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Children of the light

12/9/2012

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    There are times I feel like a nobody.  In fact, those times happen quite often.  I’m just a regular American girl, neither stunningly beautiful or the next Steve Jobs (female style).  I’m not writing symphonies or painting masterpieces.  I live in a small house with 2 roommates and am a nanny.  I worry what people think of me too much.  I’m OCD about grammatical errors.   I love love.  My nails are chipped.  My lips are chapped.  I love a man.  I go to church.  I love.  I live.  I laugh.  Nothing special about that.

               However, I believe in a God that is so powerful that He would choose to turn a nobody into a somebody.  Mind you, not for my glory but for His.  See it’s not about me.  I am nothing without Christ.  But with Him, I can be unstoppable.  He is power.  He is love.  He is and will forever be.  I don’t need lots of money, nice clothes, a big house, fame, popularity, or anything else that the world has to offer because I’m on the team that ALWAYS wins.

            I’m no Savior but He is.  And if His strength, known as the Holy Ghost, resides inside of me, then I have untapped potential to be a world changer in His name.  I can move mountains.  I can change history.  I can save lives.  All because He enables me to.  As a result, his name is lifted higher and more lives are saved by the only one that can, Jesus.  I am royalty not because I’m rich.  Not because I’m gorgeous.  Not because I’m famous.  But because He is.  He is rich in love.  Beautifully compassionate.  And the most famous name there ever was.  And I’m His daughter.

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Even When It Rains

9/3/2012

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Today is a dreary day.  Rain is falling, darkness is looming, and my condo is freezing.  Everyone seems to be hurting lately in my life and I have too much to do and not enough time.  So, I'm sitting here asking myself, "Do I give in to misery and mope around like Eeyore or do I choose to see the sunshine that I believe is coming and bounce around for joy like Tigger?"  Do I focus on the tragedies or count my blessings?  It would be easy to curl up in bed and cry or to just retire on the sofa and drown out the thoughts with a pointless reality show. However, what does that accomplish?  In fact, I think it may even lead to feeling worse than before it happened.  Do I surrender to stress and fear or do I stand tall and say, "No way!"  No way, that my day is going to be ruined by something that won't even matter next week.  No way am I going to be unproductive, lazy, and selfish when there are much more serious problems in the world today such as malnutrition, war, and disease.  No way am I going to feel sorry for myself when I have a roof over my head, food on the table, clothes on my body, a bed to sleep in, clean water, shoes that fit, people that love me, a job, an awesome church, an awesome God, an awesome life compared to the other 75% of people that don't live this way.  No way am I going to be a Debbie Downer when my life on the whole is that of which should make me a Happy Helen.  I AM blessed and the more I remind myself of that, the more my spirits are lifted.  Matter of fact, sometimes it's the darkness that reminds me how fortunate I am to have the light in my life.  We need to be humbled from time to time and be grateful for what we DO have.  We have so much more than we deserve.  Most of us aren't saving lives by the thousands on a daily basis, ending world hunger, stopping pollution, helping animals weekly, or running for President.  What did we do to deserve the American life?  We were born lucky.  That is it.  It is a gift and if we don't appreciate it, we might lose it.  I am thankful.  I am blessed.  Even when it rains....  
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Goalie, Let me Score!

7/2/2012

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First of all, it's been way too long since I've wrote!  Is it really July and if it is, how did this happen?!  Time is a battle that I sometimes feel that I'm racing against but it always seems to get ahead of me.  How do we stop time or are we supposed to just accept that everything happens when it's meant to happen?  I suppose the latter is true but that doesn't necessarily make it any easier.  Of all the things I want to do, it seems 24 hours is just not enough.  Fortunately, in the past few months, a lot of progress has been made nonetheless.  We have grown our Inspirational Gatherings, developed a Power Board of visionaries, and participated in some exciting opportunities!  I am grateful beyond measure for the incredible hearted people that I have encountered along this wildly enthralling journey and thrilled that many of them have stepped up to be on our Power Board, the board of influential members serving as the hands, feet, and minds of the movement.  These world changers will play an instrumental role in making the most of our short time here on earth by reaching even more areas of need to do greater good and for that I am forever thankful.

Last PB meeting we talked a little about goals, not just relating to PCW, but also to our  own personal lives.  By writing down tangible, purpose-filled goals and making it a priority to review them daily, we grow as individuals.  When we're growing, we're happier.  Remaining stagnant equals dissatisfaction but progress gives us true joy.  Consequently, we set some realistic goals, ranging from exercise to reading, for the second half of 2012.  We wrote in our special notebooks what we would do daily, weekly, and monthly.  Here are some of mine:

Daily: Post something positive on Twitter
1x a Week: Volunteer
1x a Week: Meet with an interesting person
3X a Week: Read
3X a Week: Practice Music
4x a Week: Exercise
1x a Month: Attend a conference, workshop, or other training
1X a Month: Conduct research relating to philanthropy      

What are yours?
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    Hello there friends, thank you for stopping by my blog!  I 'm Suzanne and I'm the creator and founder of Project Change The World.  I began this movement from the childhood dream that I could make the world a better place.  Yes, I know, most children dream of being astronauts or rock stars but I've always been slightly different than most.  Nonetheless, my dream of living life to the fullest by making a difference in the world was fully realized back in May 2010.  I was tired of sitting back and helplessly watching bad things happen to innocent folks.  I was sick of not doing anything about it.  I decided it was time for a change.  I scribbled some notes and ideas into my composition books and began the planning and research phase.  Shortly later, PCW began to come to life.  I realized that if no one else was going to do something like this, someone had to.  Someone had to stand up for what's right. Even though I don't like scary movies and people have let me down one too many times, I decided that it was time to be brave and step out of my comfort zone.  I thought of all the greats (MLK, Rosa Parks, Lincoln, Einstein, Washington, etc.) and realized that if they too had been afraid, where would our world be today?  So here I am writing this, in hopes that one day others will step up too and join the movement to save lives.  My ultimate goal is to live in a world where kids can safely play on the streets, people are strong enough to do the right thing despite temptation, no child really is left behind because they are our future, nature is preserved, no animal is abused. cancer is cured,  teen girls don't starve themselves, and so on.  Some will call it all naive and unrealistic but anything great in life never comes easy.  I dare to do what others deem impossible.  I want to live in a world where good deeds and spontaneous, warm-hearted gestures mixed with strong yet gentle love are everywhere to be  found.  Don't you?  But wanting is not enough; it's time to do something with that dream.  We must enable, empower, save, help, restore, give, heal, and change.  Join me?

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