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Texas Secondary Teacher of the Year, author, and stroke survivor


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How Can You Guard Your Heart?
In Proverbs 4:23, we read:Above all else,guard your heart, foreverything you do flows from it.
Yes, but how do youguard your heart? If you are like me, then you have wondered. I read this verse dozens of times in my youth, determining that God wanted me to be very careful about what I chose to watch or listen to, to be careful about the fri...
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TEDx | What Paralysis Taught Me About True Strength
"The hardest thing I ever had to do is nothing at all. When my nose itched, I had to wait for someone to scratch it. But there is power in the fullness of process. Rethink 'the wait.'";
Author ofTwelve Clean Pages,Texas Education Agency's 2007 Texas SecondaryTeacher of the Year,Nika Maplesrecently gave an incredibleTEDxTalk atAbeline Christian ...
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Five Reasons You Will Be Glad You Self-Published
They avoided my questions. Both writers who had chosen self-publishing and writers who had chosen traditional publishing would get cottonmouth when I asked for advice.At times you can sense a competitive tension among authors and speakers that is thicker than Corleone bloodlines.People will shut the shop quickly if you appear overeager. Ask to...
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To Have a Friend in Every Decade
It stung when the teenage girl hung her head, blonde curls falling into her eyes, "I wanted to talk to someone older about it,"; she said, "but I really don't have anybody.";
Days afterward, I was still thinking about what a tragedy that was. She was part of a church.
How is it possible for someone who is part of a church to say that she doesn...
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