We are often discontented
and much dissatisfied
That our wish for recognition
has not been gratified.
We feel that we've been cheated
in beauty, charm, and brains
And we think of all our losses
and forget all about our gains
And dwelling on the things we lack
we grow miserable inside
Brooding over our deficits
that are born of human pride
We begin to harbor resentment
and envy fills our heart
That we do not possess the things
that make others seem so good
And in our condemnation
of the traits that we possess
We magnify our painful plight
and sink deeper in distress.
We cannot all be famous
or be listed in "Who's Who"
But every person, great or small
has important work to do.
Seldom do we realize
the importance of small deeds
Or to what degree of greatness
unnoticed kindness leads.
For it's not the big celebrity
in a world of fame and praise
But it's doing unpretentiously
in an undistinguished way
It's the work that God assigns to us
unimportant as it seems
That makes our task outstanding
and brings reality to our dreams
At the place God put you
begin at once to do
The little things to brighten up
the lives surrounding you.
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"we are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed.
Perplexed, but not in despair.
Persecuted but not abandoned.
Stuck down but not destroyed."
2 cor 4: 8-9
Jimmy mentioned this verse. About the inner strength in me. When you feel like you had given all, had nothing else left, something else inside lift you up and push your back all the way to your destination. The verse is all along in my wallet. My first verse card which my mummy bought for me ages ago, when I came back to God.
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