There Are No If, Ands, Or Buts About It!
Better DaysAre AreNo Just The Corner There If,Around Ands, Or Buts About It! A Letter from the Editor
A Letter From The Editor
A Letter from the Editor
ThereWhat is no ifgreater treasure can possess than thehopes gift of tomorrow didn’tone arrive? All of your plans, life. God selects us all for ahave particular promise. and dreams wouldn’t a streetpurpose to park and on. What if Your gift iseverything asWhat individual a blade of grass a rain drop that hopes falls from thatasyou decided to putoroff until tomorrow never if tomorrow didn’t arrive? All of your plans, the sky during a shower in the month of April. What God has for happened? There would be no reason to save for a rainy and dreams wouldn’t have a street to park on. What if me, iseverything onlyand foryou me, and is impossible other than me day, could someone theanyone trouble of making that youitspare decided to putfor off until tomorrow never promises. What if would your last to fulfill His promise for my life. happened? There be opportunity no reason toseemingly save for aexpired rainy today? wouldspare you do? day, andWhat you could someone the trouble of making promises. What if your last opportunity seemingly expired Though I was named by my grandmother, throughout the short that I often like I do things. too much. What would you do? seem yearstoday? ofI’ve my been life, I told have been called many other Some of like Iand am others not doing enough I’m a firm themHonestly, I believe I feel earned, maybe not.and However, it wasn’t knowing that God seem wouldn’t on me I’ve been told share that I something often like put I doaanything too much. until Ibeliever heard ainpastor during church service that Iunderstand couldn’t I not sometimes wonder how would Honestly, I feelhandle. like I am doing enough and I’mlife a firm did I fully the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of be if I chose to sit idle and accept what it presented to me. I believer in knowing that God wouldn’t put anything on me words spoken to me by others. This pastor told us that “It doesn’t have found that to be very boring. In my opinion, opportunity that I couldn’t handle. I sometimes wonder how life would matter what others say to you or about you. The only thing that is aifis blessing that isn’t to what everyone. A challenge be I what choseyou to sit idle afforded and accept it presented to me. matters answer to.” That message burrowed itselfI in to me is an adventure. What is the worst that can happen? have found that to be very boring. In my opinion, opportunity my mind and remains there. If aI do nothing, if I try to I don’t, but instead learn is blessing thatI fail, isn’tand afforded everyone. A challenge something new about myself. Relinquish yourcan pride and in to me is an adventure. What is the worst that happen? We live in a world where, if we are not careful, our lives can be return acquire life. If I and do nothing, fail, and if I try I don’t, butIt’s instead learn to have shaped torn by Iwhat others think of us. important something new about myself. Relinquish your pride and in the support and admiration from family and friends, but we can’t The best advice return acquire life.ever given to me happened when someone survive on their opinions alone. We must realize our very own told me to make my tomorrow happen today. In doing so worth. God makes no mistakes and because He made each of us, I have pressed myever way given through doors with a key thatsomeone only The best advice to me happened when it’s impossible to believe that we are anything less than His finest hopeme provided. have also learned the today. difference between told to makeImy tomorrow happen In doing so creation. blesses and what cana burden with Iwhat haveGod pressed my me waywith through doorslife with key thatme only as well. I compare it toalso knowing when be confident and hope provided. I have learned the to difference between Aswhat I watch the loss of young lives with the recent school when to be quiet, because God blesses me with and what life can burden me with shootings, backitto I was a young student. Things someone may get it confused as well.I reflect I compare towhen knowing when to be confident and have really changed from those times. It is painful to see our with being arrogant. when to be quiet, because future perish. Therefore, I pray and someone ask for healing and protection may get it confused in those situations. I also pray for change. The kind of change Make youarrogant. tomorrow with being that starts at home. We happen today, butmust mostspeak life intoimportantly the hearts and ears of those make it count. Make you tomorrow who are impressionable. You Life is but a whisper andcan happen today, but most never understand someone we must putwhat ourselves in a is importantly make it count. position toa hear what it is by going through on the inside just Life is but whisper and telling us.put lookingwe at must them. Often, one word ourselves in a position toto hear what that it is is all that it takes change telling us. person’s life. Let your words be full L. Watson of kindnessTerry and compassion or don’t say anythingEditor/Founder at all. My mama told me Terry L. Watson that!
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