Perseverance

     These past two week my mom and I have done a lot of traveling back and forth from Florida to North Carolina, and to drop/pick-up my brothers from camp.  We had a traveling buddy with us, we named him Stripes.  Stripes is a spider, we are fairly certain he was poisonous.  He lived inside the driver-side rear view mirror throughout our travels.  Each night he would make a web and the wind would always destroy it the next day.  As the car accelerated he would hold on trusting the strength of his web.  Stripes also knew his weaknesses though and would go back inside the mirror.  Our little friend taught both of us what it looks like to make the best of a situation and to live with perseverance.  Knowing not only your strengths but your weaknesses.  Traveling though different terrain taught me an aspect of perseverance.  As is well known, I grew up in flat Florida.  Moving to mountainous Murphy, with all the curves and the hills showed me that having perseverance not only means going with the flow but also being ready to expect the unexpected.  Life is so much bigger than the road blocks.  Embrace daily change, and live in every moment.

With perseverance and patience you can over come the greatest difficulties.

~Lizzy