{"id":45757,"date":"2020-01-14T13:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=45757"},"modified":"2020-01-14T13:02:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:02:17","slug":"should-you-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/01\/should-you-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you quit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Dr. Glenn Mollette<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We usually don’t want to just give\nup, or conclude we don’t have what it takes to go on. I’ve thought about that\nsome lately in trying to learn a difficult fiddle tune. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What have you thought about quitting?\nSmoking? Alcohol? Drugs? A toxic relationship? There are so many good things in\nlife that require so much work to make them happen.  Yet, when we\nstay with it there is eventual satisfaction. And, even if we don’t finish, we\naren’t doing a bad thing for trying to do the good things.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a process of finishing a\ncourse and then retiring from the course. We all retire, quit or are\nterminated. Kenny Rogers sang, “You have to know when to hold them and\nknow when to fold them.” We all do. My dad worked over 30 years in\nunderground coal mining and at the age of 55 he retired. He also quit. He never\nhad any interest in going back to work in the coal mine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quitting gives you an opportunity to\ndo something else. If you hang on, then how do you ever have the opportunity to\nexperience the next phase of life? Maybe you don’t want to. You like the road\nyou are traveling and you’re going to ride it till it ends. There’s nothing\nwrong with that because familiarity and what we know can be very comfortable.\nIt will end though. Life changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A man in the Bible said one time,\n“I’ve fought a good fight, I’ve finished the course and I’ve kept the\nfaith.” There are internal and other rewards for hanging in there and not\nquitting. An old friend used to say often, “The person who loves God most\nis at his post when all the others have walked away.” Have you ever walked\naway? Maybe you have or that’s what you are contemplating today. It doesn’t\nmean life is over, but it will change.  Whatever happens next will\nrequire a lot of the same stuff – tenacity, working hard, and staying at your\npost. You can walk away from a lot of things in life, but you can’t always walk\naway or quit everything because then you’ll never accomplish anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you imagine how all our soldiers\nhave felt on the battle fields? They miss their families and home. They go\nthrough the agony of war and they can’t escape but fight and hang on until\ntheir tour of duty is over.  Because of their tour of service and not\nquitting we still have our freedom in America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be on your tour of duty right\nnow and it may not be the military. Anything ever accomplished takes a lot of\ntime, concentration and downright survival of the fittest. It’s up to you. You\nhave to ask yourself, “Is it worth it to hang on and not quit?” Only\nyou can answer that question. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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