Everybody has been somewhere and everybody is going somewhere. Everything that lies between where we have been and where we are going to end up is what I call “The Ride.” Are we enjoying the ride, or are we so disturbed over some part of our past, or maybe to wound up about our future? We must learn to enjoy the ride. I know that some of us have had some horrible things happen to us, but none of those things define us as a person. Every day that we allow to past by without enjoying it tarnishes our past and causes us to be more stressed about our future. The ride, bringing us from something while taking us to something. The problem with the ride for many is this. We can’t believe that we are going to end up where we want, because that place looks nothing like where we came from. Hey, it makes know sense to set out on this journey and when the ride is over we step out and find that we are in the exact same place we started, or if not, somewhere very close to it. It is really a good idea for us to figure out how to enjoy the ride. To enjoy the ride makes everything a building block, regardless of what it is. To enjoy the ride is to get our heads out of the clouds negativity and start seeing that everything is a building block, an instrument that can be used to steer us in the direction that we we want our lives to go. But to be down about who we are, where we came from, and where we are right now, is like dying from malnutrition with the food in our mouths and refusing to swallow it. We decide what kind of ride we have no matter what. It is our decision to enjoy the ride. 

Rhon Johnson

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Power Statement:

If we know where we’ve been, then we should have some idea as to where we want to go.

Rhon Johnson (1966 –        )

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Scripture Reference:

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live: