Before You Give Up

<p><strong>Before You Give Up...</strong></p><p></p><p>Before you give up hope</p><p></p><p>Before you give up your dreams</p><p></p><p>Before you give up your friends</p><p></p><p>Before you give up your marriage</p><p></p><p>Before you give up to anxiety and depression</p><p></p><p>Before you give up to your addiction</p><p></p><p>Before you give up and say It has to be this way...</p><p></p><p>Before you give up and accept It is what it is...</p><p></p><p>Before you give up on enjoying an abundant life</p><p></p><p><strong>Before you surrender to all that's <em>around</em> you are you willing to look at all that is <em>within</em> you?</strong></p><p></p><p>Isn't it time to quit playing checkers and start playing chess?</p><p></p><p><strong>Does the life to which you are accustomed to hold you more than the life you hope for?</strong></p><p></p><p>Today you can begin a new journey and take your first steps toward moving from relief to restoration woundedness to healing loneliness to love isolation to community desperation to hope victim to victory. </p><p></p><p>Before you give up step into a world of power and discover that things <em>can</em> change. </p><p></p><p>It doesn't have to be this way. If you have a heartbeat you have hope.</p>