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What does the word  “sacrifice” conjure up in your mind?  What Does Sacrifice Mean to You?

To our military personnel sacrifice is giving up their personal lives to fight for our country. It means leaving spouses, children, family members and friends, and sometimes it means never coming back. That is truly an enormous sacrifice.

The spouses of these individuals are faced with the burdens of maintaining a household and the needs of their children single handed.  Although my husband did not go into the military, I was divorced and left to be a single mother for two beautiful daughters.  I know first-hand what this entails.  It is not an easy task.

It seems recently there has been a lot of mention on TV programs about World War II and those that lost their lives.  Mention has been made of all of the medals they won and what heroes they are.  But what a void remains in our hearts for those that never returned home.

I was barely born during World War II, but I do remember the Viet Nam War.  I remember holding my breath as my husband’s draft number came within two of the cut off.  Our daughters were just babies. I lived in fear of losing him.

We do not even have to relate the sacrifice to war.  How many people serving our communities as police officers, firemen/women have lost their lives to save the lives of others?  Sacrifice is a daily part of our lives.

Another sacrifice that was brought to my mind was those who lost their lives under the cruel rule of Adolph Hitler.  Lisa Kudrow was on the TV show, “Who Do You Think You Are”, and traced her ancestors.  She learned the fate of those who were stripped of their clothing, executed and pushed into the pit of destruction.  Imagine if you were a child who had escaped and were watching this from a distance.  The horror of seeing your parents or family members lose their lives in this fashion is incomprehensible for sure. There was a joyful discovery in locating her father’s family members who are still alive.  This brought tears of joy to my heart.

We are faced with various degrees of sacrifice in our lives.  With the economy the way it is many families have been faced with losing their homes, cars and other possessions just to have money enough to buy food and feed their children.

Single mothers go without food themselves so that they children will have food to eat.  Homeless people go without shelter, food, clothing never losing sight of the hope of finding assistance.

As parents we sacrifice our desires to fulfill the needs and wants of our children.  These are joyful sacrifices, as far as I am concerned.  We are truly blessed to have these children, if only for a short time.

With Easter approaching my thoughts and heart are awakened thinking about the supreme sacrifice that God made for us.  Sending his son Jesus to show us the way and then Jesus’ supreme sacrifice of dying on the cross to save us from our sins.  I am sure you will agree that Jesus’ sacrifice can never be duplicated.  I am forever grateful for Jesus and the cross at Calvary.

As a final thought, I recently heard it said that the greatest gift of love is not what someone is willing to give, but what they are willing to give up …. This is a true sacrifice.

I hope that your sacrifices will be few and your lives absent of want and filled with His many blessings.  Ultimately, I hope you will never have to ask, “What Does Sacrifice Mean to Me.”

 

Judy Conway
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By law, full-power television stations nationwide must begin broadcasting exclusively in a digital format by June 12, 2009. The U.S. Congress approved an extension of the deadline, which was originally set for February 17. 

I was thinking about this this other day and a few things crossed my mind. How many people are out there running around in a tizzy trying to make sure everything is in place for June 12th so they will not be without television? 

Are we sure that our “heart” reception is in place for when that last trumpet blows and we are called home? Far too few of us are giving as much thought to that as we do to our televisions. 

In this day of economic crisis many of us are in a state of great turmoil as to how we are going to survive, and how we are going to provide for our families. It is important that we don’t get caught up in the fear of “What will happen?”, “What am I going to do?” and woe is me. This kind of thinking will immobilize you for what you need to do NOW. 

I have been through hard times. I was divorced after 12 years of marriage and raised two beautiful daughters through some very financially difficult times. There were many weeks that all we had was $10.00 for food to last us. Believe me, I can relate to people going through hard times. I do not take this lightly. Yes it is difficult. 

Sometimes it is through our most difficult situations that we find greater opportunities. We will come out on the other side of our economic crisis better off if we are encountering our trials with the right mindset. After trying to be in control of my life and make everything better I realized that God is much better at these things than I am. He knows what lies ahead. I gave my life to Him and the control of it as well. I am sure there were many times that people thought I had an “I don’t give a darn” attitude, but that was not case. I lived by faith and knew that by the grace of God we were going to be okay. 

