Life can seem very hard and unfair at times. 

When facing the loss a job, a divorce, illness, or some other serious problem, you might begin to ask yourself “when will God help me?”  It may even get to the point where we may start to feel abandoned and alone.

And then someone like me, a friend of yours, or a minister comes along and tells you “to have faith in God because God will never leave you or let you fall completely” or that “this is the time He is working to make you stronger.”  But to you these are only words. Your situation may seem so desperate that you cannot even relate to this.

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“And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.  An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.  Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.  This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."  (Luke 2:8-14)

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I don’t know about you but I have found that there seems to be a certain time of the day that God works on me.  For me, this is generally about three in the morning.

As grateful as I am that God spends time with me or working on me, I find that His intervention at three in the morning leads to some very bleary-eyed days.

Generally, I find that at 3am, I wake with wonderful ideas swirling around in my head; ideas that I would not have normally thought of but that make me realize that it must be God trying to work through me and my writing.

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Everyday Greatness is a compilation of short stories and quotes that had been originally published by Readers Digest.  Every Greatness not only includes the Readers Digest stories and quotes but also commentaries by Stephen R. Covey.

The stories are broken down into various chapters and subchapters such as Courage, Respect, or Adaptability.

Although you can read the book cover to cover, I have found it more enjoyable to either just open to a random page and read various stories or open to a topic that I might be interested in reading about at the time.

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God’s timing is amazing.

Yesterday (Sunday) I wrote an article that I almost posted but something told me not to.  I was getting the feeling that I should wait and so I did.

When I write an article I want to write it out of love with a message of hope and inspiration for both me and my readers.  The article I wrote Sunday was written out of frustration.  The title of the article I wrote was “Are We Losing Christmas?” 

I have been getting more and more frustrated because everywhere I turn Christmas seems to be taking a back seat to some company trying to sell us something or some group of people trying to take the word Christmas out of our vocabulary.  Christmas trees have become holiday trees.  TV ads tell you that you can’t have a Merry Christmas unless you buy whatever it is that they are selling.  And most of the stores that want your money from you at Christmas time won’t even use the word Christmas anymore.  There is no more Merry Christmas – now it’s only happy holidays.

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