Friday, October 18, 2013

Letter 4: Not getting what you want

Yes, it is true.  You can sometimes work so hard for something you want and NOT GET IT or KEEP IT.


Crushing…That is the only way to word to describe the emotion that you feel today not making the team. I know. I have been there.  TOO MANY TIMES. EXACTLY LIKE TODAY….

This is the time when you work so hard for something for so long, to pour your time, talent, energy, existence into a goal and then not reach it or have it taken from you. You dream about it, you taste it, you see it and then you cannot get it or keep it.

It is a dark, dark place. A place that I knew you would one day go; however, where no mother ever wants to see their child no matter if you are 4 or 40.

There is no way to change it now, and to know that God has a plan even if you don’t see it.  You need to embrace the moment. 

I always say these intense disappointments that make no sense at the time are God’s not so subtle way of saying you are not where you are supposed to be.  And acceptance and understanding of that does not come easy.

"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results. -Anon."

The lesson is to find that spark of positive attitude in the crushing emotion of disappointment and harness it to light a fire to place that you never thought you had the potential to go.



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