You Gotta Have Faith in Yourself

[Bryan Hutchinson]

Here's an email I received today and thought I would share it with all of you:

Yesterday I watched a small bird, flying very fast, disappear into the canopy of an oak tree. So dense were its leaves that it was impossible to see what happened next, though I can tell you it remained inside.

I wondered how the little bird found its opening through the leaves at such a speed, and then managed to gently align its fragile body on the branch it chose to land upon, all within a fraction of a second. Not to mention the impossible to imagine flying maneuvers required: the banking, the curling, the vertical and horizontal stabilizations, the deceleration and landing.

Memory? Calculation? Not in that tiny brain. Instinct? Maybe, but how does instinct know which way the branches of a tree have grown when no two are the same?

That little bird just knew. It had faith, in spite of not being able to see how things would work out, that if (and only if) it stayed the course the details would be taken care of; that an opening would appear and a twig would be found. In fact, had she slowed down enough to carefully and logically inspect the tree first, the prudent thing to do, she would have lost her lift and fallen to the ground.

Kind of like reaching for your dreams. Neither memory, nor calculating, nor instincts are the deciding factors, but faith coupled with action.

Tallyho,
The Universe

[C.J. MacKechnie]

Miss Dana,
Maybe by beginning to believe that what is deemed as ADHD is a true gift from GOD that has been turned into a belief system that causes everyone afflicted with this genetic defect to believe themselves as something less than that of an average person. Everyone has gifts of internal strengths just as everyone has things about them that is less than and apart of their own weakness. Just as I will never become the next Michael Jordin doesn't mean that I have to resort to the false belief that I have (BDHS) Basketball Deminished Height Syndrome. Always, use what gifts and talents that you have to the best of your ability and give thanks to GOD that you are the great person that you have become in the eyes of our Heavenly Father.

[DANA]

I love that story, Bryan! It is amazing that the bird simply knew what to do when he flew right into the canopy of an oak tree. It brought to my mind the scripture in the bible that says "IN THE SAME WAY, FAITH BY ITSELF, IF IT IS NOT ACCOMPANIED BY ACTION, IS DEAD." ( James 2:17 )

How I can relate this to my own life is that I may not know where I am headed, I may feel dazed and confused with ADHD fogging up my thoughts, yet, if I listen to that still and quiet whisper of God calling out to me and follow his lead, I will be on the correct path to exactly where I am suppose to go. As an ADDer, I have to force myself to find time to sit, be still and know that God is God and His way is always the right way.