Tame Your Train

Photo credit: Richard Robards

The lessons learned as a child never pass away.

For the next two weeks my life feels like a runaway train. I have final papers, research presentations, The Derby Rose Gala, newspaper deadlines, our biggest track meet of the year and friends to say goodbye to. All in an extremely short amount of time.

Though overwhelmed there is a little engine from my childhood that reminds me, "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can."

It is when we throw in the dish towel and say those two deadly words, "I can't," when life goes from overwhelming to impossible. Sometimes I have to look in the mirror and literal say, "you can do this." I CAN, you CAN and together we CAN!

In Corinthians 9:24 it says, "Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it."

There is no receiving a prize, keeping the faith or running with perseverance with "can not's" controlling our lives.

A simple reminder that you can has the ability to tame the runaway train in your life. I challenge you, as I challenge myself, remove all "can not's" from your life and insert "I cans."