My Thoughts

There is a big difference between knowing and doing.

All golfers know how to play the game, but winning is hard to do.

All husbands know how to stay faithful and committed to their wives, but doing so is hard to do.

All programmers have a grasp on the project they want to accomplish, but making it work as expected is hard to do.

Living in the American culture of the USA, we know what God desires of us, but doing it is hard. Instead of pulling yourself up by your boot straps, just stay still for a moment, stay down and tell God, 'I'm knocked down in the fight of sin. If I get up by my own power, I'll just get knocked down again. This time Lord, I ask you to place my feet on solid ground and establish me in a life so I don't get knocked down in shame again.'

Love,
Dad

Quote of the day

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt