--- one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
~ John F. Kennedy
Jack Kennedy was as flawed as the next human person, learning from his dependency on medication to lower his pain the result of war wounds, that each of us can be motivated by our daily trials to rise above our worries to better the person living in fear of not being able to cope.
Waking up to the realisation that our worries will never defeat our resolve equips each of us with the opportunity to do more than fear the sun rising tomorrow with nothing to prepare us for all that lies ahead. Scripture informs us that the so called heroes we have come to rely upon to inspire us, went through their own crisis of faith when an overwhelming calamity obliged them to reach out for assistance from God, having exhausted all rational means to create the remedy extricating them from their plight.
Faith in God is the awareness that in the midst of our crisis our doubts surface to teach us that our faith provides us with the resilience necessary to shepherd us through those periods when all appears lost, leaving us with hope that our faith in God will supply us with the strength to overcome our easy choice to surrender to our fear of defeat.
Our expectations may well be fed by an interior sourced stream of encouragement asking us to focus on better days ahead, rather than spend time fretting over that which we have appeared to have lost when weeping over our yesterdays.
The wise person learns walking the road of hard knocks that experience is a brutal teacher rewarding us with the benefits of lessons learnt, sufficient to equip us with all that we will need when rising out of our regrets to face the journey ahead beckoning us to build on our yesterdays good fortune, seeding all that our tomorrows will provide to celebrate our life.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen ~ Hebrews 11:1
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