Postings from ReyHalili

2011-08-20T15:39:00.000-07:00

Postings from ReyHalili

2011-07-02T18:00:00.000-07:00

Gmail: Email from Google

2010-11-23T07:05:00.000-08:00

Gmail: Email from Google

RSA Animate - Smile or Die

2010-06-01T14:31:00.000-07:00

http://changingwinds.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/what-are-your-organization%e2%80%99s-core-competencies-remembering-c-k-prahalad%e2%80%99s-thought-leadership/

2010-05-18T20:35:00.000-07:00

http://changingwinds.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/what-are-your-organization%e2%80%99s-core-competencies-remembering-c-k-prahalad%e2%80%99s-thought-leadership/

2010-05-16T02:32:00.000-07:00

Renewal not Retirement

2010-05-15T14:40:00.000-07:00

renee's wildflower AVP

2010-05-13T18:18:00.000-07:00

Postings from ReyHalili

2009-05-26T20:24:00.000-07:00

Postings from ReyHalili

"LORD, WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS SUFFERING?"

2009-02-09T12:23:00.000-08:00

An Interview with Rick Warren (REMEMBER HE WROTE 'PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE')

You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with his wife now having cancer and him having 'wealth' from the book sales. This is an absolutely incredible short interview with Rick Warren,

'Purpose Driven Life ' author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California

In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said:

People ask me, What is the purpose of life?

And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.

One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-- but not the end of me.

I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity..

We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.

Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one..

The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort; God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.

This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.

I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore.

Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.

No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.

And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.

You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems:

If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, which is my problem, my issues, my pain.' But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.

We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her- It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people.

You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life.

Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.

It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease.

So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.

First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit.. We made no major purchases.

Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church.

Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.

Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.

We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity?

Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)?

When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do.

That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.

Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.

Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.

Painful moments, TRUST GOD.

Every moment, THANK GOD.

What would you do it you are 12 years old? Prices available for 7 things best answers

2009-01-23T12:22:00.000-08:00

Link

Crisis in the Early Morn

2009-01-21T03:41:00.000-08:00

Open link http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=rghalili&target=ALBUM&id=5292622546680620193&authkey=6KV0n9ol2Kw&invite=CLjY0yw&feat=email

B-day Reflection

2008-12-03T02:43:00.000-08:00

I savor my birthday (on the 4th Dec). Each year brings me to a realization of why the Lord died for me and saved me. Because, I cannot save my self. He has to rule my life, because if left on my own I will simply ruin it. Praise the Lord He salvage what is left of it when I accepted Him as Savior and Lord. He has since then gave me the privilege to become His child. I call Him Father, and I feel His touch and hear His voice "yes my child" He hand to me life everlasting, unspeakable joy, and peace that passes all understanding. He redefined earthly existence, service and love.. . . And why does the Lord have to go through this trouble Forgive my bragging, its because He loves me - plain and simple. My name is Rey and it is clear to me I am a Christian.

http://Link: http://www.slideshare.net/rey.halili/welcome-euan-a-child-deserves-a-w...

2008-07-13T22:02:00.000-07:00

http://Link: http://www.slideshare.net/rey.halili/welcome-euan-a-child-deserves-a-w...

Standing in the Shores of Unbelief - Surprize by Joy

2008-06-17T02:35:00.000-07:00

Shaping Our Visions to Reality

2008-06-13T05:27:00.000-07:00

Vision Statement
A vision is a statement about what your organization wants to become. It gives shape and direction to the organization’s future. A vision should stretch the organization’s capabilities and image of itself. It should resonate with all members of the organization and help them feel proud, excited, and part of something much bigger than themselves.

Mission or Purpose
A precise description of what an organization does. It should describe the business or ministry the organization is in. It is a definition of “why” the organization exists currently. Each member of an organization should be able to verbally express this mission.

Core Values
Value statements are grounded in values and define how people want to behave with each other in the organization. They are statements about how the organization will value its target group, constituencies, and suppliers. Value statements describe actions which are the living enactment of the fundamental values held by most individuals within the organization.

(From the book of RGHalili)

Golden Morning

2008-04-04T14:10:00.000-07:00

Link

Book on Vision in the Making

2008-03-25T05:33:00.000-07:00

What the proposed book is all about:

Shaping Vision to Reality
by Rey G. Halili
Josil Gonzales
Met Castillo
Moises Cuaresma
Redd Mateo

It is said that the Philippines as a whole suffers from a lack of vision. We are afraid that this applies to ourselves as individuals, as a Bible believing community and as a nation in desperate struggle for survival.

