I Dreamed a dream and let it go
Afraid to follow through.
I wonder now what could have been
If my dream I had bravely pursued?
by Deb Forbes 2010
What is one of your biggest fears? Think about it a minute. What makes you quake or causes you to want to hide somewhere? Is it doing something or trying something new, or how about having a dream and going for it. Maybe it is meeting new people or maybe it is just the unknown and not being in control. All of these have a couple of things that make them fearful for us and that is the fear of rejection and the fear of being a failure. What then is a failure is it trying and not succeeding or is it being afraid to try at all?
We so many times have a dream that we really want or something we really want to do, but we are held back from even trying because of our fear of becoming a failure. You see we think that just because something we try doesn't work that we become a failure instead of thinking that the idea or thing we tried failed to work. So you say you don't see the difference? The difference is this, you have not become a failure just because you tried something and it didn't succeed, you just found that you need to try or retry this idea or dream in another way or try another idea or dream altogether. The key is not to give up and moan and groan about what a failure you are and never try again,just chalk it up to experience and move on. We worry so much about what people will think of us if we fail at what we try that we beat ourselves up and start believing we are failures and can't do anything. This then leads to not trying. The not trying then leads to us feeling more like failures because we never do anything. Do you see the vicious circle we have just put ourselves in? We need to get break out of this circle and start believing that we can do and try and dream.
Failing is inevitable in life because we are all human. What would have happened if after the debacle of Roanoke VA the English gave up coming to the new world? Did Roanoke fail yes, but that didn't stop the English from trying again and Jamestown after several rough times and problems was established. Then there is the inventions that never would have happened if after the first attempt that failed they stopped trying. Inventions like the light bulb, though it is not sure exactly how many times Edison failed it is certain he didn't get it right the first time. Then there is Henry Ford who failed and went bankrupt more than once before his car caught on and became successful. How about Bill Gates who dropped out of Harvard and his first company failed, or how about Abraham Lincoln who failed in public elections and several businesses but later became one of our best presidents. There is Fred Astaire who at his first testing was told he couldn't sing, act or dance. The list goes on and on but what do all these people have in common, they didn't stop at the first failing but kept going until the succeeded. They didn't sit around talking about how they were failures but got up dusted themselves off and tried and tried again.
The key is this TRY, fail maybe, and TRY TRY TRY again. Never give up and never stop trying. Pray about your dreams and wants, God wants you to tell him about them. Ask God to show you what he wants you to do and then go do it. Never be held back because you are afraid of failing and people seeing you has a failure. We should worry more about what God thinks of us than what people do and God loves us. We don't have to be successful to have God's love and we don't have to worry about being failures and losing God's love either. God loves us period! Rom 5:8 "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." KJV So then why worry about being failures if God loves us no matter what. Doesn't that give you some strength and courage to try your dreams and try to do what God wants you to do? Rom 8:31 "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" KJV
Get out there and be an adventure following and trying your dreams. God has something or somewhere he wants you to do or go so don't be afraid step out in faith and go. YOU ARE NOT A FAILURE! YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD, A CO-HEIR WITH JESUS SO GET OUT THERE AND ACT LIKE IT!!!
Rom.8:16-18 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. NIV
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
4 months of walking
On Jan. 28,2010 it has been 4 months since I started walking again and I haven't
slowed down yet. We walk all the time and do things we haven't done for years like hiking and we are even planning a camping trip with the grandkids and going canoeing. God is giving us ideas of ways we can serve him also and have really enjoyed being able to get more involved. We are noticing and finding joy in everything. It is funny how the little things can set grown people to giggling, smiling and bring such joy. The other day we were waiting in a rather long line at the checkout, this can be frustrating, but Mike just leaned into me and said this is nice because for a change we could stand there together leaning on each other, the little things. Parking at the very back of the parking lot and walking instead of having to park in the handicap up front, or just holding hands strolling through the store, or how about him being able to put his arm around me when we sit in church. These are things that you do and don't give it a second thought, but these are also the little things until I started walking again we couldn't do. So if you see two grown adults break out into smiles or laughs it might just be Mike and I finding joy in the little things we can do again. Appreciate and be thankful for everything you do and have because they are a gift from God.
