''Demanding Life?” Blog #186
What healthy information do I bring into my life today?
Am I side-tracked by someone giving me negative comments?
Where do I get inner strength to follow my higher path?
Standing up for good is hard. It’s not easy getting up in the morning and telling myself,
“today I will discipline my mind, my body and how I spend my time in healthy ways”.
It’s important to tell myself at the start of this day,
“I will do something today that my future self will thank me for”.
Getting up in the morning and having discipline immediately is hard! It’s even more
challenging when my mind and body don’t want to listen to my inner voice of reason. A
demanding life that is healthy is a good life. A demanding life that asks more of me, is an
important life. A demanding life that challenges me to the core, takes courage to see
through. There was a time when I lived my life by doing “just enough to get by”. This type
of life style is dangerous and eroding and all consuming. As someone said,
“No Pain - No gain”. Every valuable thing in life is worth fighting for!
I myself know when I faced hard times, it seemed like it could break me. Yet, at the
moments when I was so overcome with such darkness that I thought it would break me, it
was at that moment when I put my hands together and felt tremendous strength. It’s hard
to imagine my life without Jesus because I have traveled down so many sad roads and
now rely on the one force I know will always give me solace. Yes, my life has been
demanding, yet I look around and there is not a soul I know who does not have a life filled
with some sort of pain that demands their attention. Even though I have gone through
such pain, I felt it would break me, it was here I found my inner strength to push forward. I
have learned more about myself in those “magical moments” of trial and error and found
in my weakness I gained inner strength.
In my sorrow, I found compassion for others. In total darkness, Jesus lights my way.
When I look at my struggles in my life, I see my character developing depending on
what I demand FOR MYSELF. I demand a healthy, honest, Christian life.
Whatever I am facing at the moment, because I have courage to face my fear, I now can
face my future. Just having the mindset to persevere when all else seems lost, brings me
peace in my demanding life each day. I remember to pray first. Then I ask for the 3 “D”s.
Discipline, Discernment and Detachment. When I have discipline, I can face my demands.
When I discern, I know who to listen to and when to walk away. With Detachment, I can let
go of things not needed today. In my demanding life, as it is each day, I share a favorite
poem showing me the way.
“DON’T QUIT”
By John Greenleaf Whittier
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
when the road your trudging seems all up hill,
when your funds are low and your debt is high,
and you want to smile but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit,
rest if you must, but don’t you quit!
Life is strange with its twists and turns,
as everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure comes about,
when you might have won had you stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow,
you may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out,
the silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell just how close you are,
you may be near when it seems so far.
So stick to the fight when your hardest hit,
it’s when things seem worse that you
MUST NOT QUIT!
Am I ready to bring Jesus into my demanding life today?
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