Early notes · 2022

Look for be open to signs

Don’t preach a sermon, live one

Thank God for things that have yet to come = faith

Trial of our faith, believing the negative thoughts

Don’t give up, look up

Ask once, thank him going forward

Fight back against anger and discouragement, that is the devil rearing his head to steal your faith even though you may be having a hard time to have joy right now

48 minutes in trust that God is in control

Infant loss 5K fundraiser

Was in a great place and it all went to shit, have to look to faith to pull through and push to get back what was lost when things got bad

Revise banner to include honoring the son I lost Maxwell

When you say I’m fine but you’re not fine

Google photos shows Max when I looked up myself

Did God make us wait for a reason?

A storm can destroy you or develop you

Story of Abraham and Sara

Storms bring us back to God

You are remembered by the storms you have overcome

Testing of your faith drives perseverance

God has spoken to me and I believe he’s using me as a way to reach out to others who have gone through the same storm my wife and I have gone through

God uses us in mysterious ways

Inspired to get out of the boat like Peter and do the thing that my son has inspired me to do

What will you do when God says no

The hardest walks lead to the greatest destinations

You have strength most don’t have because they haven’t experienced what you have

Don’t discount your past, your struggle, and what you’ve been through

The season you entered into did not come to break you, it came to build you

Inspired by fire logo

What you go through you will grow through

Our wounds become wisdom

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Tell my story from the beginning living in a hotel to meeting my wife to losing our baby

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king

If nothing around you changes, change your surroundings

Some of your biggest flaws may be assets

Tim Ferris

Comfort hikes etc

Only those that can see the invisible can do the impossible

Get 1% better every day for yourself, for the baby you lost

I’m making a change no more staying downstairs on the couch drinking while my wife goes to bed alone

Comfort chats podcast

Focus on self care / exercise

I look up knowing that you are watching down over me!

Channel anger into something positive

Was really down and out getting up dreading every day… found my purpose to live my best life for the son I was never able to hold but know is looking down over me

Tomorrow is guaranteed… do what it is you want to do now

Is your past an anchor or an alter

Get 1% better every day! Find your reason!

Only those that can see the invisible, can do the impossible - Tyrese Gibson

Today I woke up kind of down about the day and then I told myself that I need to live my best life for our baby Max

Why did I call my page inspired by fire

Why did I call my page inspired by fire. I called my page inspired by fire because I vowed to live my best life in honor of our baby Max that we lost. On those days when I don’t feel like doing it, when I don’t feel like giving my all, those are the days that I know that our baby is watching down over me and those are the days that I have to push the extra bit to be better to be better for our baby because that is what he would want for us and that is what I want to do in honor of him.

I feel like we all need to find that one thing that gives us that fire. One thing that truly makes you want to go that extra mile do that extra rep, stay up the extra hour to put the work in, to do whatever it takes to make yourself better. I feel like I found that and it has become overwhelming because it is a feeling like I don’t think I’ve ever felt before. It’s just that incessant desire that nothing will stop me from being better.

Find your purpose

I pray that everyone is able to come to the day when they find their purpose and they find the reason to why they’re living and what they’re doing with themselves.

I have tossed around the idea of asking myself what am I doing with myself. I have a nice house, a great wife, unfortunately don’t have a family yet, have three cats and a dog, I have a the life that a lot of people would really strive for.

I appreciate everything I have but I had this desire to find my purpose and to find what I’m doing with myself and that I just wanted more.

I feel like I have finally found that and it took the tragedy that we went through to find that.

We all go through ups and downs in our lives and I feel like what I have gone through has given me that sense of purpose to want to make myself better and as a result I want to share my feelings thoughts emotions and ideas with other people.

I pray that other people can find solace and look to what I’ve been through and how I am trying to transform it into something good to realize that when things are really bad that joy does come in the morning and that things can turn around.

I hope you are able to look to my thoughts ideas and emotions for inspiration I feel like this was my calling to create this page and to write down these ideas and thoughts to try to be that beacon of hope for others when they are down and when they think there’s nothing left.

I Love You Baby Max

Turn misery into motivation

God has a plan, we may not understand it now but in due time he will reveal it all to us

One loss does not become the permanent vision for your life

Tough times never last, but tough people do

Sometimes desire waits for a trigger

Small victories ⁃ turned off the tv ⁃ Stopped wasting time on social media The WIT club ⁃ my father

Struggle up the hill towards the kingdom of God rather than descend into the abyss

When inspiration strikes DON’T IGNORE IT

When things get hectic, slow everything down

Unique position to motivate agents to push harder

Two of the greatest moments in an individual’s life Is the day they were born and the day they realize why they were born

If your “why” doesn’t make you cry, that’s not your “why”

We’ve all got a story to tell and I’m here to tell mine

Psalm 30

Appreciate the things you work so hard to obtain