Are You Pushing

I read an article this weekend about the founder of Weight Watchers who stated the reason that she started Weight Watchers is that as a teen she would walk through the park on her way home and notice all of the kids sitting in swings waiting to be pushed, but their parental figures were sitting together gossipping, not paying attention to their children, so this teen would come through and give the kids a push and pretty soon the kids were swinging on their own. She said that this lesson taught her that most people just need a push in life to get going and to accomplish major things. As I continue to live life with students I find that many of them just need a push, a word of encouragement, a person to get in their lives to believe in them and then they just take off.

I constantly remind myself that I should look for people in my life to give a push, to breathe potential into them and see what God will do. I am constantly amazing at what God can do through people if we allow ourselves to be used by Him. I need to be a little more pushy in the people in my life. Do you?