Two years ago I was laid off from a pharmaceutical company that had to downsize. I was planning on this being my last job before retiring. I was unable to find a comparable job and last year I filed for an early retirement. 

I had already been working at a home based internet marketing business. I continued with that. Let me take this opportunity to stress that before you embark on a home based business be sure you know all of the facts about the company you are considering. After working extremely hard at the one I was in it became apparent that there was a lot of money going out and nothing coming in. I am not a quiter, but had to admit that it was time I faced facts that this company was not going to work for me. 

I felt that there was still opportunity and benefits to working at home. I perserved and found the following online internet business opportunities that I would highly recommend. I am a retired grandparent in the world of online business opportunities. Never let it be said that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks!! 

In joining $200 Per Day Bluprint there were other systems involved to make everything work. It wasn’t long and I signed up with The New Plan Network (GlobalNPN.com). For $10.75 a month you will be amazed at the marketing tools that you will have in addition to being able to use NPN’s Unique “Power of 1″ Marketing Strategy to generate $47,508.00 by just making one easy $10.75 sale per month. 

The next step was becoming involved with the Crazy Foxes Marketing Group. This is an amazing group of like minded leaders in the industry that provide support 24/7. I learned more from the Crazy Foxes in three months then I did the previous three years I was working online. They provide training tutorials and it is a marvelous family community. Get your FREE Crazy Foxes Report, DAM-It. These will be the best 7 pages you have ever read. They can change the direction you are going in your business. 

The next step in developing my business and online marketing tools was to become connected with Veretekk. By this stage I could not help but think….”It just keeps getting better.” Veretekk is a very powerful system providing lead generation, portal and SEO marketing, Veremail, Vereconference with live training, training modules and video tutorials for every aspect of the system. You can sign up for FREE to be a Silver Member and if you sign up before April 1st to be a Gold Member the upgrade fees have been waived. April 1st there are going to be many more features included. There will even be a social network, and the Conference room is being increased to 5 seats included in your membership. 

The Crazy Foxes also keeps its members abreast of new business opportunities that they have looked over and feel are beneficial. Members are not obligated to join these, but recently I joined an opportunity that is worth promoting. 

The name of the company is Ultra International. It is a global opportunity that provides solutions for your home, health and wealth. These products are chemically free, and even the bottles are biodegradable within 30 days. If you are one 94% of the mothers who were recently surveyed that replied they would change their cleaning and healthcare products if they knew they were harmful …. now is your opportunity. There is no financial investment requirement. The products all have a 90 day money back guarantee. You can even sign on as a customer and as a loyal customer you will be rewarded and can over time make $10,000.00 a month. Where do you find a company that rewards faithful customers? The products are spa quality. Check out the compensation plan. You will be amazed.

 On one of the Ultra training calls, “Wake Up with Scott and Bobbie” this morning Scott made a meaningful statement. He is looking for the calvary coming over the hill to save him and his family. Ultra is the calvary and our economic rescue. This is a program where you transfer your buying habits. 

I want to personally share my testimony about one of the Ultra products. It is their Body meal replacement product. I started taking it the end of January and I have currently lost 23 pounds. Although losing this weight is truly exciting, there is something that excites me more. For the past two years I have been on medication for knee pain, leg pain and lower back pain. I had many sleepless nights laying there with pain starting at my waist, in my hips and down my legs to my feet. I had to move my office downstairs because I could not do the stairs any more. When I went shopping with my daughter I could barely get in and out of the car, let alone walk without pain. And I really was sad to hobble along with my grandchildren. Last weekend my daughter and I were out shopping for 7 hours, and 6 stores. I must admit the bottoms of my toes were sore because of the shoes I wore, but that was the extent of the pain. Any other time I would have been unable to move the next day. The only thing I am doing differently in my life is taking Body!” 

I hope that this information will be helpful to you. Please take the time to check out these opportunities. 

I wish you all of the very best. You can survive these times! 

Blessings,
Judy Conway
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