I was recently rewatching a football movie from the late 90’s starring Al pacino, and he gives a speech about football as a game of inches, and I thought to myselfy man if only life was a simple game of inches. And while dwelling on this I had an epiphany, maybe it is, maybe life is simply a matter of inches, you are either inching forward and getting better and improving, or you you are inching backwards and if you start to inch backwards maybe you need to reevaluate your life and find a way to turn it around. Often times we want some drastic change, some great miraculous rags to riches story about one aspect of our lives or another and we think that if one major event can take place our whole life will improve overnight. The reality is that life rarely allows from some overnight transformation from mediocrity to greatness, but rather it is gradual steps, like Eddison we must realize that failing is only a means to achieving the results we desire. The Bible talks to us plenty about a journey, or how God may show us a glimpse of what we are to achieve such as Joseph, only to then go through a path that seems so naturally opposed to what we were shown only to arrive where we are supposed to be, fully equipeed and with our experiences behind us to guide and direct our paths. In life if we want to truly make a difference, or even to find happiness we have to stop expecting things to come from an external source, we have to stop expecting everything to happen overnight, and we must be willing to press on through all trials and tribulations that we might come to face. If we do not like where our lives are heading than the only person who has the responsibility to change that is ourselves, it is about putting on your war paint and fighting for what we want, you want money and to be successful then fight for it, nobody is going to hand you anything, and it is not their responsibility to, you have to want it, and fight for it put in the work and the hours and make it important enough to you. You want to be an example, then show how you are an example, you want to be a true Christian and for people to see Christ through you, then fight for that, and it will not be easy, God knows it is not easy to do something great, but fight, for every inch you can get, until you finally find what it is you are looking for and you are able to hold it in your hands.