“You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.”

— Peace Pilgrim

In 1953, a silver-haired woman who identified herself as Peace Pilgrim started a 28-year voyage to share with the world her desire for peace.  She would continue that mission until she died in 1982, and this year, had she lived, she would have been 100 years old.

I like the quote a lot, because it is true.  But how often do we get so caught up in the day-to-day problems that we lose sight of what’s right and what’s truly important?  For me, that’s pretty often, but a lot less often lately.  I’ve really started trying to rething what I’m fighting for, and in doing so, I’ve begun to realize that a good bit of what I’ve considered important in the past isn’t really important at all.

Yesterday’s post, about getting serious, was the result of me doing a self-inventory.  My friends, my faith, my career, my debt load, my weight.  I need to be serious — much more serious than I have been in the past — about what I am fighting for.  To do that, I need to figure out what is and isn’t right in my life.  And the things that do make the cut are the ones that I need to embrace fully.

It’s not about me wanting to be on some kind of power trip.  I think this kind of power isn’t at all the kind you wield over others; it’s the kind that you wield over the problems in your life that keep you from being who you can be.  Who you were made to be.

Figuring all of that out is no small task, but then nothing worth doing ever seems to be, does it?