Encouragement

  This post completes the first week of the Ultimate Blog Challenge.  I hope you’ve enjoyed my take on encouragement: how we are affected by it, why we need more of it and finally what it is and what it is not.  And on that note all that’s left to say is … “Encouragement is…

An Encouraging Tale

This lovely story set in bygone times has been retold countless times.  Each time I hear it I am reminded how important it is to encourage those who serve so faithfully.  Each day we meet, pass or are served by people faithfully doing their jobs who ask no thanks in return for doing what they…

10 Ways To Be An Encourager

There are not many days when a word of encouragement wouldn’t lift our spirits.  At some time or other we all need to be encouraged yet at those very times it seems like a kind word is the last thing we hear.  We all need to feel loved, appreciated, valued and told (even though we…

Encouragement

Have you noticed how some people are natural encouragers?  They’re good to be around, mostly positive and rarely leave you feeling like a sucked lemon.  They are life’s cheer leaders and great to have along for the journey.  So what does it mean to be an encourager?  I’d like to share a little about what…

Intro to July 2014 … Ultimate Blog Challenge

I have always enjoyed playing with words, their sounds and meanings and how some of them evoke memories that take my mind to other countries, continents or places in childhood.  They are exciting and vibrant and how we string them together provides a clue to our personality and the way we tick.  We hear someone’s…