LIfe Gets in the Way

It is never too late

to become the person

you might have been.

George Elliot

We can have the most excellent plan, everything nailed down

to the last task of the to do list, when life saunters in changing everything.  We can have created the most beautiful dream job or built a dream come true home, when life manages to interrupt wisking dreams away.  Life gets in the way.

At the thundersous moment when life shakes our world as we have known it, we may feel crushed and unwilling to pick up the pieces to begin once again.  In time, however, we all seem to brush our selves off and begin life's journey best that we can.

We are like the boulder by the ocean.  Lessons of life wash over us continuously smoothing our edges and minutely changing our form.  Lesson by lesson we become washed and cleansed by the on going waves of life.

If passion remains to accomplish your heart's desire, find a way to bring it into reality.  Even though life gets in the way, it doesn't mean that desire needs to be squashed.  Life might be saying the time is not right, or the approach is all wrong or more information is needed. 

Life intends to create change or a different outcome.  When our hopes are dashed, it doesn't necessarily mean forever.  As time passses, when we carefully examine what went awry, we will intuit on our own, that the result we had planned would never have materialized for a now obvious reason.  A reason we might not have ever seen at the past moment of unraveling.

Life gets in the way as the natural course of living.  We are not being punished or judged, we are simply being groomed through the lessons presented.  Life is not trying to beat us down, but rather present multiple ways for us to experience the necessary lessons which with resilience, we become the person we had wanted to become.  It is never too late!



Wandering Down The Path Of Life ...

If we did all things

we are capable of,

we would literally

astound ourselves.

Thomas A. Edison

We have free will and so we may wander from a Divine plan, making wrong turns and false assumptions.  Eventually, life leads us back to where we belong.  We retrieve knowledge as we cycle in and out of lessons in life and hopefully try to apply what we know.

The course in life is best traveled if we have some idea of where we are wanting to go.  It is necessary to identify our dreams and desires before we set off traveling into parts unknown.  To keep balance, we also need to keep an open mind and be willing to alter our route.

As we travel, having a mentor can be pivotal and frequently the most authentic voice to listen to is the one deep inside.  By remaining connected to the Divine, life blends together in a more synchronized way.  

Sometimes the road we follow does not lead us where we thought we were going.  Did we miss a turn or take a detour?  To be aware of our attitude and actions while navigating can be the best compass we will ever need.  Consequences frequently are set into motion by our own careless actions.

We need to be well grounded in our life, to have a certain sense

of who we are and who we will serve.  If we are well balanced, connected, and grounded, we can wander anywhere and be delightfully inspired by the presentations before us. 

Honor The Change ...

A man never stands as tall

as when he kneels

to help a child.

Knights of Pythagoras

Watching little children, determination and resilience are very prevalent.  They toddle a few steps before they fall down, or they swiftly run until they tumble and fall. Each time they push themselves up and begin again. 

We, as adults, do not seem to bounce back up quite as quickly as children. Our falls can be more intensively challenging.  We get knocked down.  We get up.  We get knocked down again, but we some how find the strength to stand once again.

Children frequently accept the extended hand of an adult to guide and help them carry on, but sometimes refuse it all together responding with, "Me do it!"  Their sense of ego can be huge and strong willed.

In adulthood, we are sometimes too embarrassed to accept a helping hand.  Our ego may prohibit us from seeing the benefits of falling and starting again.  We may have a tendency to hide our 'falls from grace' from those we love and from those who oppose us.

It is during these many falls while we move up and down that our character is formed.  We learn through the many lessons that create a strength to keep moving on. 

The importance, perhaps, is not to focus on the fall or on the climb out of the ashes, but to be mindful of how the experience changed you.  Honor and celebrate that change!