Times like these

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Why does it seem so hard

to be loved

to be accepted

for who you really are?

I am sad

I am lonely

I am misunderstood

Maybe times like these

only the man in the cross

can fathom my tears

and honor them

as though coming

from a sacred fountain

both sorrowful

and divine.

Unblocking your flow

Much had been said already urging us to discover our desires, pursue our interests, nourish our gifts, follow the passions God has given us.   Find your flow – that is the way to succeed and live a fulfilling life.  We then have a pretty picture in our minds of that day when we need not do our boring jobs anymore, and when we shall find abundance pouring in in ways we could never have imagined.   We feel the excitement pulsing in our veins, finally doing what we’re all supposed to do, living the glorious destiny to which we have been born into.

 

Then all of a sudden, we find ourselves living just the opposite life we dreamed.  We find ourselves in a rut, a deadend, or a yellow light that has kept us waiting longer than we have expected for us to realize the vision that has been given us.   What went wrong?  What sin have we committed for us to deserve this kind of punishment that has fallen upon us like a thief in the night stealing our dreams and the life that has been promised of us?

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