dailydatewithgod

On the one hand, it sounds like a good idea to plan. On the other, it sounds more fun to see what happens. Of course, it is neither one nor the other, it is about the reality of both. The true reality is that no manner of planning can account for any situation. Regardless of how much we map out of an experience or encounter, there will be variables because all around us all the time there are inhales and exhales. Life is a living thing and that means people, experiences, ideas, emotions, time, and space. All of reality, as we know it is subject to the flow. I have learned on my daily dates with God that the less time I spend either resisting or waiting for the happenstances of life, the more at peace I am. How we ride the waves of happenstance with an acceptance of its occurrence is what creates real life. I am open to spending as much time as possible in the story that this is not the way it is supposed to happen, whatever it is. Or I can step back and open my heart to what the happenstance is here to teach me, tickle me, or open me up to about life and myself. Being grounded in the truth that no matter what kind of happenstance occurs means I acknowledge it cannot break me, though it might break me open. Open to breathe deeper, love more creatively, and see life from a different angle. Happenstance is neither good nor bad, it is how much of my heart and mind are invested in the opportunity to learn from it.