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@mkd16
You wrote:
This was a thoughtful and beautiful post, thank you. I've added the book you mentioned to my reading list. I really appreciated how you summarized the key points. That's exactly what I do when I read a thought-provoking book too!

Best,
mkd

Thank you for your kind words. I love to read and talk about the things I have overcome and why do I like to do things. I can learn through someone else who has already overcome the area I am trying to overcome. Someone else who is going through the same things I overcame—I can help them. I often tell people our answers to our problems are right in eyesight. Our answer could be with the person sitting next to you or in a book.

This is a true story. I've shared it with many people. I was moving back to Georgia from New Jersey in 1993. I just had my baggage and a certain amount of cash on me. I took the Greyhound bus which took 22 hours to get to my destination in Georgia. So I fell asleep on the bus because I was tired. Riding the Greyhound bus is heck it with the layover.

I got to Baltimore, MD. We had a two hour layover so i was like, "I am surely hungry." So I said I was going to walk over and get me some Burger King. I was ordering my burger and fries. The cashier rang in my order. I reached into my pocket. Guess what? No cash. Someone had pocketed it while I was asleep. I was getting all upset, but more so scared because I still had a long way to get to where I was going.

So this lady taps me and said, "I have you." She paid for my food. Then she said she was on the same bus. She says to me, "Where are you coming from?" I said, "Fort Dix, New Jersey." She said that was strange because that was where she was stationed at in the army. I said, "What is your position?" She was going to MP. I said, "My step-mom works at MP Station and she is in the army. I've been on base all the time. I have never seen you."

To make a long story short, she said she had the same exact thing happen to her when she was traveling on the bus with her money. She said, "I put it in my bra now." My answer to my problems was right there.

Be blessed and take care.