Another day gone……
I can remember being in middle school, sitting in 4th period English, thinking that I would never get out of Mrs. Crawford’s class. By the way, did I mention I never liked her? Anyways, there’s a reason for my ill-fated feelings towards this teacher. We were given an assignment to write a poem, in which I totally poured out every creative ounce I had, into the one I wrote. Anyways, she read it and looked at me and said, “There’s no way a poem this good came from a student like you….” Yep, those were the words of a teacher whom I honestly made me feel like a total failure. But I kept my mouth shut, smiled an accepted defeat and walked back to my desk. “F” was the grade I got for plagiarism. Funny thing is, she never could prove that I plagiarized it. It was her word and college degrees against my pimples and snotty nose. It took years for me to get up the courage to write again. My first poem I wrote after that fateful day, came shortly after I met my wife Jennifer. At the time, I was 18 and she was 17. I wrote a simple poem stating my affection for her. I kept this up for a few months, then, as the days went by, I just stopped doing it. Another day would go by and my passion to write poems to Jennifer would just fade away. What I enjoyed doing, began to wither away the same way it did when Mrs. Crawford shot an arrow in my creativity with her cruel words. Now, Jennifer did nothing wrong to cause me to stop writing poems to her, I just quit do to my own lack of motivation. We all are guilty of allowing people to kill our creativity, sink our emotions into a pit of misery and just plain cause us to give up on our passions and dreams. Another day goes by and our former passion becomes a headstone in a cemetery of dead aspirations. If your passion has gone away from a true desire, rekindle that flame with a step towards a restart. Second chances to restart are a blessing. Take advantage of them, before another day has gone……
John 14:1 “Let no your heart be troubled”
