I asked God to take away my pride. And God said “No”.
He said it was not for him to take away, but for me to give it up.
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I asked God to make my handicapped child whole. And God said “No”.
He said her spirit was whole, her body was only temporary.
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I asked God to grant me patience. And God said “No”.happiness, blessings,
He said patience is a byproduct of tribulations. It isn’t granted, it is earned.
Students of the Victor Dixon High School in Mandeville rendered selfless service to the aged and indigent last week.
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During two days of community service, the students visited several homes for the aged and the Manchester Infirmary.
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For 17-year-old Tanya Scott, a grade-11 student of the Adventist-owned institution, “the experience was motivating”.
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“I’m very happy I got the opportunity to help those elderly persons,” said Tanya. “As an individual, I felt motivated. It is good to see the smile on their faces when a young person comes and talk to them and listens to their story. It is something I would love to do again and again.”
If life begins at 40, as is the mantra of the archetypal career woman, Verona Grant-Brissett strapped up to get in the game just after the opening whistle had blown.
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But time has never been on her side.
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A topsy-turvy life from serving as a pre-teen surrogate mother and cleaning floors to survive meant sacrificing her dreams early on. Later, Grant-Brissett was told she was too old to don her whites and become a nurse. Guess who’s laughing now?
There was a Black man, a White man, a Native American man and a Latino man.
All four of them were on top of a cliff discussing the difficulties that
their people had gone through.
The Native American said, ‘My people have suffered the most, and in honor of what they have endured, I will hurl myself off this cliff in hopes that my blood will change things.’
So he yelled ‘THIS IS FOR MY PEOPLE’, and jumped off the
cliff, the Latino not wanting to be outdone, quickly looked at the other two and followed
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Mar 16 2009
