Here’s a little encouragement for your day.  No matter what you’re going through, difficult or triumphant, remember that God is always looking out for your best interest.  Continue to work in faith and keep your eyes toward the target, whatever that may be.  While remembering what may have gotten you to a certain point will be helpful in preventing it from or enabling it to occur again, dwelling on it can impede forward progress.  Moving forward, no matter the pace, is living – and that’s a good thing.

To Overcome

In life, there are peaks and valleys,

Highs and lows…

Each containing marks of both victory and strife.

Take one glance and the strife is easy to see

But you’ve got to put in work before you find the victory

Hidden like a needle in the stack,

Or a diamond roughed if you will.

It’s brilliance would be fantastic

If it were still, like peace

And persistent in patience.

But that work can be, at times, long & disturbing,

Causing one to think,

Maybe I’ve been on the wrong path all along.

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But just when it seems like hope will subside

And strife might abide,

A small glimmer reveals the reward

In all its splendor and glory.

And while it may have taken time,

And patience has run thin,

The lengths that were taken to achieve add to the value of its worth

Bringing about cause for a great celebration.

And when it’s all said and done,

Faith is strengthened

And hope and patience have been restored

Readying one for the next peak or valley

To overcome…

~ A. Nicole Huffman