What to do when the storms just won't go away? Well, let's learn from Winston Churchill. If you're going through hell, keep going. So many storms.
It's another ECQ, another country that's called another lockdown. It's one storm after another. Well, actually, if you think about it, it's not even one storm after another. It's one storm alongside another.
Financial storms, emotional storms, mental storms, health storms. We are in the middle of a fire storm. Several storms all at the same time, all over the world, each one giving a life to another. Not just a fire, but a fire storm.
And when will they go away? Only God knows. In fact, only God knew in the case of Job. Job in the Bible, whose biggest contribution to the world to this very day, is how he responded and evolved after he lost everything.
Bob Richards, it may sound strange, but many champions are many champions by setbacks. So friend, here we go again. Response, ability. The ability to react positively.
Elevating our reactions to not our animal, but our human, higher nature as human beings. The power of choice. I wonder if you heard about this idea that how you entered this world is your parents' fault. But if you stay there, it's your fault.
See, it's not again what we have or don't have. It's what we do with what we have that is important. I recall needing financial assistance for my first master's program years back. But all I had that day was something I had to do, which was a seminar.
That's what I had. I didn't have the money. It was a day before the deadline. And what did I have to do that day?
A seminar, a talk that I had to prepare for. That's all I had in front of me. So I set a prayer in desperation and said, Lloyd, I'm just going to have to do what is in front of me. I do what I have to do.
I hope you do what I need for you to do. And as I prepared, I recall getting a book of entrepreneurs through the years. I opened to the first page and I see a face of someone I had met five years earlier and who had had it over his phone number to me. I don't know why, but as I read, suddenly what I was reading, I was connecting to my need.
And it was a surprise because at the end of the article, it said that this man needed x amount from someone to start his business, which was the exact amount I needed for my master's program. I got my phone. Somehow his number was still there. I sent one message.
If there was some way he could provide. And within five minutes he said, where can you pick it up tomorrow? It's not just what you have or what you don't have. It's what you do with what you have.
How you respond to the situation. I love the words of Shane. Poison if your heart is broken. Make art with the pieces.