Challenge calls me

We always grow through obstacles and challenges. So uncomfortable sometimes! What is the alternative? I really can’t even imagine what it would be like! I love this scripture: God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self discipline. (2 Timothy 1:7)

My life is full of learning. Landmark Education has expanded my thinking and continues to do so through a seminar I am taking. Pre-Paid Legal is expanding my life in so many ways: speaking in front of people including groups, memorizing, building relationships, self confidence, passion, letting go of the past, setting goals. I would like to get involved with Toast Masters and really learn to speak well. It scares me to death! But I want to do it anyway. I will stretch and grow. Reading God’s word and going to church helps put things in perspective and gives me God’s power to move forward.

Part of my learning experience has been to grow in my attitude about money. It is hard to move forward with a “poor” mindset. I heard Dr. Laura Schlesinger say one time that some people start off life on a flat surface and are able to build their life from there. Some people start life in a hole that they have to dig out of to get to the flat surface that a lot of people start building from. Digging out of the hole takes a lot of hard work, strength, commitment and self discipline.

We learn by growing, we grow by overcoming obstacles and challenges. Who would I be without the challenges in life? I don't even want to think about that! It's not comfortable for sure but I am definitely a better person because of it!

Before & After Life

When we come into the world as a baby we do not know what we are coming into. We do not have a clue. We come from darkness into light, from unawareness into awareness, from warmth into surprising cold air, from spirit into humanity, from comfort into striving. What do we bring with us: A God given personality and a choice of who we will become.

When death arrives we leave this world and we have no idea what we are going into. Will we be going from darkness into light, from relationships back into spirit, from cold back into warmth, from striving back into what God intended? What do we bring with us: All of the love that we have gathered on this earth and our developed personality that God can use for His purpose.

"Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life." Galations 6:5 (The Message)