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because we did not retreat towards
the shore of safety quickly enough,
we immediately lose the respect for
the beauty of that same ebb and
flow as it pertains to our lives when
we purposely allow those same
waters to freely splash over our
bare feet?
It is my opinion, at least within my
own experiences; that we see
whatever it is we choose to see, we
feel whatever it is we choose to feel,
and we experience whatever it is we
choose to experience.
I have been an avid believer for
quite some time now, that there
truly are no mistakes within our
journeys, only miracles in the
making. It was not until I was nearly
50 years old that this mindset began
to take hold, and once it did…, my
purpose became clearer with each
passing test. Notice that I stated
passing tests, meaning those tests
that I actually passed…, those
moments when simple
‘experiences’ became learning
experiences.
For many years I was missing the
purpose which was the learning
found deep within that gooey-chewy
center of every experience I had
ever been made to live. I chose to
believe for the first forty odd years
of my life, that any and everything
that was different than what I saw
as “normal” was some curse or
punishment for something I must
have done to offend the Universe.
Granted, much of this defeatist
mindset was created within my
childhood parameters of belief due
to no fault of my own. Afterall, I did
not choose to be given away by my
birth mother after a few days of life,
I did not choose for my adoptive
mother to suddenly die while I was
still just a young boy, I also did
not choose to spend the majority of
my remaining childhood years
bouncing between 20 other homes,
but nonetheless…it happened.
The turning of the tide in life begins
the moment we begin to not only
choose, but to embrace that truth
which makes the choosing much
more simplistic; the truth that all
things work together for our overall
good in the end. Once I began to
understand that it was my choice to
continue living or not within my
world of yesterdays, it was then and
only then that I began to muster the
courage to glance in the opposite
direction…towards my tomorrows.
So many dreams and opportunities
are lost simply because we write
our future hopes and goals on an