Do you ever have one of those super productive starts to the day? Everything's planned, packed and ready to go! It feels good to start a day like that.
Earlier this week I was excited to start my morning off well prepared (a rarity I must admit!). The night before I sat out my exercise clothes so that I could wake up, walk the dog, then go straight to the yoga class at the gym. Then I packed my work clothes so that I could do a quick change and get moving. Being a person who is not always conscientious of time, I even had certain times decided of when I needed to leave where to be on time.
When I woke up, I threw on said clothes, put my bag in the car, then went and got Wyatt for our walk.
A fourth of the way through the neighborhood, the only thing I could not control - the weather - put a glitch in my plans.
RAIN!!
Rain might sound like no big deal to you, but I was put out! This meant my clothes were soaked, and my hair would be a big messy frizz for work. I would be delayed for all my well made plans.... and I was cold. Bah hum bug!
As I was walking/dragging Wyatt around the neighborhood in a hurry, I walked past another "regular" walker in the mornings. This salt and pepper haired lady always has a smile on her face. To be honest, I was surprised to see her out in the rain, even with an umbrella. Still, her spirit seemed to be the usual peppy attitude I've become accustomed too.
Grinning widely to greet me, she offered her usual 'good morning'.
I dittoed, then said, "I don't think I would have come out if I knew it was going to rain!".
She smiled a smile that seemed to indicate that our wisdom levels were as different as our generations.
"Just run between the drops" she said with a wink as she walked by to complete her lap around the neighborhood.
Run between the drops......
Enter Liz's Imagination Land....
Suddenly all the drops were florescent colored, so they could be easily seen. I had super, matrix-like reflexes and I twisted and turned in inhuman like ways to avoid the drops. Each drop that grazed my skin was like a war wound on a video game. Attacking back I would super man jump in the air and flip in dramatic ways to not only put on show for all the bystanders who "awwed" at my powerful abilities, but to also fight against nature and show her who was boss.
Imagination land got old as the rain in real life began to pour down on my supposed to be dry head.
I deemed her advice of 'running between the drops' impossible for my mere human existence.
What's interesting, is that once I realized that such a thing was impossible, I began to loosen up. I relaxed into the rain, started to drag Wyatt less and took my time a little more. I was a little chilled, but not too bad. My hair would be frizzy, but who really cared? Being reactive to the weather is as silly as thinking someone could really run between drops of rain.
It's not possible to do a lot of things. It's not possible for everyone to like us, to never make a mistake, to be perfect or to always look and feel your best. Not possible to always win. Once we can define what is possible and what's not, then we can get on with living. Try not to be reactive to things that are thrown at you that you can not control. Rather, sat your mood at the beginning of each day and vow to not let that which is impossible for you to conquer have the power to change you.
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THE SEED
Our Choices
If you had a choice, right now, to choose to be with Christ Jesus in heaven would you choose to do so? Being human and having the power of choice, can we choose to ask God to grant us a wish? You see, there are three realms, earth, heaven, and hell. We live on the earth in the now, and we believe, as Christians, that at some point Christ will return to the earth and judge us in the final days. Between now and judgement day, death will end our stay on earth and God will judge our fate when that happens.
Christ said: "And all things whatever you ask for in prayer, believing, you shall receive." What if, we asked God to stop this game that is being played out on earth, and grant us the one wish of living with him in heaven right now. What if, we choose to not allow Satan any more control over our lives and our future and made the decision to ask God to end this game. What if we, as human beings, with the power of choice, made a conscious decision to choose Christ Jesus, right now, over the day to day challenges and temptations that Satan offers.
Say, if in 2015, we were able to gather 9 billion, or 8 billion or 5 billion people, Jews, Catholics, Baptists, Protestants, Jahovah Witnessers, Lutherians, Episcapalians, Muslims, Buddists, Hindu's, and every other worshiper, together to pray to God, asking him to bring us home. If we ask Jesus Christ to come, would he be with us??? If we asked him to bring us home to his kingdom in heaven, would we receive??? Do you want to stop playing this earthly game??? Our home is in heaven and not here on earth. Is that a challenge?? Can you see the vision???
Christ has said: "And I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." We can ask billions of people to take one moment in time to act as one, crying out to God, our heavenly Father, "Take us home." OH GOD, take us from the land of the Pharaohs!!! Take us from the hands of evil, bring us home to your kingdom!!! Can we ask strong enough?? Can we ask hard enough?? Can we ask loud enough??? Do you believe???
Christ said: "And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Amen, amen, I say to you, if you ask the Father anything in my name, he will give it to you. Hitherto you have not asked anything in my name. Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full." Do we want to be filled with eternal joy?? Why have we not asked???
Can you imagine how we can make this happen?? Can you understand the power that God has given us in order that we may choose our own destiny, right now. We don't have to wait until tomorrow, while Satan tricks and traps millions more souls into the fires of hell!!! The decision is ours. Can we choose?? Can we make this happen?? Can we start a holy movement around the world and set the date of our going home??? Or are our hearts hardened so much by this earthly realm that we can not conceive of the idea that God will grant our request???
Christ said: " I say to you further, that if two of you shall agree on earth about anything at all for which they ask, it shall be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together for my sake, there am I in the midst of them." Christ come into the mist of millions, of billions and grant our wish!!!
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