I laughed so hard for hours that I forgot I had my phone.When my friends and I are together everything makes us laugh and we seem drunk. I love them. It's like old times but we are not in school we are just eating, walking and laughing.
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we are distracted by some circumstance or other and grow slack in our spiritual effort, the following morning let us again gird up the loins of our intellect and once more set to work forcefully. There is no excuse for us if, knowing what is to be done, we do not do it.
Philokalia
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Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on which may be only exposing our fear of letting go and falling.
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Hanging on for dear life may merely be an act motivated mostly by fear. Courage sometimes is in the letting go.
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Then there is the call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.” Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
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But more than just letting go, Oswald points us to perseverance. People hanging in there and people persevering may outwardly look quite similar. The question is in the “why?” and the “what?”
Why are you hanging on?
Why are you scared of letting go?
What are you hanging on to?
What are you hoping to escape by hanging?
Why are you hanging on?
Why are you scared of letting go?
What are you hanging on to?
What are you hoping to escape by hanging?
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Me in my first year and they are already making me read their prescriptions. Idk shit yet. When I tell them that I don't know they seem disappointed and I be feeling like shit too.
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