Marigolds

With blooms ranging from white to orange to burgundy, marigold brings bright color and ruffly shapes to the summer garden they are one of the most carefree annuals, performing well from seed or transplants in a warms, sunny spot and any well-drained soil.

Marigolds (India)

The compact signet marigold and the mid-size French types are suited to bed edgings and containers. The taller African marigolds are best for the back of the border or for a cutting garden.

African Marigolds

When planting different sold-color marigolds, mix in a few with bi-colored blooms to tie the scheme together.

Water marigolds often until they are well established, then water only weekly if rainfall is inadequate. Start pinching out blooms when they first appear to promote budding and a bushy shape. Deadhead and keep pinching until frost to keep marigolds flowering heavily. 

Start seems in-doors no more than four weeks before you want to set plants out. Otherwise the seedlings may become leggy. 

French and African marigolds are actually misnamed. Marigolds are native to the American Southwest and to Central and South America. In the 1500s, marigold seems were taken to Spain. Fro there, seeds were transported to France and parts of northern Africa, where the taller types eventually became naturalized.

Positive, Sef-Motivating Christians

Christians have desire. They are dissatisfied with the status quo. They want change for the better. There never was a Christian who didn't want to win for Christ. 
Scores of achieving people in every walk of life are all around us, yet few of us ever thing of the long and arduous process the led them step-by-step to their goals. Who for instance, would have though or remembered that Winston Churchill was a poor student.
They wanted something special for themselves--in spite of their past records. In spite of their bloodlines or their home lives--they wanted to win. Many Christians think that self motivation is an option. But EVERYTHING a person does--whether positive or negative, intentional or unintentional, is the result of motivation. Remember this:everyone is self-motivated, whether it be a little or a lot--positively or negatively.
Motivation is an extremely misunderstood and over promoted term. Then word, "Motive" is defined as that within he individual, rather than an outside influence, which incites the person to an action: an idea, need emotion, or organic state that promotes to action.
Motivation is a force which moves us to action, and it springs form inside the person. Defined as a strong tendency toward or away from an object or situation it can be learned or developed. It does not have to be in-born.
Things only will happen in a persons life if they ever want them to. Therefore, motivation is an emotional state. Two key emotions dominate human motivation with opposite, but equally effective results: fear and desire.
Fear is the most powerful negative motivator. Fear restricts, tightens, panics, forces, and ultimately scuttles plans and defeats goals.
Desire, however, is like a strong, positive magnet. It attracts, reaches, opens, directs, and encourages plans and achieves goals.
Fear and desire are poles apart, and lead to opposite destinies. Fear looks to the past--desire to the future.
Fear vividly replays haunting experiences of failure, pain, disappointing, or unpleasantness, and is a dogged reminder that them some experiences are likely to repeat themselves.
Desire triggers memories of pleasure and success, and excites the need to replay these and to create new winning experiences.
The consuming "prison" words of the fearful are likely to be "I have to," "I can't," "I see risk," and "I wish."
Desire says, "I want to," "I can," and "I will."
There is a disturbing philosophical movement today that associates drive and initiative solely with materialistic power and gain.
While there does appear to be a growing obsession focused on the accumulation of non-essential personal possessions, this should not be confused with personal achievement and the pursuit of individual excellence.
Disregarding all material rewards of high achievement, there is a pure personal pleasure which comes with achieving the difficult. The emotional spin-off that accompanies performance of the unusual or challenging personal test can range from a quiet flow of self-esteem to outright exhilaration, and is reason enough for the pursuit of excellence.
After decades of quest, we now know that high achieves have a high degree of self-motivation. The enduring power that moves them to action comes form inside themselves.
Success is NOT reserved for the talented. It is not in the high IQ. Not in the gifted birth. Not in the best equipment. Not even in ability.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive, focus, and persistence. The extra energy required to make an extra effort--try another approach-concentrate on the desired outcome--is the secret of winning.
Out of desire--the energy and will to win.
"Make no little plans: they have no magic to stir your blood to action--make big plans, aim high in work and hope."
Get that urge to WIN!
There's no time to Lose.

For the Christian Daughter or Son

Honoring means going beyond what is expected, going out of your way to make the person you are honoring feel loved and appreciated. Love, love, respect, respect, forgive, forgive.

"Honor they father and mother..." (Deut. 5:6). The family is the germ of society, and the family is sustained only as the authority and rule of the heads of the household are upheld and respected. The command, then, to honor parents may be justly regarded as asserting the foundation of all social ordinances and arrangements. Where parents are not honored, a flaw lies at the basis, and the stability of the entire social fabric is endangered.

Many passages in the Word of God speak or refer to the duty of children to their parents. It is worthy of careful noting, that when God would launch  forth into the world a new national life, he lays great stress on the recognition of and regard to family sacredness. This is a moral code for the nation and the world for all time to be laid down in the list of the ten commandments: immediately after the honor of God there is the commandment, "Honor they father and they mother." Implicit obedience is a child's first duty.