Thursday, May 26, 2016
Help Send Abigail to School - PLEASE!
Hi, my name is Abigail. I need help.
On Mother’s Day weekend, I completed my bachelor’s degree magna cum laude at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA, majoring in Fitness and Business/Sports Management with a concentration in Exercise Physiology and a minor in Human Biology. In my profession, a graduate degree is becoming almost necessary; to that end, I have been admitted to the graduate program in Rehabilitation Science and Injury Prevention at The California University of Pennsylvania. My academic success to this point has translated into partial scholarship award from Cal U, and I am working part-time fitness positions at YMCA’s and Air Fitness in the area. The experience is very worthwhile and I know I have found my calling!
To date, I have paid my own way through college with savings, scholarship, and part-time jobs, but I can see that I need help financially to achieve this next practical step. I have chosen GoFundMe to enlist the support of those who believe in me and what I plan to do in the lives of athletes, senior adults, and the injured of all ages, as well as teaching people how to live a healthy life and build a confident self-image.
The cost of this concentrated, 18-month program is $26,160. My own resources and scholarship have left me in need of only $6,760 more including a $400 Strength and Conditioning certification requirement. Most other master’s programs cost considerably more, but this program has a solid reputation and keeps me close to my family, friends and part-time jobs, while also being reasonably priced.
Bottom Line -- I am asking you to consider two things: first, I need your prayers that my earnings may be able to cover some or most of these expenses; and second, your financial help to fund my future by donating whatever you are lead to give to help me to reach my goal of $6,360.
I thank you for your consideration, and ask God to bless you for that.
Go to: https://www.gofundme.com/267jne7y
Monday, May 16, 2016
Who (or What) Protects You from Life?
"Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him."
Proverbs 30:5
Though relatively few of us have ever experienced war, all of us are under attack from a wide range of enemies. Envy, lust, and greed attack our hearts and tell us that God isn't enough to make us happy. Possessions, sex, and prestige, many insist, are more important than God's purposes. Even friends and family turn against us, betray our trust, stab us in the back, or just walk away, leaving us alone and abandoned. Our culture shouts that no matter how much we have, it's never enough. And the enemy of our souls lies to us, telling us that God doesn't care, that He can't help us, and that we're on our own. What kind of attacks have you experienced lately?
In the fight against all these enemies, God is our protection - He is our shield. He protects us by giving us insight from His Word so that we can fight and win every battle. To be sure, warfare isn't clean and neat. Sometimes we get dirty, and occasionally we get hurt. But God's Word reminds us of His love and strength. It gives us truth about God's purposes, our motives, and the destructive ways the world. Our sinful flesh and the devil are trying to bring us down.
When we fail to read God's Word and gain its wisdom, we are vulnerable. Attacks can devastate us. So read and study, grasp the truths of God and trust Him in the midst of the battle. But remember, it's not what you know - it's what you use that makes the difference.
For more truth about life, see www.truthatlife.com
Proverbs 30:5
Though relatively few of us have ever experienced war, all of us are under attack from a wide range of enemies. Envy, lust, and greed attack our hearts and tell us that God isn't enough to make us happy. Possessions, sex, and prestige, many insist, are more important than God's purposes. Even friends and family turn against us, betray our trust, stab us in the back, or just walk away, leaving us alone and abandoned. Our culture shouts that no matter how much we have, it's never enough. And the enemy of our souls lies to us, telling us that God doesn't care, that He can't help us, and that we're on our own. What kind of attacks have you experienced lately?
In the fight against all these enemies, God is our protection - He is our shield. He protects us by giving us insight from His Word so that we can fight and win every battle. To be sure, warfare isn't clean and neat. Sometimes we get dirty, and occasionally we get hurt. But God's Word reminds us of His love and strength. It gives us truth about God's purposes, our motives, and the destructive ways the world. Our sinful flesh and the devil are trying to bring us down.
When we fail to read God's Word and gain its wisdom, we are vulnerable. Attacks can devastate us. So read and study, grasp the truths of God and trust Him in the midst of the battle. But remember, it's not what you know - it's what you use that makes the difference.
For more truth about life, see www.truthatlife.com
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Who's Your Daddy? - Part 1
The words we use reveal who we think we are, and what our relationship is like, with God.
Are we in the dog house with God? Do we live like if we do one wrong thing, God will zap us? Is He up there in heaven, too holy to have a personal relationship with us, standing in judgment over us? Or maybe if we live a good life, maybe God will bless us.
But Jesus said, when you pray to God, say "our Father." Jesus turns the relationship up-side-down. He makes our relationship with God, very personal, very intimate, very loving.
Jesus further illustrates the picture of our relationship with the story of the "prodigal son." The son did not want to live his dad's life...
“There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!”
Luke 15:11-17
He came to his senses and he thought about his father.
“I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.”
Luke 15:18-20
The son has hit rock bottom. He goes back to where he is loved. He is ready to confess, to beg for forgiveness, and to ask for help.
The father runs to the son. No where else in the Bible do we see God RUNNING anywhere. God is RUNNING to us!
Whenever God sees confession and repentance in us, He runs to us us with loving, open arms. The relationship is FULLY restored, no strings attached. Love and trust covers ALL our sins. It is as if we never strayed. Do we understand this? Do we reflect this unconditional love and grace to all those around us?
The threat of hell will never change a person's life long-term. So what changes us?
“Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?”
Romans 2:4
God's KINDNESS is the ONLY thing that changes us. It is the thing that reconnects us to God and gives us an eternal relationship with Him. God is not waiting to catch us and punish us.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
John 3:16-17
He came to save us.