This book uses techniques of scenario planning and organizational learning to guide the reader through the complex structure of changing reality. Introduces a new approach to mapping a strategic change process, based on the experiences and learning on the National Strategic Planning Process for the year 2020.

The authors, who have established a proven track record for over 50 years share, the insight, experiences, and recent researches on this most critical aspect of shaping and influencing the future. Their combined experiences in working and leading in the corporate world as well as in non-profit organizations, churches and ministries and their lucid and practical insights and doable action plans, makes thinking futures exciting, easy and rewarding.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Chapters
1. Vision distilled our dreams and give shapes to our aspiration
2. Visioning – a dance process of many steps
3. Really what is a vision and what does it do to us
4. Shaping vision to doable realities
5. The power of vision processed and shared
6. A force in people’s heart
7. Leaders personified – a product of vision
8. Organizational Renewal – Prologue to Visioning
9. Vision Casting Process
10. Developing Mission Statement
11. From Vision to Strategic Thinking
12. Strategic Plans to Action Planning
13. Visions Afresh and Enflesh
14. Some difficulties to anticipate
Glossary and index
Guidelines, Worksheets and Forms
Diagrams and Flowcharts
References

On our Youth Today

2008-03-22T01:19:00.001-07:00

Postmodern Youth Ministry

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2008-03-21T23:34:00.000-07:00

FLOCK Leadership Seminar & Fellowship

2008-03-21T23:03:00.000-07:00

Compassion for Children at Risk

2007-11-25T20:52:00.001-08:00

Look aroound us and feel their pains

postings from reyhalili

2007-10-09T03:24:00.001-07:00

clipped from www.linkinn.com

StreetChildren of Manila

2007-07-12T10:57:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeoDZKnkkdE
Different faces, images of pain and struggle, frustration and hopelessness. What would Jesus do if He walks today the street of Manila? What can we do? Comments and actions please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRloKXTuNpA
I felt happy for them as they dance in the street, but deep inside I was asking myself, what can I really do for them to give them a future full of hope?

Old Ways Die Hard

2007-07-09T09:36:00.000-07:00

The first day on my job after a brief honeymoon, I was so anxious to get home after 5:00. I rush out of the office get into a jeep and after several minutes on my seat, I shouted, "Para, Para," I jump out in embarrassment. I was heading toward my parents residence in the opposite direction instead of towards our new place with my newly married wife. I was responding to an old situation that has already changed. Old ways die hard. We need to break away from many thinking of the past that prevent us from being effective and rob our present and future. It's a pity that amid all the evidence that our world is radically changing, we cling to what has worked in the past to the neglect of the changing situation and new opportunity the future present.

2007-07-09T09:24:00.000-07:00

There is Beauty in Differences

I worked before in a shoe manufacturing company that produced 50,000 shoes a day. Its products run into hundreds of types and models and the number of variables can run into thousands with more than a hundred styles, each one with different types, each types with different sizes, and each sizes with different colors and color combinations, models, etc. Whenever we have problems in the production lines, our President would say in exasperation, "Life would have been simple for us if people in the world would only wear one type and model of shoes, color black and size 8".
Diversity even in the home or church is difficult to manage but it present a beautiful challenging role to each of us in quest of something beautiful-something different.

Crisis, Conflict & Changes

2007-07-07T01:50:00.000-07:00

Crisis, Conflict & Changes

Have you undergone a crisis lately? Or have your relationship with your love ones shaken to its foundation? What changes in your life and family or career has taken place that leaves you grasping as if where for dear breath?

Psychologist studied why other people survived a crisis while others experiencing the same crisis emerge as embittered, hurting human beings and has a very bleak view of the future. The studies show that survivors are those who have;

· Taken care of their bodies along the way
· Found ways to express and manage intense and often painful feelings
· Have triumph over the crisis mentally
· Have made concrete changes in their behavior that allow them to live a new and
change world

Taking path towards growth means paying attention to each of these four major areas of life; PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL, EMOTIONAL & MENTAL and BEHAVIORAL.

FEAR Bible References
Psalm 23: 4 Psalm 46: 1-2 Psalm 121: 1-8 Proverbs 29:25 Isaiah 43: 1-21:7
Romans 8:15 1 Peter 3:12-14 Psalm 27: 1-3 Psalm 91 Proverbs 3:25-26
Isaiah 41:13 John 14:27 2 Timothy 1:7

Is There an Adult in Every Child?

