GOT WHAT IT TAKES?

Pastor Joyce Meyer, in her book "Battlefield of the Mind," expounds on battles and how our minds are a battlefield. Having read the book, I started to think beyond our minds to our environment and even down to when we were conceived. I must confess that putting my conflict hat on and seeing things from a battle perspective was a major culture/value shock that I will share with you shortly.

THE UNDERTAKER (Mark William Calaway) was one of the greatest wrestlers of all time in the WWE championships when I was a little girl. He had the strength of a dozen men, and his fashion sense was a masterpiece. Don't even get me started on his entrance; it was so dramatic that I was always on the edge of my seat. My heart raced every time the fire popped up, and my heartbeats matched the beats of his intro song. I enjoyed every aspect of the theatrics.

Before I proceed, I'd like to share a disclaimer: first, I was never a dark child. Before the birth of cable television, we enjoyed the luxury of watching broadcast television stations that had a variety of programs to choose from. If my memory serves me correctly, wrestling matches aired every Saturday and one other day that I cannot recall now.

I must also add that I love Barbie, even though it took me a while to get used to it. I was a curious child who enjoyed everything that was not popular.

Despite my keen interest in wrestling, I always wondered why his (Undertaker's) opponents were so silly to keep coming back, even when they knew they would never defeat him. Maybe they were motivated by the saying "he who takes a break from a fight lives to fight another day," just maybe. That being said, a few thoughts run through my mind every time I hear this statement. One of the thoughts is, do they consider how much energy they have to put into the fight just to quit halfway? Secondly, how does one know when to stop fighting, and thirdly, why do we have to fight?

Pastor Joyce Meyer, in her book "Battlefield of the Mind," expounds on battles and how our minds are a battlefield. Having read the book, I started to think beyond our minds to our environment and even down to when we were conceived. I must confess that putting my conflict hat on and seeing things from a battle perspective was a major culture/value shock that I will share with you shortly.

Yello! It's 6 AM, family. It has been a while, and I hope we are all achieving and breaking boundaries, as our previous blog post advised. Today, I will try to keep my opinion simple, but I hope that this may just be an answer to the question you have been asking, or that your friend or family member has been asking.

In biology, we were taught that there are over a hundred million sperm cells that swim for the ovaries when a man and woman are consummate, yet only one sperm fertilizes the woman's egg. For the sake of reference and clarity, it means that you were formed because you won the fight. It means that you fought long and hard, and your unique qualities contributed to your survival.

Now that that is established, it means that if you fought to be formed, you have to fight to stay alive. Life itself does not want you here, so it will do everything within its power to ensure that you do not succeed. But now that we have established that you are a fighter (a title you have no control over), you are fully aware that you have all the skills and experience to fight back. And since you are a winner, you cannot lower your standards.

So when life fires a bullet of pain, sadness, poverty, depression, and so on, remember that your skin is tough enough to win. The Undertaker has got nothing on you.