Hidden Meanings

I haven’t written one of these kinds of posts in a long time–the kind that are just words and things I am thinking. I have been contemplating a lot lately how there is something good to find all around us. Yesterday I was reading “Green Eggs and Ham” to Lucy and was thinking about how many lessons there are to be learned in such a simple things as children’s books, even if they may seem mundane or silly. It wasn’t the first time that a children’s book taught me something on a deeper level. I was thinking about how repetitive the book is, how persistent Sam is and how in the end of the book, the thing that Sam had been wanting all along happened. I know this might seem silly to you all, but to me, I realized that repetition and persistence can be the key for so many challenges, frustrations, things that I want but are happening as quickly as I would like them to happen. So I am going to remember the next time I get frustrated with something, “Keep going. Try again. And again. And again. And be patient with the process.” I have the hope that my persistence will pay off, even if I am persistent for 2 weeks and lose track of my goal and fall back again, and have to start over as it seems.