Some of the world's greatest people have faced the world's greatest challenges, but have overcome them. Cripple a man, and you have Sir Walter Scott. Lock a man in prison, and you have John Bunyan. Raise a man in abject poverty, and you have Abraham Lincoln. Subject a man to bitter religious prejudice, and you have Benjamin Disraeli. Strike a man down with paralysis, and you have Franklin Roosevelt. Have someone born black in a society filled with racial discrimination, and you have Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Marian Anderson and George Washington Carver. Make a man the first child to survive in an impoverished Italian family of18, and you have Enrico Caruso. Have a man born to parents who survived a Nazi concentration camp, paralyse him from the waist down when he's four years old, and you have the incomparable violinist Itzhak Perlman. Call a man a slow learner and mentally challenged, write him off as beyond education, and you have Albert Einstein. Helen Keller was born blind and deaf, yet she graduated from college with highest honours and impacted the world. Margaret Thatcher, England's first and only woman Prime Minister, lived upstairs over her father's grocery store. For a while her childhood home had no running water and no indoor plumbing. Golda Meir, Israel's first and only woman Prime Minister, was a divorced grandmother from Milwaukee. What do these people teach us? That success doesn't depend on our circumstances, but on overcoming our circumstances. And with God on our side we can do it! Paul, one of the world's great overcomers, wrote, 'If God be for us, who can be against us?
It has been a long time since we have communicated, my sisters in Christ, fellow Proverbs 31 Women ~ Empowered Woman in Business.!
Most of my time has been spent in growing my business, growing my faith, having my faith be tested and overcoming obstacles of life and faith. That is why when I read the above devotional, it touched my heart so deeply.
I it and cried. I'm sure after reading it you all understand why.
I have been studying the tenants of the Widow and the Oil, 2Kings 4:1-7. It helps to clarify even further that God means for us to prosper and surely not to be without a way to financially sustain and maintain our families, while maintaining our dignity. Honor and grace is addressed in Proverbs 31, Epilogue: The Wife of Noble Character, 10-31. And, work ethic is addressed in Habakkuk 2: 2 & 3. and detailed in the action plan posted right...
As we move forward with 2011, please always know that you are blessed and that with God your vision and purpose are event greater.
Update
I am having an event to help people of our community generate much needed income in a day and time when jobs are just not available and the "pay check" as we know it is not so easily accessible any more. Perhaps you might be interested in showcasing your business and building your downline or finding the right contractor for your team through contacts you may make at my event. This is the second one of its kind and I hope to continue to grow this event and bring more relief and prosperity to my community.
Please visit the website for the PRGIndy Career Opportunity Fair 2011 Spring Event to see if this type of event is a match for youor if it might be something you'd be interested in attending on the day of. There is a list of the types of vendors that would benefit from an event of this kind. You might even see a fit for you. This is not a job fair. The the goal of this event is to financially empower citizens of our community through unique business opportunities.
If you are interested in joining us on April 21st, I will extend to you a specialrate. As members of this group please partake of the special rate of $30.00 for your space. To register, click here then click "2010 Vendor discount". If you are interested in additional marketing for your business or product (whether you become or not) please click Non-Vendor Corporate Sponsor - $100.00. That's a $20.00 discount just 4 you! Be sure to read "IMPORTANT INFORMATION"
God Bless you my sisters, and if I haven't said already, I hope you're having a
Happy New Year!
