Leah Rade

Independence Day Pondering

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.  ~Thomas Paine

Worth Repeating

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

— Michelangelo

Food For Thought - Anger

"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you."

Frederick Buechner

Want to know more about how to rid yourself of anger?  Join us this weekend for the last message in the House of Blues series - Anger.

Pondering Creativity

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."  George Lois

Creativity Killers:
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

— Charles H. Duell, Director of US Patent Office 1899

"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote."

— Grover Cleveland, 1905

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

— Harry M. Warner, Warner Bros Pictures, 1927

"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."

— Robert Miliham, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923

"Heavier than air flying machines are impossible."

— Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895

"Ruth made a big mistake when he gave up pitching."

— Tris Speaker, 1921

"The horse is here today, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad."

— President of Michigan Savings Bank advising against investing in the Ford Motor Company

"Video won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."

— Daryl F. Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, commenting on television in 1946

"What use could the company make of an electric toy?"

— Western Union, when it turned down rights to the telephone in 1878

Pondering

Use soft words and hard arguments.
~English Proverb

Worth Repeating

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Bill Bradley

Pondering

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us - he enters into our trouble and saves us.
Eugene Peterson

Pondering

"To help others become something that they could never on their own become, is putting value into that other person." ~ Unknown

Time Well Spent

"The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people."
Ken Blanchard

A Point To Ponder

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.  M. Scott Peck