Unexpected

You never know when life will throw you a curve ball or surprise you from around a corner. In a life full of deadlines, due dates and goals a surprise now and then is often fun. Welcomed even. However, in those occasional instances when you are sucker punched in the mouth what do you do? Cry? Sometimes! Get angry? Sure! Fall back and take the hit? You shouldn't but for a moment it may be all you can do. I have come to realize that in the middle of my pain if I take a stand, it becomes bearable. If I pray and move forward I heal. If I look, not to my problem, but to God, wisdom is given to me. I learn what to do, how to do it. I breathe, I live, I survive. I am refusing to push against what God has allowed to get something out of me for either myself or for someone else. If you flow with your trial, allowing God to shine through you and stand up in you during it, you will come out on the other side better, stronger, wiser. Happier. Who says what God has for you is easy? Who says that what God said for you to do is gone because of a thorn in your side? Perhaps when you get there, He needs you to be broken in an area, or grown in an area. So, your journey to that place, is not easy, but purposeful. When you get there your ground will be fresh and ready to receive, ready for planting, or perhaps even pruning. Every person examines themselves, as they should (1 Corinthians 11:28). Every person should see not only their own worth but the areas that need to be pruned or broken. It's the growth process. The maturity process.