Connecting to the world

L. Learning I. Impacting F. Friendship building E. Experiencing How can we encourage one another and build one another up? How can each of us change to a life grounded in friendship building? How can people who do not have a habit of reading and a drive to be educated, be encouraged to do so? How can we encourage those who are not comfortable with sharing their experiences to do so? Learning is as much about growing friendships and community that produce relationships that last. Where we can impact each other with real information and we learn to be accountable to each other (not for each other). With learning, it is as important to grow friendships numerically as we ourselves are growing personally. To do otherwise is a waste of energy and time. So what is L.i.f.e.? Life is not a university course. It allows and encourages the sharing of life experiences in light of the knowledge we have through education ...

Those who will risk nothing --- do nothing, have nothing, and become nothing. They may avoid pain and sorrow, but they cannot learn or feel or change or grow or love or live. They are slaves and have no freedom. It is the risk takers who are truly free and who learn how to give and receive. They know that extraordinary Passion for Life. I would rather have one walk with me, than merely show the way. Wishing will not bring it about. Neither will dreaming. Nor will hoping. Nope, you must Act .