What’s your personal best?
Everybody has a personal best. Usain Bolt is believed to be the fastest man in the world; his personal best in the 100m dash is 9.58. Michael Phelps is believed to be one of the fastest swimmers in the world; his personal best in the 200m butterfly is 1:54 minutes. Buzunesh Deba, who just finished 2nd in the NYC marathon…
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- posted at 5:19 pm
- November 13, 2011
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The Secret To Making Marriage Last
During pre-marital counseling, my pastor gave my beautiful wife and I the secret to making marriage last. The story he told us on the journey to revealing the secret, is the one where King Solomon is asked to determine, between two quarreling women, the real mother of a newborn baby. Because King Solomon can not get either woman to admit…
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- October 23, 2011
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marriage: an act of selfishness
most of the time, when you hear people talk about marriage they talk about how selfless one has to be in order to make one’s marriage work. these people talk about all one has to give up in order to make the other person happy and how one has to consistently forfeit their personal needs in exchange for meeting the…
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- September 5, 2011
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relationships ain’t never 50/50
somebody lied to us. somewhere along the line, somebody told us relationships are supposed to be equal–that each person would give to the relationship just as much as they would take out of it. and now we suffer. we suffer from failing relationships by accepting this falsehood as relationship gospel. the truth is, relationships ain’t never 50/50. they are 60/40,…
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- May 30, 2011
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perfect
tonight i married the woman of my dreams, tanya marie watts, now tanya marie samuels. wow. what an amazing day?! words do not begin to express how much i love tanya and want to ensure she never has another bad day. words cannot express how much love i’ve felt from those, present and not present, in both preparation and celebration…
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- May 15, 2011
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have you ever known love?
have you ever known love that didn’t give? the kind that, after taking and taking, seemed to have nothing to give back? the kind that seemed hesitant to give it’s energy and time, much less it’s life, to see you succeed. have you ever known a love that wouldn’t sacrifice? the kind that couldn’t swallow it’s pride and walk away…
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- posted at 5:14 am
- May 8, 2011
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