Are You a Believer

Are you a Believer?

What do you believe … about yourself? 

In the comic strip Shoe, Jeff MacNelly once depicted this scene:  “Shoe, the crusty newspaper editor, is standing on the mound in a baseball game.  His catcher comes out to him and says, ‘You’ve got to have faith in your curve ball.’ 

“In the next frame Shoe remarks, ‘It’s easy for him to say.  When it comes to believing in myself, I’m an agnostic.’”

That is the root of low self-esteem in the most succinct form possible. 

We are agnostics when it comes to believing in ourselves. 

John C. Maxwell says this in his little gem called Relationship 101: 

“People believe …

-They will fail.

-When they see a light at the end of the tunnel they believe it is a train.

Our eyes see what we perceive as reality and buy it.  But what we need to do is look with our understanding, our inner sight – our insight. 

If I fail at some point, that doesn’t mean that I am a failure.  As Thomas Edison is famous for saying, “Failure?  No, I’m not a failure, but I do know ten thousand formulas that will not work.”  

More times than not the light at the end of the tunnel is the dawning of a new day, a new beginning.  Embrace it.

Belief matters.

Believe in YOU!

P Michael Biggs

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