Kristi Yamaguchi – not your average Yankee name. But America’s Olympian gold medalist in figure skating nailed it for people of all cultures with her take on ‘small steps’.
I learned to put 100 percent into what I’m doing. I learned about setting goals for myself, knowing where I want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.
Kristi packs six insights into this mini-paragraph. Spot them?
I find thoughts like these serve as little appetizers. For myself. Of hope, of vision. They seem something like echoes – God-thoughts.
I’ll never cut dance rhythms across a skating rink – smiling now at an amusing image.
But giving 100 percent toward something of worth, setting some goals, knowing where I’d like to be or what I’d like to become, spotting adversity and getting beyond it. Something about such things feels inviting. It stirs something in me, doesn’t it you? God-thoughts within our grasp. Worthy dreams to realize – moving there, a small step at a time.
So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing 1 Corinthians 9:26
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