Flexibility is an Adventure

You never know what life is going to bring to you.
You can worry about it and IT may never happen. What a waste of time and energy.
You can watch for IT and then you miss the other wonderful things that are happening and taking place in your life and all around you.
You can plan for IT, in case IT comes along, and when IT doesn't, you are almost disappointed and feel the sense of loss of time wasted.

Or you can simply learn to take each day and each happening as it takes place and accept it. And remember to be flexible in your acceptance of the events.

It is so wonderful when you finally let this happen.
This is not to say "whatever" and give up when things happen that we did not accept...nor to let them bring us down...but to look at IT as a thing of wonderment from the Lord to help you grow....to help you realize that He is still in control...because when the "bad" comes, that is when we lean on the Lord the most. When the good things come, it is the time when we need to remember to praise our Lord, not just for that blessing but for the way He has brought us through to receive it.

Flexibility is a funny thing. It is so much easier to accept (what you think) are shortcomings in friends or people around you when you consider them with your new flexibility....or new eye-sight. When you realize everyone, including yourself, has faults but God loves them and made something special in each person, it makes you want to search for that special something and you forget about the problems you are having with them.

I remember many years ago, I was a director in our church VBS program and my helper in that department was a lady that I really did not know very well. Her team was "building" the Jewish temple for the study and she was doing a fantastically beautiful and precise building. I was amazed. But I also knew that she did a thing that really, truly annoyed me...she was NEVER on time. It irritated me to death. I really had to watch myself or I would almost lose my temper with her when she came in each day.
Then one day, after much prayer and thought, I realized a solution.
If I went every day and picked her up for VBS and brought her in my car, and if I went a little early to get her, she would arrive on time. Sounded like a perfect plan to me.about m
I did that the next day. I went by her house three days in a row, always arriving early so that we would not be late to class.
And each day, we were late. She just was always late. There was nothing I could do to change that.
So, I thought about it and began to pray for her.'
I knew that God loved her. He had made something good in her. I had to be flexible enough to look for the good thing that God had done in her and dwell on that.
I did pray. And I did search. And it happened.
I found the good in her. I praised the Lord for allowing me to be flexible and to bend to His leadings, not mine.
I found the good, but I must tell you, she was still ALWAYS late. But that was alright now because God had made her my friend through my prayers.
I have always heard ....pray for your enemies and they will become your friends. And it is true. It happened to me.

So now, when I think about my way being the only way, and my way always being right, I always remember that lesson that God taught me about flexibility. Open your mind and your heart, listen, and be aware of His lesson on flexibility and this adventure opens up all kinds of possiblities of praise and worship each minute of the day. It releases the joy of His plan working in you and not your plan taking over. It is easier to remember THE LORD IS ALWAYS IN CONTROL when you remember to flex to His will and to His leading.

It is an excitement to be ready, to be flexible, and to live every day as an adventure with and for the Lord. He's got everything all planned out.