Thursday, December 31, 2009
ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIASTS REMEMBER 2009 AND LOOK FORWARD TO 2010!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO AN OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIAST
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIASTS REMEMBER THE HOLY INNOCENTS OF WAR, DOMESTIC ABUSE, STARVATION, AND ELECTIVE ABORTIONS
Unfortunately, these HOLY INNOCENTS do not have a voice in what is happening in their lives unless COURAGEOUS ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIASTS TAKE A STAND AND SPEAK UP FOR THE HOLY INNOCENTS. How many innocent children are starved to death because their legal guardians are unwilling to live up to their responsibilities of being a parent? How many domestic violent situations impact the innocence of children who are unable to defend themselves from the horrors of parental abuse and are scarred for life? How many innocent children are orphaned because of war torn areas that take away their loving parents and neighbors? How many innocent children are tricked by unscrupulous adults into performing acts that are animalistic in nature and heinous at best? How many innocent babies are killed in the womb because their mothers received inadequate information and misleading pressures by multi-billion businesses that make PRO-CHOICE a PRO-DEATH decision? How many innocent children are deprived of an opportunity to receive quality education because of the laxity and the lack of any dedication by uncaring professionals? Yes, the HOLY INNOCENTS of our current generation deserve much better care and understanding than the extreme situations that have been cited. If Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts really want to MAKE A DIFFERENCE in their unique environments, let each A.L.E. be an adult model that airs, cares, shares, and bears the "wounds" that innocent children are carrying as unnecessary burdens in their life.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIASTS TREASURE THEIR SPECIAL FAMILY SPIRIT
Saturday, December 26, 2009
AN ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIAST'S SPECIAL BIRTHDAY WISH!
Friday, December 25, 2009
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIASTS WORLDWIDE....
A CHILD IS BORN TO US, A SON IS GIVEN TO US, JESUS CHRIST, OUR MESSIAH AND REDEEMER....MARY CHRISTMAS
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESUS, IN 2009! MAY YOUR PEACE, YOUR JOY, AND YOUR LOVE RADIATE IN OUR LIVING TEMPLES that you will TRANSFORM through your EUCHARISTIC PRESENCE IN OUR LIVES...if we are willing to say, "YES, JESUS, I AM COUNTING ON YOU." He came as EMMANUEL, GOD IS WITH US...He came as MESSIAH, to bring HIS FATHER'S LOVE through the power of the HOLY SPIRIT...He was killed for what he believed...and HE ROSE in three days as He had promised...HIS PROMISES YOU CAN COUNT ON...HIS CHANGES AFFECT OUR ETERNAL LIFE....LOVE CAME DOWN AT CHRISTMAS, the first Christmas, AND LOVE COMES TO ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE OPEN TO RECEIVE HIS LOVE......HE IS THE ONLY WAY, THE ONLY TRUTH, AND THE ONLY LIFE that really matters. LET US BE IN THE WORLD, BUT NOT OF THE WORLD...Let us be Jesus Christ's DOUBLES...AND HE CONTINUES HIS SALVATION OF ALL SOULS to each unique innocent human being, unborn and born. CHOOSE LIFE...CHOOSE JESUS CHRIST!
LET US ALLOW HIM TO BE OUR EYES, OUR EARS, OUR MOUTH, OUR HEART, OUR MIND, OUR HANDS, OUR FEET AS HE CONTINUES TO BRING LOVE TO THE UNLOVED, THE BROKEN HEARTED, THE HOMELESS, THE NEGLECTED, THE OUTCASTS, THE DISADVANTAGED, AND THE INNOCENT, UNBORN AND BORN CHILDREN...OUR FUTURE! MERRY CHRISTMAS, MARY CHRISTMAS, AND CHRISTMAS IN ALL LANGUAGES AND CUSTOMS...JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH...make our families grow in LOVE, PEACE, AND JOY...today and forever..
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIASTS LOVE THE LOVE OF CHRISTMAS
"This Christmas....Let's give a little Jesus, a thoughtful word or deed, an act of generosity for someone who is in need. Let's give a little Jesus, to everyone we meet--the salesclerk or the server, the person on the street. Let's give a little Jesus, that's what really counts---not what is spent or bought, or for whom, in what amounts. Let's give a little Jesus to everyone large or small...For Jesus, the Messiah, is the GREATEST GIFT OF ALL!"
