“Never Quit!” Blog #130
If I pray now, will my life get easier today?
As days go by, why can’t I figure things out and have peace?
Will these thoughts in my head give me courage to discipline myself?
I know when I woke up this morning, I had a completely different plan for what I was going
to accomplish. Each of us goes down the “highway of life” not expecting to have so many
detours, so many curve balls, so much distraction. Sadly, it can be that simple little
comment made by someone close to me, and I chose to take it the wrong way. It can be
the silly set of circumstances that blocked my navigating on to a more positive course. I
kept thinking about what someone had said to me and I suddenly got depressed.
When I allow myself to get distracted, I find all kinds of excuses for not doing the “right
thing for myself today”. More than anything, it is easy to find all kinds of reasons for “self
doubt”. My mind has been there a thousand times. I have found all kinds of temporary
“fixes” so to speak. I can ;pick up the phone and call anyone that knows “the complaining
side of me” and find an ally. These copouts are the way I decide to “figure things out?”
Seriously! My life will never get better than this IF this is all that I am going after.
Do I always want this “lower self” thinking to sabotage my every day duties? Because if I
do, it is tried and true. I will stay here stuck like this all day long. It has been tried so many
times that I am an old hand at excuses now. Instead of cleaning my house, it’s easier to
live in a mess. Instead of organizing my life, I survive in clutter. Yet, today….HE is waiting for
me to say: JESUS HELP ME. Somewhere deep inside of me - I know I want better. I want
this spiritual support. I want this help now.
Somewhere inside my mind I know I can do more. Somewhere in my heart, I understand I
can become a better person for myself if I just start the discipline now. ”Help me Jesus”
I can sit here and write about all The things in life, I take for granted. Yet, there are those
people who chose not to give up.
Here are three examples of basic necessities we have today. The light bulb. The
telephone. The safety pin. These three basic necessities were invented by human beings.
Human beings that refused to quit. Thomas Edison became famous for inventing the light
buib. He also was twelve years old when he developed scarlet fever and became deaf!
This never stopped him for not only inventing the light bulb, but the phonograph, the
electric railroad and main parts of motion-picture equipment! He never stopped trying.
He wasn’t even a teenager yet and was losing his hearing…that never stopped him and he
never quit! Lets look at 1876 when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Right in
the middle of his inventions, Bell lost not one, but TWO sons of his died from tuberculosis!
They died right in the middle of his inventing process. Bell was very close to his family yet,
he never stopped trying and he never quit!
There is another man that we credit for a small little invention that is timeless. He was just
a mechanic when he found himself in debt to a friend for $15.00 In 1849, $15.00 was a lot of
money! Walter Hunt is credited with inventing the “safety pin” after he was worrying about
that debt he owed and kept twisting a piece of metal, it became the safety pin and he is
regarded as the inventor of it!
Another man that decided to “keep on trying” is a man named Jack Milton. He finally got
his college Degree as a World War 11 veteran at 100 years old.
There is a woman named “Grandma Moses”. She is most famous for starting to paint
pictures at the age of 78. She lived to be 101 years old and painted 1600 paintings!
I could go on and on and prove beyond the shadow of a doubt how important “Mind over
Matter” is. Never give up. Never give in. Never Quit believing in Jesus. Success very often
comes to people that do not give up. Even when faced with the most insurmountable
challenge, if we look, we can always find someone worse off.
“Don’t Quit”. by Edgar A. Guest
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
when the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
when the funds are low and your debts are high,
and you want to smile but you have to sigh,
when your cares are pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit!
Life is odd with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learn many a failure turns about,
when you might have won IF you’d stuck it out,
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow,
You might succeed with another blow.
Often the struggler has given up,
when he might have captured the victors cup,
And he learned too late, when the night went down,
how close he was to the Golden Crown.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of clouds of doubt,
and you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far,
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit.
It’s when it seem the worst that you mustn’t quit!
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Can I feel Jesus hold my hand today and promise myself I will not quit?
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