I have begun to realize that life has it's own syncopation. Sometimes it moves in slow motion & other times at lightning speed. Intermittently. Sometimes it feels random but always has this hidden rhythm all it's own. Sometimes it is grinding and loud and painful. Other times it flits along like a flute trilling. The melody of life is amazing if we listen closely.
I am learning more and more to just go with what life puts in front of me. It is there for a reason. I used to try to grab hold of the thing and wrestling it into what I thought it should look like. Sometimes I would pull back because I thought things were moving too fast. Other times I would try to speed things along because I was certain I knew the correct timing best.
Fear and arrogance have a strangely close relationship in this process of trying to control life. Fear causes us to pull away from what clearly was put in our lives for a reason. Arrogance causes us to feel we are the all knowing eye that understands when things are appropriate, never realizing how in-appropriate we are being in the process. The older I get the more I realize how little I know. I also have learned to just simply trust what is happening. None of this is in my control. I trust the One who is.
What I can control is my intentional actions. When I see that a friend or opportunity has been placed in my life, I can seize the opportunity. I can run with it. The more I run with what life drops in my lap the more joy I have found in the journey. All these random opportunities to have fun, laugh at things, be a successful business woman, raise great kids and build a beautiful life just flow when I stop trying to contort life into my own origami. It is beautiful as it comes.
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