Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we're not going to quit. When we're bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: "I'll never give up! God's on my side. He loves me, and He's helping me! I'm going to make it!"

Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.

There is nothing as tragic as being alive and not enjoying life... Life should be celebrated!

I believe, when in my behavior or in relationships or in the way I react to something, that I'm still dealing with some leftover stuff from my childhood, but the good thing is now, because I have learned so much from the Bible, I can tell when I'm behaving wrong and when I'm not, and it doesn't take me very long to realize that's out of fear, or that's because I was controlled as a child, and I can make a conscious decision to behave the way I know I should behave.

Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes!

Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.