In Others’ Words: Rowing Through the Hard Times

Sometimes life is hard. 

And sometimes when life is hard, don’t we just want to quit?

To stick with the boat analogy, when we’re stuck in the middle of nowhere and nothing’s happening — no wind filling our sails — it’s easy to just sit down and wait it out. 

Sometimes we tell us ourselves we don’t need a lot of wind to get moving again. Any sort of breeze will do.

A word of encouragement.

Some sort of acknowledgement for what we’ve done.

A pat on the back — literal or figurative — that will move us forward.

But maybe, just maybe, it’s not about waiting for the wind to fill our sails again.

Maybe it’s about grabbing those oars and making forward motion happen ourselves.

Hard work in the midst of the hard moments.

Yeah, it would be easier to sit down and wait it out.

But nothing happens when we don’t do nothing. 

In Your Words: When life takes the wind out of your sails, what helps you grab the oars and keep rowing?

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