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Are You Growing?
September 29, 2007 | 11:44 pm
It is unfortunate that our free public school system has made education seem temporary and not really worth very much. As often happens with gifts, they do not retain their real value. For some reasons, we tend to lose sight of the real value of things in our lives when they are free. Freedom among them.
Back to education, though, are you growing? Personally, I mean?
One of the primary messages of the Open Your Heart series (and Elfreda’s excellent book, as well) is that we continue to grow… or we start to die.
In Open Your Heart with Skiing, every chapter has two parts: the first part is about skiing; skills, concepts, experiences. The second part is about life. It’s fascinating to me how much skiing parallels life and teaches us.
To learn, though, you have to be willing. You have to be looking for ways to grow. Are you looking for ways to grow?
What will you learn this week?
Let’s go!
Posted by: — Stephen Hultquist
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First Book
September 28, 2007 | 6:41 pm
If you’re looking for a way to make a difference in the world, may I make a suggestion?
First Book is a leading children’s literacy organization committed to a simple mission: giving children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. Since 1992, First Book has placed more than 50 million books into the hands of children in need by supplying a steady stream of brand new books to more than 20,000 local literacy programs serving disadvantaged communities.
To join the nationwide network of volunteers, visit www.firstbook.org.
Thanks to everyone who helps bring the gift of reading –
Jeannette
www.JeannetteCezanne.com
Posted by: — jcezanne
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Learn How to Get Your Spiritual Writing Published, Part One
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I’ve decided to start a semi-regular segment here to provide advice to writers. Feel free to ask questions via the comments, and I’ll respond either in the comments or in my next segment.
Let’s start with the basics: Is spiritual writing different?
In some ways yes, and in some ways no.
In most cases, your readers expect more from your writing than they would if they just picked up a mystery novel (nothing wrong a good mystery novel, though, I’ll hasten to add). But they’ll read your work with an expectation that it will lead them to personal growth, that what they’ll get from your book will take them beyond the words on the page. And that makes your writing different.
On the other hand, you still have the same considerations about making your book marketable, about keeping your end audience, about knowing your genre inside and out that other writers do.
What do you think? Is your writing the same or different as other writing? How so? How not?
Posted by: — Meg
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More About Reading
September 27, 2007 | 4:50 pm
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