Sunday, January 04, 2004
One Step at a Time
The arrival of a new year offers each of us an opportunity to stop and consider where we've been and where we're going.
As for me, I want to be a better person, a better Christian, a better husband, a better father, a better writer, a better communicator -- well, I just want to be better this year than I was last year! But getting better won't happen by just 'wishing it' so. I'll have to take steps toward 'better.'
Chinese philosopher, Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC) said, "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." That's exactly how 42-year-old Nancy Samuelson of Lincoln, Nebraska, walked around the world -- one step, one day, one lunch hour at a time.
It took her 16 years, 4 months, 25 days and 55 pairs of tennis shoes to walk the 24,902 miles. But she equaled the distance of the Earth's circumference by circling a walking trail near her workplace. One can hardly imagine walking that distance, but Nancy proved it's possible -- all she did was start walking and keep walking!
Where do you want to go? What dream is in your heart? What is God calling you to?
Start taking steps today toward that divine destination. Start walking, keep walking, and one day you will arrive!
think on these things...
Deuteronomy 2:1-3 (NLT)
"Then we turned around and set out across the wilderness toward the Red Sea, just as the Lord had instructed me, and we wandered around Mount Seir for a long time. Then at last the Lord said to me, 'You have been wandering around in this hill country long enough; turn northward.'"
"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-- William Jennings Bryan
// posted by theChurchGuy @ 1/04/2004
