Reading, A Thing of the Past?
Reading, A Thing of the Past? By Dr. Marcia Davis-Dawkins Reading takes you places; unfortunately, as a little girl my trips were limited because I didn’t enjoy reading as much as I should. Why didn’t I like to read? Maybe I didn’t have books I like to read or maybe I...
Emotions/Feeling
Emotions/Feelings By Dr. Marcia Davis-Dawkins Please Read My Poem on Emotions! Sadness and Happiness Brave Fabulous Talented Lonely and more ... https://grassrootsedu.net/power-of-words/...
Serve With Gladness
Serve With Gladness By Dr. Marcia Davis-Dawkins “Sweep streets so well that all hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, “Here lived a great sweeper who did his job well,” articulated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This encourages us to work diligently in whatever...
Rise Above
Rise Above By Marcia Davis-Dawkins The space around us can sometimes be so cold and cruel. It seems that most times, we tend to want to sit and wallow in self-pity and crawl into a space and hope that we are not noticed. Many of us need to reach for positivity and...
The Teacher, the Leader
The Teacher, the Leader By Dr. Marcia Davis-Dawkins Teachers’ Appreciation Week is celebrated in many parts of the world. In the United States, National Teacher Appreciation Month takes place for the entire month of May each year, but the majority of the festivities...
Promise, Possibility and Potential
Promise, Possibility and Potential By Dr. Marcia Davis-Dawkins Recently, I had the opportunity to read to students at a rural elementary school in Jamaica. These students are unprivileged by conventional standards, in that they have very little in terms of food,...
Forgiveness
Forgiveness By Dr. Marcia Davis-Dawkins Lewis S. Smedes, ethicist and theologian once said, “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner is you.” I would dare to add that it brings peace when you forgive. Many people, including myself,...
True Friends Never Part
True Friends Never Part By Dr. Marcia Davis-Dawkins It has been said that a true friend is one who walks in when others walk out. It is that person who often knows us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide us, to support us,...
Am I Dependable?
Am I Dependable? By Dr. Marcia Davis-Dawkins Neal A. Maxwell once said, “God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.” One of the qualities that I...
Perpetually Grateful
Perpetually Grateful By Dr. Marcia Davis-Dawkins Showing appreciation... It has always confounded me that some people find it difficult to say “thank you” when they are given something. Showing appreciation just seems like the normal thing to do, but for some...
Change Our Positions!
Change Our Positions! By Dr. Marcia Davis-Dawkins Socrates once said, “The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Change can be difficult and I am sure most people would agree that they have had regrets, things...
No Man Is An Island
No Man Is An Island by Dr. Marcia Davis-Dawkins Over 400 years ago, John Donne penned the poem “No Man Is An Island” and several others, including Joan Baez and Dennis Brown, have followed up with songs of a similar title. In his poem, Dunne compared suffering to...