Life is a mortal journey we all must take to receive the majesty of an eternal existence with God. Often we get consumed in the hum drum of life’s daily tasks, seeking for titles that seem not to last. Graduate from college, president of a sorority, teacher of university students, first responder to an emergency. Our hearts seem to rip out of our body’s when our goals of getting into a particular college, or getting a certain job, or even marrying a specific person are not reached. We cry to our Father in Heaven and often times disbelieve His knowledge of our trials and hardships. This was the very case in which I found myself a few months earlier. In the darkness of my misery I was blessed with family and friends who helped me to ask myself a couple of deep seeded questions: Who am I really? If all that I have strived to become is taken from me what do I have left? Why is change important?
In the days, weeks, and months that have followed I have been able to answer these questions. Heavenly Father has been the means by which I have achieved all the goals I’ve set in my life previous to now. As I’ve sought the confirmation of the Spirit in knowing my decisions were in accordance with His plan for me, I’ve been blessed immensely. Every step of my college career has had twists and turns, some anticipated, and some completely took me off guard. No matter the reason behind the twist or turn I have known it was for my good. The doubt came when MY idea of who I’d become because of college and where that was going to lead me, did not match what the Lord was allowing to happen in my life.
What I slowly began to realize was that sometimes God allows us to be on a path merely so that we can cross over onto another path…not so that we continue to take the same path the remainder of our lives.
If we truly believe that God is the creator of our lives, and has a hand in that life, then we must allow Him to bring change into our lives.
I have a friend, Sherrie, who just recently had a major surgery and could have lost her life. She says, “God sent me here to earth for a purpose. To discover that purpose I need to ask myself, “What am I here to give?” and then give it. When I do that I tap into the spiritual and open myself to all kinds of possibility and happiness. If I get caught up in “What am I here to get?” I trap myself in the confining boundaries of the ego, and I wander in unhappiness.” She goes on to say, “But again there was a great lesson in this (her illness) for me. As things are unfolding, I’m beginning to realize that this is part of God’s plan for me. Too often we are so worried about change that we forget that change is the only realm in which possibility exists. If there is no uncertainty in your life or if everything we do is known and predictable, there is no growth. Life becomes stagnant. And yet change frightens so many of us. We cling to the known with a tenacious grasp and only seem to enter the unknown kicking and screaming.
The reason is that it is difficult taking that step into the unknown. But by detaching myself from the routine of my predictable world, I find myself in a new world of possibility. It is like doors have been opened to admit me to new vistas. Although the next room seems dark and strange, there is a peace there. I’m finding that with every step I take, a new little light appears—a light of new possibility and that is exciting.”
Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Kahil Gibran
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