You were gifted this life by the Creator. It is yours to do with whatever you please. You can choose good or bad. You have the option to choose life or death. You are able to decide what you do and what you accomplish. It is even your option to decide to spend this gift that belongs to you, doing absolutely nothing. You are the only one who can decide to be happy, to be successful, to remain depressed, or to be a failure. You are in charge of being the victim or the victor.

In this recession, everyone is concerned about job security and cutbacks. There are teacher’s with master’s degrees in education standing in lines to work any job in a hotel. It is a blessing to be able to get up every morning, walk into the doors of a school building, be in a position to influence and motivate our youth, and take home a check at the end of the pay period to feed own babies. We are blessed. God gave us the opportunity to be a positive influence on his children, ours and others. He gave us the opportunity to instill skills necessary for young people to become successful and productive members of society to us, in our hands.

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