We are all going to need it. We are all going to need this. Endurance is the ability to continue to exert oneself over a long period of time or the ability to withstand hardship or adversity. Sometimes you won’t even see the thing coming.

Discipline looks like that trip to the gym where you pick up the weight and begin to make the same movement over and over again. You are strengthen the muscle and making yourself stronger.
Every morning, I get up and spend time with God. Some mornings it is regular speed, sometimes it is in a hurry. Yet the discipline of doing it teaches me the importance of that time and carving it out every day.

Purpose can create amazing results.
Hurston spent time exploring African American culture which resulted in a book that was published in 2018.
She wrote a book with the hopes of it being published during her lifetime, but it wasn’t. We are better off because she did the work regardless of what she thought would happen with it. We have a book that has a first person account of being kidnapped into slavery.

Hurston spent time exploring African American culture. There were probably great days when she found amazing things to write about.
There were times when it was boring and times when things didn’t work out. But she continued. Sometimes purpose evolves over time.
We have to expect moments of boredom and the desire for the thing has to keep us going.

We are all here for a purpose.
The specific tasks will change over your lifetime, but the goals and aims will remain. Hurston did many things, but she was faithful in telling the stories of our people. She wrote short stories and books. She danced and performed. She was able to express your purpose in many ways.

Zora Neale Hurston wrote about issues in the African American community during her lifetime. As a writer and ethnographer, she captured the African American experience during a time of racial division, but also a lot of growth in the community. Hurston worked within her purpose. She was a storyteller who told wonderful stories about the people she met and all that she experienced.
