Make Your Day Count

CPS:  Well, what made you go back when you would lose and you would lose, see, because there’s a lot of people, and like I’ve said earlier, it’s not–

LR:  You didn’t always win either.

CPS:  No, I lost, year after year after year.  I don’t even tell–one time I entered a pageant.  Usually I tell because I was the first runnerup, then I was second runnerup, then third runnerup, and then, I mean, I was going the wrong way but I was at least in the top five. But one pageant in there I entered that I didn’t even make the top 40 and I don’t even tell that one. It’s too embarrassing even to me. But what kept you going back?

RC:  Learning.  I would learn more about the pageant and learn things to do that were different, but it was–

CPS:  But did you learn about Rhonda?

RC:  Yes, it was a desire inside and how to overcome the other things that would get in my way, like when I first entered the Miss Illinois, allowing Satan to have control of me instead of the Lord.  And just the desire to try again and try one more time.

CPS:  Well, honestly, what taught you more, the years that you lost or the year that you won?

RC:  The years that I lost.  It’s the times when they were down that taught them the most. I really believe that.

CPS:  And that’s hard because we don’t want to hear that, but that’s really the truth.

LR:  Exactly right.

RC:  Sometimes the Lord allows us to get down so low so that we can finally look up.  I was talking to a gentleman on a plane and we were talking and he said, “Well, I pray when I’m down, but it seems like when everything starts going good, I forget to pray.” And he was asking me about that.  I said, “That just takes spiritual growth to learn that when things are going good to praise Him for it and to keep the vibrance and the life in you glowing and to keep working on that.”

CPS:  And that doesn’t mean that the Lord wants us to lose.  It means that when we are losing, He wants us to learn.

 LR:  See, I believe that.  I believe that we need to be content in the situation where we’re at.  Not the fact that we need to stay in it–

CPS:  But that while we’re there–