There Are No If, Ands, Or Buts About It!
My Actions Will Make My Dreams A Reality
There Are No If, Ands, Or Buts About It!
A From Letter The fromEditor the Editor A Letter A Letter from the Editor Happy New Year! What if tomorrow didn’t arrive? All of your plans, hopes and dreams wouldn’t have a street to park on. What if If I was to sit at home and dream about vacationing on a tropical everything that you decided to put off until tomorrow never What if tomorrow didn’t arrive? All of your plans, hopes island, my imagination would be the only island I would visit. In order happened? There would be no reason to save for a rainy dreams wouldn’t havetoa street to with parkmy on.imagination, What if for myand physical being to be able catch up I day, and you could spare someone theuntil trouble of making everything that you decided to put off tomorrow never would have to make arrangements for it to do so. Such arrangements promises. What your last opportunity expired happened? Thereifawould be no reason toseemingly save for afor rainy may involve contacting travel agent, purchasing tickets a flight, today? would you do? day, andaWhat you someone the trouble and booking hotelcould roomspare at a resort. In other words,of mymaking reality will promises. Whatisifmade your last opportunity only exist if an action by me to breatheseemingly life into myexpired dreams. I’ve been that I often today? Whattold would you do? seem like I do too much. Honestly, I feeladvice like I am not doing enough I’m aafirm Some of the best ever given to me, cameand during stormy believer in knowing that God wouldn’t put anything on I’ve been told that I often seem like I do too much. season in my life. Though I wasn’t quite aware of what I was me that I couldn’t I not sometimes wonder how life would Honestly, I feelhandle. likewho I amgenuinely doingcared enough and I’m a firm experiencing, someone about my present as well be if I chose tome sitaidle and accept whattold it presented me. I in knowing that God wouldn’t put anything on meclose as mybeliever future threw life preserver. They me to payto very have found that to be very boring. In my opinion, opportunity that I couldn’t handle. I sometimes wonder how life would attention to what was going on around me and that not everyone and is aifblessing that to what everyone. challenge be I Ichose to sitisn’t idle afforded andwas accept it presented toallow me. I everything was connected to purposed for me.A “Don’t to me is an adventure. What is the worst that can happen? have found that to be very boring. In my opinion, opportunity that or them to kill your purpose,” I clearly recall them telling me. I Ifknow nothing, I fail, and if I trybut I don’t, but instead learn aI do blessing isn’t afforded to everyone. A challenge didn’tis what that to do with it then the picture would become something new about yourcan pride and in to meme is an What is Relinquish the worst that happen? clearer for at adventure. a later time.myself. return acquire life. If I do nothing, I fail, and if I try I don’t, but instead learn It was obviousnew to others I had Relinquish a purpose for mypride life, though something aboutthat myself. your and in The best advice ever given to me happened when someone I wasn’t aware of it. As I tried to get along and fit in, the bottom return acquire life. appeared way. my While the winds of my storm withso told to megive to make tomorrow happen today.raged In doing intensity, I was pulled in one direction and knocked down in another. I I have pressed my way through doors with a key that only The best advice ever given to me happened when someone begantold to seek help from others that only things. hope provided. Imy have alsobut learned thecomplicated difference between me to make tomorrow happen today. In doing so This was totally out of character for me because I was “Mr. Independent” what God blesses me with and what life can burden me with I have pressed my way through doors with a key that only and accustomed to having of the answers handling things as well. I compare it all toalso knowing when to be confident andall by hope provided. I have learned theand difference between myself. whenlife tocan be quiet, what God blesses me with and what burdenbecause me with may get it confused as well. I compare it to knowingsomeone when to be confident and Quite often I look back at that moment and realize it was God with being arrogant. when to be quiet, because working through them to reach me. Those experiences me a someone may gettaught it confused great deal about myself. I learned that Make youarrogant. tomorrow with being it is alright to betoday, trusting and caring, happen but most but to also be aware of those who have importantly make it count. Make you tomorrow been sent enemy to most stunt Lifebyisthe but a whisper and my happen today, but growth.we I also learned if I am running must putmake ourselves in a importantly it count. to something that is running away position what it is from Life is buttoa hear whisper and me, let it go. When I try to force my telling us.put ourselves in a we must way into a situation that has proven position to hear what it is I don’t belong there, I am asking for telling us. trouble. What God has for me is for Terry me, and in order forL. meWatson to obtain it, I Editor/Founder must act upon it to make it a reality.
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