Inspirations - Thursday, December 31, 2020

 

2021

Praying for a year of Healing our Minds, Bodies, and Souls

Henry Ford

Author - Consultant

Publisher of VISIONS Newsletter

Praise & Power from Julius Cartwright - Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Praise & Power

Wednesday 12/30/2020

PRAISE

Everyday Theological Prospective on Life: God won't give you more than you can handle so it's already Handled. Believe.

POWER

When the Past Calls, let it go to Voice-Mail. It has nothing new to say. Dear Past, thanks for the Lessons. Dear Future, I'm Ready.

~~~God Speed~~~

Julius L. Cartwright

Inspirations - Wednesday, December 30, 2020

 

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

Unknown

Inspirations - Tuesday, December 29, 2020

 

When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.

Huanchu Daoren - 1572-1620

Chinese Philosopher

Inspirations - Monday, December 28, 2020

 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an action, but a habit.

Aristotle - 384 BC-322 BC

Greek Philosopher

Inspirations - Friday, December 25, 2020

 

Merry Christmas

Happy Hanukkah

Happy Kwanzaa

Happy New Year

PEACE and Prayers for 2021 and beyond.

From our home to yours

From Henry & Dianne Ford

Inspirations - Thursday, December 24, 2020

 

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1803-1882

American Essayist-Poet

Praise and Power - Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Praise & Power

Wednesday 12/23/20

PRAISE

I Addition of my life and blessing it. Ask the help of your Higher Power. Keep your Faith.

POWER

I Dissolve in my own mind and in the minds of all others, any idea that my own can be withheld from me. No Person, Thing or Event can keep that from me which the Universe has for me.

Grace & Peace 

Julius L. Cartwright

Inspirations - Wednesday, December 23, 2020

 

I choose to focus my attention in whatever direction calls me to create my best day!

Sherri Bishop

Lecturer in Musical Studies

Inspirations - Tuesday, December 22, 2020

 

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

Conan O’Brien

Television Host, Comedian, and Writer

Inspirations - Monday, December 21, 2020

 

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

Dennis Waitley

Author and Speaker

Inspirations - Friday, December 18, 2020

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

Robert Kiyosaki

Author and Speaker

Inspirations - Thursday, December 17, 2020

 

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.

Earl Nightingale – 1921-1989

Author and Radio Personality

Praise & Power - Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Praise & Power

Wednesday 12/16/20

PRAISE

God Test and Proves us by the Common Occurrences of Life.  It is by the little things which reveals the chapters of your heart.

POWER

It's how we spent our time here and now, that really matters. If you're fed up with the way you have come to interact with time utilization, then simply change it, reverse it,  and your inner self actualization will reveal better ways to operate daily.  

Life & Favor

Julius Cartwright

Inspirations - Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior… but gratitude? Great things flow from the heart of gratitude.

Andy Stanley – Pastor

Inspirations - Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express not to impress. Don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.

Grace Liechtenstein - Author

Inspirations - Monday, December 14, 2020

 

Accomplishing the impossible is all about seeing the invisible.

Steven Furtick

Pastor and Songwriter

 

Never stop being teachable. If you think you know everything, you will never learn anything.

Dani Johnson – Author

Inspirations - Thursday, December 10, 2020

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. – Author

Inspirations - Wednesday, December 9, 2020

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires hopes.

Andrew Carnegie – 1835-1919

Industrialist

Praise & Power - Wednesday, December 9, 2020

 

Praise & Power

Wednesday 12/9/2020

PRAISE

If God shut the door, stop banging on it. Trust that whatever is behind it, is not Meant for you and Move on.

POWER

As soon as you Trust yourself, you will know how to live. Listen to your inner voice and bravely follow it.

Have a Wondrous Day.

Julius L. Cartwright

Inspirations - Tuesday, December 8, 2020

The control center of your life is your attitude.

Norman Cousins – 1915-1990

Journalist and Author

Inspirations - Monday, December 7, 2020

Sometimes Inspirations begins with Desperation.  Remembering December 7, 1941 (Pearl Harbor), and our unified response (see Photo Collage).

From a Moment in U.S. and World History.

Inspirations - Friday, December 4, 2020

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening, when you rather would have talked.

Mark Twain – 1835-1910

Writer and Humorist

Inspirations - Thursday, December 3, 2020

 

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Denis Waitley – Author and Speaker

Praise & Power - Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Praise & Power

Wednesday 12/2/2020

PRAISE

A RENEWING Mind is Presence-Focused. Train your mind to seek the Lord in every situation. Bring God your Weakness, and receive his Peace. Continue this intimate Journey, Trusting that the path you are following is headed for Heaven.

POWER

Confidence never comes from having all the Answers; it comes from being open to all the Questions. Your Little is a Lot when you give it your All.

Julius Cartwright

Inspirations - Wednesday, December 2, 2020

This weather is for the Birds.

A Wise Old Owl

inspirations - Tuesday, December 1, 2020

 

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. – Author

Inspirations - Monday, November 30, 2020

 

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.

Unknown

Inspirations - Friday, November 17, 2020

 

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

Dietrich Bonhaeffer

1906-1945 - Pastor

Inspirations - Thursday, November 26, 2020

 

As we approach a Thanksgiving that looks so different from Thanksgivings in the past, let’s not forget those who are on the bottom of the pyramid wondering where their next meal will come from. And don’t forget about those who are starving outside the ballpark. As a society, we all do better when we all do better.

Julie Miley Schlegel, MD, FAAP

https://drjulieschlegel.com/

 

Praise & Power

Thursday 11/26/2020

PRAISE

Make it a day of real Thanksgiving in which we fall on our Knees and give humble and sincere thanks to God.

POWER

Be Thankful for everybody in your life, good and bad, past and present. They have made you the person you are today.

Thankful-Grateful

