Quotes to the end….

“Above all, challenge yourself, Yo may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish,”

– Cecile M. Springer.

” A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him to find her.”

–Maya Angelou

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream,”

– Harry Kemp

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

– John D. Rockefeller

“Challenges are what make life interesting: overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”

– Joshua J. Marine

“The man with confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”

–Jewish Proverb

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“Love truly is the greatest thing and the key to get ting everything possible out of what life has to offer. So love, love some more, and love till the end,”

– Aysia Jackson

First Lady President

Arkansas Tech University of Russellville, Arkansas over the past month have been in the process of electing a 12th president for the institution after the 11th president Dr. Robert C. Brown announced on August 23, 2013 that the current academic year would be his last as the representing president of the university. Dr. Robert Brown has been the president of Arkansas Tech since July 1, 1993. Joining the Tech Family on April 22, 2014 Dr. Robin E. Bowen was as Tech’s new 12th president. Bowen Is from Carl Junction, Mo and will also represent the first woman president in Arkansas of a four year institute.  She has big plans fro the students attending Tech.

 

The Unknown

Three years ago a daughter was given a gift from her mother that she has cherished and will continue to cherish over the years.  From that day she has put art, leaves, poems, feathers, personal quotes, souvenirs and pretty much anything else that came to mind that would fit. She could not even pick a favorite from the journal that she has no specific name for so I had the pleasure of getting  to chose a favorite of mines, and as I flipped through page after page I realized just exactly why the decision is so tough.  Its because it truly is a journal that is a work of art and full of amazing things.

    

    From the Journal of Courtney Moody

Full of Hot Air

Soon I will have something to scratch off my bucket list, even though it is not created quite yet.  The Ballon Festival Network Inc. will host the Balloons Over RussVegas Festival on May 1-4. Rodney Williams, Ballon Festival Network founder is over this festival.  The festival will include Georgette Jones, a country singer, Barry Williams, from the “The Brady Brunch”, and Zane’s Flying Circus, and lots of other activities. On Friday and Saturday morning 21 Colorful hot air balloons from six states will be launched from the Russlleville Soccer Complex. I will have the once in life time chance to ride a tethered ballon ride for a 10$ donation fee that goes towards Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

“Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return.”

-Leonardo Da Vinci

 

 

Real Love

WE KNOW LOVE BY THIS, THAT HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR US. I JOHN 3:16

Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me- whispering again and again and again.   I LOVE YOU…….

                    Let us love one another. for love comes from God. I John 4:7

His banner Over me is love. Song of Songs 2:4

Your love for me is Very great. Psalm

His love Endures forever. Psalm 107.1

No matter what you’ve heard or what you’ve come to believe, there’s nothing that can separate you from my Love. Romans 8:38-39

There’s nowhere you can go where my Love won’t find you. Psalm 139:7-8

This is real love….

 

 

God’s Not Dead

 Life Changing. Captivating. A must see.  It’s a movie about a college student who is faced with the challenge of denying God or defending him. How far would you go… to defend your belief in God?,  is the question he had in mind. From personal experience I strongly encourage all, every single person you know to go and see the movie, whether you are a believer or not. It has a amazing cast including  even Wille and Korie Robertson from the Duck Commander. There is song by the Newboys that is titled “Gods Not Dead” which is just as amazing as the movie.

“Sometimes the devil allows a person to live free of trouble, cause he doesn’t want them turning to God “

“Only a REAL RISK, can test the the REALITY OF A BELIEF “

– C.S LEWIS

Technology

To me and probably to a lot of others in the world, there has been too much of an emphasis being put on technology in today’s generation and society. In the library this instant as I write this blog if I just glance up and actually look around at the students on computers, I see that many of them are to occupied on their phones to be accomplishing and getting done with their work faster. Technology to me is the easy way honestly, and yes I am grateful for it at times, but also I wish I had grew up without a while longer just so that I could actually appreciate life more with technology consuming most of it. Yes, I am very guilty of allowing technology to take over my life and time, but I am not the only one.  When I was recently was challenged to go twenty four hours without technology I actually found that I was very grateful to have been challenged that.  And I was even more proud that I accomplished it with out giving in, breaking down, or cheating.  During that challenge I realized some things, and those things were very helpful.

One thing I realized was that overall without having technology I found out that I actually was very productive with my life.  I found myself having more free time to get things done.  Things that honestly with my phone or other technology would have other wise been avoided and ignored. Those things were cleaning, catching up on homework or quizzes, and getting well needed sleep. I even found myself getting out and running a mile and half that night. Yes boredom struck me at times but still in the end I accomplished a lot more without technology.

Another thing I realized was that I found myself actually having to look up things in my notes. Usually you can type a question or how to do something on to Google and in less than five seconds it would be shooting you back an answer or video of what exactly to do or exactly how to answer the question. And that is indeed where I feel we depend and rely on technology too much. You used to have to look up things in the books, or ask your teachers, or other students, but now that’s rarely ever done just because of how much easier and quicker it is to Google, Wikipedia, Ask, or Bing something is now.

Violence and Abuse

Violence and abuse occurs in the lives of people that surround us every second, minute, and day.  The sad thing is the abuser is mostly occurring and going to occur from someone that we know and someone that we “trust” or least expect to hurt us.  The Red Flag Campaign is awell known campaign designed to address dating violence and promote the prevention of dating violence on college campuses. Another thing known is Walk a Mile in Her Shoes which are world wide walks to make awareness and help prevent and stop rape, sexual assault, and gender violence. Men literally walk one mile in women’s high heeled red shoes: yeah a site to see.

24 Hour Technology Cut off

 For a class assignment I was challenged to go 24 hours with out technology! YES! 24 HOURS WITH NO TV , CELL PHONES, PANDORA, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, OR even SNAPCHAT! As hard as I thought this was gonna be it actually was rather easy. I wrote down a little journal writing after twelve hours into it and it said ” It is twelve hours after starting time of my 24 hours without technology. I indeed am using a FM radio but not a land line because that just was not handy at all. The FM radio was borrowed and it was covered in dust and you could tell it was of no use.  Well the FM radio out smarted me and its owner considering we did not know how to set a alarm on it. I “thought” I had set one but rising up exactly at 8 this morning let me know otherwise, as I quickly had to throw on clothes and make it, “Late”, to my 8 o’clock class. ( which was luckily two buildings away from my dorm and not across the campus).

Other than that little mishap, it actually was not bad at all considering I still had great music, shout out to 100.9 quick FM, they helped make this challenge not so dreading.  I found myself getting more well needed sleep, cleaning up, and getting ahead on some work, so I actually found myself more productive.

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
― Aldous Huxley

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

–Albert Einstein

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

–Northrop Frye

 

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

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Just because I said……

“This is probably going to get quoted in every publication just because I said it. And I’m not even saying anything. I’m not talking about my films, I’m not talking about my life, and I’m not talking about the world. And yet, the media will print it simply because I said it. And at this moment in time, I bet there is an artist around the corner of this hotel, on the street, with a mind far beyond ours, but we never listen to him simply because he has not appeared in a movie – And that is what is really messed up about our culture.”

– Robert Downy Jr.