I am trying a new food lifestyle where I don’t eat as much processed food. It’s good except that I miss eating crunchy semi-sweet foods. So, I am trying baking. There aren’t any recipes for the type of foods I want to eat. Instead, I look up similar ones and experiment. Today, I am in the middle of experimenting with crunchy cookies, and it isn’t going very well. I keep trying and the cookies just don’t come out right. Most people would give up and maybe try to find a recipe online, but I’m finding that I’m very tenacious. I just keep experimenting and I somehow know that eventually I’ll figure it out.
I used to think everyone else had the same tenacity that I did, but I have discovered that many people give up on things when they get difficult or when they don’t know how to do something. I’ve never been like that.
Just today I had a conversation with my husband about my dyslexia. No one ever discovered it because I was too smart and too stubborn to let it keep me from learning. When the words didn’t make sense, I would go back and figure out what the words were supposed to be until it made sense. Reading was difficult and slow-going, but I got through school with stellar grades, and I even got my master’s degree.
However, it all boils down to faith. I don’t give up because I have faith. I don’t have this enormous ego and believe that I can do so much because I believe in myself. I have faith in God. Through Him so many things are possible. Miracles happen. The physical world has limitations, but God doesn’t. I believe that things are possible that I can’t even imagine because all things are possible with God at my side. My tenacious attitude isn’t due to my belief in myself, but because I know that God walks with me.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