I never asked God to heal me and make it so I can walk but that he would just use me how ever he wanted to. I was so surprised when my season of life changed again and He has me walking. I know that it is God who is making a way for me to walk because of all that is and has happened since that day. First from the moment I stepped out when God said walk and I took that first step my leg muscles were there. They were defined and my grandson was amazed at how defined my calf muscles are just like I had been walking or running all this time, God did this my muscles should have to gradually come back but they were just there. Then there is the fact that I still have Myasthenia Gravis my neuromuscular disease along with osteoarthritis and osteopenia in my back along with some other things that cause problems with the nerves so I should not be able to stand let alone walk again only by God.
In this last 4 months I have seen just how awesome God is and how it is all him that makes it possible for me to walk. The least little illness sets my autoimmune diseases off and my autoimmune system into overdrive. I have had my back go out which should have stopped me from walking but it didn't. I was slower and bent over but still up and going with God's help. Then my knee slid out of place and though very painful I could at least get it back in easier and was able to walk on it sooner because of having muscles to help this time and so I continued to walk. These are just a few of the things that have happened in the last 4 months that anyone of them should have put me down sick for weeks and still I walked on Praise The Lord!
So a last thought is this, My strength comes from the Lord who has given me back my ability to walk inspite of all the odds against me and in so doing shows his power by my being able to walk, full circle. My prayer is that I will continue to glorify him in all that I do and to always be thankful. So if you see Mike and I acting like teenagers again and laughing at the little things just know its the joy of the Lord and all he does for us.PS 27:1 1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
slowed down yet. We walk all the time and do things we haven't done for years like hiking and we are even planning a camping trip with the grandkids and going canoeing. God is giving us ideas of ways we can serve him also and have really enjoyed being able to get more involved. We are noticing and finding joy in everything. It is funny how the little things can set grown people to giggling, smiling and bring such joy. The other day we were waiting in a rather long line at the checkout, this can be frustrating, but Mike just leaned into me and said this is nice because for a change we could stand there together leaning on each other, the little things. Parking at the very back of the parking lot and walking instead of having to park in the handicap up front, or just holding hands strolling through the store, or how about him being able to put his arm around me when we sit in church. These are things that you do and don't give it a second thought, but these are also the little things until I started walking again we couldn't do. So if you see two grown adults break out into smiles or laughs it might just be Mike and I finding joy in the little things we can do again. Appreciate and be thankful for everything you do and have because they are a gift from God.
I never asked God to heal me and make it so I can walk but that he would just use me how ever he wanted to. I was so surprised when my season of life changed again and He has me walking. I know that it is God who is making a way for me to walk because of all that is and has happened since that day. First from the moment I stepped out when God said walk and I took that first step my leg muscles were there. They were defined and my grandson was amazed at how defined my calf muscles are just like I had been walking or running all this time, God did this my muscles should have to gradually come back but they were just there. Then there is the fact that I still have Myasthenia Gravis my neuromuscular disease along with osteoarthritis and osteopenia in my back along with some other things that cause problems with the nerves so I should not be able to stand let alone walk again only by God.
In this last 4 months I have seen just how awesome God is and how it is all him that makes it possible for me to walk. The least little illness sets my autoimmune diseases off and my autoimmune system into overdrive. I have had my back go out which should have stopped me from walking but it didn't. I was slower and bent over but still up and going with God's help. Then my knee slid out of place and though very painful I could at least get it back in easier and was able to walk on it sooner because of having muscles to help this time and so I continued to walk. These are just a few of the things that have happened in the last 4 months that anyone of them should have put me down sick for weeks and still I walked on Praise The Lord!
So a last thought is this, My strength comes from the Lord who has given me back my ability to walk inspite of all the odds against me and in so doing shows his power by my being able to walk, full circle. My prayer is that I will continue to glorify him in all that I do and to always be thankful. So if you see Mike and I acting like teenagers again and laughing at the little things just know its the joy of the Lord and all he does for us.PS 27:1 1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
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