Flexibility keeps you from breaking? Some people have no problem prioritizing and setting their affairs in order.
If anything, they’re too good at putting thing, in order. They must live in such a way that everything is in it’s place and nothing is out of place.
We all experience moments when everything is perfectly ordered, but life is just not like that all the time. Things change. Life changes. You change.
Your life cannot remain static. You are a living, breathing organism. And in order to get where God wants you to be, you can’t stay where you are.
Order is essential, but life is full of changes. Sometimes life does not always fit a certain order. People come and go in your life.
One minute you have a job and the next minute you’ve been laid off. One day everybody is doing fine and the next day someone in the family is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Life is full of change. A man can be on a great career path – great salary, regular raises, promotions, and recognitions. He can be a rising star until something happens.
The company folds or downsizes. A new CEO comes in and there’s a personality clash. It’s change, and you have to adapt.
People respond differently to challenging times. It’s always a jolt when life sends us a tumble-and-fall moment. But what do you do when you get knocked down?
A person whose priorities are set doesn’t let one knockdown keep her from Destiny. Instead, she dusts herself off and gets back on the journey, ever observant for subtle changes and signs that indicate Destiny may be found in a totally different direction.
Maya Angelou often talked about her grandmother, like I often talk about mine. She told how she admired her grandmother for carving a new path for her life when the road she was on got cut short.
Annie Henderson’s marriage failed in a time when people simply didn’t divorce. She had two young children, one physically disabled, and she needed to earn a living.
Annie wasn’t educated but could read well enough and had a decent ability with numbers. Getting a job at one of the local mills was out of the question.
She adapted herself to the prejudices with which a Negro woman in her day had to contend, and she found a way for herself and her family.
She began selling fresh hot meat pies to the men working at the mills. She set up outside the mill and began frying as soon as the noon bell rang.
Over the years she built a loyal following and erected a stall nearby to sell her pies. In the years to come, her little stall evolved into a general store, where she traded with black and white customers alike.
Maya recalled that from her grandmother she learned that when life sends us down an ominous road, we must look around and, without embarrassment, pick a new one.
It’s difficult to continue moving in faith toward Destiny when life doesn’t go the way you’d planned.
One of the hardest ‘things for people to do is to trust and believe God when in transition. You lose a loved one.
The marriage you thought would last forever dies. It’s devastating when you lose your job or lose a loved one or experience betrayal by someone you considered a good friend.
After the initial shock of loss, a typical human response after disruptive experience is to restore a sense of order. We quickly try to restore or replace what was lost.
An unemployed person takes the first job offered, whether or not it’s a career fit A owed person quickly remarries.
Yet there are times when emptiness is needed so that can be allowed to fill the void. God cannot fill a vessel that is already full.
God uses empty vessels. Trust God to fill the void created when things don’t go as you planned. Human being can find all kinds of ways to fill the void of loss, and many of them are not good.
Substance abuse, compulsive shopping, compulsive spending, excessive eating, sexual promiscuity, and reckless choices are just a few of the unhealthy ways we can attempt to fill a void.
God can use disorder to create a new order in your life. Sometimes disruptions actually serve to order our chaotic circumstances and take us to a new place.
Like the mother eagle that stirs her nest to bring discomfort to her brood, God sometimes stirs up our lives.
The shifts and setbacks you experience are not necessarily the work of your opposers. Sometimes a set-back is a divine setup.
Chaos on the outside actually may be God clearing out conditions, situations, or people that are in the way of your path to Destiny.
But it’s hard to ride the wave when it seems like a life storm will overtake you. It’s hard to trust that God is in control of your circumstances even during tumultuous times.
It’s easy to see what God was doing in your life once you get to the place God intended. The difficulty lies in seeing by faith what God is doing when you’re on your way there.
When you arrive at the place where God intended for you to be, you can say, “Okay, I see what was going on now.”
Nobody likes hard times, but it’s the unpleasant experiences that are often the catalysts to build the character required for our destiny.
Let go of your desire to control what you cannot know, change, or control. Let go of the past. Let go of your fear. Let go of your pain.
The systems that worked for you in the past will not work for you in the place where God is leading you.
When you learn not to define yourself by where you were, you learn not to call the transitions in your life change. Instead, they’re called normal, and you are a full participant in the movements of your life.
Your normal should be constantly calibrating yourself and letting go of who you were to embrace who you are becoming.
Determine that you will remain open to where you are being led and are willing to take responsibility for the transitions that lead you to Destiny.
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