If you know who you are...

...you know what to do.

Do you think that YOU are the reason someone else is still living today?

Have you ever thought about how important you are to someone. Through your strength, through your smile, through your hard work, through your story, through your positivity, through your belief. 

Whether it is healthy or not, someone is living one more day because you give them the spark in their heart. You can’t control it and you may ask God why me? But they will always see something different in you. Who cares if it is unhealthy, give them hope so that they can become healthy. If they aren’t alone they will become healthy. If and when they are alone they die.

Who do you give hope to? Your spouse, children, best friend, cousin, sibling, a stranger? Who do you get hope from? Could be the same person? You are important and special to someone.

With knowing this, will you keep fighting? Will you give it another try? Will you take a deep breath and take another step, just so they can get one step closer to being healthy. 

We laugh. We cry. Sometimes we are broken and we don’t know why. I’m tired and I lose my way, but you help me find faith. 

You give me hope, inspire of everything. You show me love, even with so much pain.

Run the...

...good race. But I just can't.

David is a man in the bible who wrote most of the psalms. If you read the psalms, you'll see that David is in a spiritual battle. One letter he is crying out for the Lord for help, another letter he is anger and yelling at the Lord. David is a great example of what a spiritual battle looks like.

When the storm comes do we fight it or do we let it blow us over.

Are whole lives we will be fighting this battle. In the storms we cry out like David did in Psalms 4: 1-3

"Answer me when I call to you,
    my righteous God.
Give me relief from my distress; 

    have mercy on me and hear my prayer. 

 How long will you people turn my glory into shame?
    How long will you love delusions and seek false gods

  Know that the Lord has set apart his faithful servant for himself;
    the Lord hears when I call to him."

How long do we have to suffer sometime. The times where we are in the middle of it all we lose hope. Then we gain a little hope but we are stuck in the same stuff so we keep falling back into hopelessness. Do we keep fighting or do you give up. Are you in for a long hall, or are you tired and done so you give up. 

How do we get out of the pit of hell when we are in it and when we have been there for so long. Cry upon the Lord, I've been doing that. How much longer to I have to suffer Lord! I'm stuck. Get me out.

Hurting people hurt people.

You know those people that you love so much, the closest people to you, the ones that are a part of you. Why do we hurt them the most out of all the people in our lives?

We push people away just to see if they will come back, we get mad and say things that we don't mean, we act out in anger and bitterness because they are the only people that will understand. We may even push them so far that we hoped to die just to make them realize what we are to them. We know this wont do anything. We know that they are exhausted. And most the time we push them away and they still fight and we are really confused to why they don't just leave us for a better life...Because they see something that one one else does.

We are lost and feel like no one gets us. And at the hardest time you need them most is the time that they are the most tired, the weakest and it seems like they are almost give up on you, but you give up on yourself before they ever give up on you. For feel like they forget that you just have hard days, or they forget the stress you're about to walk into. They get so use to you being down, they forget you ask you what's wrong and that's really all you want.

We all forget how important we are to other until someone else calls you out on it, or until you lose them. We forget how much people fight for us or we don't know how much we are loved because we are never told.

Why do we get so insecure about what people think about us, and we always doubt what we mean to others. Where does this idea come from? How do we get rid of it? It is so frustrating that we are contently pushing the most important people away in our life when really all we want is to run into their arms.