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 I am fascinated by people who excel at something. Those who are head and shoulders above the rest. One of my friends in college, Frank, a young Hispanic positive attitude machine, ran a marathon. He started running only three months before. I was there at the finish line of 26 miles. Dude looked like he had went for a brief jog. Three months from nothing to marathon. He finished in the top 15%. It was crazy. I stood staring at him with my mouth open. I tend to ralph in the bushes after running a half of a mile. Typically it involved a large canine chasing me. Otherwise why run? Seriously?I love to ask these supermen and superwomen how they did it. How did you become a medical doctor? All of those years in school and residency? How did you become a published author several times over? How did you get a publisher to hand you a sizable advance for something you hadn't even written yet? Seriously? Their answer? "I stuck with it." "There were plenty of people smarter than me in med school, but they dropped out. And I kept studying." "I have been writing and reading great books nearly everyday for fifteen years." "I ran two miles for five days. Then four the next five, and so on." Even as a professional spiritual guy, I can be surprised with people who have become beautiful souls. Single men who treat their ex with respect and kindness, even though they had caught their spouse getting' it on with a younger man. Middle aged guys who lose their job, have no leads, and yet maintain hope. Mothers who have bills stacking up, slacker husbands, a child with a yet undiagnosed medical issue, and yet are sweet and encouraging to others. Even with a meddling mother-in-law! Beautiful souls. Their answer? God. "I have been reading about Jesus in the Bible for awhile now. He always seemed to forgive everybody. I mean stinkin' everybody! I have been asking Him to teach me how to do it." "I regularly tired to pray when driving to work in the mornings. To just be honest with Him. I have come to believe He is with me." "I try to carve out a half hour a few times a week to be still and ask God to give me His heart for my husband and kids. I write down things in a journal that I am thankful for. Its not easy, but it gives me a different perspective." How do you get to know God? How do you become a beautiful soul? Stick with Him. We all know showing up some Sunday morning at Koinos will not change your life. Saying a "please help this once and I will always believe" kind of a prayer in an emergency usually is ineffective. Dropping a few bills left over from last night's visit to the smelly Carmike 8 Theatre in the offering one day won't instantly zap you into being a generous person. But sticking with God will. Our Creator is certainly not One who wants to be impressed. We can't prove ourselves to Him. His love for us, His being for us, is so beyond anything we can do. He is a person we can get to know. And knowing Him is the path to becoming a beautiful soul. You didn't get to know your husband in one date. You didn't make a best friend the first day your kids had soccer practice together, or the first day you met at freshman orientation at Shippensburg. You stuck with them. And now you know them. And now they know you. And now its real. Finding a God that is worth knowing, that is worth living with, won't happen over night. But if you stay open, if you stick with Him even when it seems He's not there, even when the Bible seems just down right freakin' weird, beautiful things can happen. You won't wake up late tomorrow morning and know for sure this Jesus guy is the One. You won't find yourself to be a different person over morning coffee. But as time goes on, you will. And when people around you ask how in the world can you be so cool to her, or why in the *%&# aren't you suing their @^*, or how can you listen to my problems when you have so many of your own? You will say, "I stuck with Him." Love you all! Have a great weekend! Brian |
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