We all talk about our goals and all of the amazing things that we plan to accomplish in life. Sometimes in all of our planning for these goals we forget to plan for what happens when they don’t show up in the package that we expected them to be in. If the key to all of your hopes and dreams showed up at your doorstep tomorrow, but they weren’t wrapped in the paper that you were expecting, would you recognize them? If you did, would you say yes or let them go because they didn’t look the way you wanted them to?
I’m sure you’ve all heard the joke about they guy on the roof in the flood who prays to God to rescue him. A man in a row boat came by and asked if he needed help. He said “No, God will save me.” As the flood waters kept rising, a man in a motor boat came by and asked if he needed help. Again he said “No, God will save me”. A little while later flood waters rising higher, a helicopter comes by and the pilot drops a rope and asks the man to climb aboard. Again he replies “No, I have faith in God, and he will save me”. Flood waters kept rising and the man drowned. When he got to heaven, he said “Lord I don’t understand, I had total faith in you to save me and you let me drown. Where did I go wrong”? God said, “I sent two boats and a helicopter, what more do you want from me”?
I have had things in my life popping up lately that more resemble the two boats and the helicopter than they resemble the hand of God reaching down and blessing my life. Yet hidden behind these opportunities in disguise are the keys to everything that I have ever wanted. When you plant a seed, sometimes it takes awhile to reap the harvest from the seed that you have sown. These are things coming up that are seeds I planted a long time ago. In fact some of them so long ago that I didn’t even think I wanted the harvest anymore.
I am today very excited to embark on a journey that I never thought I would take. I’m excited because I have been working on putting together a list of the top 101 goals that I want to accomplish and this new journey will be what brings most of them into my world. I was urged recently to pay attention when an opportunity comes up, even if it seems like something I don’t want to stand back and look at the big picture. Would it help me get what I want? What’s the worst that could happen if I do it? What’s the best possible outcome if everything goes well? Standing back and looking at the big picture before we make a decision is something that helps us become conscious creators of our own universe. Saying yes when opportunities arise that could bless our lives in many unexpected ways, when it’s not the opportunity we were looking for, is a gift. So if God sent a rowboat would you say yes?
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