{"id":6832,"date":"2013-06-20T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=6832"},"modified":"2015-05-05T14:51:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:51:27","slug":"run-your-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2013\/06\/20\/run-your-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Run Your Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

And let us run with perseverance the race that is marked out for us.<\/em>* That’s a Scripture with a specific context but also a word of encouragement for many applications . . . whatever our course.<\/p>\n

For each of us that course is delineated\u00a0by many things. And it’s actually very narrow, like a runner’s track. It’s clarified by both our abilities and our limitations.<\/p>\n

In my younger years I thought I was going to be an engineer, being the son of one (and now the father of one) but in time realized I was about as good at math as getting myself out of handcuffs in a locked safe under water.<\/p>\n

I think my brain leans toward the right.<\/p>\n

We learn these things about ourselves and it helps. And, life being short, we need to focus on our strengths and let our non-strengths go. Why forever knock our heads against the wall?<\/p>\n

Once I took an aptitude test which, after a lot of questions, listed a plethora of occupations. I thought I’d find possibilities all over the page. But no, I found very few, like about three . . . with two of those not really that great.<\/p>\n

Some of the rest I \u201ccould do,\u201d but it wouldn’t be me expressing my real self. It would be somebody else’s track; mine is specific to me.<\/p>\n

So, maybe I’m not as broad a person as I might have thought, but knowing it helps me focus.<\/p>\n

It helps me run with perseverance my own personal race.<\/p>\n

And though narrow, there is something limitless about it. We don’t know how far we can go. Only the pursuing will tell us.<\/p>\n

Growth only stops when we quit.<\/p>\n

So keep going. Persevere. Push through\u00a0your previous limits.<\/p>\n

Show yourself what can be done, not to mention the rest of us.<\/p>\n

We’ll root for you . . . while we’re running too.<\/p>\n

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\n*Hebrews 12:1<\/p>\n

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Find out what you do best, and then do it to the max, even if it’s running a street sweeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6832"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10708,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832\/revisions\/10708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}