My blog title says it all.  Yes, this is not a movie review.  I just watched the movie Star Trek Into Darkness but I’m not going to do a movie review.  I just wanted to take note of what Captain James Kirk of USS Enterprise said when he was faced with the dilemma of saving his crew, which he considers family.  He said and I quote, “I have no idea what I’m supposed to do, I only know what I can do.”

I took note of his lines.  Star Trek Into Darkness starred by Chris Pines is not even an inspirational movie in my book.  But surprisingly, I got carried away by this action packed movie.  Tears almost rolled down my eyes when Spock shed a tear for the first time, when his friend was dying from radiation.

“I have no idea what I’m supposed to do, I only know what I can do.” Very simple lines and yet so moving. I don’t know if these lines were supposed to move the movie goers but I love it.  I want to adapt this line and turn it into one of my words to live by.  Often times, we really don’t know what we’re supposed to do.

With all the confusing standards, we have no idea what to do next:

–          What are we supposed to do to raise Godly kids?

–          What are we supposed to do to secure our family’s future

–          What are we supposed to say when someone is hurting so bad?

I don’t know the answers to these questions, “but I know what I can do.”

Isn’t it a beautiful phrase?  “I don’t know what I’m supposed to do, but I know what I can do.”

We are so caught up with the “what we are supposed to do,” when sometimes, all it matters is “what we can do” at the moment.

I write not to inspire, but I’m happy that some people find inspiration in my transparency.  I home school my kids not to protect them, I only know that it’s the best thing a hands on mother can do to give the best education – at home.  I blog not to instruct, I’m in no position to do so. I do what I do, because it is the only thing I know that I can do to share a part of myself here in my blog called the Sanctuary.