Denise's Confession

Dear God. No use tryin' to kid You... You know I done it.

Denise the Menace

Acceptance & Change

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.



Carl Rogers

Neatness Doesn't Alway Count

Creative minds are rarely tidy.

John Gardner

The True Cost

The cost of a thing is the amount of life that must be exchanged for it.

Henry David Thoreau

What Can’t you Live Without?

Facebook is more important than having a flushing toilet. That’s the finding of a survey by London’s Science Museum. It asked 3,000 adults what things they couldn't live without. Facebook came in 5th while a toilet ranked 9th. The winner was sunshine, followed by being on the internet, clean drinking water and a refrigerator.

The tools of the digital made a strong showing. Email was 8th and possessing a mobile phone 10th. Google came in at 22, Ipods at 37, Computer spell-checks claimed the 41st spot and the last position went to Twitter. The Wii and Xbox made the list as well.

The point of the survey was to show that many people do not have access to fresh water.

The survey indicates just how much the essential things in life are taken for granted, such as water and fresh food, which so many millions struggle to find everyday to survive.

Another way to approach the question: If your house were about to burn down, what would you grab on your way out the door? And why?

See the complete list here.


Stephen Goforth

An Expresion of Strength

Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness.

Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers)

Mental Fatigue

A conclusion is often just the place where you got tired of thinking.

Awareness

Circumstances are designed to make us aware of his presence.

Chuck Swindoll

The decline of thinking outside the box

While IQ scores are indisputably on the rise, American creativity levels are bottoming out. Analysis of the results of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking suggests that the creative abilities of American children have been spiraling downward for almost 20 years. The Torrance tests analyze young children's ability to come up with original ideas and put them into practice. Kyung Hee Kim, an assistant professor at the College of William & Mary School of Education, found that scores on Torrance tests taken by children up to 6th grade between 1968 and 2008 showed a steady decline after 1990. That's a serious issue at a time when creative thinking is among the most desperately needed skills in the American workplace. A recent study found that 85 percent of employers concerned with hiring creative people say they can't find the right applicants. Kim blamed America's standards-obsessed schools for creating an environment in which creative thinking was not nurtured. "Creative students cannot breathe, they are suffocated in school," she said. "Then they become underachievers."

From The Week Magazine

Untried

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

GK Chesterton

The Price

Change is the price of survival.

Life's Challenges

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Mark Twain

Monuments

Carve your name on hearts and not marble.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Neighbors and Enemies

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors. and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

GK Chesterton