Thank you for sharing with all of your friends, co-workers, strangers, and the outcasts the TRUE MESSAGE OF CHRISTMAS....Yes, LOVE DID COME DOWN AT CHRISTMAS...and LOVE CONTINUES TO RADIATE EACH DAY THROUGH THE COMING YEAR with a simple commitment to LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU...GOD IS LOVE!
Monday, December 21, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
LOVE CAME DOWN AT CHRISTMAS
The album included the following:
Joy to the World with chorus, organ, brasses and timpani that calls for a new setting of "A Handelian Fanfare." This wonderful selection was a Handel inspired festive carol by Lowell Mason (1830), Boston hymn composer and music educator, Joseph Wilcox Jenkins, of the music faculty at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University. The next selection was "Love Came Down at Christmas with Chorus and strings with an arrangement by Roland Leich of the music faculty at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology. The lyrics of the carol were written by Christina Rossetti in 1885. Here are the lyrics of the carol:
"Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, love Divine; Love was born at Christmas,
Stars and Angels gave the sign. Worship we the Godhead, Love Incarnate, Love Divine; Worship we our Jesus: But wherewith for sacred sign? Love shall be our token, Love shall be yours and Love be mine, Love to God and to all men and women, Love for plea and gift and sign."
In addition, The Chorus and the accompanying professional musicians presented A Sequence of Carols; Kolyada, Glory to God; Silent Night; Hark! the Herald Angels Sing; Adeste Fideles; Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming; For unto Us a Child is Born; Christmas, the Year One, A.D.; The Shepherd's Star; Slumber Now Beloved Child; and Glory to God, which was the grand finale of this recorded concert focusing on Ron Nelson's , The Christmas Story. Mendelssohn Choir members would agree with the distinguished composer, William Byrd, who wrote almost 400 years ago: "Since singing is so good a thing, I wish all men and women would learn to sing."
The color photo reproduced on the front jacket of this Christmas album is a reproduction of the Nativity Window in the Heinz Chapel on the University of Pittsburgh Campus. This Nativity Window was given in memory of their grandfather, Henry John Heinz, by H.J.Heinz II; Rust Heinz; Nancy, Dorothy and Clifford S. Heinz, Jr.; Sarah Given Larson and John L. Given, Jr. The recording was recorded October 8th and 9th, 1965, in Allegheny Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh, PA.
As we commenorate the first coming of Jesus Christ more than 2000 years ago, may we prepare for the second coming of Jesus Christ in our lives every day through prayer, penance, and almsgiving during this Advent season and throughout the New Year 2010 as a preparation for the final coming when we meet Jesus Christ face to face in eternity. When we read the inspired Word of God in the Sacred Scriptures, we discover two passages that are closely related. The first passage is John 3:16: "Yes, God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him may not die, but may have eternal life." The second passage is I John 4:16: "God is Love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him." May all good men and women who really live God's Love in their every day lives, which includes all of the Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts, find His peace, His joy, and His love beyond all measure as we commemorate the BIRTHDAY OF JESUS CHRIST ON CHRISTMAS DAY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESUS! WE TRUST IN YOU, JESUS! MARY CHRISTMAS AND A HOLY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
"MARY CHRISTMAS" ...OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE, PATRONESS OF THE AMERICAS AND THE UNBORN
"Outside of Mexico City, hundreds of years ago, Mary prepared the way for the Lord so well that 8,000,000 people gave their lives to Jesus Christ in seven years. Mary prepared the way of the Lord by: obeying (I am the servant of the Lord. Let is be done to me as you say); evangelizing (Mary set out, proceeding in haste into the hill country to a town in Judah, where she entered Zechariah's house and greeted Elizabeth); prophesying (...the Lord has deposed the mighty from their thrones and raised the lowly to high places. The hungrey He has given every good thing, while the rich He has sent empty away); suffering (near the cross of Jesus there stood His Mother); and praying (together they devoted themselves to constant prayer).
