Healing

today is a day off from running on my schedule. so tonight i get to recover a little from the weekend. i thought that was good due to the rain but this afternoon the rain stopped and it was nice out. now i wonder if it will be raining in the a.m. i will have to try and run in the morning since i will be on call tomorrow night too. i heard it was supposed to rain every day for over a week. surely i will be able to find some time to run. i was going to do my push-up/crunch routine this evening but time slipped by too fast. after supper i was preparing my lesson for vbs on friday then looked at my watch and realized if i wanted to get to bed in time i would have to blog and get ready for bed. so, here i am. maybe tomorrow night i will get the chance.

"When 40 million people believe in a dumb idea, it is still a dumb idea." Don't worry about failure, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try." these are just a couple of quotes that i have in a book that i turn to when i need a little inspiration, pick-up, etc. the first one reminds me to evaluate everything, don't just let someone tell me what to do or follow blindly behind the crowd. if the crowd is going in the right direction, good, i'll follow. but i do not want to take that for granted. i have wasted lots of time doing things that so many others were doing to look up and realize i should have never started. i would have been better off not doing anything.

the second quote (neither had authors i could find) reminds me to do things i think i can do, or that might be remotely possibly (sometimes impossible), even when others around me tell me not to. most people don't tell you not to do something because they are afraid you will fail. most people tell you not to do something because 1) they can't or think they can't do it 2) they don't want you to succeed because if you did it then they would not look as good. if someone isn't pushing you to better yourself, they are probably pulling you down with themselves. If anyone gets the chance you should read the book The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkinson, it is short and makes a good point.

i am trying to come up with a little signature sign off, like Paul Harvey, etc. if anyone has any ideas let me know. until then...the bad thing about reaching your dreams is that you realize you aimed too low ;)