When I talk to people about life principles and just life in general, I always try and talk about things that I practice myself, not things that I don't do (practice what you preach and all that).
Well, today in my devotional time I was asked that same question that I so often ask... Am I running my own race.
"Woops"
Holly Wagner speaks about watching sprinters in a race and how they all stay in their own lane otherwise they will be disqualified from the race. She writes, "How many of us are trying to get through life running in someone else's lane?"
Well, I'm reading away thinking , YES and AMEN when... I get to the end and she says go and write down 3 things you are great at and 1 thing you are passionate about. That got me!
It made me realize how much easier it is to tell someone that then to do it.
I'm a classic for trying to run in someone else's lane. I see cool things and think... Yeah, I could be good at that. But why try and be good and something God didn't create you to do, when you could be great at something that He did.
There is no one in this world that can be me better than I can. It is the same for everyone. I think that we forget sometimes that we loose out when we try and run in someone else's lane. But not only that, all the people around us do, as well as God. We not only rip ourselves off, we rip the others off too.
What I learnt?
Be an inspiration, and let others be an inspiration.
Don't try and take from someone else's what works for them and try and make it work better for me.
It is Ok that I am not good at everything, just as long as I am great at being me.
No one can take that, even if they try!
I will be who God has created me to be. That way I can be great.
"Everyone has the power of greatness- not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Write down what you are great at. What is it that you have been gifted to do? Serve in that area and you will be made great!
Pretty basic stuff, but something the majority of the world misses.
Something like 5% of Christians are doing what they are called to do.
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Ha ha, I'm glad you'll pray for me about my affinity or Halloween. As for the Aussie photos. Well, to be 100% honest. I'm lazy sometimes. There are a bunch of pictures, and I just finished editing my favorite NZ pictures, so now I have to get to the Aussie pics. Also, I lost about half of my pictures from that trip (from arrival up to when we met you girls) so I don't have Melbourne, Bell's Beach, the Great Ocean Road, Kangaroos, and Koalas. I think I am kind of avoiding posting pictures so I don't have to think about all the pictures I don't have. But I promise I'll work on it.
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