Giving Up

(A space shuttle at the Air & Space Museum in Northern Virginia)

God brings men into deep waters, 

not to drown them, 

but to cleanse them.  

~John Aughey

Giving Up

It's so much easier to give up then to fight.  How many challenges in your life have you walked away from?  How many missed opportunities have gone by?  How many promises have you not kept?  And why?  Somewhere you decided that it was easier to either throw your hands up or just ignore the obstacles hoping it would fix itself or just "go away".  But life doesn't work like that.  We are presented with challenges almost every single day in order to learn more about ourselves.  Without struggles we would never know how brave we are.  Without embarrassment we would never know how to have grace.  Without pain we would never know how to empathize.  See everything we go through is not random, it has been designed to get us to be aware of our potential.  Challenges are opportunities for us to grow.  It's when we give up on ourselves that we end up repeating cycles, feeling depressed and even lost.  Look at today as an opportunity to change all of that around.  Today is going to be different then any other day before.  Today is the day that we are not going to give up.  We are going to push ahead with everything we have to give.  We will watch how our lives start to transform for the better because we decided that we were worthy of being here.  Even more so, we are worthy to see how much potential we truly have inside of ourselves.