I am the Fruit Ninja.
Not too long ago, my sister traded in her phone for a new Android phone and discovered this game called Fruit Ninja. After extending our contract, (a necessary evil), I traded in my phone for this same Android phone. Pretty soon, all three of us in the house were sitting around a table, not talking to each other, hearing nothing but the sound of swishing blades and splattering fruit as we all were absorbed into this game.
If you have an Android phone, only check this game out if you have time. I never got into games, really, not even Angry Birds. But I simply cannot stop playing this one. We all started getting high scores in the three different modes of the game, and my sister’s fiance, Cody, outdid all of us. I got absorbed into the Classic Mode of the game and kept playing and playing… until one night, I said, “Hey Cody, what’s your high score?” When I told him the score I had just gotten, he said, “That’s not possible.”
I don’t say any of this to boast. (Okay, well, I kinda say some of this to boast). But I do have a point.
In my nightly combings of the ever-wonderful website, Pinterest, I saw this phrase that said, “It always seems impossible… until it’s done.” That caught me off-guard with its truth. Much like my conquest of the Classic Mode in Fruit Ninja, it really seemed impossible. Until I did it. Until I just kept going and defeating and eventually, came out on top.
Now, I’m not saying that I naturally come by the strength to defeat and conquer on my own. But a phrase that’s been turning itself over and over in my head all night long, (simply won’t go away), is this: “But by the grace of God go I.” His grace and his grace alone are responsible for my comings and goings, and for my triumphs and victories. John the Baptist said, “As I decrease, he increases”. There’s something so wonderful about this statement. So simply wonderful. As I diminish, he is amplified. As the volume is turned down on ME, the volume is turned up on HIM. I really just love that.
It seems impossible some days. But if my countless fruitless hours (pun intended) playing that game have taught me anything, it’s that it always seems impossible until it starts being done. Until it starts happening. And then, all of a sudden, it’s not so impossible anymore. Audrey Hepburn, I think, (although I don’t know because you can’t ever trust the internet with quote sources. I’ve seen Eminem and Winston Churchill credited with a single saying), said, “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible’”.
