I loved the following two quotes from my reading in Anonymous.....
Character---who we are today despite what happened to us yesterday, the choices we make for tomorrow based on who we've grown to be today. Everyday is an opportunity to grow, to build and develop our character--to become our destiny. We see ugly, we feel pain, we act out or pull away from God, but true character recognizes opportunities for growth and sees the change we strive to achieve in the moments after the ugly.
I find difficulty sometimes as an excuse, as a way to justify my own ugliness--but there is no excuse because character builds up and does not tear down (and that includes how you treat yourself). I can get fixated on the past, try to find clarity in the chaos I can't understand, to justify who I am and how I feel based on the strings of the past. The emphasis needs to be on rising above and overcoming the doubt because how we respond today, in this moment, is our defining moment.
I've always loved the saying, "Worry is wasted opportunity to trust God." What if we made sayings of
"Fear is wasted emotion to live boldly in Christ"
"Jealousy is a wasted emotion to feeling complete in God"
"Anxiety is a wasted moment to be led by God's strength and not that of our own"
The key words in all of these is "wasted" "opportunity"
Our character determines how we make the outcome of the opportunities we face every day, there are no excuses just wasted opportunities.
I am constantly growing but only I can determine the direction of my growth. My prayer is that I continue to rise every day and move forward, closer to God and farther from my selfishness of the past.
I want my story to grow, to build; I want a clear start and a clear ending. I want my character fully developed. I want all who read my story to flip through the pages and affirm that who I am at the end of my life was an individual who used every opportunity to grow and get closer to my perfect ending of...
"well done my good and faithful servant."
"I feel that trials do not prepare us for whats to come as much as they reveal what we've done with our lives to this point."
"The choices of her yesterdays were revealed through the window of her responses to her current trial. In other words, trials tell us less about our future than they do about our past. Why? Because the decisions we make in difficult places today are greatly the product of decisions we made in the unseen places of our yesterdays." (Anonymous...Chole)
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| Character is a Window |
Character---who we are today despite what happened to us yesterday, the choices we make for tomorrow based on who we've grown to be today. Everyday is an opportunity to grow, to build and develop our character--to become our destiny. We see ugly, we feel pain, we act out or pull away from God, but true character recognizes opportunities for growth and sees the change we strive to achieve in the moments after the ugly.
I find difficulty sometimes as an excuse, as a way to justify my own ugliness--but there is no excuse because character builds up and does not tear down (and that includes how you treat yourself). I can get fixated on the past, try to find clarity in the chaos I can't understand, to justify who I am and how I feel based on the strings of the past. The emphasis needs to be on rising above and overcoming the doubt because how we respond today, in this moment, is our defining moment.
I've always loved the saying, "Worry is wasted opportunity to trust God." What if we made sayings of
"Fear is wasted emotion to live boldly in Christ"
"Jealousy is a wasted emotion to feeling complete in God"
"Anxiety is a wasted moment to be led by God's strength and not that of our own"
The key words in all of these is "wasted" "opportunity"
Our character determines how we make the outcome of the opportunities we face every day, there are no excuses just wasted opportunities.
I am constantly growing but only I can determine the direction of my growth. My prayer is that I continue to rise every day and move forward, closer to God and farther from my selfishness of the past.
I want my story to grow, to build; I want a clear start and a clear ending. I want my character fully developed. I want all who read my story to flip through the pages and affirm that who I am at the end of my life was an individual who used every opportunity to grow and get closer to my perfect ending of...
"well done my good and faithful servant."
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