Anything can be overcome with Love, Faith, and Patience. All three go hand in hand and struggle without each other. At any point in your life if you wanted to make a change, if you wanted turn things around, or get things back on track then Love, Faith and Patience is what you need.
Love is the most powerful force on the planet. Love is a common attribute that we can share with our creator. God’s love for us is so powerful that he sent his only son to die on the cross so that he may forgive us, sinners, people who are not worthy, people who are inherently wrong, people who are prone to make mistakes and transgress against him. God’s love is unmatched in that it is nearly infinite; he always makes a way, and never gives up on us, even when we sometimes give up on him. That being said it is the love that drives us and our lives, our love for our families, our love of God that makes us do the right thing, even our love of ourselves, our morals, who we are and want to be that makes us strive in the right direction. When love is focused it can have great results, it can make you the best at anything from music, to sports, or it can make you the best person in the world to someone. Focus your love, your passion, your drive, and you can achieve many things however, love needs its partners.
Faith is equally important with love; I believe God has faith in every person, no matter how far they have erred to make their way back onto the righteous path. Without faith many things are not worth your efforts. How can one achieve anything, or succeed if they do not believe it is possible? How many games will a team win if nobody on it thinks winning is possible? How far can one go if they don’t believe there is a glimmer of hope? Your attitude is so important in so many ways that simply believing in yourself can make all the difference. If you believe or have faith that you can accomplish something, then you are on the right track so long as you have the love and their binding factor, patience.
Patience is rooted in love and faith, if your love a child or a person you will have patience for them, also if you have faith that they will get it together or get it right then your patience will grow. God’s patience is incredible because for every person on this planet he will wait up to their entire lifetime so that they may find him. As with God or anything else in life, things may not come when you want them to. You must be able to endure the hardships, endure the fact that things will get better before they get worse, and have the patience to withstand it all without losing love, or faith, because without them you will lose your patience.
If one can focus their love, stand on their faith and use both to strengthen their patience, then they are truly limitless in what they accomplish. Whether you are Michael Jordan or Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein or even Barack Obama, the only way they could be who they are, as good as they are, and accomplish what they did is by using these three powers. By having Love for what they did and their purpose, by having faith that they could achieve what they wanted, and having the patience to endure until they were there, they like many others accomplished great things. So if you have a goal, or know that you can do better or need to make a change, then find your love, faith and patience and give them your all.
Showing posts with label Hard Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hard Work. Show all posts
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
A Honest Day's Work
Before the sun ever breaks the dark morning sky
He is awake in the middle of the night
His hair has gone silver as tribute to time gone by
His body creaks as he moves about
He prepares the same way every morning
Off to another day of work
An uneven swing of the door signals its time to be fixed again
He opens the closet of his tools for work and sets his things down along side them
The usual routine begins as he inspects what needs to be done
He shakes his head as he flushes the toilet that someone forgot to do themselves
His back creaks as he bends to pick up the trash that fell short of the can
With a jerk he pulls the full bag out and replaces it with a new one
He gets his bucket and brushes and cleans every toilet
With another brush he scrubs every sink of dried toothpaste and water
He returns to his closet and summons the mop and bucket
With the expertise of years behind him he quickly cleans the floors
With a cloth he even cleans the water fountain to a shine
He cleans and replaces all his tools and reaches into his pocket for a single dollar
He walks over to the same vending machine and purchases another root beer
just like he has for the last 40 years he sits on the couch and takes a deep sip
Another job well done
The soda becomes his only thanks as he finishes it with a deep sigh
The man collects his things and moves on to the next building
People begin to enter the building and make short work of his hours of cleaning
Already trash has hit the floor next to an empty can, where it will wait for him
By the end of the night the man returns to his small home
His wife prepares dinner as he quickly showers to eat
He says his prayers and lays down in the same spot next to the same woman
He sleeps well after an honest days work, until the clock goes off again
This one is dedicated to all the hard workers out there, who often go under appreciated. I wrote this after watching a janitor clean out the bathroom of my dorm every morning at about 5AM (i was waking up for spring training), he actually did his job well, and not more that an hour before he finishes people just walk all over the work he did. Think about someone else sometimes...
He is awake in the middle of the night
His hair has gone silver as tribute to time gone by
His body creaks as he moves about
He prepares the same way every morning
Off to another day of work
An uneven swing of the door signals its time to be fixed again
He opens the closet of his tools for work and sets his things down along side them
The usual routine begins as he inspects what needs to be done
He shakes his head as he flushes the toilet that someone forgot to do themselves
His back creaks as he bends to pick up the trash that fell short of the can
With a jerk he pulls the full bag out and replaces it with a new one
He gets his bucket and brushes and cleans every toilet
With another brush he scrubs every sink of dried toothpaste and water
He returns to his closet and summons the mop and bucket
With the expertise of years behind him he quickly cleans the floors
With a cloth he even cleans the water fountain to a shine
He cleans and replaces all his tools and reaches into his pocket for a single dollar
He walks over to the same vending machine and purchases another root beer
just like he has for the last 40 years he sits on the couch and takes a deep sip
Another job well done
The soda becomes his only thanks as he finishes it with a deep sigh
The man collects his things and moves on to the next building
People begin to enter the building and make short work of his hours of cleaning
Already trash has hit the floor next to an empty can, where it will wait for him
By the end of the night the man returns to his small home
His wife prepares dinner as he quickly showers to eat
He says his prayers and lays down in the same spot next to the same woman
He sleeps well after an honest days work, until the clock goes off again
This one is dedicated to all the hard workers out there, who often go under appreciated. I wrote this after watching a janitor clean out the bathroom of my dorm every morning at about 5AM (i was waking up for spring training), he actually did his job well, and not more that an hour before he finishes people just walk all over the work he did. Think about someone else sometimes...
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