The Fight for What I Want

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her."  ~David Brinkley

"Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right."  ~Henry Ford

 


" You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."  ~Michael Jordan


I'm the type of person that tries to fix and do everything at once - sometimes, it's a good thing. Other times - not so much. I have so much in my life that I'm trying to figure out right now - School, career, family, guitar, piano, weight loss, other interests, and especially personal weaknesses - it's a lot to keep control of and to work on changing all at once!

I sat down on my back porch the other night. I had my guitar in my hand and I just sat on my back steps. It was absolutely frigid, but I didn't really feel it. I'd just kind of had a rough spot occur and I was feeling kind of down. I looked at the stars, though, and I was amazed about how bright they were. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, and the moon shined more brightly then I'd seen in a long time. I messed around on my guitar a little bit, then set it down and looked at the stars some more. There's something about star-gazing that puts you at peace. I'm still not sure what it is - but I had plenty of time to rest and ponder on what it was exactly that I was doing with my life. I don't really have any metaphors that go with star-gazing - I did have something important, though. I had some revelation there that was priceless beyond belief.

I learned that Satan is going to do anything to get us down and to stop us from achieving our true potential. He wants us to fail - and he's going to do anything to make it so that we do. He'll have us believe that our beloved ones have abandoned us. He'll have us believe that we cannot do what we dream. He'll have us believe that God has forsaken us. None of this is true. None.

Instead, we must fight for what we have. I realized star-gazing that the last couple of months, I had kind of fallen out of what I learned as a missionary. In the field, I would do anything to get people to accept the truths of the Gospel! So what was I afraid of doing now? I was afraid, for some reason, of doing what I needed to do. I needed to establish what I wanted, and I needed to work at accomplishing it. So I set some goals for myself - something I should have done when I first got home. Goals are what make me. Goals are what I will achieve. Goals will make me what I want to become.

And I'll climb to the top of this mountain I am on.

And it will have been worth every moment of the climb.

"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory." - Anonymous