dailydatewithgod

So much emphasis in this world is on the acceleration process.  How can we be more productive in a shorter amount of time?  How can something be done faster? What is needed to expedite the process?  We get used to the fast pace of commerce and technology and want to use the same modality to get through things that pop up as issues in our personal interactions. I like to call them bumps in the road. Things that slow us down and cause us to reflect. There was a movie once about this which enabled a man to use a remote control and click past the difficult experiences.  Unfortunately, the side effect was he eventually missed out on the good stuff too because his life moved as if on fast forward.  It wasn’t until it was too late he realized the cost of being able to expedite the negative experiences.  We label people and occurrences as negative or positive so quickly we miss out on the journey to explore what is behind what is on the surface.  It takes courage of heart to be willing to embark on an expedition and learn something about ourselves and the nature of life.  I can think of many times in my life where if given the chance I would have opted for expediting versus and expedition.  What I could not see at the time was the benefit I would gain from going on the journey of the expedition.  Each time whether in a personal or a job situation, going through it, as painful as it was at the time, I learned about the nature of my own heart.  I discovered my capacity to endure heartbreak and not be broken in half.  I got the chance to distinguish between my expectations of others and the reality of who they are.  The expeditions I resisted in my mind were the callings of the heart’s journey to see my own level of courage in action.  A willingness to take the expedition instead of expediting the process provided the confidence to face the next bump in the road.  And as long as we are still breathing, there will always be another bump.  Looking back I would not trade the expedition for the chance to expedite the journey and I will need to remember that for this next bump coming up.