Hang In There

Motivational expert Ron White tells of being in Navy boot camp. He was tired, intimidated, scared, and hungry. Another sailor who about to graduate passed him in the hallway and, seeing his fatigued expression, whispered out of the side of his mouth, “Hang in there…. You can do it.’

Ron never learned the sailor’s name, and he never saw him again. But those words shot through him like electricity, and he replayed them each night before going to bed. They revamped his attitude, and Ron persevered until he finished the program.

On graduation day, Ron saw three sailors leaning against the wall. They were tired, intimidated, scared, and hungry. Walking over to them, he whispered, “Hang in there…. You can do it.”  From the expressions on their faces, he knew his words had hit home.

Turning Points, August 2006

2 Chronicles 30:22, Romans 1:8-12