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As some of you know, I started grad school last week! It has been a bit overwhelming to remember how to study and do homework, but overall, I’m really enjoying my classes and my professors are amazing. In two of my classes this week, we reflected on “The Man in the Arena,” a well known speech given by Theodore Roosevelt:
"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 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." - Theodore Roosevelt
Maybe you feel as though this semester is an arena you’re terrified to jump into. Maybe you’re already in the arena and wish there was a backdoor to sneak out. Perhaps your thoughts of self-doubt are clouding your vision and making you wonder if you should even be in the arena in the first place. Whether you jump into the arena or not, you have a chance of failing. Fail boldly. Remember that the Holy Spirit is with you in the arena, and will walk with you in your failures, successes, frustrations, fears, and joys. -- Lauren
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