It’s just little old me waking up and starting to feel alive and inspired again.
It  is so ironic that I finally, this morning, felt like putting my thoughts into words to share my ideas on facing challenges; I came across so many road blocks in order to begin blogging.

God definitely has a sense of humor.  My topic is approaching life’s challenges…I finally had a moment of peace and all the stars were in line.  I sat down and couldn’t pull up my site for a few minutes. I have to admit, I wanted to scream! Why does everything have to be so hard and complicated?  Instead, I took a deep breath and laughed. Then I was ready to log on and for a moment couldn’t quite remember my password.  It really has been that long.

Life has been crazy and challenging lately.  I have felt a little stuck, like my shift button on my laptop that I spilled half the bottle of my son’s antibiotics on.  To be thoroughly honest I didn’t feel like putting it into words and making it real.  I haven’t been getting much sleep lately and it is so hard to be inspired when you are sooo tired.  I am shaking it off and taking my own advice.  Which leads us into today’s topic.

Have you ever seen a child learn to walk?  Have you seen how many times they fall down and get right back up again?  Have you seen the determination in their eyes as they take one, two, three steps all by themselves?  It is amazing!  It puts life into perspective very quickly.  I wonder… what if we approached life’s challenges the way that a toddler learns how to walk? Would we be more successful?  I personally believe we would accomplish our goals so much more efficiently and effectively if we were so determined.  A small child breaks it into stages…rolling over, sitting up, rocking on the knees, crawling, pulling up and standing around furniture, and then leading to taking that first step that will change their life.  If we simplified our mountains and broke them into small pieces to bite off and chew we probably would get a lot more accomplished.

So, my hope for anyone that reads this is that you approach your mountains from a child’s perspective and when you fall down you get right back up again.