charmed by choice: Read On

charmed by choice, the blog has been a long thoughtful walk through choices. Ultimately, choices to be resilient.
Our family is one of the thousands of real life examples from this recession ...
we have experienced jobloss, mounting debt, property depreciation....
After spending some time hovering in the freak out mode...we have decided there is a choice to be made.
We can choose to stare at all that's challenging us,
or search and concentrate on all the incredible examples of resiliency.
Come along and be amazed at how many people live resiliently...
recovering finacially, emotionally, physically, spiritually...
We've all been told not to stare... but I invite you to stare at all that's resilient.
Let's be inspired and inspire each other.

Read On

Five Love Languages ... Gary Chapman

The Shack ... William P. Young

There's Got To Be a Better Way ... Becky Bailey

101 uses for an empty bra ... Michael Johnson

Fearless ... Max Lucado

Heaven is for Real ... Todd Burpo

The Present ... Spencer Johnson

Choice Quotes

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.~ Maria Robinson
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Negative thought patterns and harmful opinions are molded by childhood perceptions, and by a powerful world system that seeks to dominate the thinking of men and women. Fortunately, you can renew your mind to the mind of Christ. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will (Romans 12:2 NIV).
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. Earl Nightingale
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr
“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now” Zig Ziglar
"At the end of the day and at the end of my life, I want to know that I contributed more than I criticized."
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” Vivian Greene
“It is only when you exercise your right to choose that you can also exercise your right to change.” Dr. Shad Helmstetter

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