If you can't be a Highway, be a Trail.

One of the most powerful messages I have ever heard, came from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.   It is about BEING THE BEST YOU CAN BE, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR POSITION IN LIFE IS. 

Dr. King said, when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don’t just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn’t do it any better.

He said “Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Handle and Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can’t be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley…but be the best little shrub on the side of the hill. Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be the sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are. When you do this, you’ve mastered the length of life, this onward push to the end of SELF FULLFILLMENT.”

In the bible in the book of Colossians 4:2-6  Paul writes, ‘Make the most of every opportunity’  He says, “devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. He says “pray that God may open a door for our message,”  and he closes by saying “be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone”

We can’t be successful in every situation, but we can all do our best in whatever situation we find ourselves in.

Y’all have a great day and GOD bless you.