Take that
first step of faith and the path will unfold, taking you where it intends to,
taking you where you are destined to be.
Your path to your
final destination on this lifetime’s journey is already pre-ordained. Except
Life doesn’t come with Google Maps. You can’t say which way the path is going
and how soon you can get to where you have to be. All you can do, and do well,
is to take each step, starting with the first one, in faith. Faith comes with
attendant benefits. It brings prosperity and abundance __ not of all that you
want, but of everything you need! This is how Life works. It wants you to be
trusting. The more you trust Life, the more it unfolds in its magnificence and
splendor.
Yesterday, we met a
courageous lady who had an inspiring story. Over 20 years ago, her two-year-old
son was diagnosed with a rare heart condition. Her husband and she were a
middle-class couple. They did not have the means to go abroad for the
treatment. He worked in the Indian Army but was often on duty in the border
areas. The lady had to, in a non-Google era, when pediatrics was not so
advanced a field in India, work with the Ministry of Defence, with the Ministry
of Health and with doctors to both organize the money required for her son’s
surgery as well as to understand his medical condition better. Hearing her
story, I inferred that she clutched on to the basic principle of Life – faith. I
am not talking about faith in an external God – but in yourself, in the fact
that since you have been created without you asking to be created, you will be
provided for, cared for and given all that you need. In any situation, you have
to do what you have to do. Just do it well and leave the rest to Life. And that’s
how it all worked out well for the lady and her husband. Their son is a
strapping, healthy 23-year-old today!
Well sometimes,
what you want, wish for and work toward may just not happen. But you cannot and
must not be dismissive of Life just because “it” didn’t work for you. You have
to just accept what is and move on.
Life is not to be
feared. Nor is it to be rejected or resisted. It is to be trusted and accepted
for what it is: for its benevolence and its amazing sense of equal opportunity.
How else do you think that a child, who is of the same age as your own, who
lives on the streets, is also able to survive and in fact does live on too without
anyone to even provide for her or his needs, forget wants? Now, by a
sheer quirk of fate your child is not on the streets but is with you. How cool
a blessing is that? That, and just that, is a good reason why you
must trust Life. And take that first step in faith!
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