"Why is it…..?” Blog # 36

Why is it that the hardest things to do are the most important in life?

Why is truth so important? Why is trust just as important and why does it matter?

Truth is in everything. If we can learn to “discern” we can get to a safe place in,

life a lot better. If we can trust in our gut to lead us on our way and not “astray” , then

life gets easier every day. IF we can trust just for today, everything happened for a

reason. Sometimes we don’t even understand the reason until much later in life. Life is

here to teach us something about ourself. Then life gets a little bit clearer showing us

“why we are here”. Our daily lives will forever be a puzzle in putting the pieces together

in the right way. It takes a tremendous amount of patience with ourself. We must be

brave. However, why is it so many people purposely stay depressed, angry and sad?

Mostly because it appears to be easier. It is not, but it only looks that way for now.

If I take a backseat look at the version of my life that believed in self-medicating. I must

admit it appeared easier to hide behind a drink at the end of the day. Only when I

realized the end of the day started earlier and earlier each day and then came the

black outs. So I stopped cold turkey. That was many years ago.

Why is it that fear has so much to do with holding us back from our highest potential?

Because it is easier. It is so much easier to just look at life from inside and not venture

outside. When we take each day and stay stuck, we live inside our fear. We are acting

afraid by not doing the difficult part to our lives that involves “trusting in the unseen

power”. For it is HIS Love that take us to parts unimaginable, regardless of whatever age

we are now. Remember that Grandma Moses started painting in her late nineties! A

former President of the United States parachuted out of a plane at the age of ninety.

Plus they just had a marathon biker win a race well into his nineties. Why is it? It is

because they believed in Mind over matter. I choose to see it as Faith in the unseen

presence of HIS love that guides us daily.

When my husband and I were in our late fifties and all our friends were traveling the

country and starting to think about retirement, why is it that I wanted something

different for my husband and I? We had raised our two eldest children and they

were on their own and well into their thirties.

Why is it I felt a need to do something different and take the risk? With the help

of my husband, we managed to find the resources and after many appointments,

we were candidates for adoption! We were going to adopt a baby and I must

admit, the majority of our friends said; “Why?” “Why is it that your so crazy to do this?”

I just knew inside my gut that there was someone else out there that my husband

and I could help guide. A little life that was in need of a home and we were waiting.

It really was quite a miricle if you see why I choose to believe the way I do. The other

couple that were candidates, were asking too many questions and insisted on seeing a

picture of the baby first. They also wanted lots of testing done and kept asking

questions. Needless to say, I believed, if we were meant to do this - The dear Lord would

would make it happen. And so we asked no questions, and this is how it turned out..

The state chose my husband and I and we were in our late fifties. We were chosen over

the University professor and his wife that were in their early forties. I remember that

morning well. I was making a big pot of vegetable soup and got the phone call.

The state placement person said; “You can go pick up your little baby girl tomorrow

morning at eleven am. I guess The Dear Lord had decided it was to be us. I put

the idea out there in the universe, and HE made it happen.

We were now going to be parents again and a beautiful little Irish girl just ten months

old came into our lives. The following year the state called again and told us we had

just hours to make up our mind on taking our little girls real brother. There were many

people waiting in the wings to adopt a little boy so young, at eleven months old.

“Lets do it”, my husband had said. “How hard can one more be?”

Why is it that I just trusted in the process at my age? Im certainly not going to tell you

there have not been challenges along the way, of course there have! However, we

would not have it any other way. Our lives have been so much more enriched. We

could never imagine living our life without our daughter and our son that are now in

their teen years. So much to do and so little time to do it in. I guess I have to say that my

inner guidance led me to doing what I was meant to do.

Why is it that so many people, upon finding this inner secret of “guiding truth”, feel safe

by embracing it and then the best part happens. They begin to feel differently. They

feel free of depression and dark thoughts and let go of the ways that held them back.

I have to admit, from the day that we got our little ones, right up to this day, there is

seldom a moment when I sit and just think about myself and my problems. I am too

busy! I have far too much to do. A great saying to bring in the fold here is this motto:

“Give the busiest people more to do and they will get it done without worry”.

I hope today, you find the message in what I have shared with you. Yes, I too have

struggled with depression and sadness and fear. I have had days that I have cried out

internally, “Why me God? Why is it always me, that sad things have to happen to?”

I seldom say that anymore. As the days turn into months and the months turn into

years, I have found peace in helping guide and raise our two little ones who in their

teenage years are filled with challenge. My life brings me so much more awareness

and keeps my mind challenged. Not a day goes by that I don’t say, “thank you for this

day and all that is coming to me to learn from”. I feel by helping another soul we think

less about our own personal needs.

Years back, Mother Theresa was a famous nun who lived and cured the lives of those

that lived in Calcutta India - from Leprosy. Yet, she never got it! When a reporter was

interviewing her after she received the Nobel Peace Prize he asked her this question,

“How in the world can a person go out and help the world when there is so much

sadness and crime and darkness everywhere?” Mother Theresa, who was this little, bitty

person, looked up at the reporter with her aged wrinkled face and smiling she softlsaid to him; “Oneperson at a time, son, one person at a time”.

So as I close my blog this evening, I ask you, “Is there someone you feel you could help

today, one person at a time?”

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