“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,”
Romans 8:1
He did not come to condemn us.
“because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:2
He came to set us free.
“The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.””
Romans 8:15
He came to make us His sons and daughters - full adoption - in eternally intimate relationship with Him.
“The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.”
Romans 8:16-17
Co-heirs with Christ? Really? Amazing! Are you living like that? Sharing in His glory? How can we possibly understand this?
The Bible says that God loves EVERYONE. But there are two groups of people that God has a special place in His heart for: widows and orphans. They have no one to protect them, no one to love them.
God changes us from being orphans to full sons and daughters of the King.
For more truth about life, see www.truthatlife.com
Are we in the dog house with God? Do we live like if we do one wrong thing, God will zap us? Is He up there in heaven, too holy to have a personal relationship with us, standing in judgment over us? Or maybe if we live a good life, maybe God will bless us.
But Jesus said, when you pray to God, say "our Father." Jesus turns the relationship up-side-down. He makes our relationship with God, very personal, very intimate, very loving.
Jesus further illustrates the picture of our relationship with the story of the "prodigal son." The son did not want to live his dad's life...
“There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!”
Luke 15:11-17
He came to his senses and he thought about his father.
“I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.”
Luke 15:18-20
The son has hit rock bottom. He goes back to where he is loved. He is ready to confess, to beg for forgiveness, and to ask for help.
The father runs to the son. No where else in the Bible do we see God RUNNING anywhere. God is RUNNING to us!
Whenever God sees confession and repentance in us, He runs to us us with loving, open arms. The relationship is FULLY restored, no strings attached. Love and trust covers ALL our sins. It is as if we never strayed. Do we understand this? Do we reflect this unconditional love and grace to all those around us?
The threat of hell will never change a person's life long-term. So what changes us?
“Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?”
Romans 2:4
God's KINDNESS is the ONLY thing that changes us. It is the thing that reconnects us to God and gives us an eternal relationship with Him. God is not waiting to catch us and punish us.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
John 3:16-17
He came to save us.
“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,”
Romans 8:1
He did not come to condemn us.
“because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:2
He came to set us free.
“The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.””
Romans 8:15
He came to make us His sons and daughters - full adoption - in eternally intimate relationship with Him.
“The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.”
Romans 8:16-17
Co-heirs with Christ? Really? Amazing! Are you living like that? Sharing in His glory? How can we possibly understand this?
The Bible says that God loves EVERYONE. But there are two groups of people that God has a special place in His heart for: widows and orphans. They have no one to protect them, no one to love them.
God changes us from being orphans to full sons and daughters of the King.
For more truth about life, see www.truthatlife.com
Sunday, April 3, 2016
It’s a Beautiful Day, But I Can’t See It
A blind man once had a sign that read: “I’m blind, please
help.” He received few donations. Then one day someone changed his sign so that
it read, “It’s a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.” He was never short on donations again. Why?
Was it because it touched an emotional nerve in others? Because it helped them to be grateful for
what they had? Or because he wasn’t
asking for help that so many were now willing to give it to him?
In my work as a life & career coach, I run into a
similar situation. Many people I
encounter everyday have a similar analogous struggle. Their personal version of the story goes like
this: “It’s a beautiful world, but I don’t live in it. I exist in a world of stress and tasks and
more work to do than I can possibly complete in one day. I live in a world of demands and deadlines
and reprimands for falling short. I live
in a world of bills and responsibilities with little opportunity for getting
ahead. I go from day to day with the
same routine and don’t see a way out.
People tell me we should see work as a means to live. I seem to only live to work.”
We all inherently know that life is all about
relationships. Not work. Not tasks.
Not stuff. You never see a hearse
pulling a U-Haul trailer of personal possessions to the cemetery. You just can’t take it with you. And no one lies on their deathbed and says, “I
wish I had spent more time at the office!” Yet the people we love need our financial
support. It’s one way that we show our
love – by financially taking care of those we love. So what’s the answer?
Find a job that you love…. and you will never have to work
another day in your life. If you are
passionate about what you do, you will be diligent about doing it, you will get
very good at it, and someone will pay you well for what you do. Truth@Life can help you discover that passion…and
find that job. And you will never have
to work another day in your life.
Read more at… www.truthatlife.com
Sunday, March 20, 2016
New Web Site Launch - Offering $100 for Referrals!
I recently launched a new web site and would really appreciate
your help in promoting it. Truth@Life is now nationally listed as one of the premier life
coaching services. We serve the life coaching needs of professionals and
"aspiring-to-be" professionals. Our services include:
1. Career
Planning & Job Transition Management2. Professional & Leadership Development
3. Emotional Intelligence & Relationship Management (including stress management)
4. Priority & Time Management
5. Entrepreneurial Development
6. Career Selection for Young People
We have proven
methods for delivering results in each of these areas. In addition, all
our coaches have over 30 years of experience and over 20,000 professional
contacts. We are located in major cities throughout the United States.
Many client
testimonials, as well as a free initial consultation are available. All
coaching is done face-to-face. Please visit our web site at
www.truthatlife.com. At the web
site you will find a description of each of these services, a brand-new
informative blog, and an abundance of client testimonials.
and pass along
our link to anyone you know that may be able to benefit from our services. We
offer a $100 referral fee to you if you refer someone to us and they become a
client.
Blessings,
Curtis Songer
Principal,
Truth@Life
Transformation
Coaching & Consulting
www.truthatlife.com
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