Perhaps life has dealt a difficult blow. Perhaps just everyday challenges make you feel like you do not have the strength to overcome and endure through the challenges. Regardless of the source of our challenges, we often to do realize the level of strength that exists within us. Christopher Reeve’s is quoted as stating “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles”.
As we may remember, Christopher Reeve became a quadriplegic as a result of an accident, during a time of great success in acting. When we look at the challenges of our lives, we may originally perceive our challenges to be much less difficult than those faced by Christoper Reeve. Yet, to each of us in our respective lives, the challenges that we are overcoming still have dynamic significance in our lives. In review the words of Christopher Reeve’s, we find that every one of us “ordinary” people can and are heroes as we find the strength to persevere and endure.
The key to finding the strength to persevere and endure lies in believing in your greatness. Regardless of any limitation, regardless of loss of physical movement, loss of job, health challenges, and other obstacles in our lives, NOTHING removes the greatness that lies within each of us. Spend time reflecting and appreciating the greatness that lies within you. Spend time reviewing all of the things that you have and will accomplish in this life, regardless of the challenges that lie before you in life. If Christopher Reeve’s can take the challenge of paralysis and find a way to help others and to use his situation as a way to help motivate others that have been paralyzed, what can you do with your greatness?