2007-07-07T00:29:00.000-07:00

It is said that there is a Child in every Adult;

But Is There an Adult in Every Child?

More than becoming a "spoiled child, we might call today's kids as "hurried child," - a creation of our socio-economic environment and circumstances.

In the last 20 years, commercialism has become the dominant influence in our society. As such, commercialism has infiltrated every aspect of our lives — including the hearts and minds of our children. For many, it is an unsettling force. The wild competitiveness of business today compels individuals to be constantly available for customers and colleagues, inevitably reducing the time and energy they can devote to their kids. Many parents fear that their children may be paying the price for their success. Is that price too high?

In the November 2001 Harvard Business Review DIFFERENT VOICE, The Inner Life of Executive Kids, Child psychoanalyst Robert Coles, a critic of the way children are raised today, surprizingly had expressed optimism because of our children's extraordinary adaptability and ingenuity. "Our children are wonderfully aware and awake," Coles says. "If only we'd stop and listen to consider the implications to the kids' talk of our sons and daughters, we might learn something very important about them and about ourselves."

2007-06-18T01:20:00.000-07:00

Notable Quotes from CS Lewis

2007-06-05T19:20:00.000-07:00

CS Lewis is called a Modern Prophet

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. C. S. Lewis

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. C. S. Lewis

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. C. S. Lewis

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C. S. Lewis

I gave in, and admitted that God was God. C. S. Lewis

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. C. S. Lewis

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C. S. Lewis

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another! C. S. Lewis

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. C. S. Lewis

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. C. S. Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. C. S. Lewis

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. C. S. Lewis

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C. S. Lewis

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." C. S. Lewis

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. C. S. Lewis

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. C. S. Lewis

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. C. S. Lewis

We are what we believe we are. C. S. Lewis

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. C. S. Lewis

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. C. S. Lewis

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. C. S. Lewis

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. C. S. Lewis

YOU SAY - GOD SAYS

2007-05-31T00:28:00.000-07:00

Be blessed wherever you are in your life today!
God has His hands on the situation!

If the Lord has you on hold... hold on!

If the Lord has said "NO" to you... thank Him!

If the Lords is molding your heart and mind... go with His change!

If the Lord opens doors that you have asking Him to open... Praise Him!

YOU SAY - GOD SAYS - BIBLE VERSES

You say: God says:

"It's impossible" All things are possible (Luke 18:27)
"I'm too tired" I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28-30)
"Nobody really loves me" I love you (John 3:16 & John 3:34 )
"I can't go on" My grace is sufficient (II Cor 12:9 & Psalm 91:15)
"I can't figure things out" I will direct your steps (Prov 3:5-6)
"I can't do it" You can do all things (Philippians 4:13)
"I'm not able" I am able (II Corinthians 9:8)
"It's not worth it" It will be worth it (Roman 8:28 )
"I can't forgive myself" I Forgive you (I John 1:9 & Romans 8:1)
"I can't manage" I will supply all your needs (Philippians 4:19)
"I'm afraid" I have not given you a spirit of fear (II Tim 1:7)
"I'm always worried and frustrated" Cast all your cares on ME (I Peter 5:7)
"I'm not smart enough" I give you wisdom (I Corinthians 1:30)
"I feel all alone" I will never leave you or forsake you (Heb 13:5)

PASS THIS ON. Believe God is there just for you...

YOU NEVER KNOW WHO MAY BE IN NEED !

Why A Daughter Needs A Dad ♥

2007-05-30T01:23:00.000-07:00

From Multiply Blog of a young daughter who have not seen her biological dad

Why A Daughter Needs A Dad;

to learn that when he says it will be okay soon, it will.
who will make sacrifices so she will not have to sacrifice.
to teach her that her value as a person is more than the way she looks.
who will laugh at her at the right times.
who will always have time to give her hugs and kisses.
who does not mind when she steps on his shoes while dancing.
who will always make sure she has a place to come home to.
who will never think she is too old to need him.
to make the family whole and complete.
who will not punish her for her mistakes, but help her learn from them.
to teach her to believe that she deserves to be treated well.
to teach her to accept the differences in others.
to teach her to weigh the consequences of her actions and make decisions accordingly.
so she will know what it is like to be somebody's favorite.
to tell her truthfully that she is the most beautiful of all.
to protect her from scary nighttime creatures.
to answer the questions that keep her awake at night.
to make the complex simple and the painful bearable.
to protect her from thunder and lightning.
to teach her that family is more important than work.
to be the safe spot she can always turn to.
to show her how it feels to be loved unselfishly.
to be the standard against which she will judge all men.
who will influence her life, even when he isn't with her.
to tell her that all is not hopeless, even when she feels it is.
to join her journey when she is too afraid to walk alone.
to make the tough decisions for her until she is able to make them for herself.
so that she will have at least one hero who will not let her down.
to tuck her in at night.
to help her take risks that will build her confidence.
who will let her know that while she may not be the center of someone else's world,

