{"id":13628,"date":"2022-11-13T03:04:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T08:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=13628"},"modified":"2022-11-13T03:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T08:04:20","slug":"dont-give-up-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/dont-give-up-the-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Give Up The Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You need to give yourself more credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#x203c;&#xfe0f;Yes YOU.&#x203c;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of you, today, are doubting what you&#8217;ve done to fight this fight.<br>Some of you, today, are wishing you&#8217;d stepped up sooner. Pushed back harder. Fought more battles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m telling you, you need to give yourself more credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You didn&#8217;t get the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You stopped wearing the masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You told your friends and family what you REALLY think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You tried to help them see things too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might&#8217;ve lost friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of you lost spouses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of you haven&#8217;t spoken to your children in far too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of you haven&#8217;t spoken to your siblings or parents in far too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not because you chose to, but because they left you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They thought you&#8217;d lost your mind. That you supported a &#8220;racist&#8221;. That you peddled conspiracy theories. That you were endangering their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ve been kicked off platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of you have lost your jobs or been pushed so hard you had to find new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of you have been fined, harassed and even assaulted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet you&#8217;re STILL here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re still here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re fighting for the truth. Your searching for the truth. You don&#8217;t care how ugly it is. No subject is off limits for you. All you want to do is know what&#8217;s true and to be left TF alone to live in your God given freedoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You pray. Not just for yourself, but for your enemies too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your heart cries out in pain because you FEEL. You still feel and you see the world suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give yourself credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may not have gone to a protest. You may not have called a congressman. You may not have gone to a school board meeting. You may not have sent money to someone in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you ARE still here. And you need to know that you matter, and you are still making a difference. Give yourself credit for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just don&#8217;t go back to sleep. Don&#8217;t tune everything out. Don&#8217;t get the jab. Don&#8217;t wear the masks. Stand your ground in the ways you&#8217;ve ALREADY done. You&#8217;ve PROVEN you can do it. Keep doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know you&#8217;re on the side of truth and guess what? That&#8217;s God&#8217;s side. God made it clear that we must always seek what is true. Do you doubt the truth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So don&#8217;t doubt yourself either. You&#8217;ve got this. We&#8217;ve got this. But most of all, GOD&#8217;S got this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t give up now. Keep your head up warrior. You&#8217;ve done more than you give yourself credit for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to give yourself more credit. &#x203c;&#xfe0f;Yes YOU.&#x203c;&#xfe0f; Some of you, today, are doubting what you&#8217;ve done to fight this fight.Some of you, today, are wishing you&#8217;d stepped up sooner. Pushed back harder. Fought more battles. I&#8217;m telling you, you need to give yourself more credit. You&#8217;re here. You didn&#8217;t get the vaccine. 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