If you’re anything like me, from time to time, you focus on just how dire your life is at the moment. OK, maybe that’s a little extreme. But I can tell you, there have been plenty of times in my life when I felt down and struggled with the current dilemma at hand. Luckily, I’ve
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The Christmas Gift is a repost of Away In A Manger that I wrote last year. I hope you like it. I love Christmas. Love it!! It truly is my favorite time of the year. I love the decorations, the fellowship, the food, the running around the mall at the last-minute trying to find something
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Author Charles Caleb Colton once said imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In other words, an individual thinks that you or what you’re doing is so valuable, they emulate it. How do we know they like what you’re doing? Hopefully, no one copies someone’s traits they dislike. In the book The Artist Way: A
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Here is a guest post by the passionately talented Amy Lorton. Amy is a writer and editor at Dave Ramsey‘s office. If you’re passionate about writing, or sharing wisdom, you can guest post as well! Read how to here. My friend, Robert, is in the midst of reading Time magazine’s list of the 100 best
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I’m sitting here trying to figure out if I can write anything that is even close to worthy of my beloved mother-in-law Nanny (Dorothy Wood.) How can my limited writing ability explain to those who didn’t know her how she was the godliest woman I’ve ever known? I’m not sure I can, so I’ll give
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I just wanted to take a second and say thank you to all of you for the encouraging words and comments over the past couple of days. Losing Nanny wasn’t easy, but it helped to see all of the incredible comments on the blog, Twitter, and Facebook. I would come home at night and since
I may be away from posting for a few days. My mother-in-law went on to eternity with our Lord. Visitation is today and the funeral will be tomorrow. Please keep the family in your prayers. Thank you for being the most amazing blog followers out there! CLo
Character and power tend to go hand in hand. Abraham Lincoln once said, “Nearly all men can stand the test of adversity, but if you really want to test a man’s character, give him power.” All too often I’ve watched someone be placed in leadership, and then they become a mean control freak. Or someone
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Being patient has played an interesting role in my life. Before I came to work at Dave Ramsey‘s, I spent five extremely long years running logistics. It was a job I hated because it wasn’t uncommon for me to get a call at 2 a.m. – on my brick of a company cell phone that
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It’s Thanksgiving and while I’m glad your reading this, what’s wrong with you? Go be with your family! Wait, you might as well finish this since you started it. I have to say that the greatest thing I am thankful for is my salvation. Without it, nothing really matters. Knowing that I have eternal life
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