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Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty For A New Beginning

Always Step outside of your comfort zone there are no Adventures inside the comfert zone

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Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty For A New Beginning
Hayleigh Smith

"Dig your well before you're thirsty."

You can’t accomplish really great things alone. You might write the great American novel all by yourself, but you can’t publish it and get it noticed without others. Every big thing you really want to accomplish in life, at some level, relies on the people around you. Thus, one important element of making those things happen is to build good relationships with lots of people. The more good relationships you have, the easier it will be to achieve the things you want to achieve. Don’t worry, the more you do this, the easier it gets.
And You can’t expect others to start the relationships, either. You have to start, and the best way to start is to provide positive value for others. First, figure out a problem that another person has. Then, offer your expertise. Offer a bit of your time. Offer a connection you already have. Help that person solve the problem they have. each time you do this, you dig your “well” a bit deeper. You can either live in the well while people throw rocks at you or you can live outside of the well and live in the moment because not all wish's and wants, come true everytime you think that they should because sometimes it takes a little more digging within your self to find out what you're made of and who you want to be..

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:16-18). Choose joy," . “Happiness is based on our circumstances; joy is a choice we make regardless of our circumstances. The word happiness comes from the same root as the word 'happening,’ meaning happiness is based on something happening to us. Happiness is circumstantial. Joy, on the other hand, is something which defies circumstances and occurs in spite of difficult situations. Whereas happiness is a feeling, joy is an attitude – a posture. A position. A place.” "God will let you be as miserable as you want to be for as long as you want to be." She has a hard and fast rule that all pity parties are limited to forty-five minutes. Then, it's so much for misery and back to joy. We're all pretty well versed in doing, aren't we? Being is something we don't do too well, unless we have no choice.

I have learned that joy is independent of our circumstances, and we can choose it regardless of what we are experiencing. "Rejoice in the Lord always – I will say it again: rejoice! I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength”

What we believe about the world around us shapes everything about our lives. What you believe determines your behavior. Your behavior then determines what you become, and that has a direct effect on the direction of your life.
Resiliency is the key to success”

There is vast potential locked within, that under the right circumstances–planted in good soil, watered and covered in sunshine, a miracle will happen. The seed transforms into something more than itself–it gives birth to a plant that blooms and brings beauty, life, color and a fruit–and this is a miracle almost something out of nothing.


Sometimes the seeds that He requires us to sow, do not obviously promise anything–yet, we are asked to believe in the potential–the latent miracles inside of these small life-seeds.
We are to sow with a view to righteousness–not seeing or knowing totally the vast potential of what is in our hands. But ours is to be faithful to sow, by faith, the seeds of promise given to us– to cast the seed of promise into the soil of life, generously, diligently, faithfully–
We have to grow in the soil of life and stand secure and strong to overcome the odds and wind storms

God doesn’t call the qualified but he does qualify the called. “Make your own Masterpiece With your Story Don’t Base it off someone else's story because it's yours for your life is your own so do whatever your heart tells you to do with the rest of your life and be who you want to be not what others want to see ”

Like everything in life. Be happy if you win or if you lose. Everything happens for a reason.

Pay attention and realize that every day isn't always beautiful that's just part of growing through the storms of this life but We Still have Hope Even though the rough spots of this wonderful and Sometimes this Crazy Life Full of Many Adventures We haven't been on yet and Realize that we can't always live inside of our selves We have to step outside of our comfort zone There is no true Achievement made inside your comfort zone there is an accomplishment outside of your comfort zone so live on the outside of your comfort zone and not on the inside.


If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall. The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure

1 Corinthians 10:12-13

Your faith is like a muscle. A muscle doesn’t grow by sitting in a chair and eating popcorn. A muscle grows by being stretched, strained, and tested. You’re never going to grow a muscle if no weight is ever pulling in the opposite direction. If you don’t have opposition in your life, then your faith is not growing., “These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold — though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. 1 Peter 1:7

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.1 Corinthians 13:13
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...1 Corinthians 13:1-13

You see every girl catches themselves looking in the glass looking for something that they actually like about their appearance but you know what God Made you in his image there may be things you don't like about yourself but at least you have been given a life worth living. One time I watched the movie " Facing the Giants " In this movie The Football Team not only had to face a bunch of Giants but so did the Coach and his wife because of people in the Society not giving them a chance but they all fought their Giants. You see Everyday we have to Face the Giants called Society , every person in the world has these thoughts about how they are not worth it or they are too fat or not popular but you know what that doesn't matter because the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” See I was born 24 and a half weeks early and only weighed one pound and Seven Ounces Everyday I have to fight my own Giants because I have Cerebral Palsy but I was not always Accepted by the popular Crowd I was made fun of in Elementary and Junior high because I was made Differently and honestly that's just something that I will have to deal with every now and again you know I will never be able to Change the way I was made by God and you can't change that either. You are Perfect just the way you are. Out of the darkness of “I wish God made me differently” and into the light of “I am wonderfully made…”

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