Thursday, April 21, 2022
Everything in your past happened with such precision and divine timing. Even your so called failures had a way of working themselves out, getting you moving again, returning you to facing forward. As the path was carved, the uncertain times became certain. Grief turned into gratitude. Obstacles turned into new ways of thinking. Embarrassment turned into a healthy lesson in humility. All of it eventually worked itself out, putting you back on course.
The only course life can take is a forward-looking path. Life only faces forward, and it waits for you to look forward with it, not to fear or to regret. Your past is evidence that all of this is actually working, even if it seemed impossible at the time. Whatever happened, you dealt with it, you overcame it, you let it go, or you adapted, and then you returned to facing forward. Each setback eventually becomes an about face. Although challenge seems like a reverse course, forward is the only way life actually “goes.”
The path of reality will always make itself clear, so don’t panic, just trust that it is working. But don’t be pushy to see the next step. Don’t get desperate, and don’t let setbacks keep your mind trying to look backwards. No matter how hard you try, you cannot get reality to move backwards anyway. You cannot get it to slow down, nor to speed up, nor to reveal itself to you in its fullness. So let it pace itself out and unravel on its own. Then, let life gently move you in the right direction, the only direction that is possible – facing forward. Keep facing forward, and keep looking forward to the goodness that is to come. Challenge has no real power over you. Life’s direction is always forward, and that’s the only direction you’ve got, so jump onboard!