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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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One Success Beats a Thousand Failures

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t be afraid to fail. There is no one anywhere who has accomplished anything of significance without first making a lot of mistakes, miscues, and blunders.

Each time we try and fail, we have to get back up, dust ourselves off, reflect, review, reevaluate, make a new plan and try again.

It is said that Thomas Edison went through nearly a thousand different designs before he succeeded in creating his light bulb. In his mind, he didn’t fail 999 times. He learned 999 ways not to do it.

The great thing about success, is that it makes our previous failures completely irrelevant! No one cares how many times Edison failed. We only care that he succeeded.

One success beats one thousand failures.

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

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