Wonderful Wednesday!

This day and everyday for that matter is yours and mines to make a CHOICE! Each day gives us an opportunity to be and achieve excellence. No matter what your daily endeavors consist of and no matter what your circumstances maybe there is always an opportunity for us to be excellent if we chose to. The process of life gives way to many forms of adversity and even through lifes adversities we have chance to be excellent. The more we strive for the goal of excellence we put ourselves in a position to have more abundance. Life tends to rewards those beyond measure when they seek a high quality of living.

From a spiritual perspective this happens when we establish a complete relationship with God and utilize the blueprint that has been set forth through the scriptures. We must always take into account the plan or goal The Creator has for our lives. We all have gifts that are to be cultivate so that they give way to His glory! We please God when we strive to be excellent because we are essentially striving to be obedient to Him. And when we are obedient, we exalt His divine authority and protection (blessings) over our lives. Bottom-line is the excellence that in which we approach God with sets us up to be in complete submission to His will for our lives. So, let us rejoice that He is The everlasting God (EL-OLAM) and be excellent! All Praises be to God indeed!

Quotes on excellence:

And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better.

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.

Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

— From the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Streetsweepers excellence: "That’s the excellence that we all search for in everything we do. It’s truly work dedicated to God." "Any job or task done with excellence demonstrates the high calling of our daily work." -Howard E. Butt Jr.

The benchmark of greatness is finding love and joy in serving others. -Dr. Cornel West

Life is more fullfilling when strive for a high quality of excellence it provides us with an opportunity to live greatly. -L.P. Caldwell II


Scriptural Footnotes:

If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God: You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. (Duet 28:1-3 NIV)

This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24 NIV)

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. (John 10:10 NKJV)

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. (Ep 1:3 NIV)

Those are they on whom are blessings and mercy from their Lord, and those are the followers of the right course. (Holy Quran 2:157)

Allah makes abundant the means of subsistence for whom He pleases of His servants, and straightens them for whom (He pleases) surely Allah is Cognizant of all things. (Holy Quran 29:62)

Allah makes abundant the means of subsistence for whom He pleases of His servants, and straightens them for whom (He pleases) surely Allah is Cognizant of all things. (Holy Quran 33:35)

He it is Who sends His blessings on you, and (so do) His angels, that He may bring you forth out of utter darkness into the light; and He is Merciful to the believers. (Holy Quran 33:43)