Circle of Trust

Thank you all who came out and supported me today on my VQ.  I’m truly grateful to be a part of this group and inspired by you men in this circle.  I am often inspired by the messages from the COTs and love the ones where I think about them later in the day.  Today I wanted to share one of my favorite quotes that has brought me inspiration and confidence over the years.  It is an excerpt from a speech that Teddy Roosevelt gave commonly known as the Man in the Arena Speech.  It goes like this…

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

I don’t see critics in this circle.  Aye?

Prayers for  Snowden and Kapusta’s families in Ukraine and the people in Ukraine

Lord’s Prayer