Fighting Like a Mom
I once had the incredible opportunity to hear Joyce Meyers speak live and as she was talking about her own struggles in life she told us what God had spoken to her in those moments, "You can be a victor or a victim - but you cannot be both " Woah . Talk about a sucker punch to the gut of your pride and selfishness. A few years ago I studied the words victor and victim because I was curious what the root of the words were since they were so similar in spelling but very different in meaning. Vict = comes from the Latin word meaning " conquer ". Victor = a person that defeats an enemy, or conquers what is overtaking them. Victim = a person that is overcome by what is overtaking them. So you can conquer what is against you or you can let it conquer you - but you cannot stay in the middle. In the past two months I have had my world completely turned upside down with an unexpected, l engthy hospital stay where I was poked and prodded and trea...