~~~Blessed~~~

Julius L. Cartwright

Praise & Power - Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Praise & Power

Wednesday 11/25/20

PRAISE

Enlarge my Limited Boundaries. Forgive my Sin. Forgive my Hesitation to be Poured out for you on a daily basis. Thank you for Seasoning and Preparing me God.

POWER

You're a Winner in the Making, the True Genes of a Champion. You're DNA is filled with the Strength, Courage, Ability, Favor, and Determination. You are Full of a can called Can-Do Power. Start Uplifting Yourself Today and Beyond.

Julius Cartwright

Inspirations - Wednesday, November 25, 2020

 Please do not take this quote out of context!

If you really want to be successful and you really want to be happy, don't have a job, have a purpose. When you've got a purpose, the whole world is your office.

Paulo Coelho - Author

A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes – 1841-1935

Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

Inspirations - Monday, November 23, 2020

 

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hope and labors for others.

Bryant McGill - Author

Inspirations - Friday, November 20, 2020

 

Inspirations - Tuesday, November 17, 2020

 

Keep stepping toward your dreams. No matter how far it seems.

Unknown

Inspirations - Monday, November 16, 2020

 

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates

Creating A Larger Vision For Your Life - TDT Table Topics - Tues., Nov. 17, 2020

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Inspirations - Friday, November 13, 2020

 

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.

Earl Nightingale - 1921-1989

Radio Speaker and Author

Inspirations - Thursday, November 12, 2020

 

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.

John E. Southard

Praise & Power - Wednesday, November 11, 2020

 Praise & Power

Wednesday 11/11/2020

PRAISE

"Spiritual Power" Never should a Righteous cause be Promoted by Force; Spiritual Victories can be Won on by Spiritual Power. We must look where we would walk, and we must act as processing all power from him in whom we have our being.

POWER

Go forward in Life with a Twinkle in your Eye and Smile, Strong purpose in your Heart, Love, Life, and Look for it's opportunities.

Peace & Blessings 

  Julius L Cartwright

Inspirations - Wednesday, November 11, 2020

 

"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."

Peter Marshall

AND . . .  Happy Veterans Day, and Thank You to all who served . . . https://www.pinterest.com/pin/691091505314982155/

Inspirations - Tuesday, November 10, 2020

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.

Joseph Campbell - 1904-1987

Professor

Ready to Exhale, So We Might All Be Able to Breathe

 

Ready to Exhale, So We Might All Be Able to Breathe

On the afternoon of November 7, 2020,  the results of the November 3rd election became clear.  Finally the dust began to settle after nearly four years of incoherent rambling, divisive rhetoric, and governing via Twitter.

