【推荐2】My job is to help clients find jobs and return to school for training. One day, a lady came to my office with a dream to become a registered nurse. However, her family did not _________ . With young children to care for and her husband unemployed, she simply didn’t have the _________ to return to school.

It was clear that this lady had a(n) _________ for the nursing profession, so I encouraged her to realize her dream. I _________ her with necessary information to apply for nursing school. She left my office, and I never _________ whether she followed her dream or not.

Many years later, I was diagnosed (诊断) with breast cancer, I was _________ to hospital. The surgery was successful. It was, _________ , very painful. Though I _________ myself on not being a bell ringer, one night the pain was so _________ that I had to call for a nurse. I rang the bell and waited for __________ . A nurse came through the door and offered to help. I __________ thanked her for coming to my rescue. I said, “I am not usually like this.”

To my __________ , she said, “Oh, I know that, Mrs. Bryenton.” It __________ that she was just the lady who I had encouraged to follow her dream years before. She subsequently (随后) returned to school for upgrading and later __________ nursing.

You never know what __________ your encouraging words will have on someone. It is amazing that many of my clients would __________ to say thanks to me. To this day, I am still __________ by strangers in the street and reminded that I was instrumental (起重要作用) in __________ their life.

I truly believe we make a __________ by what we get, but we make a wonderful life by what we __________ .

【推荐1】It is a story every bit as moving and magical as her Harry Potter books. The ____ between J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, and Catie Hoch, a Harry Potter fan from New York, began in early 2000, some three years after the then six-year-old had developed a fast-growing childhood cancer.

Her mother, Gina Peca, had read the first three Harry Potter to Catie, who was such a fan that she would wear her Harry Potter clothes, complete with big round glasses and a red short coat, as she ____ to hospital from home.

By the end of 1999, Catie had been through several rounds of surgery and chemotherapy (化疗), losing all her hair but none of her spirit. Ms Peca was ____ that there would soon be no more Harry Potter to read.

She sent an email to the book’s publishers with a ____ for J.K. Rowling, asking when the fourth book would be ____ and telling of the joy that the books had brought to Catie’s life.

A few weeks later, a reply came that had Catie and her mother ____ for joy. It read, “I am working very hard on book four at the moment - on a bit that involves some new creatures Hagrid has brought along for the Care of Magical Creatures classes. This is all Top Secret, so you are ____ to tell only some close friends and your mum, but no one else....With lots of love, J.K. Rowling.”

After Catie replied, Miss Rowling was back in touch: “Do you think people will mind? I seem to have ____ an awful lot of characters along the way...”

Catie’s condition began to worsen. Her mother emailed Miss Rowling to tell her that Catie could no longer use her ____. A few days later, the author ____ to read abstracts to Catie from the then ____ book four.

So it happened that at home in New York, a little girl with cancer became the first person in the world to ____ the latest adventures of Harry Potter, later published as The Goblet of Fire. Catie’s mother, father and two brothers sat with her, listening on speaker-phone.

When Miss Rowling came to America for a book tour, she ____ to meet her little friend.

___ time ran out. On May 18, 2000, Catie died, aged nine.

Hearing the family had started a memorial fund in Catie’s name, Miss Rowling sent a letter and a check for $100,000. “…I consider myself ____ to have had contact with Catie. I am crying so hard as I type. She left footprints on my heart…”

【推荐3】A minister (牧师) was on a long flight. The first ________ of approaching problems came when the sign on the airplane ________ on: Fasten Your Seat Belts.

As the minister looked around the aircraft, it became obvious that many of the passengers became ________ . Later, a voice over the intercom (内部通话系统) said, “We are so sorry that we are unable to ________ the meal at this time. The currents are ahead of us.” And then the storm broke. Lightning lit up the darkening sky, and ________ moments the great plane was tossed (使动来动去) around.

The minister recalled, “As I looked around the plane, I could see nearly all the passengers were scared. Then I suddenly saw a little girl. Obviously, the storm ________ nothing to her. She was reading a book on her seat and everything within her small world was ________ . Sometimes she closed her eyes; then she would read again. Sometimes she straightened her legs, but worry and ________ were not in her world.”

The minister could hardly believe his eyes. It was not surprising, ________ , that when the plane finally reached its destination and all the passengers were hurrying to ________ the plane, the minister came up to the girl whom he had watched for such a long time. Having talked about the storm, he asked why she had not been afraid.

The child replied, “That was because my ________ was the pilot, and he would take me home.”

There are many kinds of ________ that frightened us. Physical, mental, financial, domestic, and many other storms can easily and quickly darken our sky and throw our plane into apparently uncontrollable movement. We have all known such times, and let us be honest and accept, it is much ________ to be at rest when our feet are on the ground than ________ we are being tossed about in a darkened sky.

Let us remember: Our father is the ________ . He is in control and taking us home.

Don’t worry.

【推荐1】One Saturday morning, I did things smoothly. By 10 am I'd already taken a shower, made breakfast for my kid with a special diet, been to the bank and ________ produce at the farmer's market. Before heading to the laundromat (自助洗衣店), I decided to ________ the living room.

I ________ my way steadily around the ________ until I got to the window. As I wiped the window frame (窗框) I noticed, with some ________, that the window was not locked. I had ________ my son to re-lock the window, telling him that the one point of ________ for robbery in NYC is through open windows.

I ________ waking him from his teen-deep Saturday morning sleep to make him lock the window. Before I did so I noted I was also ________ to have discovered the unlocked window before a robber did. ________ mixed feelings, I chose to ________ first on thanking God for the terrible ________ prevented from happening, and to speak to my son when I was less ________. So I did my ________ and considered what to say to my son, and how, and when. By the time I was done, I had a plan that ________ me to talk to my son calmly, so he could hear my words instead of reacting to my ________.

Giving myself ________ turned out to be a good choice. Over the years I've learned that anger is ________ an effective lesson plan for teaching responsibility. I was far more thankful for my unlocked-window discovery than angered by it. So as I moved on to the next ________ on my to-do list,   I, in a heated moment, ________ and prayed over a situation of gratitude.

【推荐2】I have to make a confession: I’ve shed tears at every job I’ve had. I always find it difficult to _________ my emotions. And each time I’ve _________ exactly why these emotional moments are considered so taboo (禁忌). Is it a universal truth that you just can’t cry  _________?

As someone puts it on the internet, as professional women, we’re dealing with the great expectation to “be _________ in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire” while also making enough money to pay rent. _________ , my eyes get a little watery just thinking about it. So if crying at work is unavoidable — yet taboo — what is an ambitious young woman to do to _________ after one of these embarrassing incidents?

My usual routine after an in-office _________ is to remove my contact lenses, have a massive iced-coffee, and _________ it never happened (until it happens again). Clearly, I’m no expert on the _________  professional response. So I spoke with my personal finance coach, Ashley Feinstein Gerstley, to see if she had any  __________  for reducing the humiliation (丢脸).

“It’s so __________ , but telling yourself not to cry usually  __________ making you cry more,” she says. “You’re using all your energy to hold it together, trying to  __________  an awkward situation, but there’s so much pressure that the __________  will almost unavoidably come.  Women __________ to over-apologize, especially at work. If you do end up getting upset, it can be helpful to __________ yourself from the situation. Take a minute to get it together, and come back ready to have a more composed (镇静的) exchange.”

Maybe there’s some __________ in crying. I’ve definitely found that __________ the taboo can lead to greater relationships with __________ . I’ve noticed how tears have helped solve a disconnection or problem that might __________ have gone unsolved. To be honest, I’m hoping to recognize, if not celebrate, the rare office cry as a hidden skill for greater future.