Keep On Going

One of the things that you have to accept about life is that you will not like everything! Knowing it and accepting it are two different things. Everyone knows that there are issues that they won't agree with others on but accepting this as fact requires a maturity and a keen awareness of those whom you have been called to walk with. When I say an awareness I'm talking about relationships. It's about knowing who you are around and understanding their positives and negatives, their strengths and weaknesses. This is vital in developing holistic relationships because a lot of your destiny is tied up in those whom you are joined too. I tell my young people all the time, your crowd will make you or break you.

This is something that is quite serious when it comes to preparing yourself for destiny. Destiny requires that you delve past the superficial or the "surface" and go into the deep places of the soul. In so doing, you open yourself to great pain. Most people lose sight of the bigger picture here at this stage because of the degree of uncomfort or dis-ease that is experienced at this stage of the journey. But let me encourage you to remember and keep sight on the prize! The journey is not for now, but it's for tomorrow...It's for our future. Yes, it may hurt and it may cause some tears but as "mama and 'nem" used to say, if it don't kill you, it'll make you strong!

In the final analysis of life, remember NO Pain, NO gain! Keep on going regardless of those who come against you to do you harm. Keep on going because the scripture says that the race isn't given to the swift or the strong but to those who endure! Endure WHATEVER and go through what you have to go through because you are on your way to someplace great! You may not understand it now but in the end you will understand that the drama, the pain, the agony, the misery, it was all brought to you NOT to kill you but it was to make you stronger than ever!

Now that's real talk...