This is the time when we, especially our kids expect
miracles! Santa is expected to
miraculously know what we want for Christmas and either bring these gifts to us
via the chimney at night into our homes or allow us to sit on his lap to
receive our expected gifts! It is also
the time when parents start convincing suspecting over-grown kids that Santa
actually exists and/or explaining to their over-observant, philosophical and
clever kids why they have been lied to all these years! Not a comforting place to be as a parent!
As grown-ups we continue to expect miracles but our
scientific and logical minds doubt the possibility and validity of such
happenings.
Yes, it’s the end of the year – again! A full week of festivity and love! While we
are relaxing and feasting, we also stop from time to time to reflect in the
past year. As grown-ups, it is time to reflect and
re-evaluate our choices and actions during the past year! Did any miracles occur?
I tend to do this at the end of every year – reflect and
re-evaluate my life choices! Is it
helping? I’m not so sure! I almost always beat myself up for not doing
better and usually end up blaming God, my higher self, the universe, whoever,
for not taking greater care of me; for not directing me towards the most
successful path and basically for leaving me to my own devices and allowing me
to make a fool of myself!
Yes, it is easier to blame the higher powers! Someone has to be blamed and who better to
take the blame than the Omni-Potent Being(s)!
They should know better and direct us accordingly. And if they really care, they should have
made an extra effort to give us a plan and come save us from all our
misfortunes and mistakes!
It is exactly this way of thinking that keeps me and you stuck
in one place or situation! The
expectation that a guideline would mysteriously fall into our laps as to where
and how we need to go to get our miracles in life! We are expecting a miracle but we are not bold
enough to go out and make the miracle happen.
We forget that we are the instruments that God uses to bring about the
miracle. We expect the higher forces to
take charge, get it all done and simply hand it over to us on a plate! We are too scared to take the initiative for
fear that it might all go wrong and we might discover that our expected miracle
was just that – an expectation in our imagination! And that we won’t be able to face the shame of
this discovery!
Yes, we are afraid to walk down the tunnel in case the light
does not come on at the end of the tunnel! We would like to have a glimpse of
this light before we actually start walking down the tunnel! But what if the tunnel is not a straight
tunnel? What if, it is a bendy tunnel
with lots of turns and corners? Should
that really stop us from walking down the tunnel? That kind of takes away the adventure and the
fun of walking down the tunnel doesn’t it?
Wouldn’t you like to feel the excitement that comes with discovering
something new; having a new experience?
It is basically such limiting thoughts that keep you and
myself stuck in our old ways and situations.
These fearful thoughts prevent us from going out to create the
situations that will provide us with the miracles we long for and expect from a
loving universe. So what if it doesn’t
happen the way we expected? We learn
from it and move on! Take a different
turn the next time or simply do it differently!
Most of all we would have learned a lot more about ourselves – our strengths
and weaknesses in times of anxiety and in the face of the unknown! We would of course get better at “walking in
the dark”!
God meets us at the level at which we are and blesses our
efforts to make ourselves better. Yes,
miracles do happen but they cannot happen if we stay put in one position. We need to go out, start the process and
expect that the touch of God, the midas touch, whatever you choose to call it,
will turn our process/efforts into a miracle and make it a big success!
As the year slowly draws to an end, I am chastising myself
for the times I talked myself into not taking action on an idea; the times I
convinced myself that my idea could not be successfully brought into fruition
and therefore never acted on the idea! Yet,
that doesn’t stop me from expecting a miracle though! The idea might just jump out of my head onto
a page, and subsequently into action and then before I know it, I shall be
running down the tunnel, albeit in the dark, into the bright light of success!
I wish you all a prosperous 2015! Make it prosperous by literally following
your dreams to a miraculous success!
Just take one step at a time and you will get there. Bear in mind that you can’t get there,
wherever there is, by standing still!
