5.14-Do not let negative people who do not know you reduce your best goals.

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One of the reasons I love Jesus is that He honors honesty and boldness in dreams for our lives.

Do not let negative people who do not know you reduce your best goals.

I am enjoying reading Sheila's Christmas gift from our daughter, Amy. The biography of Michelle Obama. A great book and important reading for any young person or even an older one.

She tells of going to the college advisor assigned to counsel her. She said she wanted to go to Princeton where her older brother was attending. The counselor who didn’t know her at all except through looking at her grades which were good, but not sensational said, “You are not Princeton material.”

Her parents had always encouraged her to go for whatever she wanted in life. She applied to Princeton and some other schools. She wrote a letter describing her dad’s MS and how it had affected her and the family. She asked her principal who knew her quite well to write a letter of recommendation.

She was accepted. Became a graduate and graduated from Law school at Harvard. Married a man who became a Senator and President and raised two daughters who are being encouraged to go for their own goals.

She writes that "Extraordinary, accomplished people have a great deal of adversity, yet they operate as if they have had every advantage in the world. All of them have had doubters, critics and naysayers who will shout “I told you so” at every misstep or mistake.

“The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it. Lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.”
Becoming, Michelle Obama, P. 65-67

About 2,000 years ago the greatest teacher in my life was approached by a blind man and his friends were telling him to shut up. He kept crying out to Jesus to have mercy on him.
 Jesus said, “What do you want?”
I want my sight.
He blessed him with healing. What a lesson it has been for all of us.

Do not let negative people who do not know you reduce your best goals.

Larry Wishard
5.8.19

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