The bigger your God, the smaller your problems and the smaller your God the bigger your problems. Ken Boa
One-time Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz said, “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10
The Celebration Web Design team recently modified the Contact Form.
The Contact Form Page was updated to enhance the current form and allow greater flexibility without paying for a custom form. With the new options available, you can use this form for a variety of requests such as sign-ups, gather opinions, surveys, etc. Any information collected on the form will be automatically emailed to the email address in your Organization Profile.
New Contact Form Features:
Please contact us if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.
Our updated EZ-CMS management system has reached the testing phase. We anticipate it to be implemented in the third quarter of 2021.
Our CMS Development team is hard at work creating a major upgrade to EZ-CMS. This update will add functionally, make the controls more consistent, and add some modern goodness to speed up page editing and page construction. We will keep you updated as these changes role out.
As owner of Farr Healthcare, a physiatry recruitment firm, I recently talked with a physiatry fellow who had never talked with a physician recruiter about PM&R jobs and was hesitant about it. I was caught off-guard because I talk with physiatrists every day. It was an eye opener for me.
For those of you who may not be familiar with Farr Healthcare, Inc. it is a physician recruitment firm that specializes in physiatry recruitment. We have been in business for 30 years. Prior to that, the company owner was the Director of Physiatry Recruitment for what was the nation’s largest rehab provider system. The significance of this is that the doctors recruited for this organization had to be happy with their jobs and vice versa, otherwise the company would not be happy with the recruiter. This mindset remains with the operations of Farr Healthcare in that we try to match the doctor’s interests with the interests of the entity that’s hiring and vice versa. We aim to be honest and ethical in the representation of physicians looking for practice opportunities and entities wanting to add a physiatrist.
As we have been in business for such a long time, physiatrists who knew us when they were PM&R residents contact us years later to help add a physiatrist. Practices and hospitals use physician recruiters because it is difficult to find a physiatrist as there is more demand than supply. We have often been told by employers that they post ads and receive few if any responses. Of course, metropolitan areas where you are or were doing your residency or fellowship will attract a lot of interest from physiatrists looking for a job. This is not the case in areas without PM&R residency programs. Farr Healthcare has contracts with the hiring entity so the recruitment fee is paid by the employer, not the doctor looking for a job.
Please visit us at www.farrhealthcare.com. The jobs postings are at https://farrhealthcare.com/openings/
I began this blog post on a bitter cold day in February. Now it’s mid-March. Still cold, but no snow. Keep reading and you’ll discover why it’s taken so long to post this.
Below is an excerpt from my book, Write His Answer – A Bible Study for Christian Writers, that was first published in 1990 and is still in print in an expanded edition.
It is a bitter cold February day. As I sit at my computer and look out the window, I can’t help but daydream. A winter storm has encrusted the trees and bushes with a thick layer of ice that glistens in the bright sunshine. Spring seems a long way off. Wistfully I dream of golden daffodils and fragrant lilacs.
My thoughts wander to the vegetable seeds I planted yesterday in window boxes on my toasty radiator. Although they are weeks from sprouting, I’m already thinking how good it will be to have fresh, homegrown tomatoes, peppers, and cauliflower. The ringing of the phone brings me back to the present and, after a brief conversation, back to this blank screen. “Lord, what do you want to say through me?” I ask.
“Bear fruit,” I feel Him speak to my heart.
I sigh. For all my hard work this past month, I don’t feel I have borne much fruit. January’s mail was slow to bring acceptances or checks.
“I feel as if I’ve plowed and planted my garden, but nothing is growing,” I complain. “It’s not that I mind the hard work, Lord. But when am I going to see the fruit of my labors?”
“Have you forgotten what I taught you about abiding?”
I open my Bible to John 15:4 and read: “Take care to live in me, and let me live in you. For a branch can’t produce fruit when severed from the vine. Nor can you be fruitful apart from me” (TLB).
I think back over the past weeks and the many excuses I’ve made to shortchange my quiet time with the Lord. It’s no wonder my writing is not bearing fruit. I have been trying to do it in my strength instead of His.
Again the Lord reminds me that my relationship with Him is more important than anything I can do for Him. Then, in a new way, I also see the kind of fruit He longs for me to bear. Far more important than powerful prose or beautiful poetry is the fruit of Christlikeness.
“But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control,” I read from Galatians 5:22-23 (TLB). I have to admit that sometimes this fruit is sadly lacking in my life.
LOVE for the Lord and my readers is not always my motivating force. Too often I am caught up in the ego trip of seeing my name in bigger and better magazines. When editors do not accept my work, I do not feel very loving towards them.
My JOY is lost when I push myself to get manuscripts in the mail and measure my fruitfulness by the number of acceptances I receive in return. My PEACE is destroyed when I take my focus off the Lord and put it on myself – on my goals, my needs, my feelings.
My PATIENCE wears thin when things don’t happen as quickly as I want and feel they should. Instead of waiting on God and his perfect timing, I become discouraged and irritable. I say unkind things to the people I love, especially to my children, when they interrupt me when I’m trying to write.
