sea – Mrs. Goodfinder

Don’t leave yourself adrift in the wrangling waves of other passing ships.

Set down your anchor so you’re not cast around by their wake.

‘Once again lady, I don’t even know what you’re talking about!’

OK. Here it is. Stay tied, docked to the truth – to what you know to be true, and become immovable! Don’t let all the lapping waves of other’s tongues cause you to change your mind and follow an aimless path out to sea where there’s no focus, no left, right, up or down!

This world – our world, your world, my world, needs strong, stable (anchored) individuals to hold things steady for smaller vessels floating around unsure where to land and anchor.

Can we each firm ourselves up in what we know to be true and yet be open to see where we may have believed someone else’s falsehoods?

It takes effort – but work to shore yourself up in the harbor of truth so passing ships will not pull you off course.

Yesterday I talked about encouraging others. Today I’m talking about you encouraging you!

Yes, we can and many times will have to encourage ourselves. There will be times you have to stand alone. Others will not be there for you. They will not see what you see. They will not have your vision, your principles or motivation. You will have to hold the line by yourself. Take courage! This will build fortitude (another word for strength) so you can go further, become stronger, last longer, endure more – (that doesn’t sound fun, it sounds like hardship involved!!!)

We’ll have to chew our own meat – no ground up baby food involved. But I’ve heard it said meat is for the strong. No carnivore diet spoken of intentionally here, but meat makes strong muscles and we’ll need them to weather our storms, mental, emotional, spiritual and physical.

So, you had the idea to build the first lighthouse at sea alerting ships to steer clear and not get dashed to pieces in the dark. ‘How are you going to do that’, somebody said. ‘You can’t, the surf is too strong, water too deep, tide comes in, you’ll get washed out’… and on and on.

Yet! Somebody kept at it. They planned and planned and thought and thought and tried and finally the first successful one was built and saved many lives. ‘I could never do that!’ Maybe not your area of expertise, but there is something that you and you alone can and need to do. You – yes you – plan and think and try things out until you succeed. Begin to encourage yourself more!

Now back to the lighthouse. No one built it completely by themselves, but there had to be an idea, maybe guarded at first until it could develop and ‘build up steam’, and then others became involved. It began with them.

Today I am not giving up on my plan, thought, dream to ….

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Shore Yourself Up!

Encourage Yourself!