WE ALL EAT IT

"I will take life by the throat." - Beethoven

It is so much easier relating with people's success story, than with their pain. It's easy to assume that, these people live on beds made of roses. How can you imagine, that the wealthiest man - financially - on earth ever gets broke? Even though there's such a possibility in reality. Difficulty is a meal life feeds everyone, at one point or another whether we like it or not.

Beethoven in spite of his greatness and success, was not however, a stranger to difficulties. During his twenties, he began to lose his hearing. His fingers "became thick," he said on one occasion. He couldn't feel the music as he once had. His hearing problem haunted him in the middle years of his life, but he kept it a well-guarded secret. When he reached his fifties, Beethoven was stone deaf. Three years later he made a tragic attempt to conduct an orchestra and failed miserably. Approximately five years later, he died
during a fierce thunder storm. He was deaf, yet a magnificent musician. On one occasion, Beethoven was overheard shouting at the top of his voice as he slammed both fists on the keyboard, "I will take life by the throat!"

Everyone faces difficulty, but your resolve in the heat of that difficulty is the bane of the matter to successful people: that's where we're berthing this morning. Can you imagine a musical genius losing his hearing? Music is 'hearing.' Beethoven didn't give up, he took like by the throat. No matter your difficulty this morning resolve to TAKE LIFE BY THE THROAT!