Life isn’t good or bad; it’s unfolding. You’ll never fully know which moment is a blessing or a lesson. What seems terrible today may save you tomorrow. Trust the process. Walk with patience. Keep working. Every “maybe” in your journey is shaping the person you’re becoming.
School is a greatexperiencefor somechildren.Forothers, schoolistheworst experienceof theirlives. Everychild hasagenius. Unfortunately, theirgeniusmay not berecognizedby the educational system. Theirgeniusmay even be crushed.
Taking no risks will be your biggest risk. You have to risk failure to succeed. You have to risk heartbreak to love. You have to risk criticism for the applause. You have to risk the ordinary to achieve the extraordinary. If you avoid risk, you’re risking missing out on life.
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
If you don’t step up and handle your responsibilities, life puts you under someone else’s control. Lead your journey before someone else leads it for you.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
If not me then who? If not now then when? If not here then where? If not this purpose then what? If not with courage then how? & If not for impact then why?