There was an old man who lived in a house with a leaky roof. Every time it rained, water dripped into a bucket beside his bed. For years, he just emptied the bucket and went on with life.
One day, his grandson asked, “Why don’t you just fix the roof?”
The old man paused, looked up at the ceiling, and said, “I got used to it.”
His grandson replied, “But it’s still leaking. You’re just surviving, not living.”
Here’s the truth:
Some of us are living with emotional leaks – bad habits, toxic relationships, draining environments – that we’ve simply “gotten used to.” We keep emptying the bucket, hoping it won’t rain again, instead of fixing what’s broken.
But hear this: what you tolerate today will dominate you tomorrow. Change doesn’t come by chance. It comes by choice.
Stop waiting for peace, joy, confidence, or growth to magically appear. Go fix the roof.
3 Words to Live By:
Fix. The. Leak.
You’re not called to barely survive. You’re called to grow, thrive, and build. So stop making peace with what’s pulling you down—and start walking toward what lifts you up.
Today is a good day to start patching your roof.