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<body> <a href="http://www.aneverbetterworld.info">An Ever Better World Internet Academy</a><ul><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=32833>OPPORTUNITY</a><br><h1 style="MARGIN: auto 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Times New Roman">The Future God Planned For You Is Only Discovered By Walking Through The Gates Of <st1:place u1:st="on">Opportunity</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></font></span></h1> <h4 style="MARGIN: auto 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">"Make the most of every opportunity for doing <span class="grame">good</span> in these evil days."<br /> Ephesians 5:16 (NLT)<u2:p></u2:p></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></font></h4> <h4 style="MARGIN: auto 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">"A wise youth works hard all summer; a youth who sleeps away the hour of opportunity brings shame." <br /> Proverbs 10:5 (NLT)<u2:p></u2:p></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></font></h4> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: auto 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><st1:place u1:st="on">Opportunity</st1:place> comes to all of us, but very few people are able to recognize it and take advantage of it when it arrives. <st1:place u1:st="on">Opportunity</st1:place> is defined as: <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">a good chance for advancement or progress</em>. All of us desire to advance in life, but we must make the necessary preparations before we can go to that next level.</font></font></p> <u2:p></u2:p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: auto 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Let me illustrate my point. Suppose an elementary school encouraged its students to take the entrance exam into an Ivy League university. The results would be shameful, because elementary students are not prepared for collegiate exams.</font></p> <u2:p></u2:p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: auto 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">God deals with us in the same way. He withholds opportunities from our lives until we are adequately prepared to experience them. We are only able to enter the doors of opportunity when we prepare for the responsibility of the opportunity. Jesus used every opportunity He could to demonstrate the <st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:placetype u1:st="on">Kingdom</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename u1:st="on">God</st1:placename></st1:place>. Whether through miracles, forgiveness, parables, or compassion, Christ opened the doors of opportunity for those who prepared, bringing the transformation of God's kingdom directly into their lives.</font></p> <u2:p></u2:p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: auto 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Certain people, specific ideas, and particular instructions are sent by God to help prepare us. If we make the most of them, when the doors of opportunity open, we can run through them to achieve the plan God has for us.</font></p> <u2:p></u2:p><a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/32833"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=32233>PLANET EARTH FOREVER!</a><br><a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=41011842">Planet Earth Forever</a><br/><object width="425px" height="360px" ><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=41011842,t=1,mt=video"/><embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=41011842,t=1,mt=video" width="425" height="360" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/32233"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=31864>My Wish To You</a><br><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xz32I_GbpeU&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xz32I_GbpeU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/31864"> [2 COMMENTS]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=31575>It's Back! ...Time to remove the dust! ..Renew the mind!</a><br><img height="117" hspace="5" src="http://www.thefreemasterkey.com/images/master_key_system.jpg" width="75" align="left" vspace="5" border="0" alt="" /><strong><em><font size="4">The Master Key System</font></em></strong> <strong><em>by Charles F. Haanel is the only clear, concise, comprehensive, definitive, distinctive, cogent, and scientific presentation of the Creative Power of Thought ever formulated by any one person at any one time. </em></strong> <p><strong><em>The Master Key System is a system that teaches the ultimate priciples, causes, effects, and laws that underlie all attainment and success. When you want to attain something, The Master Key System will show you how to get it.</em></strong></p><a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/31575"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=30978>The Lesson of the RED MARBLES</a><br>In celebration of Gratitude, I'm posting this email I received as an example of how much little things can mean a lot to someone. I pray it blesses you as it blessed me. I was at the corner grocery store buying some early potatoes. I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged but clean, hungrily apprizing a basket of freshly picked green peas. I paid for my potatoes, but was also drawn to the display of fresh green peas. I am a pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes. Pondering the peas, I couldn't help overhearing the conversation between Mr. Miller (the store owner) and the ragged boy next to me. 'Hello Barry, how are you today?' 'H'lo, Mr. Miller. Fine, thank ya. Jus' admirin' them peas. They sure look good.' 'They are good, Barry. How's your Ma?' 'Fine. Gittin' stronger alla' time.' 'Good. Anything I can help you with?' 'No, Sir. Jus' admirin' them peas.' 'Would you like take some home?' asked Mr. Miller. 'No, Sir. Got nuthin' to pay for 'em with.' 'Well, what have you to trade me for some of those peas?' 'All I got's my prize marble here.' 'Is that right? Let me see it' said Miller. 'Here 'tis. She's a dandy.' 'I can see that. Hmmmmm, only thing is this one is blue and I sort of go for red. Do you have a red one like this at home?' the store owner asked 'Not zackley but almost.' "Tell you what. Take this sack of peas home with you and next trip this way let me look at that red marble", Mr. Miller told the boy. "Sure will. Thanks Mr. Miller." Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me. With a smile said, 'There are two other boys like him in our community, all three are in very poor circumstances. Jim just loves to bargain with them for peas, apples, tomatoes, or whatever.' When they come back with their red marbles, and they always do, he decides he doesn't like red after all and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one, when they come on their next trip to the store.' I left the store smiling to myself, impressed with this man. A short time later I moved to Colorado , but I never forgot the story of this man, the boys, and their bartering for marbles. Several years went by, each more rapid than the previous one. Just recently I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho community and while there I learned that Mr. Miller had died. They were having his visitation that evening and knowing my friends wanted to go, I agreed to accompany them. Upon arrival at the mortuary, we fell into line to meet the relatives of the deceased and to offer whatever words of comfort we could. Ahead of us in line were three young men. One was in an army uniform and the other two wore nice haircuts, dark suits and white shirts...all very professional looking. They approached Mrs. Miller, standing composed and smiling by her husband's casket. Each of the young men hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke briefly with her and moved on to the casket. Her misty light blue eyes followed them as, one by one, each young man stopped briefly and placed his own warm hand over the cold pale hand in the casket. Each left the mortuary awkwardly, wiping his eyes. Our turn came to meet Mrs. Miller. I told her who I was and reminded her of the story from those many years ago and what she had told me about her husband's bartering for marbles. With her eyes glistening, she took my hand and led me to the casket. 'Those three young men who just left were the boys I told you about. They just told me how they appreciated the things Jim 'traded' them for. Now, at last, when Jim could not change his mind about color or size....they came to pay their debt.' 'We've never had a great deal of the wealth of this world,' she confided, 'but right now, Jim would consider himself the richest man in Idaho '. With loving gentleness she lifted the lifeless fingers of her deceased husband. Resting underneath were three exquisitely shined red marbles. ... We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath. Today I wish you a day of ordinary miracles ~ A fresh pot of coffee you didn't make yourself. * An unexpected phone call from an old friend. Green stoplights on your way to work. The fastest line at the grocery store. A good old sing-along song on the radio. Your keys found right where you left them. Send this along... If you don't send it to anyone, it means you are in way too much of a hurry to even notice the ordinary miracles when they occur. It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/30978"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=30140>Ten Rules for Being Human</a><br>I stumbled across this and thought it'll bring a smile to those reading it. Enjoy! Ten Rules for Being Human by Cherie Carter-Scott 1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period. 2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life." 3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work." 4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson. 5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned. 6. "There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here." 7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself. 8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. 9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust. 10. You will forget all this.<a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/30140"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=30059>How's Your Attitude</a><br>When you understand, that your disappointment in another's behavior or choices always stems from their immaturity, or yours, rather than their unkindness, or yours, it becomes much harder not to keep skipping through life, giddy with joy, smelling the flowers. Moreover, when you understand that with enough maturity on your end you can always find peace in all of your relationships, it becomes much harder not to run down the street kissing everyone you meet on both cheeks. <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/30059"> [1 COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=30017>Better Late Than Never</a><br>In memory of Dr. Martin Luthur King Day “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” …..Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963. http://innovativedesignstyle.com/MLK001.jpg <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/30017"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=29704>HAPPY HOLIDAYS - THANKS FOR BEING MY FRIEND!</a><br><embed src="http://update.videoegg.com/flash/proxy.swf?jsver=1.4" FlashVars="file=http%3A//tagged.041.download.videoegg.com/gid376/cid1282/CL/F5/11987121320dwr8LMd34QzAh2b5VzJ&swfpath=http://update.videoegg.com/flash/proxy.swf?jsver=1.4&autoPlay=false&showAd=true&showAdPrimary=true&wmode=opaque&adVars=site%3Dtagged%26area%3Dnull%26channel%3Dmusic%26vl%3Dus%26va%3D50%26vg%3Dm%26&allowGrabcode=false&allowEmailShare=false&allowRecommendations=false&skin=skins/tagged&clickurl=http%3A//video.tagged.com/%3Fv%3DdDVq--KKVc&clickurl_openinnewwindow=false&MMredirectURL=http%3A//video.tagged.com/%3Fv%3DdDVq--KKVc%26srcevent%3D4buH4C.3001.M0004buH4C.1&MMplayerType=ActiveX&MMdoctitle=Tagged%20Video%20-%20WITHOUT%20YOU" quality="high" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" scale="noscale" wmode="opaque" width="450" height="370" name="VE_Player" id="VE_Player" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=29704">[READ MORE]</a> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/29704"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=29687>Happy Holidays</a><br><center><a href="http://www.sparkletags.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z195/sparkletags4/Christmas/hh001-vi.gif" border="0"></a><br><b><a href="http://www.sparkletags.com" target="_blank">Courtesy of SparkleTags.Com</a></center><br><a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/29687"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li></ul> </body>