Henry Philpot:  

is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~ Winston Churchill "Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa "Sometimes God calms the storm...sometimes God lets the storm rage and calms His child instead." Author Unknown "Do not take for granted the people closest to your heart. Nothing is permanent, celebrate them now." - unknown "A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles, and dangers, and pressures -- and that is the basis of all human morality" - Winston Churchill "'When a man knows how to do something, he ceases being a man when he stops doing it." - Pablo Picasso ‎"Some days, doing 'the best we can' may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect – on any front – and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else." ~ Mister Rogers Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world." ~Anso Coetzer "To the people that really care about me, just continue to pray. And for those who are going to say what they want to say, may God be with you also," - Football Great Walter Payton announcing with his wife & son that he was dying of a rare liver disease You know what's really hard? To accept our lot in life--especially when the dream doesn't come true, the honeymoon is over, the other guy gets the job, and we see others getting what we wanted. The secret of contentment is not getting what we want, but wanting what we get (Philippians 4:12). That is only possible if we... trust that God knows what's best for us better than we could ever know for ourselves - Patrick Morley “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr. ‎"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes." Walter Schirra Sr The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. - Robert Frost A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world. ~Helen Rowland Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up. ~Author Unknown A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ~ Irish saying Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. ~Joseph Addison "A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. " -- Enid Bagnold A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart As I rocked you, my little girl, and soothed your tears away, the little fingers on your hand, touched my heart that day. “When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.” – Helen Keller. Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. C. S. Lewis Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. C. S. Lewis God allows us to experience the low points in our life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way - CS Lewis “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it CANNOT be is moderately important.” –C. S. Lewis I gave in, and admitted that God was God. - C. S. Lewis "A man's most innate need is his need to be significant... and the difference in men is in how we go about satisfying our need to be significant." - Patrick Morley. Death to gain life; go low to go high; give to receive-- hmm, God's economy is very different than man's. - Os Hillman ‎"The overflow of our lives saturates those around us. We spread either thankfulness, love, forgiveness -OR- bitterness, complaining, impatience. What overflows from your life?" ~Hester Crow-Christensen "If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you." ~T.S. Eliot The most important things in life you cannot see -- civility, justice, courage, peace.” -- Unknown (quoted in Rumsfeld's rukles) “The art of listening is indispensable for the right use of the mind. It is also the most gracious, the most open and the most generous of human habits.” -- Attributed to R. Barr, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md. “First law of holes: If you get in one, stop digging.” -- Anonymous (quoted in Rumsfeld's rukles) “You learn in life there are few plateaus; you are either going up or down.” -- Unknown (quoted in Rumsfeld's rukles) “If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.” -- Shimon Peres “Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.' ” -- Robert Hutchins “The better part of one's life consists of friendship.” -- Abraham Lincoln ‎"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." ~ Will Rogers "Shallow men believe in luck; Strong men believe in cause and effect" - Ralph Waldo Emerson “The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.” - General Joe Stillwell If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. - (Rumsfeld's Rules) “Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?' ” Sen. Pat Moynihan If in doubt, don't - If still in doubt, do what's right. - Donald Rumsfeld, (Rumsfeld's Rules) "I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please." ~ John Wayne The last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ~ Victor Frankl It hurts like crazy to be ridiculed for what you say, but at least it's an acknowledgement that you exist. What hurts even more, though, is to be ignored. It takes a lot of courage, integrity, love & strength to not just give up on someone who ignores you. Thank you, Lord, for not giving up on me when I was ignoring You. Now THAT is amazing grace. - Patrick Morley God is sovereign and we are responsible. The Bible lays down both concepts side by side, without apology, without much explanation. When Jacob returned to Israel, his estranged brother Esau came to meet him--w/ an army of 400! Jacob prayed &.threw himself on the mercy of God (Gen 32:6-12). He also used common sense & prepared for attack. - Patrick Morley A man's true character is most revealed by how he treats his family. No amount of success at work will ever be adequate to compensate for failure at home. - Patrick Morley A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty - MW "The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for." Zig Ziglar "Good decisions come from experience, experience 'comes from bad decisions!" - RJ "Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength -- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom “Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.” Tony Dungy I dealt with life and dealt with it well, and gracefully - Roy E Disney "Non illigitamus carborundum"". More about Henry:"God & family are my passions and have been my focus for most of my adult life. My wife Deanna & myself have 5 children between us ages 17 - 23. Some say we are a Brady Bunch family. Guess so. Like many others I have been a very blessed man; also like others I've had my challenges with the last 8-9 years being exceptionally interesting. I spent almost 20 years in hotel management, managing Holiday Inns from an early age, Four of the hotels I managed were host hotels for major league baseball teams. I left that field about 15 years ago & moved into the field of Human Resources serving as Director of Human Resources for a medical device re-processing company for several years. Shortly after leaving that field I opened a small business which focused on providing labor & payroll services for retail merchandisers & food brokers. About a year after opening my business my first wife Marcy was diagnosed with cancer and passed away on 2/14/2002. I remarried in May of 2004 to Deanna. Deanna's first husband Kirby had also passed away a few years prior. We provided lots of jokes, fodder & conversation to the rest of our community by marrying before the house we were constructing was finished and thus continuing to live in two homes 11 miles apart - ummm, for a year...while the construction bogged down. About 2 years ago I closed my business - or perhaps more accurately one might say I acknowledged it's closure...It was then that God provided the opportunity to work as a Counselor with Family Life Resources - A Christian non-profit Financial Education & Counseling Organization which is where I remain today. Love my job and the folks I work with & I work as a certified credit & bankruptcy counselor.".