The Lessons of American Leadership

May 29, 2012May 29, 2012 Paul Sposite History, Leadership, Life, life coach, Michigan, Politics, selfhelp adventure, america, American, Americans, Americas, benefits, blood, british, celebration, children, Civil, Colonies, Consider, courage, deception, downfall, effort, encampment, English, existence, extinction, facebook, fathers, fortitude, freedom, French, From, generation, generations, goal, grass, great, Greenfield, growth, human, ideas, independence, leaders, leadership, lessons, Life, Mayflower, Memorial, mother, Nation, Nations, nature, Over, Pane, path, perfection, Pilgrims, plans, posters, President, pride, principle, psyche, Reagan, remembrance, representation, responsibilities, Revolutionary, rights, ronald, roots, Self, sessions, settlers, situation, Spanish, Sunset, systems, Taxes, tears, Thomas, Twitter, Tyranny, village, weekend, word, world

"The surrender at Saratoga" shows General Daniel Morgan in front of a French de Vallière 4-pounder. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Over the past weekend We celebrated Memorial Day here in the States, a day to stop and thank all the veterans that fought to keep this country safe and free. As part of my celebration I … Continue reading The Lessons of American Leadership

Leonardo, where are you?

April 11, 2012April 11, 2012 Paul Sposite Change, Education, Faith, History, Improvement, Life, life coach, Politics, Religon, selfhelp accomplishments, Alberti, areas, Aristotle, artist, artiste, Bacon, Battista, bones, children, citizen, clouds, concept, connection, Copernicus, curricula, curriculum, definition, degree, dependence, development, discovery, Education, emergence, encouragement, envelope, example, experimentation, exploration, failure, fascination, feet, Francis, frog, Galilei, Galileo, Gelb, genius, Goethe, grammar, grass, greatest, hallmark, Harvard, History, horizons, humans, indoctrination, internet, interpretations, inventor, Isaac, Johann, knowledge, languages, Last, Latin, Leon, Leonard, Leonardo, lessons, liberal, liberation, Life, lifestyle, Lisa, Literature, logic, managers, master, Mathematics, medieval, Michael, Michelangelo, Modern, Mona, music, musician, nature, needs, Newton, notion, objects, oceans, parents, person, philosophy, planner, Quadrivium, refers, relationship, religion, Renaissance, rhetoric, rivers, science, scientist, setup, Seven, skills, steps, students, subjects, Supper, surroundings, system, talents, Teachers, tenets, think, thinkers, Thus, times, together, Trivium, universe, usage, Vinci, Where, Wide, woman, world

Cover via Amazon I just finished “How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day” by Michael J. Gelb.This is a fantastic book, one that all should read. The information is useful no matter who or what you are. Leonardo's life lessons are timeless and learning about how he looked at … Continue reading Leonardo, where are you?

Sowing: A Lenten Reflection

March 19, 2012March 19, 2012 Paul Sposite Catholic, Faith, Lent, Life, Religon abundance, actions, beach, birds, boat, caretaker, confession, contemplation, deeds, disciples, ears, effort, fact, farmer, food, garden, gardens, glories, grass, harder, health, heart, hearts, heaven, human, Isaiah, Jesus, kingdom, knowledge, lake, Lenten, Lies, Life, listen, matthew, message, messages, money, nature, onions, Otherwise, pain, parable, parables, path, persecution, places, plants, Prayer, prophecy, prophets, refers, reflection, reverence, situations, Some, song, soul, Sower, Still, Sunset, thorns, Though, times, trait, walls, wealth, weekend, word, world, worries

Image via Wikipedia The Parable of the Sower 1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he told them … Continue reading Sowing: A Lenten Reflection

What is your Focus this Lent?

February 23, 2012February 23, 2012 Paul Sposite Catholic, church, Faith, Lent, Prayer, Religon abandonment, army, arrival, birth, Body, bondage, calvary, candy, Childs, christ, christian, Christians, church, convictions, creation, cross, Death, deeper, doorway, example, Ezra, fact, Faith, father, flesh, Focus, glory, Grace, grain, grass, heaven, honey, hope, human, humiliation, Improvement, Jerusalem, Jesus, Judah, Lenten, Life, Look, Lord, love, master, mercy, Milk, movement, Mystical, Nation, nature, peace, perseverance, Persia, Peter, praise, protection, Psalm, resurrection, road, ruins, sake, Self, session, sheep, Shepard, symbol, temptations, Thessalonians, Though, tomb, Victory, vigor, woman, wood, world

Image via Wikipedia Were is your focus this Lent? On you or on Jesus. Lent is not about us, it is not about self-improvement, it is about Jesus, it's about New Birth, it's about New Life, it's about New Perseverance and New Death. New Birth … Continue reading What is your Focus this Lent?

