How to be free from the chains that bind us. Part 3 (finally)

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Finally he says, yippee, you're finally going to get the answers you've been looking for.  Well it is my hope at least, that today's blog provides you with some of the answers you have been patiently waiting for.  If I have learned anything over my lifetime thus far it is that things are very rarely as they appear to be. This is very evident when you look at the things that have stopped you in your tracks previously.  So hold on to the reins and lets try to tie up any loose ends and see if we can't get you going in the right direction.

When someone has lost all hope, there is a tendency to think about all the missed opportunities one has had in their life.  What you need to understand is that there is really no such thing as a missed opportunity, what has happened is you were just not at the right place at the right time, but thankfully the opportunity will present itself once again.  Destiny is not something that you have to hope for.  Destiny is not something that only comes to a select few.  Destiny is not something you ever have to worry about loosing.  All you have to do is accept the fact that you have a destiny and when the time is right, you will walk in it.

One of the biggest mistakes people make in regards to destiny is that they try to fill the void in their life with things that have no real purpose.  When I say no real purpose I mean the things that they are doing has nothing to do with their true destiny.  I have tried to fill the void with so many different things in my life and yet no matter how successful I may have been, there was still something missing.  I could have made a fortune and still there would have been this little nagging voice that kept telling me that there had to be more.  The chains that I carried around for years were nothing more than delusions of grandeur.  I thought that if I could do something great that the feeling of failure or that I had missed the mark would go away and I could continue on my life happy and content.  Let me tell you that isn't the case.  The only thing that will fill the void in your life will be the knowledge that you are on the path to your destiny, or that you are walking in it right now.

I have seen people run into road blocks, not because they have done something wrong or they are being punished, but because the Creator of the Universe, God, is trying to get you to a place where you are doing what you were created to do.  Consider yourself lucky that things got in your way, for you have been given an opportunity to look at things in a different light.  Had I not lost a job several years ago I never would have written my first book.  Had I taken the first job that came along, I never would have written the other five.  Had I taken any other job besides the one I am doing now I still would be living with a void in my life.  Was it fun being without work and having to live off of virtually nothing?  No, not in the slightest.  But it did give me pause to think, and in those moments of silence I was able to discover the one thing I had been missing.  If you believe that everything we go through is a learning experience, then how can you say that certain things that have happened are bad?  Let me give you a "for instance" and lets see if you don't start seeing the light.

For instance: you run into something that is not planned, lets say you are stuck in traffic and you know that you are going to be late for the event or engagement that was on your calendar.  At first you are furious, but as you pull into your destination you realize that there had been a terrible accident and had you been there on time it is quite possible that you would have been one of the victims.  At this point you are thanking the powers that be for keeping you out of trouble.  We would look at this situation and consider it "Divine" intervention.  Maybe it was God, maybe it wasn't, either way it kept you out of harms way and that is a good thing.  Why is it that everything that goes wrong in our lives has to be a sure sign that you have done something wrong?  What if all these things that have plagued you in the past were in fact things that have been divinely inspired to teach you something?  What if you need to learn something and the only way you are ever going to wise up and pick up on this lesson is to be hit in the head with a two by four? Quit looking for the bad in everything and instead accept it for what it is, a lesson.  The bottom line is that the chains that have bound you for so long are in actuality a blessing in disguise.  Yes, a blessing in disguise.

The old adage that those things which do not kill us, make us stronger is truth.  Look back on some of the things you have gone through and see if there is not a measure of this in them.  I know that no one likes to go through tough times.  That being said, can you actually say that you haven't learned anything because of the tough times?  If you haven't learned anything then you have blinded yourself to the real purpose in the challenges we face.  It is time to get off the pity wagon and realize that there is a method to the madness that you may have gone through.  It is only if you refuse to learn from them that they become worthless.

We are bound to the chains because we like the comfort that it brings at times.  We are bound to the chains because they have become familiar to us.  We are bound to our chains because we have yet to realize that they are there to teach and not to harm.  Here is the bottom line: learn from the past, but take the knowledge into the future.  Why repeat the mistakes of the past.  When you know something will not work, don't do it.  As people we often migrate to the things we know, and lets face it, many know the chains that hang around us.  Remember, each situation is an opportunity to learn, what you do with that knowledge is up to you.  My advise is you learn from it, grow with it, and move forward with it.  When it's all said and done, you control the effects of the chains in your life.  My advise is, you do the right thing with them.  Until the next time take the next step toward your true destiny and see if things done just brighten up a bit.