TTG #4: I Have a Decided Heart

David is now on the Santa Maria with Christopher Columbus!
While I don't envy David's current station (I'm not much for primitive living)... this turned out to be a VERY important chapter. God doesn't make mistakes, and I cannot thank Him enough for planning my life in this millenium and this century.... there's no way I would have survived in the 1400's... thank God for his omniscience!!!

Anyway..

David and Chris (we're homies now) are sailing to the "new world" and all the while enduring tough sea life (I've only been on Caribbean cruises, so I can't relate in the least bit). Chris tells David how it took him nearly two decades to receive the support, funding, team, etc etc to even START the voyage. He just knew that there was a trade route to the West and he was determined to find it. Later in the chapter, the officers decided that they had had enough and could go no further. They were skeptical to begin with and after sailing for 64 days with no land in sight... they were THROUGH! Captain Columbus refused to listen, stuck with his convictions, and pressed on. Well, we know how that turned out!

This chapter is especially important because it's all about convictions! What do you do when your convictions are tested? Doubted? Mocked? Despite the naysayers, Christopher Columbus knew with absolute certainty that the world was not flat and that he would at some point find land. Can you imagine how crazy everyone must have thought he was???? What a position to be in!

Nuggets:
"I am passionate about my vision for the future."
"My thoughts and actions will work in a forward motion, never sliding into the dark forest of doubt or the muddy quicksand of self-pity."
"A person without a dream never had a dream come true."
"All my problems become smaller when I confront them."
"My course has been charted. My destiny is assured."

personal fave...
"I am not timid. I will move now and not look back."

We all know I am not timid in an everyday life sense, but I am VERY timid when it comes to decision making... and sticking to that decision! With every decision comes major anxiety... then backtrack... then change of decision... then back to original decision. It can get very ugly (& tiring). I am learning to make a decision, stick with it... and NOT LOOK BACK! that's major!