Success

All day long I’ve been surrounded with the thought of success. I strive to get everything done that needs to get done. I worry that I’m not doing it good enough or fast enough. I worry that I’ve not considered all the options so as to make sure no problems arise out of the decisions I’ve made today.


But now as I sit here I wonder what the real meaning of success is. Those thoughts all seem so small. Is it really that all the options have been considered or all the tasks been checked off of the list? Well today it seemed to me that it was as I encountered the day I had before me.

The concern is there that if I do more things; finish more tasks, that it will all be alright. I will have completed what needed to be done and then I will be able to get the gold star on my paper like I did in elementary school. It was so simple then. If I spelled all the words right, I received a 100. Isn’t that what I’m still striving for in my day to day? I want to get that 100 again, but it is not possible in my adult world. There is always something more to do, someone else to help, something that I think I need to finish.

I seem to be missing the point. It’s the journey not the task that gets the 100. How did I treat myself today? How did I treat the person working the cash register at Kroger today? My children? My husband? My co-worker?

It doesn’t matter how much recognition I get for the tasks I’ve accomplished, but how much recognition I give to those that I encounter while I complete my tasks. I don’t mean to say the tasks aren’t important, because they are important. I need the tasks to give me work to do so that I have purpose. God wants me to have commitments and responsibilities. He wants me to have these so that I can encounter people so that I can treat them like He treats me.

Success! It is so simple, why do I make it seem so difficult.

God is good and patient.

I pray that I am those things to all of you.

Peace and talk to you again soon,

Eileen