As we travel through life, there are burdens we must bear along the way.
It is through this that we gain our strength.
We must bear each of these burdens for as long as is necessary, but not for a minute longer.
Bearing burdens which no longer serve us does not build more strength.
It eventually breaks us.
Letting go of unnecessary burdens, therefore, is its own type of strength.
By Robert Van Valkenburgh
Your creative work is waiting for you to start doing it.
The inspiration you need is found in the action you have not yet taken.
Put pen to paper, brush to canvas, or hands to instrument and get to work.
In the effort is where you will find your muse.
By Robert Van Valkenburgh
The perfect moment is not coming to find you.
The perfect opportunity is not going to knock on your door and ask you if you are ready.
The perfect circumstances are not going to chase you down while you are headed in the opposite direction and beg you to turn around.
You have to take the risk, you have to make the move, and you have to do so in the face of fear and uncertainty or your life will be wasted on waiting.
By Robert Van Valkenburgh
That which is not in pursuit of our purpose is a distraction.
There are infinite ways to distract ourselves from our purpose, but our purpose is finite.
Purpose requires focus, discipline, and dedication.
And pursuing our purpose demands effort and sacrifice.
Distractions, on the other hand, require nothing from us except that we ignore our purpose.
By Robert Van Valkenburgh
Sometimes victory is snatched from our fingertips by circumstances we have absolutely no control over.
As disheartening, frustrating, or even infuriating as this may be, we must find comfort in the fact that we gave our all.
…as long as we gave our all.
by Robert Van Valkenburgh
Meditations on God 