Morning Briefings

Some Companies Rethink The Telecommuting Trend: A few big promoters of home-based and mobile-office work arrangements, including AT&T, Intel and Hewlett-Packard, have called some home-based workers back to the office, causing some to quit.

– Sue Shellenbarger, The Wall Street Journal, February 28, 2008

One thing I’ve learned is that no problem ever goes away on its own. For any human obstacle to be overcome, there must be inner work.

– Dr. Arthur Caliandro
Simple Steps: Ten Things You Can Do to Create an Exceptional Life

‘I do a lot of funerals,’ Joe said. ‘And there’s nothing sadder than doing a funeral when you have to manufacture something to say about the impact the person had in order to bring any kind of comfort to the family and friends.’

– Jeffrey Marx
Season of Life

For the saying is true, ‘Someone plants, someone else reaps.’

– John 4:37

When we finally allow God to work fully within us, the results may seem like a miracle.

– Kenneth E. Grabner
Focus Your Day

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an ‘honest man.’

– George Washington

In Ghana, an often-heard word for God is the name Onyame. The literal translation is ‘He, who when you get him, you are fully satisfied.’ Those who know that Onyame is God’s name alone will be the ones who can move through this world freely and unfettered. And no created thing will ever be able to deceive them.

– Kenneth E. Grabner
Focus Your Day

Clothed in His grace we can do all things, whether to give a talk, go to Africa, battle an illness, kick a habit, lay hands on the sick, or love somebody that drives us crazy. We just believe and get our carcasses to the starting gate.

– Elizabeth Mulloy
Divine Love Song

Pray through even the small things, for He governs all aspects of our lives; pray always expecting a response, for He answers; and finally, never be afraid to pray big, for He displays His awesome power.

– from Beth Moore’s
Voices of the Faithful

Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.

– Colossians 4:2
(NIV)