I\u2019m not a Champion. Far from it, actually.<\/p>\n
Many people think I\u2019m one, because I\u2019ve written a book entitled Champions, and I\u2019ve been going around making Champions, recruiting people to be the Champions they were meant to be, but seriously, I\u2019m far from it.<\/p>\n
Like, for example, if you\u2019ve done something to me, chances are I\u2019d let you get away with it with a smile, but in my mind I\u2019d have probably maimed you a thousand times (take note: this is me mellowing down, because maimed\u00a0instead of killed). I still bully people\u2014not much anymore, but I still do. Momma says I still have to work on my default face, which is a scowl that says, \u201cI eat dreams, unicorns, and other happy things for breakfast.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Another thing is that I\u2019m a huge troll. Like, totally. People think I\u2019m this super awesome, super committed, super hardworking person, (and yes, I am, most of the time), but come weekend and clock-out, I\u2019m a bonafide, certified, one hundred percent troll. Sure, lots of people say I deserve to rest and just do nothing, but seriously, almost all my rest time are all on borrowed moments because I still have lots of things to do.<\/p>\n
I make many people proud, like when I wrote and published and launched my book, and oh my gosh it\u2019s been selling like pancakes already; or when I truly, totally, and wholeheartedly serve God and my community; or when I just do simple things for my family like treat them to dinner (in the middle of an outpour and amidst waist-high flood). But on the other hand, I also disappoint lots of people, like clients whose requirements I fail to deliver (there are no justifications for this), my family when I don\u2019t spend much time with them, and generally other people I\u2019ve wronged in about a million different ways.<\/p>\n
So. Not a Champion. Seriously.<\/p>\n
But I try to be one. Every day, I try so hard. And I make mistakes, like, a bajillion times, but I try to make up for it and try so hard not to repeat them again. And aren\u2019t we all like that? We try, we fail, we recover, we try again, we fail again, we recover. Again. Rinse then repeat.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019m starting this blog to chronicle my blunders and my successes, my defeats and my victories, my mistakes and my amendments, my shame and my pride, and a thousand other things in between.<\/p>\n
Right now, I\u2019m not a Champion, but I aim to be<\/b>\u00a0one. And sometimes, it\u2019s not so much as being one, than becoming\u00a0one. It\u2019s the journey that matters, after all, right?<\/p>\n
So, journey with me, my friends. I hope and pray that you try not to judge, but there\u2019s a risk in unveiling and publishing your screw ups to an online audience. But this risk, I will take, just to be able to say to everyone that we all are Champions in God\u2019s eyes no matter how much we fail, or screw up, or whatever it is that we humans are generally fond of doing. In God\u2019s eyes, we are already His heroes.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a matter of getting there and becoming one, on our part.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cSo I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n
– Philippians 3:14<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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