GOODNESS makes me think of Paul’s words about Jesus: “He went around doing good” (Acts 10:38 TLB). Am I “doing good” through what I write? Using Lee Roddy’s acrostic, BERT, do my words really Benefit my readers? Do they Enrich them? Are they Relevant and Timely?
FAITHFULNESS. The Bible assures me that “the one who calls [me] is faithful” (1 Thess. 5:24 NIV). Therefore, I do not have to become consumed by the dollars and hours part of my writing – by the little I earn for the long hours I work. Instead, I can choose to trust His promise to supply all my needs (Phil. 4:19) and to remain faithful to my call to write His answer.
GENTLENESS, I learn as I look at the original Greek meaning of the word, is not just the way I treat others. The NIV Interlinear Greek-English New Testament translates it as “meekness.” Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words says, “It consists not in a person’s ‘outward’ behaviour only; nor yet in his relations to his fellow-men. . . . It is that temper of spirit in which we accept His dealings with us as good, and therefore without disputing or resisting.” In other words, instead of almost demanding that God “bless” my ministry, I must surrender my desires to Him. I need to follow Jesus’ example and remember how He took on “the very nature of a servant, . . . humbled himself and became obedient to death” (Phil. 2:7-8 NIV).
SELF-CONTROL makes me think of discipline and my need to take control of the hours in each day, as well as my thoughts, feelings, and actions which often defeat me. I can choose to dwell on the positives and not procrastinate. Most of all, I can choose to relinquish control of my life to the Lord every day and trust Him to work in me and through me.
“Yes, I am the Vine; you are the branches,” I feel Him speak to me again through his Word. “Whoever lives in me and I in him shall produce a large crop of fruit” (John 15:5 TLB). He doesn’t say when, but He also doesn’t say maybe. Instead, He gives me the conditions. I must deliberately choose to abide in Him and submit wholeheartedly to His pruning of my motives and goals. I must take care to stay close to Him – to let Him live in me. Only then will my life and my words bear fruit.
Click here for a free Bible study, “Bear Fruit.”
Write His Answer by Marlene Bagnull is a “must-have” resource for any writer. It offers the perfect balance of practical tools, personal honesty, and insightful passages of Scripture. I was inspired by her wisdom and challenged to answer God’s call to write in authentic, life-changing ways. Write His Answer will help you solidify your calling and get to the root of insecurities may writers face.
Angela Donadio
Recording Artist, Blogger, Author
For 30 years Write His Answer has encouraged writers. An autographed copy is available for only $10 plus shipping. Click here. You can save the cost of shipping by ordering $35 from the Write His Answer bookstore where you’ll find over 120 writing how-to books as well as the 2021 Christian Writers Market Guide – ALL DISCOUNTED!
Now, to share why it’s taken so long to post. I’ve been working on the 2021 Greater Philly and Colorado Christian Writers Conference! Due to the continuing pandemic, out of an abundance of caution we’re going virtual, but both conferences will be highly interactive and virtually amazing. The faculty is almost in place for both conferences.
See who is coming. Visit https://philadelphia.writehisanswer.com and https://colorado.writehisanswer.com. And save the date!
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Updates for Apple Devices
Security update for anyone using Network Solutions Email
As a part of security processes, the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate in place to ensure your emails are securely delivered will expire on September 15th,2021. Prior to this date, Network Solutions will install a new SSL certificate. As a function of this update, Apple device users will need to update their mail account settings to continue receiving email.
What does this mean for you?
For Apple device (Mac, iPhone, or iPad) users only, additional steps will be required to configure your email client so that it recognizes and trusts the new SSL certificate.
Before September 15th, 2021, Apple device users will need to:
1. Remove your email account from your device.
2. Setup your email account on your device using the server settings as shown below:
a. Incoming Mail Server: mail3.hostingplatform.com
b. Outgoing Mail Server: mail3.hostingplatform.com
Please visit the Network Solutions Help Center for detailed instructions.
Note: This security update requires action from Apple device users only. If you are using a Windows-based PC or Android device, no action is needed.
Celebration Web Design’s email provider is Network Solutions who is driving this update. Your account security and accessibility are of primary importance. We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for your continued patronage.
Food For Thought
Waiting for the Harvest
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Designing a website can be a very creative process, and art is very subjective. After we create the first draft for our clients, we send it to them for their review. We send it via email and for us the waiting process starts. Often, it takes a few days or longer to be reviewed and for us to receive a response. During that time, we continue to think about the design wondering if we were able to capture the clients vision. The truth is, our team has put years of practice and study in developing websites, looking at new tech, marketing and design practices. We have been developing custom websites for over 15 years. Our goal is to do our very best in designing a site while capturing the clients vision.
When our team works on a new project we try to remember that it is not about finishing a website that day, but planting the harvest for the future. It’s about getting the message right. If you know anything about Celebration Web Design, our harvest is not a completed website, it’s about the people who are discipled and drawn to God through the messages on the websites. Planting the seed should be our focus, the harvest is up to God.
Thank you to all our clients, who have allowed Celebration Web Design help plant the seeds.