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Be Content, but Never Satisfied. Your Best is Yet to Come.

I spent a little extra time in reflection today, as today marks my 57th birthday. I have always been one with hopes, and dreams, and ambitions. I set goals, make plans, and go after them with everything I have. I love the hustle. I love the chase. I love the grind. I savor the challenge.

Now if you too are wired even a little bit this way, you know that sometimes it’s easy to get a little too down on yourself. Maybe things didn’t work out quite like you hoped. Maybe you didn’t quite or haven’t quite reached your intended destination.

What I’ve learned is this: you have to find satisfaction in whatever it is you have accomplished. Take pride in the very attempt. Most people around you probably haven’t even attempted to see what they could be or do or accomplish. Be content with who and what you are.

That said, never be satisfied. Understand that today is another opportunity to make an impact, to make a contribution, to make a positive difference for someone somewhere. You’re still getting better. You’re still learning and growing.

Just know, that our best is yet to come.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Keep a Forgiving Attitude

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

How long do we want to be angry, and bitter, and resentful? How long do we want to carry that pain? How much time and energy do we want to spend trying to tear someone else down rather than focusing on building ourselves up?

Forgiveness doesn’t mean that we don’t set boundaries. Forgiveness doesn’t mean that we allow ourselves to be continually abused. Forgiving others allows us to focus on becoming the best version of ourselves because we understand that it’s really not about them.

Jesus forgave people who hadn’t asked for it, while they were still mocking and torturing him, saying “forgive them, Father, they don’t know any better.” He didn’t let them distract him from being who he was called to do or doing what he was called to do.

If we want to fulfill our highest possibilities and purposes, forgiveness must be our constant attitude.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Let Our Hope Be Infinite

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

The struggle for a better world is not won or lost in a day, or a week, or a month, or a year, or a decade, or a century, or even a millennium. People in every generation, people of good conscience and good will are called to take their places and do their parts.

History has shown that there will be setbacks and losses. There will be defeats and disappointments. But we must never allow ourselves to be defeated. Our love must always be bigger than our hate, our hope must always be greater than our fear, and our concern must always be greater than our indifference, and our joy greater than our sorrow.

Disappointed is inevitable. Maintaining hope is a choice we are empowered to make through our connection that which is bigger than ourselves, a connection many of us describe as divine.

Let us always hold on to infinite hope.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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