Today’s post is from guest blogger Joann Davis. Enjoy! When I was growing up in the 1950s, the arrival of Labor Day meant one horrible thing—that the lazy dog days of summer were over and that the opening of school was just around the bend. We kids would soon be back at our little wooden…

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…” Prov. 23:7a I was never athletic growing up. I toyed around with working out now and then, but really, my youth and subsequent 20s were mostly spent sitting down somewhere. That said, this past weekend I ran my second half marathon. I even beat my…

Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer. For young children all the way up to working adults logging on to Web classes, school is in session. There’s nothing I miss about being in school, and this time of year always makes me smile as I notice that “back-to-school” advertisements do not pertain to me.…

Part of being inspired by your life is not allowing fear to take over. That limiting, anxious, stubborn feeling is literally a killjoy. You don’t want to make decisions based out of fear, because it has negative consequences for both you and the ones around you. Take, for example, the dreaded argument. Even the kindest…

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