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Not many know, but I am currently working on my first book! I had to bring a little to you on some of my comments in regards to Crosses Across America and how it started!  Here is a current writing added to my book tonight.  I’m on Chapter 3!

I went to visit my Aunt and Uncles this past summer.  The train ride there was my first trip on a train, since I was a child and rode 50 miles to my Grandma’s house with her.  It is always a privilege to me to go to their home.  Their love for the Lord is so prevalent and you feel so loved there.  At their home,  they had a lighted cross on their fence for Christmas.  They began to tell me the story about how it still remained up and here is how it happened.  It seemed a neighbor told them how much it meant to them to see it each time they passed by.  They even made a little gift and brought it to them in appreciation of the cross.  With that, they decided to leave the cross up until Easter.  Well after that, it didn’t seem right to take it down, so now it stays up all the time and lights up at night.  This story really touched me as America and all of it’s technology, comforts, and busy lifestyles have lost their heritage bit by bit, without even realizing what has happened.  We have watched her downfall, from the moment Madeline O’Hare’s attempt to remove prayer from our schools to the present, when leaders in our country would rather forget our heritage and constitutional amendments and pledge that states we are “One Nation Under God!” If those of us who are in America do not take a stand, we will surely loose our blessing!  God proclaimed in the scripture, “If my people, which are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and will Heal their land. We are blessed to be a blessing and we must believe that we can make a difference!”
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I hope you will pray for America and take a stand for what is right.  Speak out!  Not in a rude and arrogant way, but in a way that the Heavenly Father will be seen in you and they will see his love and compassion and want to know him!  I chose to begin a Facebook Group called “Crosses Across America,”  and encourage those who are able, to build crosses and put them in their front yards and light them up at night for the world to see.  Jesus paid a huge price on the cross, by sacrificing his life, so we could be forgiven and have eternal life in heaven, after our time on this earth is spent.  Look inside yourself and see if there is something God puts on your heart to do and don’t be afraid to put his plan into action!  Just as your past doesn’t have to reflect your future, neither does America’s failures as a nation have to affect their future, if they will turn back to God!

To all of you Achievers out there you CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!  Pray for me as I write, that my words will be inspired by God and my book will someday be finished and published!  Feel free to suggest a Title for the book.  It will include stories from my life and have a lot to do with Choices we make that will cause us to Achieve or Choices that will cause us to fail.

To all of my reader’s, I do wish you a Happy New Year 2011.  It has been an interesting ending to the year 2010.  I will update you on events, I haven’t really been ready to talk about, but in order to be a good writer, you have to be open and tell it like it is!  So here I am, back on the blog.  I had convinced myself I just couldn’t get motivated to write, but that is not true!  The truth is, I have had a “Curve” in my life and I allowed to to get my eyes in a different direction.  One thing I’ve learned through life’s lessons, you can be the hardest on yourself, by the way you talk to yourself through adversity and by the way you react to adversity!

Attitude!   Attitude is everything! Not just attitude, but a GOOD Attitude!  I won’t tell you that the last 3 years have been easy, but through 2 years of caring for my parents at the end of their life, loosing them at the end of 2007, choosing to walk away from Real Estate and take a major turn into being a self employed individual who has been through a lot of growth and many business disappointments, financial investment losses,  loosing business partners, meeting challenges in educational understanding…….need I say anymore!  That is the storm of life!  Like Paul in the Bible, a storm is only safe if you let God be in charge.  It wasn’t my storm!  It was his.

When my husband lost his job at the end of Sept.  I was stunned!  For about 10 minutes!   Then something begin to rise up within me.  I am not alone.  This is not my problem.  This is just another chance for God to direct our lives to a higher position!  We are being promoted!  We react to adversity, but we don’t have to be overcome with it!  My reason for backing away from writing was that I didn’t really want everyone else to see the “Power To Achieve“  writer have her challenges, too!  You know…..I’m ready to write.  I have been in God’s presence as he is my protector and my provider.  He also is my leader and he is the one who chooses my pathways.  The fact that I am writing on this blog to inspire others to achieve is the reality of what he has made me to be!  I have always found it easy to believe in you!   Why….because you are God’s masterpiece!  He took great care when he made each one of us.  Stop and take a look at your life.  What is your greatest passion?  Start a list and daily add to that list.  What do you feel you are talented to do?  Are you measuring your abilities against someone else s gift?  Are you being true to yourself, or are you letting someone try to form you into something that you are not?  Let the “Master Potter” do his design in you!  Get your hands out of the clay!  I have been doing this and really asking God to allow me, to know myself.  To see my good and to not take lightly the gifts he has placed in me.  And more importantly, I don’t want to place a monetary price tag on my abilities.  My Gift and Your Gift is priceless!

Success will follow the appropriate lining up of your purpose and God’s will, with your actions, by faith, moving in the direction of your inspiration, given to you by God! Ask yourself, “What would God say about this?”  WWJD  “What Would Jesus Do?” has become a familiar saying.  Bracelets, necklaces, and other things, carry that message.  But what does the heart say?  Those things come out in our thoughts and our words, whether they be audible, or just in our thoughts.

Now I don’t apologize for being a Christian and believing in Jesus Christ, who was God’s son.  Rather, I feel that if I don’t share the one with you who has caused my life to be secure, as I have accepted him as my Lord and Savior, I would be selfish and very unwise.  If you don’t understand this and need to contact me, that is fine.  His precepts will prove to be true, for those who are willing to try them!

Curves will always be there.  It’s because of curves that we grow! The successes you are headed for are right around the curve.  These things that happen to disrupt our comfort zone, are not happening by accident!  They make us strong!  We are tried, but made strong as long as we see our trial as a stepping stone to the best that is yet to come!

With positiveness in your thinking, over  life and situations, you can achieve the  ultimate benefit of success and happiness! In all you do, be thankful!  Write out your aspirations, your goals, your positive affirmations!  Find a partner and keep each other accountable!  Make God the head of your life and give him the pencil to cross out anything that shouldn’t be on your list!  If you keep doing things the same way, you will get the same results!  What do you need to do differently to get the things you desire!  Believe in yourself and no matter what!  Again I say,  believe in yourself! You are intended to be an over comer and succeed in everything you do that God has put his blessing on!  Be Blessed and you are an achiever and you do deserve the best.  Nothing can stop you!!!  Not even that curve that is up ahead of you!