Up Pacquiao, Down Tiger
Up Pacquiao
Voted 2009 Male Athlete of the Year (worldwide) was a little 5'6" 138lb boxing champ, Manny Pacquiao, a faithful husband, father of four, Christian and a hero to his (my native) country, the Philippines.
Down Tiger
Pacquiao's character is unlike the Athlete of the Decade, Tiger Woods, unfaithful husband, father, Buddhist American. As a Filipino-American and a former NCAA athlete scholar, I celebrate the best of the Philippines and continue to pray for my adopted, beloved country, America!
Resolve
In light of the above, this year: Resolve not to allow present temporal conditions reign over you. Do not allow current and changing atmospheric conditions cloud your eternal perspective. REE (Psalm 51:8-9.
Showing posts with label Dutch Reformed Christian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dutch Reformed Christian. Show all posts
Jan 8, 2010
Jan 7, 2010
Wise Words from President Theodore Roosevelt
Wise Words from President Theodore Roosevelt on personal life, national life and economic life
On this New Year, "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
President Theodore Roosevelt, a Dutch Reformed Christian, also provided a recipe for a health nation: "A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean,vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk."
His words against welfare, which by definition includes the current health care bill and the previous stimulus bills, was simple: Commanding the re-establishment of the
8th Commandment, Roosevelt bellowed: "Do not steal."
On this New Year, "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
President Theodore Roosevelt, a Dutch Reformed Christian, also provided a recipe for a health nation: "A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean,vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk."
His words against welfare, which by definition includes the current health care bill and the previous stimulus bills, was simple: Commanding the re-establishment of the
8th Commandment, Roosevelt bellowed: "Do not steal."
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