Prepare the way of the Lord during this Advent season in remembering the first Christmas by asking the Mother of Jesus, the Lady of Guadalupe to pray for us.....now and at the hour of our death. Let us also prepare for the coming of Jesus for the second coming when we will meet our Savior at our death. The final coming of Jesus, our King and our God, will be in God's good time.
May we prepare others for His coming as Mary did and does with celebrating her, "MARY CHRISTMAS." As our gift to Our Spiritual Mother, let us adopt spiritually an unborn child who may be threatened by possible elective abortion during the next nine months. Although the abortionist may kill and tear apart the body of the unborn baby from the mother's womb, God claims the soul of the unborn child who will live forever in eternity praying for their mother and the uninformed and misguided professionals and individuals regarding the dignity and the sacredness of all human life, born and unborn. May all those who are seeking healing from past elective abortions reach out to a special program entitled, Rachel's Project, for their own peace of mind, of heart, and of soul. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us, intercede for us with God.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
REMEMBERING AN ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIAST WHO IS NOW IN ETERNITY
His children carry on his name and his tradition even with challenging aspects in their lives. Paul may you rest in peace for all eternity. You will always be remembered for your radiant smile, your friendly attitude, and your courageous attention in bringing peace, joy, and love to others.
Paul, you have earned the ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIAST AWARD for just being you!
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
IDES OF DECEMBER 2009 HONORS THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD
Monday, December 7, 2009
TODAY WE REMEMBER THOSE ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIASTS WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY WITH COURAGE AND PATRIOTISM
May the lessons that we learned in both attacks keep us ever vigilant to those who want to take away our God-given freedoms that have come at such a price. Let us reevaluate our priorities and our belief systems that require a total respect for the dignity and the sacredness of each human being not only in the United States of America but also throughout the whole world. Let us join all of our Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts International Association members in bringing about a peace, a joy, and a love that is above the human level. "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me."
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIASTS MEET THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGES
In an economy that often runs aground because of many factors that are unexplained and misunderstood, the creative achievement ladder enthusiast brainstorms the many options that will be successful in the long run rather than seek a "bandaid" solution that will temporary at best. Entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs consider "problems" as "challenges" to be accepted and resolved with critical and creative thinking that brings about long range success. To throw "money" at any economic crisis or to place "blame" on other opinionated foes of the past is a way of placating the "challenge" with rhetoric and spin that run come back to haunt all of us in the future.
Deficit financing has been the way of thinking for many economists who like to use the leverage of others' resources to bring about a selfish and greedy gain that is disasterous for the future generations who will need to absorb the "buy now pay later" philosophy that has no merit. Using credit effectively and efficiently means to bring about a TRUST that belongs to each buyer and seller. In addition, the CONFIDENCE that is acquired by this trust multiples itself in resolving the supply-demand complex of every economic and political challenge. All human resources are required to be respected, admired, and accepted in bringing about a long range solution to the many humanist challenges that life deals each one of us.
To maximize each person's time, talents, and treasures to the benefit of the common good, each person has to be respected from the very moment of conception to the very last moment of natural life. In addition, each person deserves to be considered sacred as living temples of the Uncaused Cause who dwells in each one of us from the first moment of human life until eternity. To develop a sense of values, traditions, and customs that are consistent with natural law and in tune with divine law creates the greatest of all challenges.
TO BE ONESELF AND TO ACCEPT OTHERS AS THEY ARE. To be your BEST FRIEND rather than your WORST ENEMY is the first step in creating HOPE in a world that loves despair and depression. Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts consider each day another opportunity to climb the Ladder of Achievement and to learn what was learned from past experiences. To grow as a Confident Learner in a world that ignores uniqueness unless there is profit to be made from selfishness means that numerous traits and characteristics of the unique individual must be cultivated and nurished and respected. To say, "We Made It," or "I made it," means that a person is on their way to a humble yet truthful relationship with the Creator of their environments. Positive growth and development maximizes the Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts' desire to achieve the unachieveable and the impossible. "For nothing is impossible for God." In God we Trust!