Emra Smith, from the International School of Story, walks daily for HOPE! As she walks she spreads HOPE through coaching calls, giving out HOPE Dolls, smiles, warmth and encouraging words. God’s love pours through her for others and she believes that positive actions help facilitate personal and community change.
Welcome to discovering the answer to many things in your story! This leading website and newsletter is here for you to be inspired to live more, be more, love more and move forward in God’s purpose through 5 life changing challenges and through inspiring stories.
Our mission is to inspire and challenge you and to give you the tools to lead a happy, healthy, wealthy, and more balanced lifestyle. To create a community where millions of women (and some amazing men) from all over the world come together in support and celebration of what God has done in our lives.
You impact what our world will look like in the future. Your influence fosters growth or decline in the workplace, your business, home, church and society. We all need support and accountability and gain inspiration and courage through each others’ stories.
Please join us and be both inspired and challenged to live life to the fullest each day in purpose, achieving the great things that God has designed for each of us.
“I have come that you may have life, and have it to the full” – Jesus (John 10:10)
The ease of compromise
My husband and I are in the North Carolina mountains at our log home for ten days. Besides exploring, creating new art for our home and relaxing, we whittle away at our to-do-list of many projects. The task I always leave for a next visit is painting the few walls...
Can a name change you?
The past five months have been quite a roller coaster for me filled with many joys, frustrations, disappointments, fun, love, laughter and anticipation. To me it had seemed that the greatest of these was the start of my business venture, but this week everything...
Mothersday gifts of strength, happiness & courage
Mothersday is one of those days that bring a smile, a tear, happiness or frustration, isn’t it! When growing up my dad and I usually forgot that it was Mothersday and would have to rush to the graveyard a few miles from us to get some flowers from the sellers there....
Hard Work Can Truly Be Achieved…Like a Lustrous Gem from a Stone
Lapidary is the process in which the cutting and polishing of gems occurs. We start with a rough stone that then gets cobbed (lightly hammered to remove the brittle fractured materials). Then it is cut, ground, sanded and tumbled. After the rough part is completed it...
What can you learn from a dog?
Do you realize that each day you awaken it’s a true gift? Of course you can’t possibly know what the day may bring, but one thing you can be sure of when you wake up is that the new day has arrived. Every day brings new experiences and when you are passionate about...
Are We Influenced By Our Culture?
Have you ever stopped to think if our culture or our surroundings influence our thoughts, our activities and our lives in general? Although we may have a choice in the decision on which path to take in our lives, there still seems to be the cultural tug amongst us...
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