Do You Have The Pegs?

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Imagine a camping trip and everyone is excitedly putting up their tent, hopeful of fun and a reasonable night’s sleep. The tent structures go up, people are helping each other and someone calls out “ Do you have the pegs?”

The pegs we know, are those long metal things that go in the ground and secure the tent so that the wind doesn’t blow it away and expose you in your jammies, or let in a foreign beast small or large, or be carried away by flood. Camping is raw enough I say, without the added insecurity of no tent pegs.  You have to get those pegs in the ground.

They are not optional!

What are the tent pegs we need in our lives to secure us from unwanted exposure or invasion of danger or being carried away by unsuspected things that overwhelm?

What would keep us strong enough to not only survive but thrive and ensure progress and the joys of life?

A boundary is a line that defines and protects a property. Our life is our property. A property has an owner who is in control of the property and who is responsible for what happens there. The owner also reaps the benefits, or bears the consequences of the condition of the  property.

This ability to define and protect our property, our life, requires the tent pegs of self -control and responsibility.

If others are in control of our life, we are unable to follow our own heart or create the life that is in keeping with our talents and the inner wiring that is designed to equip us for success.

Do you have your pegs of self-control and responsibility

in the ground of your life?