The Light Within Me by Ainsley Earhardt

Author:Ainsley Earhardt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

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The Hardest Part

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

—PSALM 27:14

I DON’T LIKE to wait. That is not to say I am an impatient person. I don’t lose my cool if the line is extra long at the grocery store or if the barista takes longer than I expected to prepare my drink. Becoming upset over such trivial things doesn’t please God and it is a poor reflection on me. When it comes to my day-to-day life, I strive to show the fruit of the Spirit, which is patience.

But I still don’t like to wait.

Sure, I can wait for my coffee, but when it comes to my career and my goals, I hate it. From the day I transferred to the University of South Carolina, I had a plan for where I wanted to go in life and I wanted to get there as fast as I could. For ten remarkable years everything pretty much went according to that plan. I landed a great job right out of college in my hometown. Within two years I received a promotion and a nice-size raise. Not long after that the morning show I co-anchored hit number one in the ratings and stayed there. Five years after graduating from college I landed my second anchor position in a bigger market for more pay. Two years into a three-year contract in that job, I made the jump to a national news network; only, the move to Fox News was not the end of my journey, more like the end of the beginning. My goal was to keep moving up the ladder and land an anchor position on one of the network’s main shows. After that, only God knew what He had in store for me.

As I write all this it strikes me how overconfident I must sound. Believe me when I say that is not my intent. In my adult years, my goal was never to become famous or make a name for myself. I believe God gave me the abilities and the calling to be a television host, but all I wanted was to be was in His will. This job is His plan for my life. With that said, I did want to go as far as I could in my profession. I wanted to push myself, always work to improve myself, and become the very best I could be. I also believed that if I did that, the sky was the limit. I think this should be everyone’s personal goal. God is not honored if we shrink back and fail to make the most of every gift He has given us. Making the most of His gifts must not blind us to all He wants to do through the journey.

Along the way I tried to always remind myself to soak up every experience, to be a good person and let His light shine as bright as possible. I also tried to do the one thing I now tell everyone just entering the business: Enjoy the ride.

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