I've been reading: Wisdom from the Proverbs

Some years ago I started trying to read books which were inspirational, faith based or inspired by the Bible to be more accurate! I went through "All will be well" by Julian  of Norwich, I tried Joyce Meyer, study of the various books  of the bible, daily inspirational readings scuh as Living Faith,  several 365 reading books. I find myself picking up Wisdom from the Proverbs  reading the day's reading and telling myself that I am preparing myself for Lent  and I realise that  it is really to have something to write about.

St Martin de Porres

St Dominic

St Vincent de Paul

In reality most of the books  have stayed unread for a reason, the workbooks and all of the rest stayed unread, unworked.... I was not motivated to read them, could not bring myself to schedule time, effort or energy.  These books are still stored on a shelf which is  located between a wall and a doorway which is partially incomplete and they have been very good in their current use of preventing someone from falling through the doorway which leads to no where.
I know that the unread books, just like the unfinished doorway represent a whole lot of emotional matters and truth be told, life is for living and having a good day is making me a whole lot happier than trying to be faith based or grounded in the knowledge of the bible which these books are supposed to make me. I may never be devout or deep in knowledge, but I will try to be charitable as I believe in the power of making a difference and in all of those saints whose attainment of sainthood was based on the lives they led.

St Anthony of Padua

The Gates Notes

All right, I thought I had captured it all with the Annual Letters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter/Pages/overview.aspx but I was wrong, here are "The Gates Notes"   which are self explanatory, that is, they are written/composed by Bill Gates of Microsoft fame. They are quite interesting also.  These "notes"  are the equivalent to websites on six topics, thus each topic is linked to a page with photos and articles  using either dates to highlight the age of the article or event or a photo of a book cover. There  are "notes" on:

• Education: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Education
• Energy: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Energy
• Books: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books
• Development: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Development
• Health: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Health
• Personal

I thought that the Personal would be just that, however it covers topics such as "Making the Most of your Holiday Giving"

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Making-the-Most-of-your-Holiday-Giving which was quite good.  One of the causes, http://www.donorschoose.org/ was of interest in that  the underlying  concept of choosing which project relating to a school need you would like to support could be used universally. So maybe the "how to make the project work" in any country while maintaining transparency could be copyright as there are always needs with respect to schools. In our country, schools were launched in various areas  to support the concept of  faith being maintained in the schools. These concepts still hold true as most of the established religious bodies have maintained the schools in the various areas. Also there are schools which were established by the Government. I see this project as being of use for all schools.
Then there is charity: water http://www.charitywater.org/,  which deals with providing solutions to water challenges in various parts of the world.
 In "Catapult", there are 24 areas to choose from, to assist in making the world a gender equal place. http://www.catapult.org/

And just so that we will be all on the same page, here are the terms of use: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/GlobalPages/Terms-of-Use
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