Dear Friends, Unremarkable....a plainly dressed little girl clearly focused on the parade. It didn't matter that no one but her parents on the crowded streets...
Chosen
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Identity & Belonging
Already Complete
Dear Friends, Perfection. A hard place to come by. Maybe a hole-in-one golf shot. Or a 1600 on the SAT test. Or the number 9 being a perfect square. Shots and...
Everybody Only
Dear Friends, New Hope Academy, a pre-K–6 school in Franklin, TN, was cited by former president George W. Bush in an address to the nation during his term in...
Trusted Allyship
Dear Friends, If you were wondering... the "2021 Word of the Year" is "allyship"... as per dictionary.com. The word "allyship"... first noted in the 1840s...
New Creation Heritage
Dear Friends, You might be surprised who you're related to. Actress Meghan Markle, now wife of Prince Harry, is a distant sixth cousin to Winston Churchill...
Setting the Bar
Dear Friends, Achieving the high bar... perhaps in music or business or sports or academics. Rock climbers have a high bar... it's El Capitan. Over the years,...
What you’re Made For
Dear Friends, You've seen it! USAA's new marketing slogan, "What you're made of, we are made for"... grounded in what the military community needs and values....
Qualified by God
Dear Friends, Disqualified. Cancelled out. Lots of reasons... age, height, eyesight, or previous illness. Maybe it's education, or race, missing a deadline or...
Condescended Greatness
Dear Friends, It's the birthplace of one of the most famous people in sports history... the rural village Gilmore, Ohio located just 30 minutes south of...
Identity Amnesia
Dear Friends, "I still feel like a loser kid in high school, and I just have to pick myself up and tell myself that I'm a superstar every morning. I just...