May 14th, 2012
How big is your life? You know the size of your room and your height and your waist but what is the size of your life? Is it a big life, one growing with ideas and openness to whatever comes or is it a small life, concerned with surviving and stepping around obstacles and praying nothing bad befalls you?
A big life has very little to do with work and chores and obligations. You can have a small life and still be run ragged with a million things to do. A big life is a life that is filled with trust and faith. It is a life that says “Oh Dear God, I dislike what is happening but I know it is all for the best and I trust you.” It is a life that says ” I am going to make a positive difference in the short time I am alive.”
A small life says “Oh Dear God, please don’t let any problems, health issues or financial or relationship issues negatively affect me or anyone I care about.” It is a life that wants a story book existence (forgetting of course that all story books are about problems that have to be overcome!) so that there will be no need for sleepless nights or soul searching. It is a life that says “I don’t want to give up any of my pleasures but I want the results as if I did.”
Live large! Whatever comes your way, without exception, is helping you to grow. No matter how big your problems, realize that in your pain is an alarm clock. You are being awakened. You are being taken from your slumber and told to remember your dreams and to start making them a reality.
When you decide to live large, you will become a bigger target for fools and problems but the bigger you live, the smaller those things will seem. You are not here to be stopped by your problems but to grow bigger because you encountered them and to step over them and keep going. Whatever problems there are in your life, know that you are as big as you think you are. Think positive, powerful, big thoughts! It’s who you really are.
(C) 2012 All Rights Reserved, Patrick McBride
www.PatrickInspires.com
September 5th, 2011
How big is your life?
You can’t measure a life with a measuring spoon or a cup or a scale. A life is measured not by it’s mere longevity either. A life is measured by the amount of days that meant something. Days that were lived, not merely “gotten through”. Days when life’s blessings were brought to mind and gratefully held like a delicate newborn.
There are days that are long and difficult and there are days that are over way too quickly but the measure of our life does not depend upon the number of either one. Instead, our life is measured by the days, good or bad, that we loved. The biggest lives in history, the ones that are remembered century after century are the ones who loved the greatest. Whether they were born in a palace or a stable or a prison cell, their lives are enormous because their love was enormous.
You can extend your life with beneficial choices but you can only grow your life with love. How big is your love? Is it big enough to love when you don’t feel well? It is big enough to love when you are forgotten, mistreated and overlooked? Is it big enough to love when there is no love returned? Is it big enough to love your own self instead of criticizing, belittling and hurting yourself? When you love greatly you will live greatly. Billions of people have come and gone throughout the ages. The only ones remembered forever are the ones who loved greatly. How big is your life? It’s as big as your love.
(C) 2011 All Rights Reserved, Patrick McBride
www.PatrickInspires.com