Trust Him to give you the best

There is a famous saying that goes that if whatever happens, is to your liking, its great. If whatever happens is not to your liking, its even better. Because then, God's will is included in it. We have all planned out our lives to the last detail. All is going hunky dory, until reality smacks you in the face. Things stop going your way, and there is no way to control anything anymore. Its like sand slipping out of your fist even though you are holding on to it so tight. There is disappointment, despair, anger, denial, depths of negativity, hopelessness, fear. What DID we do wrong to earn this karma? Are we are fault? Did we not see this coming? The mind races back and forth, trying to find a method to the madness. Desperately trying to achieve some sense of closure. And in the end, the entire exercise seems so futile. In powerlessness, we discover the Higher Power. In destitute we realize that there is someone up there who has always wanted the best for us and continues to give us the best there can be. He does not leave us much of an option does He.

Now why did he want us to go through all the trauma to begin with? Its not very easy understanding his ways. But the way He teaches is very effective. The lessons learnt are lessons for life. Did we decide it all before hand and wanted it played out like this? Just what were we thinking!

You come to a point where you totally surrender to Him. Trusting that he knows best. And even if it does not look great, there is something very nice waiting for us at the end of the road. There was and there will always be light at the end of the tunnel. The clouds will have a silver lining. The wait to get there teaches us patience.  Negativity has no depth. Being positive takes all the strength you got. But then whats life without a royal challenge!

Trust. Someone breaks our trust and then we learn that its in our best interest to Trust Him. What an irony. A very interesting life we have. No day will ever come back. The second gone by won't. Why waste it being negative, when you can distract yourself towards positivity and make it your way of life.

So very preachy. Tch. Some people never change. I am one of them.

Yours Truly,

Stillness

Back to the roads forgotten

I was last here 2 years ago! That is indeed such a long time back. So much has changed since then, and so much remains the same. I don't know what it was that brought me back here. But this place feels like a home long forgotten. Dusty with cobwebs all over, but still reeks of that smell of familiarity. It does not feel lonely and scary but my own. I know this place and am here to rediscover what I once loved. A place that had become my extension. A place to grieve, rejoice, reminisce.

 A lot has changed and a lot remain the same. We continue to expect the world from people, and when they fail to deliver, our heart breaks into tiny little pieces. Is it their fault? No! We are the ones who expected and had spun a million dreams. We had willingly stepped into this world of make believe. Where we believe that the outside world is responsible for the smile on our lips. They say that the lessons in our lives are replayed until we learn them. Life is a hard teacher! It never tires. Not until our last breath. And after.

What is within, is what we find without. Its so easy to blame the circumstances, destiny, the people. It's very hard to take responsibility and take charge of our lives. It's easy to flow along the direction of water, being pushed and shoveled and hurtled around and blame the currents. There is really no depth of negativity. It can take you as as deep as you want to go. But we have to take the effort move up. No one will take us there. No one except ourselves. I read somewhere that the only difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline. Blaming the world for not letting you achieve your dreams is very simple. Whose loss is it at the end?

Another thing that hasn't changed is how preachy I am. Always was. Always will be! Given the opportunity, a seed mistaken for a stone can bloom into a beautiful flower. Some are given the opportunity on a silver platter and some have to go find it. We were meant to go out of our comfort zones. Achieve our full potential. What an utter waste of precious life otherwise.

Here's to positivity, hardwork and feel good feelings. Today and each day of the coming year! Cheers people :)

 

 

I totally agree it sounds cliched. But the year really has flown by. How weeks turned into months and a complete year, I've no clue. All of us are a year older and a year wiser. Did all of us stick to our resolutions? I tried and will say did a good job of doing yoga for atleast 15 minutes a day as regularly as I could!

In the last week of 2012 I finally have some free time to reflect upon the year that is slowly slipping by. It left a lot to be desired. It leaves with the hope of an upcoming new year that God willing will be filled with a lot of happiness and things that will change my life.

They are right when they say "Cease the moment". This moment will not come back. Don't wait for this event of that. It might not come. This moment is all you have to make it large.  You will never be this old again. You might never have another chance to indulge in this craziness, this madness. This is the time to do what you love to do with all the strength and passion you can muster. Don't let your golden years just slip away! So said my heart! But it also knows not all things are always possible. Oh dear. I sound so preachy sometimes, don't I? And invariable, the sometimes is always "All the time".

The festive season is ever so infectious! Each day of my vacation is so blissful. Tiny joys which otherwise are taken for granted. That extra hour of sleep in the morning or the power nap after lunch. The warmth of the blanket and loving family and friends. The abundance of good food. Abundance of God's grace which empowers me and my family to get ourselves all the things we really need (and a few we don't). The quiet "me time". No din of work or it's stress, or deadlines, or people's anger. All is quiet and peaceful. And I love it this way. But the value of all this is best understood when the other extreme has also been experienced. Work consuming all your waking hours and re-appearing in your dreams. Sleep creeping in when you are supposed to be at your productive best (and no cups of tea don't help!)

I wish each of you a splendid 2013. May God grant you all the good things your heart desires. I wish you good health, peace and everlasting happiness!

See you on the other side :-)