Finding Meaning in Everyday Living
Liberian Literary Magazine
Finding Meaning in Everyday Living
Promoting Liberian Literature, Arts and Culture
have dilly-dallied more times than we want to admit or count.
The important question is,“ How do we stop from vacillating and make the needed changes?”“ How do we get rid of these“ two” minds in our head?” It takes extreme focus. Ask yourself,“ How well do you pay attention?”
This is what you need to do to be steadfast and practice steadfastness. You need the ability to pay attention. We all have this ability. We just don’ t always use it.
Janice Almond
MAKE A CHOICE TO BE STEADFAST MAKE A CHOICE TO BE STEADFAST.
Make a choice to be immovable. Make a decision to stand firm and remain firm. Why do we, much of the time, dilly-dally, vacillate, and keep from making a decision? Or once we have made one, don’ t stick with it? Where does this indecisiveness come from? Why won’ t we stand our ground? What are we afraid of? I’ ve heard it said,“ You must stand for something, or you will fall for anything.”
There has never been a truer statement. Make a determined effort to stand up for what you believe. Don’ t be intimidated. As a Christian, I stand up for my beliefs. James 1:8 says,“… a double-minded man is unstable in ALL his ways.” Can’ t have“ two” minds. If you are not steadfast, you will always be unstable, unsteady, and unsure.
Whatever you have decided to do with your life, you have an allotted amount of time. We need to admit that we haven’ t always been steadfast. We have wavered. We can’ t and won’ t get anywhere with our dreams by vacillating. Let’ s face it. We
Take a minute and think of someone you know who started something; a career, a sport, a relationship, a marriage, a family, etc., and didn’ t finish it? What happened? They lost focus. They stopped paying attention. They decided for some reason that it just wasn’ t worth it to keep pursuing what they thought they wanted. It happens every day.
I remember when I lost focus. It was during my first six months of marriage. My dream of becoming a news broadcaster was changed by my circumstances. I had changed my mind because now all I wanted to do was to be a wife and a mother.
At the time, my husband was attending Los Angeles Community College. While there, he came across a radio producer who wanted to interview me for a radio station in Hollywood. I told my husband,“ No.” He couldn’ t believe it. He thought I had lost my mind.
You know why I changed my mind? I was three months pregnant, and I didn’ t want to work. I no longer had that dream of becoming a news broadcaster. To this day, my husband tells me,“ You could have been the next Oprah Winfrey!” Just think of it, I could have her billions now if I had remained steadfast.
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