I am honored to have another great guest post for you today. Daryl Dudley, Chief Encouragement Officer for Dudley’s B Sharp Music Academy, Dudley Advantage, L.L.C., and many more excellent organizations has allowed us to share an ” NOW ” word for us that he recently posted on his facebook profile. Please leave your comments below and you can contact Mr. Dudley on his facebook page here.  Please open your heart and read this article below. – Ryan Tomlinson

I was watching a compelling documentary about the impoverished families in the nation of Cambodia…..Their level of poverty is well beyond what many, dare I say, ANY Americans have ever experienced. In 2012, whole families, Mom, Dad, and all children wake up in the wee hours of the morning to sort through trash to find plastics and metals that can be recycled.

Can you imagine going to a trash dump, waiting for the neighborhood garbage trucks to unload so that you can sort through the bottles, the rotten food, the soiled diapers…. the SMELLS to find something that will net your family $2.50 per week (yes, my decimal point is in the right place)? Continue reading →

Hello Friends,  I have a very special guest post for you today. She is a Author, Speaker, Teacher and Pastor. Reverend Lynn B Fowler Known as RevLynn on The Christian Volume Forums where she is also takes on your questions at the Ask a Pastor Thread on our Forums.

You can also learn more about Reverend Lynn  and her ministry at her website .

I challenge you to read this post with an open heart today and pray about the weeds in your life that you need remove. As always we welcome your positive comments below either in the Comment box provided or through facebook comments if you are logged in to your account.

A Thorny Problem:

By Rev. Lynn B Fowler

“Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.” Matthew 13:7 (NIV)

Have you ever noticed how weeds grow much more quickly, more strongly and more profusely than the plants that we actually want to grow? One time some years ago I had moved into a new home with a rather large back yard. Since I had been promising myself for some time that if I ever had enough room, I would plant a vegetable garden, I decided that this was the time and place. I thought it would be a nice way of relaxing, taking out the frustrations of the day by physical work. It worked well, for a couple of months. Then my life, as life so often does, took on a life of its own and kept me so busy that I had no time for the garden. It soon degenerated from a vegetable patch to a weed patch in which a few hardy vegetables struggled to survive. Instead of a relaxation, it became one more source of pressure in my life. Continue reading →