Without a doubt, we are still the most powerful nation on the face of this earth. I’m not just talking about our military. As a nation we must individually continue to pursue what we know to be right and not what always feels good to us. We are facing some struggles right now because many of us seem to think that our voice or efforts won’t make a difference. It is time for us to speak up for our country and the things that it was founded upon. I encourage anyone that reads this post to educate themselves about The Constitution of  The United States of America. When a nation falls into a pit, it is primarily because the people of that nation have allowed it to happen by silence and inactivity. Shame on us! The time is now to know the truth and act upon it.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Pearl S. Buck ( 1892 – 1973 )

Just because we feel fear doesn’t make us a coward. We become cowardly when we allow that fear to cuase us to do the opposite of what is required. We will always feel the precence of fear as we advance in life. That doesn’t mean we are cowards and we can continue on with our plans in the face of fear.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

Many of our fears are tissue-paper thin, and a single courageous  step would carry us clear through them.

Brendan Francis

We should always be checking our motives. If we are moved by our own self-centered thoughts then we are missing it altogether.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

Most people are good. There aren’t many really evil people. But there are an awful lot of selfish ones.

Walter Cronkite  (1916 –       )

Friendship can only be experienced if we will first be a friend to someone else.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

Go slowly to the entertainment of thy friend, but quickly to their misfortune.

Discouragement is designed to make you feel like all of our efforts were a waste of time, and that things are never going to work out. Discouragement is nothing but a fickle emotions with a big bark and a bite that at first feels like it is huge. We should step back, take some deep breathes as the smoke screen clears, and be ready to go at it again. We will still have an opportunity to suceed.

Rhon Johnson

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Success comes to those who are niehter afraid to fail nor discouraged by failure. 

Proverb

Who is good?  We are all sinners saved by His grace.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

Dwight Lyman Moody ( 1837 – 1899 )

Don’t be afraid to look people in the eye as you go about our daily business. It is the first way that we conect with other people. Do you notice that in public that most of the time when people lock eyes with each other that one or both of them will quickly turn away. We should go ahead and speak, it is our opportunity to connect with them.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

Man to man, eye to eye, I have nothing to hide unless I look away before I have something to say.

Rhon Johnson ( 1966 –       )

No one wins with abuse. Joyce Meyer said it perfectly, “hurting people hurt other people.” If something doesn’t happen to break the cycle, there is good  chance for the abused  to become the abuser one day soon. Abuse comrs in many forms. Physical, emotional, and verbal. People suffering from abuse are all around us. When the word abuse is uttered, we think about a parent abusing their child, a spouse abusing their partner , or a family member abusing another family member. Abuse also occures in the work place when some one in authority abuses those under them. Those that abuse others must be confronted appropriately or else the abuse continues until significant damage is done.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quoote:

More than 90 percent of all prisoners in our American prisons have all been abused as children.

John Powell

Trust can be destroyed in a second and can take a life time to rebuild.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

Trust begets (produces) truth.

Sir William Gurney Benham ( 1858 – 1944 ) 

A fact is a fact. It is solid and steadfast. We fail in our endeavors when we don’t pay attention to the facts. Another way to say it is to pay attention to the writing on the wall, the pink elephant sitting in the middle of the floor that everyone pretends is not there. Refusing to hear the facts because it’s not what we want to hear will not make it go a way.

Rhon Johnson

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Power Quote:

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley ( 1894 – 1963 )