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Protecting Your Estate It is hard to believe that someday we will all become either incapacitated or God will take us home. In both cases, we will likely lose our ability to decide how we would like our life savings to work and honor God. Because it is hard for us to believe this day will come, we put off preparing for it; we are frightened of it. We need to stop ignoring the fact that we are human and that our days on earth are numbered. The day will come when our mind cannot reason, so we must take action today to ensure our families and favorite charities receive our life savings in the manner that we want. In biblical times, inheritance was a much simpler matter. Tradition and the father's wishes clearly determined where his land, home, and livestock were to go. In ancient times the population wasn't 6 billion people. Millions of children were not dying from a lack of food or water or shelter or medicine. However, the book of Proverbs provides us with some guidance on what to do with our inheritance: "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous" (Proverbs 14:15). A good man, a wise man, leaves an inheritance not only to his children but also to his children's children. Today we have the ability to distribute..........
Lawn And Garden Your home is your castle and it should be treated as such. Beginning with the front yard, it should show pride of ownership and have nice curb appeal. The types of grasses, flowers, and trees in a yard can make it stand out like nothing else, and a well manicured lawn and flower bed will catch the eye of anyone who happens to drive down your street. Not only does a beautifully landscaped yard do wonders for a home, it also makes the neighborhood look better. If everyone would take pride of ownership in their dwellings, homeowners and tenants alike, especially the exterior regions, it would make every neighborhood special. You don't have to spend a fortune landscaping your home to make it beautiful. Time is the key. Most people buy only one, maybe two homes in their lifetimes. So when you buy a home, you know that you are going to be there for many years. This means that you will have plenty of time..........
Money saving tip of the week... Definition of the week...What is Credit?
The Education Of An American Dreamer How A Son Of Greek Immigrants Learned His Way From A Nebraska Diner To Washington, Wall Street, And Beyond With insight and refreshing candor, Peter G. Peterson describes his remarkable life story beginning in Kearney, Nebraska as an eight-year-old manning the cash register at his father's Greek diner through his "Mad Men" advertising days, to Secretary of Commerce in Nixon's paranoid White House, to the tumultuous days of Lehman Brothers, and to the creation of The Blackstone Group, one of the great financial enterprises in recent times.
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