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I heard this story about this mule who fell in a well, and the farmer said “I might as well cover him with dirt. With every pile of dirt that farmer threw down there, the mule would pack the dirt under his feet and stumped on it. Before long the old mule was out of the well. It is not what is thrown at you. It is what you do with it. It can either kill you or make you stronger. It is your choice of how you deal with it. In playing spades, I sometimes get a bad hand and still make my book. It is how I play the hand that I am dealt with it.

Move toward the light

When we are in that dark place in our lives, what do we do?Do we sit there and stop moving? Do we look for the light in that dark room of our lives? We do this by focusing on the positive things instead of the negative things in our lives. With us doing that, we spark the light of hope in our lives. When we do this we can possibly see a way out of that so called dark place in our lives. Even a little flash light gives us enough light to lead the way. Let that spark of hope turn into Faith in our lives. With Faith, we can see the good that comes from that so called dark place in our lives. That light of Faith is much bigger that that light of hope. Hope say that there is a small chance that we are going to make it. Faith says that we are are going to makeit.

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How do we react when we get what we do get what we want? Do we act like spoiled children? Do we see if we have done anything wrong? Do we see the blessing in not getting what we wanted? That thing that we want may not be good for us at that time or never good for us. We need to look at things that happen our lives as good things even the set backs. God knows what we need better than us. His will is going to be done in our lives. Weather we like it or not. Just sit back an enjoy the ride.

In the cartoon Popeye, he got punched, kicked, and knocked down until he said “I can stands no more. He ate the spinach and got the power to win. When he reached the point where he would use power he had he did. Popeye always had the spinach on him. He did not until he was feed up. When are we feed up with the things going wrong in our lives. Are we like Popeye are get punched, kicked, and knocked down in our lives? Are we going to let the world, family, friends jobs and anything else hold us down. How much will we take?

Do we have that staying power inside of us to make it through the so called hard times in out lives? We are going to have so called hard time to come in our lives to distract us from our goal. Can we stay focused on the goal at hand in our lives? Will we let life so called problems side track us? I say no and will not let anything stop me from reaching the goal at hand. Anything worth getting always is a struggle to get it. If the staying power is inside of and we use it. We may to overcome on the first try. We will get there in due time. The song say I will get there, I will get there somehow cross that river, nothing stopping me now. We must have this attitude to be overcomers in our lives. We will get to where we are going in our lives for sure if we have the right attitude and see thing how they can be instead of how there are.

When it is raining, some of us use a rain coat or an umbrella. What do we when the rain comes in our lives? Do we use the protection that we have in our hands? We have everything we need inside of us to break the walls in our lives. We are rain protected if we know it or not. When I was riding motorcycle, I had to buy a rain suit to protect myself. Without that rain suit, I was soak and wet when I got home. The rain is going to come in our lives. Are we prepared for the rain because we know it coming? We must do something we don’t want to be under that umbrella. Under the umbrella is a small place and we can not move around a lot. We must hold the umbrella to be under. We must take ownership of our live that is holding the umbrella. If we do this, we can stand the rain because it is not going to last long. The sun will shine again in our lives for sure if we just stay under the umbrella while the rain in going on in our lives.

There are going to be times in our lives where is time for us to be bold. We are going to have things that will stand in our way. The question is do we let that stop us. Do we look within ourselves and reach down and pull up that Power inside of us to overcome? The thing that looks so big is really something small that had a big shadow. If we would only look a bit closer, we would see this and not let the shadow stop us from moving forward. Let’s be Bold and move forward.

We need to bloom where we are planted. Some plants only grow well in certain areas. We are the same way. The place where we are at may be dry and where we don’t want to be. If we stay there and let the seeds of or action, words, and deeds be planted into someone life. We can plant seeds of joy, motivation, and other good things. Our troubles are not always for us but for others. When they see us go through and come out that thing, they just may see the power inside of themselves. If we try to go somewhere else we will face the same thing all over again. Let’s stay where we a planted.

In our lives we are going to have things to try to stop us from reaching our goal. If we stop, we will not get where we trying to go. When we are in a dark place, we will reach the light after while. When we keep moving, we may or may not reach our goal. We will have made some progress to build on. We must usethe light inside of us to see our way through. A little light will allow us to see our way. If we use our little light, we just may make it to the The Light. The Light let’s us see past the so called dark times in our lives. In my life, I have had osme dark times and kept moving and sometimes made it and sometimes I did not. I have learn life lessons from each experience good and bad. The dark places in our lives teach to use our light inside of us and makes us a lot stronger. After we come through, we are able to deal with life so called troubles.

A house can anot stand the weather, wind, and sun without a strong foundation.The house will fall to those pest like ants and other animals also. The foundation must be where those critters can not get there. Our lives are the same way. Is our foundation built like a solid rock or sinking sand. When the storms of life come our way, are we able to stand? There are going to be some so calledd hard times in our lives. The question is can we stand through them. We must prepare for the storms that are going to come our way. We are either in a storm, going through a storm or coming out of a storm. This cycle goes on until there is no breath in our bodies. Let’s have a strong foundation attached to house of our lives.