Ready to Give Up

She was a hard teacher.

Yet she was my favorite professor in college.

She and her husband, who oddly enough taught me in graduate school, took me under their proverbial wing at a significant time.  Some would they became surrogate grandparent figures.

 “Keep on keeping on,” she’d say, leaving me nodding and smiling.  And wondering what she was talking about.

I think I’m beginning to understand.

“Not that I have arrived already, but I keep moving forward,” is how St. Paul put the same kind of advice in Philippians 3:12.

When I get discouraged and ready to give up, I hear that dedicated college instructor’s four words: “Keep on keeping on.”

Time to take deep breath and keep moving forward.