following the patience mustang

I’m at Caribou Coffee in Gahanna right now in an attempt to clear my head and get some work done. So far it has worked. It was really interesting because on the way here I was behind a Mustang Shelby, one of my absolute favorite cars. I looked down at the license plate and read, “PATENCE.” In my opinion it was missing the “i,” but whether that was intended or not, I read it as “patience.” (I just looked “patence” up on dictionary.com just to make sure, and it’s not a word). God sure has a good sense of humor. I’m thinking He wanted to remind me to have patience, that things will get better. That while things might be tough and my feet are gunna get tired and sore from all the rough roads ahead, it will be rewarding if I put my trust in Him and let him guide me. So I think I’m gunna follow that Mustang’s instructions. Patience.

Dribbling

What am I even doing? I feel like I have those blinders on…. The ones we used in basketball during the early years. I can see, but at the same time I can’t. I’m aimlessly wandering around, thinking I’m doing the right thing, that I’m dribbling the ball, but really I’m missing the ball and dribbling air.

Thoughts

So I just signed on to the whole Twitter phenomenon. First of all, I just don't get it. I can't figure it out. Anyways...

I follow John Mayer on Twitter (how weird is that?!), and I noticed one of his "tweets" from today. It read:

"Living by the power of other people's suggestion will slowly kill you. Genuine self esteem isn't a roller coaster. It comes from within."

So, to me, this takes a while to unpack. I get the first sentence... you have to make your decisions your own. Taking others' suggestions into consideration might help, but living by them will squelch your ability to make decisions for yourself.

It's the second half of the quote that gets me thinking. What do you think?