My juniors created autobiographies this week, and one of the requirements was a list of advice to others. It could have been "How to survive being"... a cheerleader, a junior, a football player, a younger sibling, etc. As long as it was something they learned from experience, it was valid. Here's my list.
1. Love like you couldn't breathe otherwise.
2. Don't do it all alone.
3. How things are and how you feel are not often the same.
4. You're not stuck. The only person you can change is yourself, but that doesn't give you the freedom to give up on that change. There's no such thing as "sorry, this is just the way I am."
5. Sometimes things end up better when they don't work out the way you planned.
6. Never let yourself get too busy to play with children and talk to them about their lives.
7. Never underestimate the power God has to create greatness out of the nothingness of your life.
8. Home isn't always a place; sometimes it's just being with the people you love who love you in return.
9. Laugh at yourself
10. Finish Strong.
Tell me you know about Katelyn and Will and "finish strong."
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly where #10 came from. Rob started using the phrase when we began our running routine in June. It's good advice, but I've come to hate it with the intensity of 1000 suns.
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