“For nothing is impossible with God”
Luke 1:37
For about two years now my little boy has been coming to me when he’s trying to do something and saying, “I can’t do this.” I always respond to him by saying, “There is nothing named ‘can’t.’” When he comes back to me and says, “I don’t know how to do it,” I always reply, “There’s always a way to do everything.”
Several days ago my son and I were out in the yard playing bat and ball. I was throwing the ball to him and he kept on missing with the bat. Finally he became really upset and said, “I can’t do that,” to which I replied, “There’s nothing named ‘can’t.’” Slowly he repeated after me, “There’s nothing named ‘can’t.’” Then I said, “Hold the bat,” and I threw the ball. He hit the ball and then said, “There’s nothing named ‘can’t.’”
Several days later when I stopped by home to drop off my daughter, my son came running and wanted to play basketball. When I said that I had to go back to the office to do some work, he insisted that he wanted to play ball with me then. When I again replied that I had to go to the office, he said, “There’s nothing named ‘can’t.’ ”
Do you see the point? If he begins to think that way at four years of age, this world is in for a winner. Too often we fail in our efforts because we have been brought up believing that we cannot do some things. The people who change the world are people who have taken impossible out of their dictionaries. The men and women who make changes in history are those who come against the odds and tell the odds that it’s impossible for the odds to stop them.
A man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
