When a Storm comes
When a storm comes you are either prepared or your taken by surprise. When a storm comes you take shelter or you
face it head on. When a storm comes you
can let it destroy and change you or you can pick up the pieces, rebuild and
move on.
What storms you have survived and lived through are the very
events that have molded you into what you are today. Did those storms destroy you or make you
stronger?
If you survived your storms standing tall you are an
inspiration. If you have let the storms
destroy you, they in turn destroy or affect those around you. What ever the case, you are either an influence or example of
something positive or negative to those that you meet, to those that live with you, to those that are your friends
and your community.
We are never ready for a storm. Even if we know it’s coming. We tend to hunker down and hope it passes safety
and often it does. But what if it does
not pass us unharmed? What then we do is
an example of our character and our resolve as a person or people.
Life is not a fair place to live in but it is often only as
fair as we set ourselves up for it to be. We tend to feel the need and have the
belief that we are owed something or deserve something. Neither of these are true statements. We are only owed or deserve something that we
set ourselves up to deserve. It’s called
setting a goal and reaching it. No one
else can reach your goals for you, only you can do that, but you can waste your
life throwing a pity party thinking such things.
Life is a roller coaster of ever changing events, all of
which are totally out of your control but it can be nudged in the direction of
your desire. Often the direction you
head has stops along the way with detours around things you didn’t see, but it’s
the journey to your destination that will determine you resolve.
What is resolve? It
is quite simply your desire to accomplice something bad enough. Lazy and resolve are like oil and water. You can not weather a storm or reach a goal
without resolve and Lazy just results in you being lazy and feeling like you
are owed or deserve something.
Next time you have a storm coming your way, get out your
rain suit, your umbrella, your muck boots and clean your yard up. Move forward, and continue on toward your
goal. Because just like no one else will
stand before God on your behalf, no one else is going to see you reach your
goal. Yes, people will support you, but
most secretly would rather you fail.
Let your Liberty
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