what I’ve lived through in this past decade of my life, why I have any FAITH at all left in me? It’s almost like a curse, setting myself up for more disappointment, heartache and despair. ????



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ruby

posted August 3, 2009 at 6:25 am


it’s same as if karam kerta jaa aur phal ki ichha mat ker.



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Jasmin

posted August 20, 2009 at 1:33 pm


Why have we been forgiven? We haven’t deserved to be. This is a lesson in Grace. We, being sinful and deserving of death, were still extended the offer of grace. So- even those that would hurt you, abuse you, talk about you. We should bless. We should forgive. We are living epistles read of men daily. What do your actions say about your God?
Tough times are given to us to get closer to God. It is during these times that he is rebuilding us, casting us into the fire to purify us. Maybe he wants you to take the hurt from the cliquish situation and minister to someone else who feels that way too.
God,
I thank you right now for Stephanie. I thank you for her hurt and confusion. It is causing her to seek you, and get closer to you. Was that your will all along Lord? Please help her to see that even though this situation is not what she wants… that you are here to comfort her. Plcae someone in her path that she can minister to Lord. For in helping others- our hurts never seem as big as they were before. In Jesus’ name we pray.
Amen.
God Bless.



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