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Today's
Meditation:
"If
you are willing to take the opportunities you are given and
utilize the abilities you have. . . ." In some
ways, I think that we could whittle down the search for a
happy, fulfilling life to these words. Life gives us a
great deal of opportunity, but are we willing to accept
it? Are we willing to use the abilities that we have
to make our lives brighter and happier? Or do we back
away from using them because we might then face the unknown
or the unexpected?
We
all make our own choices and take our own chances.
It's when we attach expectations of the outcomes that we
face disappointment, that we tend to stop taking the chances
that can make our lives brighter.
Life
isn't made up of long, extended periods of happiness and
bliss. Life is made up of moments, and we make the
choices with each moment concerning what we're going to do
with our lives. If we want many special moments, then
we must make special moments. If we want unforgettable
times, then we have to take advantage of our opportunities
and abilities and make the times unforgettable.
Life
promises us nothing. It's better that way, for if it
promised us bliss, then how would we ever learn what it
means to create the very special moments of our lives?
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Questions to ponder:
1. Do you choose to take advantage
of opportunities? What may hold you back from doing so?
2. Have special moments in your life
just come to you, or have they
been a result of effort (yours or someone else's)?
3. If life made guarantees to us,
would we learn to take action
to take advantage of opportunities and use our abilities? |
