Implode or Explode?

As the scaffolding comes down, don’t let it implode and cancel your plans, your vision, or your goals.  When it is identified and your decision has been made, stand firm and hold fast to your decision not allowing discouragement to cause you to waver.  Be prepared for discouragement, it will come and it will come in many forms:  family, friends, procrastination, fear, the weather, etc.  Discouragement can cause the walls of the scaffolding you have fought so hard to bring down to implode canceling what you have worked so hard for.

How do you respond?  Do you implode also or do you stand in the face of adversity, in the face of discouragement and declare I will face the challenge; I will speak to this mountain and go forth to reach my destiny, my goal, and accomplish the purpose God has planned for me.

Standing firm strengthens your will and your faith.  Believe in yourself and your successes just as God believes in you and the plans he has purposed for you that will give you a future and hope.

I leave you to ponder this familiar poem by Langston Hughes…

A Dream Deferred
Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore–
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over–
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

I hope this message inspires and challenges you to stand firm, push through and anticipate the explosion of your vision and your dream into reality.

SharB~TTSD
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