Good Morning Girls!  So I've been doing this 100 push up challenge. Supposedly, if I follow this push up workout I should be able to do 100 consecutive push ups.  Real push ups, not girly style.  Things were moving along pretty good until week 4.  On week 4 I had to drop down one level from where I was working out.  Then I had to repeat week 4.  I finally got through it and moved on to week 5 (even though I had been doing push ups for 6 weeks already).  Week 5 stunk.  Not only did I have to repeat it 3 weeks in a row, but each week I felt I was getting weaker and weaker.  I had to take more breaks, and by the end I was reverting to girly style push ups.  I wanted to quit....bad.  But I couldn't.  I couldn't because I have got about 12 other people doing the push ups now.  Some are ahead of me, some are behind me, but they are all "pushing up" because of me!  If I quit, some of them would no doubt quit, and I will not carry that burden. (Also, the ones that don't quit will harass me until their last breath).  I started eating more protein.  I adjusted my other workouts.  I worked out at a different time of day thinking that would help.  But nothing did. So, I had a decision to make.  I could either keep whining and dreading every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday when I had to do my push ups, or I could stir myself up, give myself a half time pep talk, and kick some hiney.  You see, as soon as I get to 100, I am done.  I want to be done!  So, last Sunday when I started thinking about Mondays push ups, I took week 5 (which I would be doing for the 4th week in a row) and I tore it up and threw it in the garbage!  I gave myself a pep talk and decided that even though I struggled with week 5, come Monday morning I was moving to the next level.  I was taking on week 6, and not looking back.  I was not going to keep trying to accommodate this rut by making adjustments, No!  I was going to tell myself "It's go time.  Just get it done."  And that's what I did.  I was able to skip a level and succeed, even though I had previously been stuck on something easier.  You know, the same thing happens to us when we are faced with any difficult circumstance.  We go at for awhile, feeling strong.  But then the situation doesn't improve and we find ourselves slipping.  We try to work around our situation.  We try to accommodate the circumstance.  However, all of this simply leaves us losing heart, and feeling weak, like we want to give up.  That is when it is time to stir up your faith!  Instead of accommodating this mountain of trouble, you need to move it!  You need to quit climbing up this never ending battle.  You need to stop trying to "get around it".  What you need to do is muster up every bit of faith you have, look that mountain of circumstance in the eye, and say "MOVE IT!  I AM MOVING FORWARD!  YOU WILL NO LONGER BE IN MY WAY! "  It's time to get feisty girls.  Let's get off of the defense and move to offense.  The enemy of negative circumstance is under our feet!  He has to move!

Matthew 17:20 "You don't have enough faith", Jesus told them. "I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain,'Move from here to there,'and it would move.  Nothing would be impossible."

Love all of you little mountain movers-
jen