Setting goals is one of the most important things you can to guarantee your personal, professional and financial success. Goal are like a road map to your target destination. Each goal accomplished is another mile behind you on the way to where you want to be. If I have accomplished in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. ”I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without the will to start, the enthusiasm to continue and, regardless of temporary obstacles, the persistence to complete. My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I’ve accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don’t pursue it. Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in while, But consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing. Life is not meant to be lived in your comfort zone.
”Forgiveness”
Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. If someone hurts you repeatedly, you are commanded by God to forgive them instantly, but you are not expected to trust them immediately, and you are not expected to continue allowing them to hurt you. Holding a grudge doesn’t make you strong; It make you bitter. Forgiving doesn’t make you weak; It sets you free. Bitterness is believing God got it wrong, Worry is not believing God will get it right, And unforgiveness is believing you are right even after God says you’re wrong. Forgiveness is the best form of Love. It takes a strong person to say sorry and an even stronger person to forgive. We might temporarily impress people by being fake, But we can permanently impact people by being real. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future. The most important lesson on the road to spiritual maturity is how to truly forgive. No one likes to be held in their history, especially people trying to make themselves better.
”Family Loyalty”’
Loyalty isn’t grey. It’s black and white. You’re either loyal completely, or not loyal at all. And people have to understand this. You can’t be loyal only when it serves you. Family is more than blood and a name. It’s the people who stood by you when you needed them the most, and who made you laugh when you felt like you couldn’t. ” Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.” Some people in your family will come miles to bury you. But they won’t even come to support you when you are alive. Family suppose to help family not watch them struggle and then talk about them. Life has taught me that you can’t control someone’s loyalty. No matter how good you are to them, doesn’t mean they’ll treat you the same. No matter how much they mean to you, doesn’t mean they’ll value you the same. Sometimes the people you love the most, turn out to be the people you can trust the least. Only trust family who can see these three things in you: The sorrow behind your smile, the love behind your anger, and reason behind your silence. Blood makes you related, Loyalty makes you family. Family is Everything.
”Brother”
You gave no one a last farewell,
Nor ever said good-bye.
You were gone before we knew it,
And only God knows why.
A million times we will miss you,
A million times we will cry,
If love alone could have saved you,
You never would have died.
In life we loved you dearly,
In death we love you still.
In our hearts you hold a place,
No one else can fill,
It broke our hearts to lose you,
But you didn’t go alone.
For part of us went with you,
The day God took you home.
We will meet again someday,
I know you are in a better place now,
I thank God he made you our brother
While you were here on earth.
With love,
Pat and Aaron