Never Quit

I was actually just coming home from a Tuesday night presentation meeting and I went through one of the worst rain storms in my life. You see, I live about an hour and a half from Denver. I live out east on the plains of Colorado. I thought I was prepared to drive through the storm when it started raining. I wasn’t very prepared.

It started pouring about 30 miles from home. All I could see was the yellow line in the middle of the road. I just looked down and tried to keep the car on the road. Every time the wind would come up it would blow me into the other lane. At one time I was driving about 5 miles per hour, or maybe 3.

I thought about stopping so many times. I was almost stopped any way, but I kept on going. Thunder would shake the car and the wind would push the car around over and over again. All this with out being able to see the road. I was thankful every time lightning struck because it lit up the sky and I could see for a second or two.

I thought I would never make it home but I kept on going. Just then I thought I saw something. There was a small sliver between the clouds and the horizon. Directly in front of me, between this sliver, was a full moon. You know when the moon just comes up and it looks bigger and closer than ever? That’s how it was. It was still raining very hard but the moon lit up my path and I could see again. I saw a mile marker on the road. I was 3 miles from home.

You see, just like my drive in the rain, there are a lot of obstacles on the road to success. Perseverance will get you through those obstacles. The bigger the dream, the bigger the obstacle. I don’t know where I’d be if I would have stopped to wait out the storm. I know this; I’m better for not quitting.

Never Quit,

Bret