MOVING ON

Our success in anything we do is determined by the amount of work we put into whatever it is we do. Thus we continue to toil, put in the effort, to add to the pile.But there are times though when we’ve got to acknowledge that however hard we work, however much we try, we will not get results equal to the effort we put in. We can do either of two things; to worry and wallow in the mud of our failure, or to accept that we did our best, and find it within ourselves to live with these “unrealised efforts”. One way to live with “unrealised efforts” is not to give up but to keep on putting in the effort. Like the sower whose seed fell on different ground, we can focus on the seed that did not bear fruit and get depressed, or look at the seed that fell on good soil and celebrate. What and where is your focus? On good soil or on the hard, rocky or thorny places? So we keep on sowing the seed, knowing that there will be seed that will fall on good soil. You see, we can plant the seed, but we cannot regulate the weather. If the seed does not grow because no rain has fallen, then why should we grieve? We do our best, and that is good enough.

Shalom