Chapter 1
Milestones
My Thoughts On Milestones
I wanted to entitle this section"Milestones" because these words have marked so many different places in my life. They are very indicative to times in my life where I was at low points and had to learn how to encourage myself in the midst of my circumstances.
It's not easy to find reassurance in the heart of adversity. In fact, it can be down right difficult. When you have pressure on you seemingly from every side, you have to come to a place where you find what I like to call"your center." It's the place where you are able to dig deep inside yourself after having been beaten and life appears to be standing over you with a look of disdain, daring you to rise again.
While you're in that horrid and awful place in your life, you have to learn to find your center. You have to learn come to grips with several truths that exist beyond the confines of where you are:
1. You're not a alone in what you're going through, no matter what it looks like or how it feels.
2. What you are going through is only for a season.
3. If you continue to move forward, you will eventually come out of where you are as long as you maintain a healthy, positive attitude about your life and circumstances.
4. There is always better for you beyond where you are.
5. You can make it.
One thing you must realize about life is that it happens without your permission. Things happen, circumstances arise and appear many times beyond your control. Listen, you may not be able to control one single, solitary thing about the things that happen but the one and only constant that you can change in every given situation is you. You are the only thing that life cannot change, no matter what happens. I understand that circumstances befall us and they can be quite devastating to us but we determine the outcome of how we will turn out, whether good or bad.
Once you have made up in your mind that you will press forward with your life, no matter what, life can happen all it wants to. It's your response to life that will gauge your success and greatness or your defeat and demise. Holding to the words that are used to entitle these milestones can help solidify your standing in life's happenings whereby you achieve victory while in the nucleus of your trials. I urge you to take these words to heart and make them a part of not only your vocabulary but your lifestyle.