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It’s popular to encourage one another–yet a lie sneaks in when we tell people things will get better without their involvement.
Thus the populie, “It’ll all work out”–it, in this case, normally referring to God, country or destiny.
Religion loves “Happy Heaven travelers.”
Politics adores happy voters.
And the movies certainly favor happy endings.
What’s wrong with that? Is it bad to believe in a positive outcome instead of dwelling on the negative gloom and doom that threatens the horizon?
No. It’s just an issue of how we get there.
If we get there through deception, then we’re not only going to be disappointed, but defeated and ill-suited to take on tomorrow’s adventures.
I do believe in the power of faith and the notion that things can work out. It’s just that I honor a three-step process–because God, my country and certainly a destiny which is failed to be written in the stars can’t guarantee me anything without me showing up prepared.
For things to work out:
1. Nothing happens without a person or people.
I have found that my prayers are much more effective when they’re linked with both supplication and the intelligence of others joining me. I have discovered we have a better country when we include everyone and take others into consideration instead of bullying them because they’ve fallen out of favor. And my destiny is achieved based on how well I handled today, without worrying about tomorrow.
2. We need to get started in order to receive inspired ideas.
Even though we like to believe that every vacation should be paid for up front, each project should be endorsed and funded and our relationships guaranteed for a lifetime, deep in our hearts we know that’s not human.
Inspiration is given to those who are inspired to do something now. The minute we take it to a committee, we’ve already decided not to do it. If you don’t believe me, just look at Washington, D.C.
3. Endurance is knowing when to change and when to continue.
I run across people who think they’re doing a good thing, while they repeat the same mistakes, mistakes dashing their hopes.
And I run across individuals–including myself sometimes–who pull up one block short of completing the trip.
Endurance is what is necessary to save us from calamity, but it is acquired by being inspired with ideas on the move and finding out whether those notions are encouraging us to evolve, or press on with the same path.
- God is not a solo act. He travels, unites and bonds with human beings to perform His will.
- Our country is “we, the people” instead of “we, the whim.”
- And since there is no tomorrow until we create it out of free will, destiny is a modern-day Mother Goose created to comfort folks who have decided to give up.
Watch out for this populie. It’s sneaky.
Sometimes you might feel like the ogre under the bridge, scaring off all the little children by being realistic. Yet we have to speak the truth with love.
Great things demand a person or people, inspiring ideas freshened by effort, and knowing the difference between keeping on and changing course.
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