Happy Birthday Usain, The "Jamaican Lightening Bolt"

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Today is the birthday of the man nicknamed the "Lightening Bolt." In 2009, the world witnessed the first man to hold both the 100 metres and 200 metres sprinting world records, that had everyone sporting his famous lightening bolt pose. Usain St. Leo Bolt is a Jamaican sprinter who is known as the fastest person in the world. His awards include Track and Field Athlete of the Year, three time Laureus World Sportsman of the Year, the IAAF World Athlete of the Year, winner of three gold medals during the 2013 World Championships and dubbed one of the most successful athletes in the 30 year history of world championship athletics. What an incredible achievement and feat!

Join us as we wish Usain Bolt a Happy 28th Birthday!

Beware of the LinkedIn Phishing Email Scam

With the success of the good, the bad cannot allow it to have all of the fun. In a recent article found on SPAMfighter.com, Experts Warned Users of LinkedIn of a New Phishing Email Campaign, the content is based on reports from Softpedia.com. I am including a link to that article for more information on how to protect yourself if you are a LinkedIn member.

Celebrating Amelia Earhart Day!

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

- John F. Kennedy

Today is the born day of Amelia Earhart. Though the disappearance of her airplane remains a mystery, the courage she garnered to take a solo journey as the first female to do so, is admirable and honorable in a multitude of ways!

Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.

During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. She was declared dead in absentia, January 5, 1939 at the age of 41.

(Wikipedia)

When There's Nothing to Do!

When there’s nothing to do, what do you do? When there’s nothing to say, what do you say? When there’s nothing to write, what do you write? When there’s nothing to hear, what do you hear? When there’s nothing to touch, what do you touch?

Sometimes, or rather all too often, many of us still get caught up in the rigors and hurriedness of life. We’ve been through this before, yet sometimes we act as though these emotions are foreign to us. We are trapped in the spin cycle of life, until it flings us off without warning. Once we’re all twisted, limp and weak, then we wonder how we got this way.

Life "happens" and as long as we live on this side of life, there are many things we have no control over. Yet, we do have self-control by relinquishing it to a power much greater than us. I cry out to God often, not just when I am going through some crazy situations beyond my control, but when things are serene and during times when I do nothing. That is when I cry out to Him with thanksgiving, praise and worship!

Quite often we have to remove ourselves from pleading insanity, because someone or some things are trying to drive us there. We have to remember that everything has a season, time and purpose under the heavens. Sometimes during our seasons of life, we can’t do anything, no matter how much we try to burst our brains to produce something, just because society says so. 

In our quiet moments, when there is nothing to do, or say, or write or to connect to, it is then that we must listen and respond accordingly…simply by doing nothing. This temporary idleness is not forever, eventhough as the clock ticks we think it does. Nah, I say stop looking at the clock for a while and allow your spirit to float momentarily, and absorb the peace and nothingness that is not a bad thing in this situation. It’s when you make that nothingness habitual, which creates even greater dangers and menacing behaviors.

So when there are moments when you can’t do nothing, heed the signals and wait. Because if you do something, when clearly the signs tell you to do nothing, you could disrupt the order of things that could have turned your nothing into something magnanimous! 

Have a beautiful day!

Daily Meditation from Diversities of Gifts

Focus on what you have, instead of what you don't!

- Diversities of Gifts: Same Spirit (2009)

Happy Father's Day!

Congratulations Class of 2014!

You will never forget the sheer excitement of hearing Pomp and Circumstance played, during your high school or college graduation. I know I certainly won't forget. This month is Graduation Month. Colleges and schools around the country have or will put commencement exercises in place for their graduating class of 2014. This is such a new and exciting time for these fresh graduates. Wishing you much success with your future endeavors! Congratulations to graduates everywhere as you begin a new journey in your life!

Congratulations to the Class of 2014!