Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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Earning someone's confidence is better than earning their envy. It's not about the things you have, those tempting little goodies that beg you to show-off. It is about the things you do that good folks will notice and be glad for. May God bless
you with good character and holy living.
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MIDWESTERN NICE
Chicago boxer Claire Quinn was on the way to the gym last weekend, planning on sparring in the ring, when she ended up in a street fight in Bucktown.
A teenager asked Quinn for directions to the Nike store as she walked in the 1600 block of North Damen Avenue about 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Moments later, an older man came up from behind and sucker punched her in the head, demanding her cellphone.
But the blow didn’t stop Quinn, a Golden Gloves champion with a 6-0 record this year.
“I was like, ‘Aw, heck no,’ ” she said by phone Thursday from Florida, where she went to stay with her parents while recuperating from a concussion from the attack. “He punched me the one time really hard, and then after that I just kept throwing my right hand into his groin.”
Her right is her dominant arm — the one responsible for four knockouts this year. It didn’t fail her. The two exchanged five or six punches apiece while the man tried to grab the phone she kept clutched in her left hand. He finally gave up and ran off empty-handed.
“Eventually I connected enough that he stumbled away from me,” Quinn said from a salon where she was having her nails — fingers and toes — painted a bright yellow shade called “Never a Dulles Moment,” which she said, “seemed to be the perfect shade under the circumstances...READ MORE
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STAYING ON THE NARROW ROAD
First I want to thank God for not giving up on me and I thank God for the people and leader's Minister's pastor's teacher's that he has blessed me with as marker's to keep me on that narrow road and never stop prayering for me, I been praying for God to make his plan that God has for my life plain and I prayed for the Holy Spirit to speak to my heart and I never heard the spirit of God speak to me like now I'm in Awe of your presence Lord and I'm asking that you
stand in agreement with me and put me back in the place he wants me to be, I know now that God called me to obedient to his word it's all about our Lord not trying to please man child or family I have decided to follow the Lord now it's the cross in front of me and the world behind me, thank you Lord in advance for answers and I pray that you continue to bless my pastor's church and warriors and bless my son mind and heart in Your Holy Name name amen ☝️ trust God
- mary a.
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