“Aliveness comes from living a life of personal integrity in which our outer actions match our inner values, beliefs, wishes, and dreams… — Jerry Colonna, Reboot.

I’ve read lots of meditations and essays that deal with the same theme as above, but Colonna’s words say it very well. If I were to wake up repeating his words as a goal, I think I would go a long way toward fulfilling God’s plan for me, but like a lot of great thoughts  — they are easier said and repeated than lived. I am human, and failure is as much a part of life as success.

I think of it as shooting free throws. At first we miss a lot, but as we keep trying every day we get a little bit better day after day until our outer actions match to a great extent our values, beliefs, and dreams.

So today and with God’s help maybe I will take a step closer to “Aliveness.”

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About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.