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I Can't Get My First Love Out Of My Head.

This is a sponsored post . Twenty five years ago, in my late teens, I had my first boyfriend. We had a completely magical year together. He was, and is, very confident and successful. On reflection, there was a class difference. He was at public school and from a wealthy family. My parents were immigrants and just wanted me to get a good education. Finding my feet in life was quite difficult. I worked hard at school for everything, including going to university, but  found the careers thing overwhelming, especially finding my own direction. After he ended the relationship, we never kept in touch, and I always felt that he didn't want to know me. It crushed my confidence, I felt absolute despair that I wouldn't find love again afterwards. To make up for it, I tried to make my life as interesting as possible, and became unhealthily driven in my career – I have a fantastic job now. So I can see that I made the end of the relationship positive. I had two signif...

Prayer is the Key.

● "I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach."  - *Charles Spurgeon* ● "The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history."  - *Andrew Murray* ● "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."  - *Oswald Chambers* ● "There is no other activity in life so important as that of prayer. Every other activity depends upon prayer for its best efficiency."  - *M.E. Andross* ● "He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day."  - *John Bunyan* ● "Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet." - *E. M. Bounds* ● "We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring it's power down to earth." - *Andrew Murray* ● "Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of...