Sometimes we're gonna miss it!!!!!

It is the belief of many that living in the moment helps us to latch on to every opportunity that comes our way. When our minds are focused on where we are and the space we are living in at that particular time in our lives, then we are prepared for them. Living in the now is the recipe for preparedness. At any given time anything can happen and we ought to be open for them. It's just like being in the right place at the right time. There is nothing better than being in the right place at the right time. Anyone who've had that experience can attest to this. Being in the right place at the right time is like life issuing us a blank check. All we have to do is fill in the particulars. Some opportunities are specific while others are openings or spring boards that lead to other things far greater than we could imagine.

Missing out on opportunities can really evoke a series of emotions especially when we think how things could have been. It causes us to make a paradigm shift in out thinking that lodges in our psyche for a long time. It trains us somewhat like Pavlov's dog to stay stuck in a place in our emotions that reeks of regrets and even despondency. Although sometimes it may not take us to that extreme but we may tend to be tentative after that missed opportunity. It takes a special grace to look back at a missed opportunity and admit, "okay, I blew it!" This is so much better than saying, "so what I blew it!" When we choose the former response it behooves us to look at life with a different set of eyes; the eyes of experience. Experience teaches us what to recognize in the moment. With this type of mindset we have proven that we take ownership of our actions humbly and maybe we can be trusted again with another golden opportunity.

The other response shows a bit of presumption that warrants us little. At the end of the day life owes us nothing if we can't take responsibility for our own actions when we miss it. How then can we be trusted with another? It doesn't matter what the opportunity is. Some people cop out by saying it wasn't meant to be. But the old adage, "life is what you make it," holds true. Opportunities that come our way are conditional based on how we are aligned internally and externally- spiritually and naturally. This alignment comes from where we're living and how we are living inside our selves. The spiritual always manifest itself in the natural and that is the alignment that shows up in how we live. Take the prime example of a person when their life's partner presented themselves, they missed that opportunity because they were living from a superficial place. Who they were inside showed up in their choice or lack of choice.

Opportunities have a way of showing up when we are ready and also to test us. The only person in charge of how we respond is us. The only person who also knows at what stage we are too is us. So that missed opportunity can be the stepping stone that prepares us for the other opportunity when it presents itself, trusting we are good and ready to seize the moment.
Sisterly

There is Always the Big Picture!!!!

What does this term mean, pray tell? "The entire perspective on a situation or issue," is how Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the term. In other words if we can personally relate the term to various and different situations in our lives, then it means that whenever something happens or situations occur we may try to deduce its meaning just based on what we can see. But we have to take into consideration the holistic approach which again is "the importance of the whole rather than all its parts." Now this is usually not the easiest thing to do when we find ourselves in situations, especially when we are going through them and they are not exactly that enjoyable.

How can we see a big picture when it seems like everything is going in another direction than expected or even worst, when all hell just seems to break lose one event after another. Consider Joseph in the bible when his brothers sold him out to become a slave, just because he had the gift of dreaming and interpreting them. The huge mistake he made was to share his dream with his brothers who committed this atrocious act against him. Then to top it off lied to their father about it that his favorite son had died. Now Joseph's sojourn was bittersweet. He found himself a stranger in foreign land as a teenager, no family support but the only thing he had going for him was the favor of God on his life. But even with God favoring him, he still had to face seduction, lies, even prison which led to more disappointment and rejection. It just seems like a progression for him from bad to worst. However as the saying goes, "trouble don't last always." He was able to go through those experiences, not exactly clicking his heels but still hopeful for any lifeline that would come his way. One of those lifeline did turn his back on him after he helped him to gain his freedom. Joseph was unaware of his big picture until it was revealed to him when the gift that God gave him (the same one that landed him in the pit of his life) made way for him to see the big picture.

The very gift that became the creation of his life of hell in Egypt at the hands of his brothers because he was able to dream his big picture and actually believed it, in the end open up his eyes to the "entire perspective" of his own situation. As the story goes in Genesis when he interpreted the dream of the famine for Pharaoh, Pharaoh then made him second in command in Egypt. Those very brothers although they tried to stop the fulfillment of a dream he shared with them, still couldn't change his big picture by their jealous actions. All that the brothers did to Joseph was a part of the big picture God had painted for Joseph; this he shared with them at their reunion when he said what they meant for evil, God had meant for his good.

So how can we fall in line and allow the big picture of our lives to become our focus, and less of the small stuff. Here's a clue that I was divinely enlightened with: there is a connection with the gift and the big picture. When the gift begins to become a problem for haters or when situations begin to spin out of our control, then the same gift will become the catalyst to create or pave the way for the big picture to be revealed. So if we don't know the big picture, follow the trial and the trace the trail, watch the pattern, the brewing of the drama that is leading up to the hell. It is all orchestrated to lead to the big picture.

There is a big picture for all of us whether we believe it or not. So don't sweat the small stuff. Our purpose is the big picture, sometimes it is the picture within a picture, our destiny/calling. That is the ultimate picture. After all we are all created for purpose. However this is not an end all be all. Purpose is a constantly revolving process that changes us from one level to the next until we hit that plateau but never our zenith. If we hit the zenith of purpose then there is nothing else left for us to do and life will become meaningless. May as well 'we lay our burdens down by the river side and study war no more." In other words get ready to stop living. So we should live with a sense of awareness, that the situations in life doesn't always come the way we want them. They manifest themselves in all manners of ways but one thing is certain and that is as long as we are alive we have use. Our experiences will point us in the direction that we ought to take because the big picture is already painted by the Almighty. So we walk in the way as a willing participant. It is not too late to get it together because the big picture awaits.
Sisterly