The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step....out of the mess and into God's Best

Today.....

Go one more......One....more....step....

Take it!  Take one more step today!  One more step out of and one more step into......
Out of the mess and into God's best

There have been times that I have, quite honestly, been completely overwhelmed with life....really...really....overwhelmed.....

I've often heard preachers say that everyone should have a God sized dream...something that you know you couldn't do on your own....something so big that it would be overwhelming to do without Him.

Yes!  And I do....but there was a time that I wasn't trying to get to a dream or goal, I was just praying to get out of a horrible situation.....

Those days were like living in a fog (and I don't mean the catchy acronym for "Favor of God"!).

Sometimes it was hard to breathe, let alone see the way out. You may have experienced something like that...or maybe you are right now.  I wish I could tell you that God will come in, pick you up, and fly you over the fog to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but I'm not going to.....

Because the way out is usually through.....and you can't get through by standing still!

Did you play "Mother May I" when you were little?  You needed at least 3-4 kids for the game.

One was the mother; that person stood on one side of the yard.  The rest of the kids lined up at the other end of the yard and asked the "mother" if they could take certain kinds of steps.  "Mother, may I take 10 baby steps?"  "Mother, may I take 3 giant steps?" 

Some of us would get really creative- "Mother, may I take 5 ballerina steps?"  This would involve leaps and pirouettes that would hopefully equal or supersede the "giant steps."  Normally being the one with the shortest legs required that I think outside of the box!

The player who reached mother first was the winner.

Here's the thing though....mother could deny your request, which means you just stood in the same place until mother decided to let you move forward!

Unless your best friend was in that role, your goose was pretty much cooked.  UGH!  I hated it when the mother was unfair....and she usually was!

Thankfully, there was a limit on the number of denials mother could give each player, and you'd better believe I kept track!  Once that limit was met, Katie bar the door....it was giant step after giant step!

Life can be that way.....I'm trying not to use the cliche, "Life isn't fair"....oops, I just used it......

If you feel like you are stuck standing still...either in the fog of problems or in the pursuit of something great, know that you can't stay motionless forever!!!  Sooner or later, you're going to be able to take a step.....and when that time comes, TAKE IT!

Maybe you've taken the first step out of.....or into....and then you look ahead and realize how much further you have to go.....the fog of problems still surrounds you....or the goal still seems so far away...

DON'T GIVE UP!  Get out of the fog....go through it.....one step at a time....

YOU CAN DO IT!
YOU WILL MAKE IT THROUGH IT!

As you break out of the fog, you'll move towards the goals and dreams....and you know what?  Achieving great goals happens the same way that you get out of the fog of problems.....
ONE STEP AT A TIME

Take one more step TODAY!  The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step!

This song MOTIVATED me.....a whole bunch....when I had to take those steps through.....still one of my favs.......

.....I don't own this song.... "One More" by SuperChick....from their album released WAY BACK in 2008...."Rock What You've Got".....I highly recommend it for anyone GOING THROUGH!!!!!  You can find it on Youtube.....but here are the lyrics....you should listen to it!  It will fire you up!!!

It feels like I have lost this fight
They think that I am staying down
But I'm not giving up tonight
Tonight the wall is coming down
I am stronger than my fears
This is the mountain that I climb
Got 100 steps to go
Tonight I'll make it 99

One more
Go one more
Yeah, yeah
Don't stop now
Go one more
Yeah, yeah
One more

Go one more
Go one more
Yeah, yeah

I have everything to lose
By not getting up to fight
I might get used to giving up
So I am showing up tonight
I am my own enemy
The battle fought within my mind
If I can overcome step one
I can face the 99

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil:  for thou are with me; thy rod and they staff they comfort me.....Psalm 23:4

Begin your journey today by taking a single step....out of the mess and into God's best!

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I'll blog you next week... until then....do something TODAY to fulfill your purpose!

P.S.  It may interest my regular readers to know that the AMAZING MR. BRINTNALL had a Christian Rock Band that OPENED FOR SUPERCHICK several times!!!  That, along with his proper use of a semi-colon, secured his place in my heart!