Perseverance is the continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition. 

There are two types of people; those that let circumstances define who they are, and those that define circumstances while learning and growing from them. Which one are you? Fact is things are going to happen in life, good things, bad things, it just is the circle of how it happens. But, when life trips you up, or the storms move in, or hands you lemons. What do you do? Do you give up or do you get up?

January 13, 2010. A day that was not very kind to me. A day that I had dreaded seeing approaching on my calendar 4 years ago. I could not stop it from coming. I had fought the good fight, did everything I could do to avoid going down this path. However, it was out of my control. I could not stop it and eventually it arrived bringing to an end a season in my life.

Already one week into the new year. Many of us were greeted to the new year by a snow storm followed by some very cold air. I was outside the other day and my nose froze within seconds. But, I am not here to talk about the weather. I am here to talk about starting new things, changing things in our lives.