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- You Can Live With a Bully - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2011 from Ereline Clements“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.” Harvey S. Firestone Bully: a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people . Bullies come ...
Views: 4365(1 vote) - The Seven Powers for Self Control - by Submitted on May 17, 2011 from Ereline ClementsThe Seven Powers for Self Control Lesson 1: The Power of Perception No one can make you mad without your permission It really is true that no one can make you angry without your permission. We all like to believe that someone outside of ourselves is responsible for the way we respond in ...
Views: 2815 - What's the Difference Between a Rut and a Grave? - by Submitted on May 28, 2011 from Ereline ClementsI am beginning another new venture. It's something I did, a very long time ago, but I enjoyed it and I think I will enjoy it again. It involved working with people of all ages so that makes it a good thing. It involves my faith, so that also makes it even better. It's not like I needed ...
Views: 1604(1 vote) - Can You Hear Me Now? - by Submitted on May 28, 2011 from Ereline Clements"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” Robert McCloskey During my first year of teaching school, I discovered that there were many things I did not learn in college. For instance, there was never ...
Views: 1331 - If Tomorrow Never Comes - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2011 from Ereline ClementsTHE LITTLE CHILD I AM TODAY will always be within me, sending out feelings into my "grownup" mind. Time and experience may seem to bury him, but the child will be there. If I am now secure, feel loved, and little hurts are healed, in later years I'll feel down deep, not cries of ...
Views: 1266 - Blessings on You - by Submitted on Apr 30, 2011 from Ereline ClementsFor many years now, I have started each day by praying, or as I like to call it, my morning chat with God. As a part of that chat, I always pray the prayer of Jabez. I have found that it is a simple prayer to remember and has been tremendously effective for me. My days are better, my focus is ...
Views: 1086 - It's Raining, It's Pouring...Choices - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2011 from Ereline ClementsIt started raining here two days ago...and it's still raining. Ah, springtime in the heartland! You've just got to love it! While it's raining here, if you travel two hours west you will drive into a blizzard; a good old, Nebraska blizzard. We'll get snow tonight. That's the great thing ...
Views: 1008 - You Can Live With a Bully, Part III - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2011 from Ereline ClementsPsalm 37:5-6 Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and He will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. It's been a rough few days! My bully was back. I knew that a permanent change was probably too much to ask for. I ...
Views: 891(1 vote) - You Can Live With a Bully, Part II - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2011 from Ereline ClementsI have told you about the bully in my life. I was amazed (although I don't know why I should have been) after I spent extra time in prayer that morning asking God to help me with this man, to find, when I arrived at work, him verbally pummeling a co-worker for something I had done. As I climbed ...
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