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Now there are, and you know this, there are a lot of things that are worth carrying forward in our lives from one season to the next one year to the next.

Good friends, good habits, and then there are some things that we should leave behind, things that are not worth carrying from one season to the next, from one year to the next.

So for the next few weeks, we're going to talk about one of those things because one of those things that all of us should get in the habit of leaving behind are excuses, excuses.

Excuses are like paper walls that from a distance they look like real obstacles from a distance they looked impenetrable from a distance they look like we really don't have any choice,

but to do what we're doing or not to do what we're not doing or to not try or to not try again.

In fact, from a distance an excuse looks like an actual reason. Now there's a reason I can't throw a 97 mile an hour fastball, right?

But there is no actual reason for me not to, well I'm not sure I know you well enough to finish that sentence, but there are some things that I need to do that, you know, I have reasons for,

but if you were to push a little bit you may discover that my reasons aren't really good reasons, they're really just excuses.

So excuses get passed off as reasons and excuses easily become in the real world because all of us have some because that we habitually hide behind when certain things come up, right?

I mean why don't you, well you know because why haven't you, well because, you know, why don't you just tell him? Why don't you just tell her because, because, because, because we've got,

because excuses pass themselves off as reasons and then in our real world vocabulary they become, because is right, there's a fine line we're going to talk about this for a few,

fine line between a reason and an excuse and one always disguises itself as the other. In fact, the way that we, you know, talk about or refer to excuses when we're talking about other people actually underscores this, what do we say when we think somebody's, you know, they're making up excuses, we just say, hey, you are making excuses.

Now, in other words, you don't have any real reasons, you're passing these office reasons, we hear because, because, because, because, because, but the truth is I see what's going on here, you are making excuses, that is, you are just making things up,

we say quit making excuses, you are fabricating things, you are inventing things again, and the implication is these aren't real, you think they're real, you're trying to pass them office rule, but I see what's going on here, right? Implication, you know, you're just making stuff up.

You've created in your mind a paper wall, and you're trying to convince me that it's actually a real wall, you've created in your mind a paper wall, and you're trying to pass it off as an actual obstacle.

What you're doing is you're dressing up an excuse, you're dressing up an excuse and an attempt to pass it off as a reason. And isn't it true? This is so easy to see in our children.

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