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Multivitamin 101

Key facts everyone should know about daily multivitamin/mineral supplements. It seems like every month a new article is published extolling the virtues of a specific vitamin or mineral or claiming that a vitamin or mineral isn't necessary at all.  The contradictory opinions can create a great deal of confusion about health, nutrition and the practice of preventative health care. While new benefits and new questions will constantly arise as science improves, the basic principles of health have remained unchanged for thousands of years. When it comes to the nutritional needs of the human body, there are three key facts you can always rely on: 1. Your Body Can't Produce Vitamins and Minerals - TRULY ESSENTIAL NUTRITION - Vitamins and minerals are nutrients that are required for life that are not usually created by the body. You need them to live, and you have to get them from your diet. The most common source is fruits and vegetables, but according to a 2009 report from t

Stop The Gossip

Have you ever really stopped to think about the words that come out of your mouth? Words are very hurtful. To copy a song lyric, "They can cut like a knife!" I never understood as a child the little diddy, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me." I was either a VERY sensitive child (still am!) or these things just didn't bother other people the way they bothered me or they were just really good at hiding their feelings. I received the article below from someone very near and dear to me. After reading it, it really made me sit back and think about the words that come out of my mouth. I have always been very careful with my words in the aspect of never calling anyone any kind of name other than their given name or a term of endearment (positive endearment). I remember as a child some names that were "thrown" my way and how hurtful they were. But what about casual conversations? Do we realize how much we "gossip" on

FAITH

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allposters.com/Outside a Rural Home, a Woman Pours Well Water by Willard Culver Faith is the bucket of power ~   lowered by the rope of prayer ~   into the well of God's abundance. What we bring up depends upon what we let down. We have every encouragement to use a big bucket. ~Virginia Whitman

Great Quotes on Prayer

from Meet Me In The Meadow by Roy When we depend on man, we get what man can do; when we depend on prayer, we get what God can do. -unknown Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. -Sidlow Baxter If we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God’s standing challenge, “Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not!” –J. Hudson Taylor

San Antonio River Walk

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