she is the center of his.
to learn what she should expect from her husband.
to teach her what it means to always be there.
to teach her that a man's strength is not the force of his hand or his voice,

but the kindness of his heart.
to teach her to be honest in all her dealings.
to help her try again whenever she fails.
to remind her of what she may not remember.
so that when no one else is there for her, she can close her eyes and see him.
to think highly of her when no one else will.
to hold her as she cries.
to carry her just because she wants to be carried.
who teaches her she is important by stopping what he is doing to watch her.
to remind her of the comfort of being held near and feeling secure.
to teach her to stand up for herself.
who gives her refuge in a home secured with faith.
to show her that true love is unconditional.
to teach her not to let pride get in the way of discovering new things.
to show her all the boys are not like the one who hurt her.
to stand with her on the day she marries the man she hopes will be just like her father.
because without him she will have less in her life than what she deserves.

Letter from a Father

2007-05-29T08:45:00.000-07:00

A Love Letter From a Father

He is the Father you have been looking for all your life. This is His love letter to you. Each verse will change your life if you let them.

"Link" **http://reynaldito.multiply.com/journal/item/23

Help Children Develop a Self-Esteem?

2007-05-26T00:22:00.000-07:00

How Can We Help Children Develop a Healthy Sense of Self-Esteem?
(Excerpt from Child Care)

The foundations of self-esteem are laid early in life when infants develop attachments with the adults who are responsible for them. When adults readily respond to their cries and smiles, babies learn to feel loved and valued. Children come to feel loved and accepted by being loved and accepted by people they look up to. As young children learn to trust their parents and others who care for them to satisfy their basic needs, they gradually feel wanted, valued, and loved.

Self-esteem is also related to children's feelings of belonging to a group and being able to adequately function in their group. When toddlers become preschoolers, for example, they are expected to control their impulses and adopt the rules of the family and community in which they are growing. Successfully adjusting to these groups helps to strengthen feelings of belonging to them.

One point to make is that young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support--one who is not very believable.

Self Esteem for Kids

The following points may be helpful in strengthening and supporting a healthy sense of self-esteem in your child:

· As they grow, children become increasingly sensitive to the evaluations of their peers. You and your child's teachers can help your child learn to build healthy relationships with his or her peers.

· When children develop stronger ties with their peers in school or around the neighborhood, they may begin to evaluate themselves differently from the way they were taught at home. You can help your child by being clear about your own values and keeping the lines of communication open about experiences outside the home.

· Children do not acquire self-esteem at once nor do they always feel good about themselves in every situation. A child may feel self-confident and accepted at home but not around the neighborhood or in a preschool class. Furthermore, as children interact with their peers or learn to function in school or some other place, they may feel accepted and liked one moment and feel different the next. You can help in these instances by reassuring your child that you support and accept him or her even while others do not.

· A child's sense of self-worth is more likely to deepen when adults respond to the child's interests and efforts with appreciation rather than just praise. For example, if your child shows interest in something you are doing, you might include the child in the activity. Or if the child shows interest in an animal in the garden, you might help the child find more information about it. In this way, you respond positively to your child's interest by treating it seriously. Flattery and praise, on the contrary, distract children from the topics they are interested in. Children may develop a habit of showing interest in a topic just to receive flattery.

· Give tasks and activities that offer a real challenge than from those that are merely frivolous or fun. For example, you can involve your child in chores around the house, such as preparing meals or caring for pets, that stretch his or her abilities and give your child a sense of accomplishment.

· Children are to be esteemed by the adults who are important to them. To esteem children means to treat them respectfully, ask their views and opinions, take their views and opinions seriously, and give them meaningful and realistic feedback.

