How to build a wall.

You have no idea how many times this speech has come into my life. Every time I hear it, I can hear my Dad's voice instead of Stallone's. Just in case you don't want to watch the video here's the text:

 

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!

I have had many adversities in my life. Yet, I am still here. I have literally lived off ramen noodles and mac n cheese. Yet somehow, I pulled through. Now as I feel as if I am standing on the edge of a pit, waiting for that breeze of wind to add that final push that will hurdle me to oblivion. I come across this video again. It brought me to a good place. One where I realize that I AM moving forward no matter what!

As I watched it, I see off to the side a video from Tony Robbins. He goes on to talk about when you feel that nothing is going your way, you are just off my a millimeter. Just a millimeter...hmm? That's it! I am looking at the whole picture and not just the one thing that is front of me!  Think about that for a minute. A millimeter is small, but if you take that millimeter diversion and follow it off your original path you will end up at an entirely different destination.  Ahh, Don't look at the whole picture just focus on what is in front of you! Wait a minute! I've heard this before. I speak it every day to the kid's in my classes.

I watched another, a series of interviews with Will Smith and his ideas of how to achieve success. In it he speaks of a time when his father tore down a wall. Will and his brother had to rebuild the wall. He thought it was an impossible task to rebuild a wall. Then he thought, what if I focus on laying each and every brick perfectly and exactly? In the end you get a perfect and exact wall.

Where does this lead me?? No longer will I wallow in misery. No longer will I blame others for my mistakes. I can no longer wait for success to come to me. I have the power, he he, to make all my dreams come true. I lay my trust in my God, for He knows the path I should follow. As I journey through this undiscovered land I come once again to this,

Ask and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matthew 7:7  
This scripture has a deeper meaning to me.

As I was feeling that all doors were being shut in my face, I realized that all I had to do was just ask. I sat for a while brooding as why I felt everything was crumbling around me. It wasn't! I was looking at the wall I had to build and not just the brick(stone). Time to spend some time and work the roughness off my stone and work it into a perfect Ashlar. Hmm? Is there a deeper meaning here? Of course there is!