Perservere

It has been a week since my last post and things have been going great. Everyday comes with their own challenges, but I overcome each and every obstacle by just being true to me. Anyway, I feel like tonight I need to write about something that has came across my mind lately. I don't really know what made me think of this, but I just thought of this.

You really figure out what kind of person you are when things start going in the wrong direction, and you are at the brink of rock bottom or even there. That is when you figure out who you are. Are you the kind of person that gives up when things are going wrong? or do you perservere?

Those were some questions and thoughts that came to my mind over the last couple of days. When I thought about those questions, I really dug down and figured out what can of person I want to be. Am I going to give up when things get tough in my relationships with others or when I feel like I can't do anything right or whatever situation? The answer I came up with was......NO. I will not give up! Why give up on myself? The word that describes this whole post is PERSERVERANCE.

That word sums up almost everything that happens in our lives. When things are going against you and you start getting caught in the "quick sand" of life. Are you going to quit on yourself and on others? or are you going to try and perservere? Are you going to fight?

I'm going to use a quote from my high-school football coach.

"Anything that is worth having in our lives, we need to fight and work at acheiveing. Nothing will come easy."

I feel like this is totally the truth. If you feel like something is worth alot to your life, then you need to work for it and need to work at keeping it. Do not quit! Do not give up on yourself and on others in your life!

It is hard. I know this, but you think about the people in your life that when they have things start going against them and they thrive in that moment, they bring themselves up because they are not going to give up on themselves. Now think about that again, but say those people don't thrive and they give up, they give in, and don't trust in God or in themselves. What happens? They don't experience all of the possibilities that the Lord and that life have in store for them. They live life with blinders and don't experience all that they could!

Life is rough and sometimes things don't go your way, but what really shows what kind of person you are is how you rebound. How you respond to those things that seem to be against you. Do you give up and bail out? or do you fight for what you think is worth having? The choice is, as always, yours.

Heavenly Father, I just ask this evening that you help all of us to see that giving up on ourselves and on people we think are worth having relationships with is not what needs to happen. Help us and guide us through those situations when we feel like giving up, and giving up on you. Strengthen us and keep us as we move forward in each of our hard and complicated lives. I ask that you bless every single person in this world and will continue to show your love to them even on the brink. Thank you for all that you do and all the people you have put into our lives. Amen