Dear Reader:

From the time we all heard the story of “The Little Engine That Could,” we have had the mantra ingrained in us that if we just try hard enough and keep a positive attitude, “I think I can,” success will come.

The reality (we have all learned as adults) is, of course, that sometimes, as hard as we try, success doesn’t come, instead failure reigns supreme. It is in these moments that we have to step back and realize that a road block has been put up along our path for a reason.  We are heading the wrong way. With determination and faith…we must try something else….go a different direction.

According to Paul Shoemaker, the world is not divided between the can’s and can’t’s but it relies on the  “Can’t Not Do’ers.”   (Source; Awakin Calls/Paul Shoemaker)

Here is an excerpt from Shoemaker’s talk on becoming change-agents in this world.

…Most recently, Shoemaker came out with his first book — Can’t Not Do. “Can’t Not Do” is a catchphrase for the urge that captures the heart of effective social change agents—explaining, in their own words, their passion and drive: “I can’t not do this.”

“It’s not that I can do this, it’s that I can’t not.” “I could not imagine not doing something about this issue.” After decades of experience in the nonprofit sector, Paul says, “We need more people in the game, committing for the long-term to that one cause, one challenge where they feel they can make a real dent.

History has proved that if enough people hammer away long enough at a social problem, we start to change our world for the better. And the amount of positive change one human being can help create today has never been greater.”

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My “I can’t not do this” is the blog. I was terrified at first that I would run out of things to write about….now I can laugh at that fear, but it was quite real and scary in 2010 when I first started. Like ‘manna’ from heaven….God continues to provide the food for thought I need to set the table (blog post) each day. He has never left me without nourishment filled with new ideas.

So until tomorrow….Father help us all find that one passion in life that we simply “can’t not do” without. Then hold our hand as we follow the path to become whole with the universe.

“Today is my favorite day”  Winnie the Pooh

* As you read this blog today I am off to Walsh and Mollie’s home to keep Rutledge and Lachlan for the second shift. Walsh and Mollie headed out Friday for a weekend getaway in Asheville. Tommy and Kaitlyn took the first shift…picking up the boys from pre-school and keeping them last night.

Now it’s Boo’s time…the second weekend shift begins. I will have the boys today, tonight, and tomorrow until Walsh and Mollie return. It will go fast with two little ones scampering here and there. Mandy is bringing Eva Cate over and some Chick Filet this afternoon to break the day and let the cousins play.

Now where is that copy of “The Little Engine that Could?”