After mourning the loss of our father, my mother, who was already a devoted servant of God deeply involved in her local church, decided to entrust her burden to her Lord. Convinced that with God, anything was possible, she wiped away her tears, rolled up her sleeves, and got back to work. My mother was […]
Every morning, I took public transportation from my ghetto and crossed the entire city to reach the richest neighborhood where my high school was located. In the evening after classes, I made the same journey in reverse to return to the ghetto. I realized that I was always happy to leave home in the morning, […]
The most successful businessman and the largest employer in my home country did not receive a formal education. Many people used to say that he could not even write his name. This was, of course, an exaggerated way to express his lack of education. This lack of formal education did not prevent him from leading […]
Before I started developing the discipline of saving, I believed, like most students, that I had to wait until the end of my studies to start creating wealth. I thought that a student was doomed to poverty until they finished their studies and found a well-paying job. This false reasoning associates wealth with the level […]
When I decided to do everything in my power to escape poverty and live in abundance, I initially believed that I needed to focus on my studies, hoping to obtain a diploma and then a job. I thought that my salary would make the difference. I maintained this false reasoning until the day the Lord […]
One of the questions that many children of God regularly ask me is whether practicing as a lawyer as a professional activity is compatible with the life of a child of God. The people who ask me this question know that I am a lawyer by profession and that I sometimes defend people who have […]
The famous author and speaker Dale Carnegie wrote an excellent book in which he practically explains what we need to do to maintain very good relationships with all the people we interact with. The author believes that to succeed in relationships with others, we must do everything possible to meet their psychological needs. According to […]
In trying to gain too much, we end up losing. When I was still a child, I often heard adults say that in trying to gain too much, we lose. They said this about people who wanted to gain much more than what they were entitled to. They also spoke about people who could be […]
For many years, I believed that to be happy, I needed to have all the things that most societies consider as signs of success. I was convinced that my happiness depended on my academic, financial, family, and relationship success, among other things. I made considerable efforts to obtain all these things in order to feel […]
Some communities on earth lived in harmony with simplicity, humility, and mutual respect. The members of these communities believed that they were all equal despite having different roles within the community. They all worked towards the same goal, and the community was more important than the individual. Families were united and flourishing, as cases of […]
