Musings

Honestly, I am not sure why I started writing this blog. There are a lot of things going through my mind right now. I want to have an impact on this world; but I honestly don’t know how to start. Ultimately, I need to start with my role as husband and father! As I wrote in my last entry, I just read a book about doing hard things; but I just gravitate to doing the easy things to just taking the easy way out. Unfortunately, that has been the pattern of my life. It is my pattern as husband and father as well as son and brother!

Everyone around me sees it. They may not know exactly what it is; but all the times I am late getting something done or when I have done barely enough preparation to get by…I am stuck in my world of taking the easy way out. My pastor-teacher sees the problem. He refrains from giving me too much responsibility because he doesn’t want me to stretch myself too far. It sounds good on paper; but I know that it is just a product of my habit of taking the easy way out.

I have been studying the life of George Washington over the past few weeks and months. He is a man who never seemed to take the easy way out. When it looked like the world was against him, and it was at times, he always seemed to have the capacity to press on to greater things. There were times in his life that he made horrendous mistakes that were devastating to the cause for which he fought yet he pressed on.

I want to live my life like George Washington lived his life! He lived his life through failure and triumph without giving up and by doing the hard things. I know that I am saying a lot of pretty cool things about him; but I have to admit that I am not certain of whether or not he was a Christian. When his writings are studied, he certainly believed that God exists and he professes trust in Him. More recent history would have us believe that he was not a Christian; but a deist. Based on his actions and based on his own words, I would lean toward him being a believer; but at this point there is no way to know.

I have to say that whether or not he was a believer, he was used in a mighty way by God Almighty to help start a nation and he defended that new nation against all its enemies. I pray that I can be used in mighty ways! I think I will start by being a great husband and father:). The Scripture says...faithful in little...

I just want to be found faithful and doing hard things when our Lord returns!!!

Brandon