· You can help him or her cope with defeats, rather than emphasizing constant successes and triumphs. During times of disappointment or crisis, your child's weakened self-esteem can be strengthened when you let the child know that your love and support remain unchanged. When the crisis has passed, you can help your child reflect on what went wrong. The next time a crisis occurs, your child can use the knowledge gained from overcoming past difficulties to help cope with a new crisis. A child's sense of self-worth and self-confidence is not likely to deepen when adults deny that life has its ups and downs.

Parents can play an important role in strengthening children's self-esteem by treating them respectfully, taking their views and opinions seriously, and expressing appreciation to them. Above all, parents must keep in mind that self-esteem is an important part of every child's development.

How Do You Recognize Opportunity

2007-05-26T00:14:00.000-07:00

Opportunity

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
— Duke Ellington
...there is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born.
— Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
— Henry J. Kaiser
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
— Helen Keller
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
— Mark Twain
Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)
— Horace
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.
— Robert Mallet
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
— Hippocrates
...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.
— Lyndon B. Johnson

Bad times have a scientific value...We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sayings
When a fool has made up his mind, the market has gone by. — Spanish proverb

Some people not only expect opportunity to knock, they expect it to beat the door down.

No opportunity is ever lost. Someone else seizes the ones you missed.

Opportunity knocks but once.

Does Obstacles Afflict You?

2007-05-26T00:03:00.000-07:00

Adversity

Eagles: When they walk, they stumble. They are not what one would call graceful. They were not designed to walk. They fly. And when they fly, oh how they fly, so free, so graceful. They see from the sky what we never see. — Dr. Thomas C. Lee

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
— Walter Bagehot

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
— Seneca the Younger

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for.
— Stanislaus
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
— Woodrow Wilson

I don’t say embrace trouble. That’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
— Dinah Shore

You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
— Charles Dickens

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist — it reduces him to his fighting weight.
— Josh Billings

Watch a man in times of ... adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.
— Lucretius

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
— André Gide

Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then.
— Samuel Johnson

The world is quickly bored with the recital of misfortune and willingly avoids the sight of distress.
— W. Somerset Maugham

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
— G. K. Chesterton
A woman is like a teabag; you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
— Nancy Reagan
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
— William Hazlitt
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
— Cicero
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.
— Lawrence Bixby
The course of true love never did run smooth.
— William Shakespeare
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
— Benjamin Franklin
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If at first you don’t succeed, welcome to the club.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
Many can bear adversity but few contempt.

No man is more happy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.
— Mark Twain
If anything can go wrong, it will — at the worst possible time.
— Murphy’s Law

What is Life if There is No End to It.

2007-04-28T02:47:00.000-07:00

THOUGHTS ON LIFE’S FLEETING MOMENTS

We are all given just one shot at life. Are we numbering our days right by living each day for God as if it were the last? May our prayer be: "Show me, O Lord, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life. You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man's life is but a breath" (Ps 39:4-5).

 Our lives are a manifestation of what we think about God. -Anonymous

 Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for. -Mayes

 So live that after the minister has ended his remarks, those present will not think they have attended the wrong funeral. -The Mortarboard

 Live every day as if it were your last. Do every job as if you were the boss. Drive as if all other vehicles were police cars. Treat everybody else as if he were you. -Phoenix Flame

 The purpose of life is not to be happy-but to matter, to be productive to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. -Rosten

 The unexamined life is not worth living. -Socrates

 Our life is scarce the twinkle of a star in God's eternal day. -Taylor

 Take care of life; and the Lord will take care of your death. –Whitefield

 Oftentimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. -Alfieri

 Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. -Andersen

 With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. -Anonymous

 It matters not how long we live, but how. –Bailey

 I live for those who love me, For those who know me true; For the heaven so blue
above me, And the good that I can do. -Banks

 Life is a long lesson in humility. -Barrie

 Life is occupied both in perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself. –Beauvoir

 God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. -Beecher

 Life has meaning-to find its meaning is my meat and drink. -R. Browning

 Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities; influenced by all that has preceded, and to influence all that follows. -Channing

 To give life a meaning one must have a purpose larger than one's self. -Durant

 Life is rather a state of embryo-a preparation for life. A man is not completely born until he has passed through death. -Franklin

 Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of .-Franklin

 A useless life is an early death. -Goethe

 Life is the childhood of our immortality. -Goethe

 Someone has said that all living is just learning the meaning of words. That does not mean the long ten syllable words we have to look up in the dictionary. The really great words to master are short ones-work, love, hope, joy, pain, home, child, life, death. -Luccock

Compiled by Rey Halili, Wingspread Center 639-5079 Cell 0921-227-7153