King Obama

April 19, 2011April 19, 2011 Paul Sposite conservative, Election, Just for Fun, liberal, Media, Politics america, American, Americans, Another, April, british, Brits, carrot, Come, Democrats, discussion, Europe, European, Europeans, fact, germany, governments, grass, Kate, Life, michigan, moment, Monarchy, news, nuclear, obama, Once, palace, plants, politician, politicians, politics, President, reaction, response, Royals, ruler, rules, Savior, Socialism, student, students, system, topic, trees, William

I am just returning from a two-week trip to Germany and the UK. The weather was fantastic, sunny and warm, all the trees in bloom and the grass was green, I spent many hours outside enjoying the spring. Than I returned home, to Michigan to a wind storm than snow! Yep it’s mid April and … Continue reading King Obama

My Life, My Faith.. So Far

March 31, 2010 Paul Sposite Called by God, Catholic, church, Education, Faith, Growing Up, Life, youth adventure, america, Arbor, ball, BibleGateway, breath, Brendan, Canterbury, Canton, Catholic, chapter, children, christ, church, Churches, classes, Clinton, complications, confidant, corruption, corruptions, cotton, Council, Counsel, creature, deeper, detroit, direction, director, documents, Education, excitement, Faith, feet, friends, From, gift, grass, heart, heaven, Hills, image, images, imagination, Irish, Isaiah, Jesus, John, kingdom, knowledge, lady, lesson, lessons, Life, Lord, mass, matthew, message, messages, michigan, moment, nature, Neumann, pain, parish, Paul, peace, plans, Plymouth, politics, priest, punishment, Reconciliation, relationships, responsibilities, rights, sacrament, Scandal, scandals, Self, seminary, sheep, sinner, skill, skills, soul, spirit, teacher, Teachers, Theo, Theresa, Thirst, times, transgressions, tree, truth, Vatican, volunteer, Westland, world, youth

Image via Wikipedia As a youth I can remember my faith being a very important part of my life. I use to look forward to CCD class, I went to St. Brendan's in Detroit, and we would attend CCD after school. I would walk there from school than walk home. I loved the classes, I … Continue reading My Life, My Faith.. So Far

Lenten Seeds

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Image by P.C. Is2dnt via Flickr Michigan is a funny state, in a lot of ways. The weather here can change day to day, one day be in the 70’s the next in the 30’s, we cal this spring. Our political climate is about the same, we are, for the most part a conservative people, … Continue reading Lenten Seeds

This Easter

March 16, 2010October 6, 2010 Paul Sposite church, Death, Easter, Faith, Forgiveness, Lent, Life, Prayer activities, agony, arrival, Ashes, BibleGateway, breeze, christ, church, Colossians, colossians 3:12, compassion, convictions, courage, Cyrene, Death, defense, Dolorous, Easter, Faith, father, Feel, flowers, garden, garment, garments, glory, grass, Hosanna, ignorance, indulgence, January, Jesus, Life, Lord, mass, michigan, mother, news, ours, outfits, passion, path, paths, patience, Paul, persecution, preparation, preparations, qualities, resurrection, reverence, rights, Savior, Self, signs, Simon, Sometimes, souls, stand, temperature, temperatures, tomb, truth, walk, walls, winter, yard

Spring is on its way here in lower Michigan. The snow is all gone (I hope, you never know in Michigan) and the temperatures have been pleasant. All good signs that spring is coming. I love spring, I can open up my windows in the house, I hate that closed in feeling I have a … Continue reading This Easter

That Boy

July 27, 2009 Paul Sposite church, Education, Faith, Friendship, youth agents, Andrew, apostles, barley, bread, difference, disciples, example, five, food, fragments, Galilee, Gather, gift, gospel, grass, greatest, himself, History, impact, Jesus, Jewish, John, lesson, mary, mass, miracle, Moses, mountain, Noah, Passover, Paul, Peter, Philip, prophet, purpose, Rather, redemption, signs, Simon, spirit, think, thousand, weekend, Whole, wife, world, worth

It is the small things that we do that will have the greatest effect on others. The Gospel story from this past weekend proved that: Gospel Jn 6:1-15 Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick. Jesus went up on … Continue reading That Boy

Greener Grass

September 5, 2008 Paul Sposite Faith, Life, selfhelp God, grass, green, Jesus, Life, peer presure, worries

Peer Pressure, it’s nothing new, even Jesus had it. When everyone would challenge Jesus to keep things the way they are, not to change them or challenge them. Jesus stood up to that, he said that’s nice but it’s wrong. He said I understand you, but you’re still wrong, Jesus did not worried about being … Continue reading Greener Grass

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An American Point of View

Just an American that loves his Country and his Faith

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The Lessons of American Leadership

Leonardo, where are you?

Sowing: A Lenten Reflection

What is your Focus this Lent?

King Obama

My Life, My Faith.. So Far

Lenten Seeds

This Easter

That Boy

Greener Grass

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