THE POWER WITHIN

The other day I was watching some video of a toddler learning to walk outside in the grass.  The toddler would take two or three steps then fall down; but as fast as he fell, he jumped back up and tried to make steps again.  The toddler had no concept of failure or that he couldn’t do it.  All the toddler knew is that whenever he fell down, all he had to do was to get back up and try again.

As adults, we tend to lose that understanding.  Inevitably something along life’s journey will knock us down, but we often don’t have enough faith in our own abilities to get back up.  Instead, we lay there wallowing in our sorrow.  We blame others for allowing us to fall down, and expect others to help us get back up.  We forever play the victim.

The toddler had no ideas about the power of faith, but only reasoned that being down on the ground was not going to get him where he was trying to go.  All he knew is that he had to get back up.  He did not wallow in the grass.  He didn’t cry for his parents to help him.  The toddler held no doubt that he could get back up and did so over and over again. 

There is a lesson here.  Grown folk should understand that our ability to over come life’s obstacles is embedded in the faith in ourselves generated by our faith in the Power.  Even as we believe in ourselves to overcome life’s discomforts, we should also be wise enough to understand that our strength to overcome comes directly through the Power.  The toddler wasn’t able to understand it that way, yet he still kept getting up.

The Power is always with us, even as we fall.  It is there to lift us back up if we so believe.

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