"You become the average of the six or seven people you surround yourself with daily."
I don't know how many times I've read or heard this quotation, and I don't even know who originally said it, and it probably doesn't even matter...but I remember where I was when I "heard it for the first time," really heard it, heard it and it meant something...
I was at CASC, listening to the guest speaker during a conference honoring African Awareness month. And when this doctor uttered these words, something awoke within me.
This statement isn't one endorsing elitism. It's something that makes you ponder your DESTINY.
It's so easy to be ordinary--some people desire it! They don't want to be different; they want to fit in. They will do anything to feel accepted, "normal"...and, it shouldn't be a surprise to any of them when, at the end of their lives, they look back and recognize "a life of mediocrity."
We all struggle against it. We all get stuck in the mire of the daily grind, the busy schedule, the demands of what it takes "just to get by." It's just so refreshing when we are reminded that THAT IS NOT THE PLAN WE HAVE TO ACCEPT FOR OUR LIVES.
Spiritually, too, it's easy to get in that survival mode. Where you're just hoping you make it through another day...instead of pursuing God and a life of VICTORY.
Today, I have been reminded of this quote...of how important it is to surround myself with people who BELIEVE that "with God, all things are possible." Because it's true. It's absolutely true. It's just up to me to CHOOSE to live that way. To pursue it.
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