Resetting the Compass – Day 30
The last few days of resetting the compass for 2012 are slamming. (me, that is, with “life changing” wisdom) The latest gem that flew across my Twitter was:
“Never beg for that which you have the power to earn.”
I can’t walk around that one today. It is another splat in my path that there is no way around. Again, I must pick it up and take it with me in order to move on.
I would never want anything that I didn’t earn, but I never thought about considering whether or not I had the power to earn it. In a job or career I would never attempt to gain anything without earning it because that would negate the learning that would take place while doing the earning. Without having had the learning experience, the job would be a lot less fulfilling because I wouldn’t be as good at it as I know I would be had I done the work necessary to deserve it. In a relationship I would never beg for love and respect. That would be called manipulation. I would never want a person to be in my life because I begged them to love me or caused them to feel sorry for me. If someone doesn’t want to be in my life because I didn’t earn their love and respect by the content of my character, I don’t want them there either. I think God kinda feels the same way. He doesn’t want anyone accepting Him by being nagged or badgered. We all have free will and He wants us to come to Him of that free will, not be strong-armed into it. I think most would agree.
All of that said, it’s the part about realizing I have the power to earn certain things in life that intrigues me. The power to earn it. A power that resides within and I might not even be aware that I possess it. Sometimes this power is disguised as a difficult thing that I must do, but I never see it as “power”, only as something that is going to be very, very hard.
I think, in 2012, when difficult things cross my path, I’m going to readjust my attitude. I just may be missing unseen power that I possess to accomplish what might seem impossible.
And so, as another day goes by, February is a day away and I can’t wait to find out what the month of love has in store for me, and ….I have written.
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