Mary Fasano’s parents pulled her out of eighth grade so she could work in a cotton mill in Rhode Island. Fifty-five years later, she made a major decision. She decided that she was going to go back to school to complete her education. At 71, she completed her coursework and received her high school diploma… but she wasn’t done yet! She signed up for Harvard University’s extension program and took one class at a time. Week after week, she drove the twenty miles to the school… and did so for seventeen years! In June of 2003, Mary Fasano graduated from Harvard at the age of 89.
Many called her crazy.
Many would have told her that her dream was impossible.
But what they forgot…? Something is impossible ONLY until it is accomplished.
It’s Christmas, 2015. What have you spent this past year thinking is impossible. A marriage on the rocks? A wayward child? A job situation? An empty bank account? Have you gone from hope to helpless… figuring that it’s just easier to give in and give up than give it over to God?
Mary Fasano lived her life by this truth from Matthew 19:26 “For nothing is impossible with God”
Today you may be facing something that nobody else believes in but you. It’s a mountain that’s never been climbed… and achievement the world’s never seen… a way of doing something that’s never been done. Be bold. Read that verse above over and over until it weaves its way into the fabric of your heart. You have been created for greatness… and your greatest competition is the status quo. The odds of success mean nothing when you have God on your side. He sets the odds. He gets you through. And He will equip you with everything you need to push onward. Seize the day. Take your dreams back from the critics because someday you will be dancing in victory while the doubters stand silent.
Make this holiday season different. Believe again. Believe in the God who loves you more than you can imagine and is working things out behind the scenes with your best interest in mind. Never give up. Don’t quit. Believe in the impossible again. God can and will come through with the best possible solution for your situation.
You can do this. Keep going.
Merry Christmas.
