The Little Engine that Could

I haven't been able to sleep the past few nights and as I looked around the darkness hoping to fall alseep, I've done a lot of praying and a lot of thinking. One of the things I thought about last night was the book "The Little Engine that Could." We read that book a lot when I was little, and I haven't really thought much about it until last night. I thought about how the lesson/moral of it has implications for me at 24 years of age. In the book the little engine has to climb a big hill and he does it by saying "I think I can" over and over again and by going slowly but surely up the hill. He makes it and there is much rejoicing. And I was thinking last night about the little engine and how in my life there are sometimes looming obstacles and overwhelming situations. Like the engine got over the hill, I can get through them (with Jesus, of course) by taking things one step at a time and by encouraging myself (preferably through a Bible verse). And I feel like right now I am at a place where I know there is a hill, but I'm not sure how close it is to where I am. It could be around the next curve, but it could be a few miles off. Regardless, I know that I will make it to the top of the hill.

Hopefully I will sleep better tonight, but if I don't maybe I'll come up with something else to blog about . . .