No Fear

I love this picture of Brady

riding his pony....

teeth clinched,

leaning back,

and rocking for all he's worth.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all go back to that mind-set in life and

RIDE with NO FEAR......

Somehow as age grabs our mind along with our hearts,

it too steals our willingness to give life all we've got....

knowing that yes we might fail,

but boy... we might succeed.

The fear of failure has often stopped me from attempting things I would have really liked to have tried. But, thinking that someone might feel as though I looked ridiculous or thinking that the hurt feelings of someone telling me that I wasn't very good at it.....

somehow seemed to take precedence over my attempt at greatness.

I've often heard the story of how many zillion times Abraham Lincoln failed...

yet somehow he had the character to continue..

WOW what we would have missed if he hadn't..

So, as I look at this picture of Brady

riding with NO FEAR...

I too want to grab hold of that thrill and believe in myself

knowing that if for some reason I fall off

then all I have to do is climb back up again..

Maybe today we should learn from our children instead of teaching them what life has wrongly taught us..