What Difference Does It Make?

This question is one that I am sure each of us has asked at one time or another.  Perhaps it was out loud while talking with a trusted friend during a crossroads moment in your life or blurted out in frustration over a specific event. Maybe it was simply in a quiet moment of reflection.   For each leader, there are three basic tools they have at their disposal:  power, authority, and influence.  Each of these is necessary...

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An Act of God

An 'Act of God' is described as an extraordinary interruption that is beyond human control and can't be prevented! Years ago, this term would lead a person to think directly of insurance claims as the image of a neighbor's tree which was once upright now rest on the roof of what used to be a minivan. In more recent years, the mind might rush to scenes of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina or the faces of Indonesian children after the devastation...

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Hurricane Sandy: The Salvation Army Serving New Jersey

The Salvation Army New Jersey is dedicated to the long-term needs of Hurricane Sandy survivors. For more information, visit http://www.salvationarmynj....

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HIS World: Flowers Grow in the City

Batty Hattie, they call her, as she waits in line for the hot food from our soup van's serving window. "Crazy as a loon …..and a thief too." That's what they say about her to our workers who visit the streets of the city nightly. She wears dated but dressy church hats from the thrift shop. The kind you see on older matriarchs as they go to Ebenezer Baptist on Sunday...Except these have street dirt and years of dust layered on the felt and satin...

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