Well, believe it or not, Acton just got a whole lot tougher. You are warned numerously of how hard the program can get in October. But believe me- it's definitely different when you're in the middle of it. I'd say it's wonderfully difficult and that I'm sickly loving it! How's that?
A friend shared the following video with me. You talk about moving...man. It reminded me real quick of what's important, and where my priorities are, and why I'm doing what I'm doing. I hope it touches you like it has touched me. You can thank my classmate and friend Mike for sharing it with me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPLCaAu_H2U&feature=related
Lastly, I wanted to share with everyone a quote that Dad shared with me a few years ago. It is my favorite. Coincidentally, this quote hangs in the entrance of our Acton classroom, otherwise called "the pit". I am definitely being humiliated and knocked down this week. But I know my efforts are not in vain. It's time to get back in the arena- may God bless your week, and may you fail courageously each day!
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
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