We all have difficulties in life. They are opportunities to enrich, enhance, and to strengthen us, not moments to defeat us. See consequences of our choices can bring about great deeds which transcends time, space, and linger to touch soul in future generations. Because despite our environment, it is our choice to see the pass the finality disposition, outlook to understand ‘this too shall pass’, or to get in stuck in the disposition of doom and gloom that defeat us. It does not mean you deny the reality of the situation, or the environment you are in, but you choose to see beyond to the bigger and the better in the not too distant shores. For the greatest tragedy of life is not that we do not accomplish, but that we almost. We come to the door of a breakthrough, and yet we do not go through but turn around, failing to see the dream, vision realized in our life. So, the sooner we understand life is a journey with many small events that teach, keep, and bestow wisdom on the diligent soul who seeks the interwoven truth found from man’s experience but beyond man understanding, and only found in God’s truth, the sooner we shall see and have peace. However, this is not an easy task to accomplish. One must be willing to see beyond your own experience, look outside one’s frame of reference, and understand refusing to compromise is become the branch that cannot bend, is broken and burned. For life is not lived in the moments of I am great, I am better, I am the smarter but in the moments of humility and grace because it takes more strength to be humble and give grace, than it does to do the others. On any given day you can be best, but no one can take away your gift of grace, your presentation of humility, or your willing to see beyond self. Yet, it takes one who does let the difficulties of life dictate one growth, but use them as stepping stones to improvement.
I started this journey myself, and it started with weight but it beginning to be so much more. As my body is finding areas of inflexibility, I finding this too exist in me. But like the body, I yield and seek how to make it flexible, and more I work on me, it irritate the H@#%! out of me when others fail to do the same because of the inability to see their inflexibility. I am learning too quickly, slow, easy, determine, grace, faith, and a transformative mindset rewards us will peace...So, I remember this verse below as I continue my weight lost journey, and I hope you too see where you are inflexible, and begin to change; I have...
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”- Eph. 3:20-21 (NIV)
