Listen To Life

            Do you have the key?

            The Chicago Bears and the New York Giants played football one Monday night some years ago.  One announcer observed that Walter Payton had carried the football over nine miles in his career.  And the other announcer said, “Yeah, and that’s with someone knocking him down every 4.6 yards!”

            Sounds like life to me.  What do you think?  Every single one of us, even the best among us like a Walter Payton, gets knocked down by something or someone in life.  The key to success in life is to get up and run again just as strongly as we did last time.

            So what do you do when life knocks you down?  Do you just lie there, unable to believe you got knocked down?  Well, if you’re going to do anything at all with your life, you’re gonna have to get over being knocked down.  We all do.

            Do you bounce back up?  Are you ready to run hard again?

            So many of the things in life that knock us down just happen.  They’re beyond our control.  So don’t take it personally.  Just get up and run hard again.  And as you do, you listen to life and make a positive life, not just a living.