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If You're Gonna Do...Then Do It With Everything You Have!!!!!


 If you're gonna do it...Do it with everything you have.  "If I'm going to mess up then I might as well mess up loudly!"  

Passion.  Zeal.  Full Throttle. Do or Don't Do.

I LOVE football when my guys are playing it.  When my boys are putting it all on the line, I want to be right behind them.  (or beside them lol)  When a game is over...my muscles hurt because I've been soo in the game.

When my son took on one of the most difficult challenges in the Air Force which meant he had to put it all on the line and either get through it or be out...I was all in!  So was he!

When my husband said, "Do or die... in this place... at this time...no matter what...we are staying." I was in!

Sometimes I hit a roadblock-a speed bump.  I've messed up and humiliated myself or said something stupid.  I fail. I've looked ahead and gotten scared.  Anxiety fills my head with all that "I have to do" and my engine gets flooded.

I slow down and veer off course.  

For some reason,  I lack the passion to do or don't do for my own health (physical, mental, spiritual and financial)  Looking at the elephant in the room-so to speak-quenches my fire!  It seems overwhelming!

Then my husband preaches..."If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that..."  and "If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them."

So for today if it is God's will I am putting my foot down hard on the gas and doing what is in front of me to do!

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men" Colossians 3:23

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.  Ecclesiastes 9:10

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.  Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them. James 4:13-17

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