Finally Free - Learning How to Work for Yourself

I've always liked handwriting. As a child, I saw beautiful samples of handwriting and thought, "I want to be able to have handwriting as beautiful as that!" So, in my free time (sometimes in church during a sermon, I hate to admit) I would practice my penmanship until the letters looked like they came out of a book or a caligraphy print. I did end up taking a caligraphy class in college, just for the fun of it, even though I was an elementary education major. I was obsessed with what my handwriting looked like, that I would often copy something two or three times so it would look nice. In high school and college, I would quickly scribble down the notes I had to take from the professor in order to grasp the material (this was before our digital age). That afternoon or evening, I would rewrite my notes in another notebook, so they were organized and legible. It helped me study as well. The problem was that I was so attached to my notebooks full of beautiful handwriting, I h...

  I've grown up in a Christian home and heard Godly preaching on a regular basis. One of the things pastors, and teachers encouraged us to do was read the Bible for ourselves. If you could just dedicate 15 min. per day in God's Word it would change your life! It would give clarity to what you're hearing and being taught. It will give you direction for your life. You will find out more about the God you say you love. Martin Luther (during the Reformation period) was a living example of how, when he read the Bible for himself, found out that salvation is by faith and grace, not by any works that we could do. That's what started the whole "protestant" departure from the church of England. And from there we have many demoninations that take what they believe from God's Word and start their own churches. I digress; that's a discussion for another time. So, while growing up, I knew of only a handful of people who actually read through the entire Bible multip...