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14 May
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Does “Overnight Success” Exist?

posted by: ShonBacon
OVERNIGHT SUCCESS. I hear this a lot in my circles, especially when it seems like a writer got his or her “fame” a bit too soon…or out of the blue…or without any obstacles and setbacks.

But we’re not there for the heartache and heart break. We’re not there for the almost successes or the rejections or the nos or the try agains or the…and the list goes on.

After listening to Marvin Sapp’s “Never Would Have Made It,” I thought about my life in 2009. This time last year, I was in a major rut and so unsure what to do with myself. Well, I “knew” but I didn’t “know.” I KNOW you guys know where I’m coming from. I was planting a lot of seeds, but not seeing a lot of fruit. But I had hope. And I had God.

In the first four months of 2009, four of my five wants have come to pass (with the fifth trying to do its thang), and to me, as I experience this, it definitely feels like OVERNIGHT SUCCESS because one moment I felt down and out, and the next, blessings upon blessings were falling upon me like sweet rain quenching a drought.

But it wasn’t overnight success. Took me years..hell, almost two decades to get here…but I’m blessed to be here.

What I realized is it’s not about overnight success, it’s about how fast our God can move when there is an opening in our life for Him to move IN.

When I finally said (and meant it) “God, I’m done. Take the wheel, please,” He took it and drove me into a beautiful place.

And He can do the same for you…overnight.

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Category: Life, SO Not about Writing, Shon Bacon
08 May
0

Life Has a Way Of

posted by: ShonBacon

Written this morning while praying and thinking…

Life has a way of making you look all around – seeing what others are doing, seeing who’s keeping pace, seeing who’s sprinted ahead of you–leaving you in the dust.

Life has a way of making you worry – will you get all your bills paid, will you get that job to keep your house, will you have money to send your children to college, will you be able to retire and have something to live off of.

Life has a way of making you not see life – no time to stop and literally smell the rose, no time to look up into a blue-blue sky and marvel at its tranquil beauty, no time to look people in the eye and say, “I just wanted you to know I love you and appreciate you for being in my life.”

Life has a way of making you think you can’t win – your friends backstab you, your mate cheats on you, your bank account goes into the negative, your job decides to downsize, your mother takes ill and makes you remember that life on earth isn’t for always.

Life has a way of making you forget that you have already WON.

There is no need to look all around you as you run this race called life.  No need to see where others are and how you measure up because in this race, you already have the gold medal; you’re just getting the opportunity to see how you win…not IF you’ll win.

There is no need to worry because though valleys in life are low, mountains are high and your win will have you on the highest mountain peak ever created.

There is no need to rush through life because face it, there is no guarantee how long you’re going to be on earth, so you might as well appreciate what’s around you, who’s around you while you can.

There is no need to think you can’t win because you have already WON.  You are already the victor, the champion.  You are already the head and not the tail.

You are already the captain of your destiny.

If you have faith.

If you walk in that faith.

If you remember who your Father is and remember He will never forsake you.

Life has a way of taking life from you, but with your Father, YOU become the embodiment of LIFE.  You ARE the life.  Grab yourself, love yourself, and thank your Father for allowing you to have the victorious life that is yours TODAY and ALWAYS — if you have the faith to claim it.

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