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Make me hear joy and gladness, ...
Psalms 51:8a NKJV

When my joy seems to not surface- coz I guess I have a different personality and being bubbly or loud seem to mean someone is joyful -and so in contrast I am not.

The Lord is able to make me glad, able to refresh my joyful outlook in life.

Something I needed to keep me pushing through and continuosly be inspired by the people of faith in the Bible who offered up prayers as a way of life.

Character looks beyond performance and focuses on the inner nature of a person.

“It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

The Company made a point of selecting the sons of its bigger shareholders... It encouraged loyalty by paying generous salaries and referring to the firm as a "family".

I wonder why this feels so familiar... it just hit me.

In Murphy's law, knowing oneself is the ultimate form of aggression.Similarly,in ITAM, knowing whre you are broken exposes the value in the ITAM process...

But you don't want to be magnificently trivial. You want to make a real difference. You want to make high-value, high-impact, contribution.

...embracing the concept is not the same as applying it.

each manager takes a few minutes to present and review progress charts, surface problems, and try to solve them.

Installing Discipline 3:Keep a Compelling Scoreboard

"Our success measures are visible, accessible, and continually updated."

All of us are weak and frail; hold thou no man more frail than thyself.

Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth? Or at least,
"Do you care about the same truth?"

...your art will reveal your inner selves. Your art will display your souls.

We never meant to hurt you, but we probably did; we probably ended up
making a deep wound in your heart. It never occurred to us that anything like that might happen."

I'm 38, going
on 40. I'm not like Naoko. There's nobody waiting for me to get out,
no family to take me back. I don't have any work to speak of, and
almost no friends. And after seven years, I don't know what's going on
out there.

The saddest thing in the
world is wearing a damp bra.

I wanted to begin a new life where I
didn't know a soul.

Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...
"The only thing holding you back is your own self-doubt and the burdens of the past that,hopefully,you are ready to let go of-like a cursed ring slipping from your finger. "

You live and learn.

(Discipling) relationships ...will never be popular with the majority,but they will help all who accept them to love the world even as God so loved it when he gave his only Son John 3:16

She is a strong horse .She will grow up to be a hard worker who serves you well in your old age.

"If you sell the land,it is the end."
But over the old man's head they looked at each other and smiled.

He groaned aloud,it was an evil omen.

imitating another disciple takes humility,and since pride can cause us to shy away from imitation ...
1 Cor 11:1 Follow my example,as I follow the example of Christ. --Paul

The Lord bless you and keep you;the Lord make His face shine on you,and be gracious to you;the Lord lift up his countenance on you,and give you peace.

we...can miss out on this enormous blessing awaiting us in trust by grasping for the immediate gratification of wealth,pleasure,comfort,and entertainment offered by the culture around us.That is the tragedy...