Pass the baton!

I have been an athlete for most of my life and the one sport that everyone in my family competed in was track and field.  My dad was even competing in track and field meets while I was in high school.  It was great being able to be an athlete with my dad and training with him.  Those were some good days.  I remember the one event that had everyone's attention was the 4x100m relay.  It was the fastest four people on each team running together passing the baton to the next runner until the very end.  Each person running had to make a sacrifice in order to give the next runner an advantage.  They had to run as fast and as hard as they could to the point of exhaustion in hopes of giving the next runner a head start against their opponent.  Each runner knew that if they didn't make the sacrifice to give their portion of the race all that they had, then the whole team would be at a disadvantage.  This same concept also goes with life as we all are running a race.  How is your leg of the race going, and are you preparing to pass the baton?

We have all been passed the baton, but it is up to us on how we are going to run our leg of the race.  Some of us started with an advantage and some with disadvantage.  No matter what, the race has begun and the baton is in your hand.  As in the 4x100m race each runner has to make a decision, will they make the sacrifice needed during their leg of the race or not?  The same question will go to you as well, how will you choose to run your leg of the race?  We all need to make the right choices so that when the baton is ready to be passed the next runner has a leg up.  No matter what choices you make though the baton will be passed on to the next runner, the only thing you have control over are your choices.