Persistence

Rust is persistent in it's chemical reaction and sometimes I am like rust, especially when I think something will benefit me.  I've found that line of thinking to be flawed.  Not in the persistence aspect, but in where the benefit should lay.

We aren't on this planet for our own good, yet for the benefit of others by "paying it forward".  We get to decide what the "it" is that we are giving away.  For some it's money, for some it's time, and for others it's joy, but whatever it is that you have in abundance, give some of it away and experience the satisfaction.

I ain't Nike, yet I just need to do it!

Sometimes I wish I had learned earlier in my life that most things aren't worth the effort of worry.  We usually imagine things worse than what they are, or could be.  This is a temporary stage of existence and I do not disagree that we should always try our best to be our best.  

I also believe that we each have a calling and it's not just figuring it out, it's doing it.  I've been guilty of having a calling and haven't been acting on it.  It's time to change my routine so I can do what I'm called to do....stay tuned! 

Turn your worries into prayers

...Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life” (Phil. 4:6-7).