Refusal

I have had prayers answered--most strangely so sometimes--but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

 

      -- Lewis Carroll

 

 

I can relate to this.

I guess it’s all part of life.

Actually, I believe that is life.

When I look back and reflect on what relationships I’ve at some point brooded over,

I breathe a sigh of relief and say “I’m glad it ended when it did”

Sometimes we whine over things we wish we had

We envy others at times

But look at the present and look at all those “lost opportunities”

Aren’t you glad that you didn’t go for that function?

Aren’t you glad you didn’t go for that lunch date?

Aren’t you relieved you arrived late for that event?

Aren’t you glad someone else went in your place?

Aren’t you happy you didn’t change jobs that time?

The events that God shielded us from loss are many if we just look and accept that it was His hand that stopped you at the right time to avoid the disaster that happened.

I thank God for all my unanswered prayers

They’re not all refusals

Many are ‘not yet”.

Do as I say

You know it’s difficult at times to truly live according to one self’s maxims on life

Sometimes it’s not by choice but it does happen

We tend to expect others to be better than us

Now that’s a noble idea

But in the yes of others, do you know hat it simply says?

You live by do as I say and not as I do

That’s just how life is sometimes

When we look at someone else’s life it’s easy to be the judge and arbiter

But when we rate ourselves we go easy and justify most of our actions

Just reflect and you’ll see that at times you are just like most of us

Today I really wanted to start reading the book ‘The Art of War’

Why?

Somehow I’d just decided that it’s game on!

Someone got on my nerves recently and I’d decide to fight back

Then on closer introspection and cross examining my intentions

I stopped dead in my tracks

Am I not number one person to cry “forgive!”, “do unto others as you would want them to do unto you”

Then what was I about to do?

I’d have been the bigger fool actually

I’m glad I now take inventory before I do anything

Tomorrow

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Time

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

-- Thomas Mann