Clark's Convention: Destiny and the 4 Words

Clark spent yesterday at a conference for an organization that he's involved in at school. There were schools from all over the state represented. They left at 7:30 in the morning, and got back at school at the end of the day. He said it was exhausting, and I thought, "oh honey...you don't even KNOW exhausted..."

But then he started telling us about his day, and I will have to say that I no longer wonder about the state of the youth in our country...I wonder about the state of the leaders of the youth in our country.

The key-note speaker was a woman who left Clark kind of confused...until he searched through the program and saw that she was an "empowerment" speaker.

Oh, okay.

One thing she told them was that they need to DIP into their Destiny.

WHAT?

Clark said that she stood on the stage and stepped forward with her right foot, leaned her shoulder down and kind of body-rolled herself back into place. DEE-YUP...into your Destiny.

AND, he said that she spelled it "DIPPE," and said that it was an acrostic. Each of the letters stood for a word or phrase that would support her point of DIPPE Into Your Destiny.

One slight problem: she never told them what the letters stood for.

Marty is a fan of making sense.

Because DIPPE (Into Your Destiny) sounds a whole lot to me like "DIPE" (Into Your Destiny), which not only sounds weird but WHAT DOES IT EVEN MEAN?

And it sounds a whole lot like "name-it-claim-it" and envisioning your future...without envisioning all of the WORK it's going to take to get there. And I'm all for dreaming and all of that, but this makes me think of what Victor Melling told Gracie Lou in Miss Congeniality, "wear the crown, be the crown, you ARE the crown."

The other thing she told them was THE FOUR WORDS.

She said there are FOUR WORDS to say whenever anyone says negative or critical things to you or attacks your character or self-esteem in any way.

You hold up your hand and say, "I DO NOT RECEIVE THAT."

Which, hello? Five words.

DIPPE into THAT.

"For God so loved the world, that He gave his only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16