If there is anything I have learned in life it is that there are many things beyond our control and we must accept some things as our destiny but many things we can and should do something about. No matter how difficult the journey, no matter how many bumps in the road and no matter how many try to discourage you the answer is never to give up but keep on preservering. There are those who would see us fail, those who are determined to make it their goal to discourage, criticize and tear down instead of build up and restore.
We must put on our blinders and focus keeping our goals in mind at all times never allowing the negativity surrounding us to render us stagnant so that we become ineffective in our day to day lives.
With all of the terrible news we are bombarded with each and every day from abuses of all kinds, storms that are unheard of, government tearing down the very values our country has stood for, wars and rumours of wars all over the world, loss of jobs right and left, foreclosures, shortsales and other distressed sales it is very easy to allow these negative influences a stronghold in our lives. We have to make ourselves stay focused on the positive because for all of these terrible things we have much to be thankful for and remembering the good in our lives and making sure we acknowledge it not only to God but to ourselves and others is imperative so that we not lose our joy.
God knew that all of these things would come to pass and He knows our futures and He says we are not to be worrying about these things as He is in control of it all but instead keep preservering doing what is right being a light in a dark world. He says occupy till I come. He is not the author of confusion, negativity and defeat! He wants us to be happy, joyful and productive!
Have a happy, joyful and productive day!
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DON'T QUIT
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but dont you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than,
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint on the clouds of doubt,
And you can never tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things go wrong that you mustn't quit.
~ Unknown
