D.A.T.A. stands for desires, abilities, temperament and assets. . . . desires [may] include solving problems, performing intellectually challenging work in an independent setting and making things run well . . . abilities [are] the transferable skills. . . . to solve people's problems. These may include writing, budgeting and using different software programs . . . temperament [may refer to] what situations [make you] most productive and satisfied . . . assets are the life experiences, education and training that set [one] apart from everyone else. |
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. |
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. |
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be |
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster. |
We come to beginnings only at the end |