No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.

The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it.

The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you seek your own way? (Deuteronomy 8:1-3)

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. You look at life's difficulties and tests as God looks at them. You look at family life and child rearing as God looks at them. You interpret current events as God would interpret them. You see the truth even though all around you are deception and lies.

...when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.