The Impossible Dream
Sara Phillips
??Inspirational Speaker and Author supporting people in using their faith to unleash God's miracles in their lives.
Every part of his body ached. He could barely breathe. Still, he pushed on.
When he reached the tape and broke it, the crowd went insane. The cheering and screaming was positively deafening.
He turned and looked at the clock realizing that he had done the impossible. Roger Bannister had just broken the 4-minute mile.
But how? How had he accomplished this amazing feat?
People had struggled for years to break this barrier, but it had remained intact.
Medical science had even proved that scientifically it could not be done. A group of doctors had studied the human body. The measured the length and density of bones, tendons, ligaments and muscles. The human body was simply not designed in a way that was physically able to run that fast.
Yet through the world's belief and the proof of medical science, Roger Bannister had done it anyway through the simplest and yet most complicated tool in the human arsenal. Belief.
You see, Roger simply believed he could and refused to stop until he accomplish his goals. It mattered not to him what others thought. He didn't care about the medical "proof." He simply knew that he could and would reach this goal, not matter what. And on May 6, 1954, he reached his goal to the shock and awe of the world.
This record stood only 46 days when an Australian shaved 1.5 seconds off his time. Within the next year, a total of 24 other people had also crossed the mile finish line in less than 4 minutes.
How was it that a barrier that had stood for so many years had been broken only to be eclipsed so quickly?
The answer is simple. Roger Bannister had changed the belief of those around him. He had, through his actions, changed the experience and the beliefs of the world.
The lesson we should all learn from this is that the ideas of others and the proof of the world doesn't matter. What matters is what our belief is. With belief anything is possible.
What do you need to believe in order to change your life into what you want it to become? Know that all things are possible and claim your victory.
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