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ArchiveMarch 2014

Everlasting Hope: 56 Days, 56 Hats, $1,000 for Master’s House

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Everlasting Hope is a group that crochets hats to raise money for the Master’s House (see picture below), an orphanage being built in Uyo, Nigeria by MCCF International. (For right now, 50% of the profit we make goes to the Master’s Home.) Our goal is to raise at least $1,000. We post different hats and crochet projects we are working on. We also have an online store called Hope Eternal...

Do Hard Things: A Message from President John F. Kennedy

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On September 12, 1962, then U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his famous “Moon Speech” at Rice University, with the goal of persuading the American people to support NASA’s efforts to send a manned space flight to the moon. The full speech runs around 18-minutes, but these 47-seconds are the most well-known. Here, JFK explains why the United States wants to go to the moon and...

Why I Stopped Trying to Fit In, And Why You Should Too

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In 10th grade, this was my biggest goal in life. I did everything I knew how to, in order to be cool enough. I wore the right pants. I styled my hair. I made sure I always smelled like I stepped out of a Bath & Body Works store, and, I exercised like my life depended on it, making sure the number on the scale was as low as I could possibly make it. It was a lot of work, trying to keep up...

Kayla Montgomery, Age 18: Running and Winning Races with Multiple Sclerosis

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(New York Times) — When a pack of whip-thin girls zipped across the finish of the 1,600-meter race at a recent track meet here, the smallest runner’s legs wobbled like rubber, and she flopped into her waiting coach’s arms. She collapses every time she races. Kayla Montgomery, 18, was found to have multiple sclerosis three years ago. Defying most logic, she has gone on to become one of the fastest...

My Parents Are Alcoholics: Doing Hard Things No One Ever Sees

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I’ve read Do Hard Things. I found it very inspirational. Then a video popped up about a kid who can explain the fourth dimension. I’ve yet to watch it, as I don’t understand what that would be. Then I started browsing the other videos. Some of them are like, Learn How To Build Robot Arms, or a kid builds a multi-million dollar industry, or some girl is shot by the Taliban. I...

Do Heart Things: A Challenge For Every Would-Be World Changer

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I believe anyone is capable of doing hard things. Anyone can publish a book, start a business, or run a campaign to raise awareness for AIDS in Africa. Everyone can do hard things once they set their minds to it. And while we might not do something as big as the things mentioned above, we are all capable of doing those things, and more. If we truly ever want something bad enough, trust me, we...

Changing the Face of Literature

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Just like movies and video games, books can have a huge impact on us. Unfortunately today’s literature is overflowing with shallow, dark, and often inappropriate material. As Christians, we can choose to avoid the worst of it, but we still end up reading novels that can affect us negatively. At the very least they are unhelpful for anyone trying to uphold Godly standards. I don’t pretend that...

rebelling against low expectations

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