Those years were characterized by disrespect of gender. nations, nationalities, national heroes, cultures, world alliances, and long-standing institutions; emanating from the position sometimes described as “leader of the free world.”  During those years we heard a president who never took Basic Combat Training, criticize a war hero who was captured.  His characterization of POW’s was an insult to anyone who ever wore a military uniform, and confirmed his ignorance of both the Geneva Convention and the U.S. Military Code of Conduct.

The divisiveness that characterized the Trump Administration was clear as crystal, pointed as a sword, and much more dangerous.  That divisiveness was so apparent, glaring and immoral that even James Mattis, the retired Marine general who became Trump’s secretary of Defense until they broke over the president’s Syria policy, could take it no longer.  Mathis commented “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try.  Instead, he tries to divide us.”  That judgment was harsh, but it pales next to something else Mattis wrote: “Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that the Nazi slogan for destroying us ... was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’”  Mattis essentially compared Trump’s values to Adolf Hitler’s. (Click for Source).    

The divisiveness was unending.  During those years we heard a president refer to our Mexican neighbors as rapists; demonize the people of Haiti, El Salvador, and several African nations by referring to their Homelands as “shithole countries”.  We watched a president refuse to pay respect to a departed lawmaker who nearly lost his life while peacefully marching across a bridge decades earlier.  We observed a president cheer armed Militia members who defied the orders of a democratically elected Governor.  We watched the same president express little condemnation of a law enforcement officer who murdered a man on video tape, yet condemn peaceful unarmed protestors outside the White House.  We were stunned by his defense of a 17-year-old who fatally shot two peaceful protesters in Wisconsin.

Finally, on the afternoon of November 7th, citizens of the United States, longtime allies, and people of democracies around the world, had opportunity and cause to exhale.  Wishing, hoping, and praying for a long overdue breath of fresh air, we instead inhaled the toxicity of more carcinogens in our atmosphere because of an Environmental Protection Agency weakened of its power, but also an atmosphere polluted by the purposeful introduction of division and hate.  What ends up in our air, water, and soil can kill; and so too can what we absorb into our minds and hearts.

Halloween evening in my community was cold and breezy.  From my front door I watched as parents braved the weather to accompany small children, so they might experience the long-held tradition of Trick or Treat.  Despite the pandemic, the weather, and the high-stakes and emotionally draining election that was upcoming; parents all wanted the same things for their children.  They wanted them to be happy, safe, protected, and part of an experience larger than us all.  The families were Indian, Black, White, Asian, mixed.  Accompanying most of the children were sometimes couples, sometimes mom, sometimes dad.  All watched, most waved, some yelled a Hello.  If the adults didn’t hear the children say “Thank you,” nearly all asked “What do you say” and most children knew the answer immediately,   I could not tell the Democrats from the Republicans from the Independents, and it was refreshing to not know, and a relief to not care.  The atmosphere reminded me a lot of people on the streets of Downtown Cleveland when the Cavaliers won the NBA Championship in 2016; everyone had their “labels” removed.

Prayerfully as we move into the future, we will step up to our real challenges, and step back from confrontation.  Prayerfully we will be reminded that most of us want many of the same things from life for ourselves and our families.  Prayerfully we will treat each other as we wish to be treated, not as someone tells us we should treat others.  Prayerfully as we continue to exhale and inhale, the atmosphere will improve, and it will become easier, so no one will need to say the words “I can’t breathe.” 

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Inspirations - Monday, November 9, 2020

 

Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.

Natalie Massenet

Fashion Entrepreneur-Journalist

Inspirations - Friday, November 6, 2020

 

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Henry Ford – 1863-1947

Founder of the Ford Motor Company

Inspirations - Thursday, November 5, 2020

 

It's not about perfect, it's about effort.

Jillian Michaels - Personal Trainer

Praise & Power - Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Praise & Power

Wednesday 11/4/2020

PRAISE

Our Home is in Heaven we are just Traveling through this World whatever need or Trouble you are in, there is always something to help you in your Bible.

POWER

I choose Determination and persistence over Quitting every time. I AM NOW on the Road of Success, Happiness and Abundance. My life is a positive reflection of my thoughts. I am grateful.

  Julius L Cartwright