Sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture. I'm one that believes everything happens for a reason. Call it fate, or divine intervention, or whatever you like. But, everything we go through and deal with has a purpose, and those people brought into our lives serve a purpose. The bad part about it is that most of the time what we see and believe is our path typically isn't. The way we hope for things to be, or think they will be, usually is not what is intended by the greater forces. Many people and situations come into our life to prepare us for the next step. They are stepping stones for what is to come. However, we feel and believe the stepping stones have led to where we are which we want to be our firm foundation. But in fact, most of the time it is just another stepping stone for what lies ahead.
My point is this...sometimes you have to be able to see the bigger picture and figure out what it is. Are you and that someone meant to be in that bigger picture together? Are you here as a stepping stone for each other? Maybe your destiny is not to meet and be together, but to be shown more of you who and teach you a lesson for the future. To make you stronger and better enable to be prepared for what lies ahead. There is no way to know. Only time will tell. But you have to read the signs and take the road that is presented to you. It's rarely the road we think, and it usually causes heartache and pain, but it is our path and the path we were meant to go down.
I am not a deeply religious person. Honestly, when it comes to religion I don't know what I believe. Yet, I do believe in the teachings of many religions as a guide for how you should act and how you should treat people in your life. I think there is some greater force that has a plan. All our decisions and all we have been through are part of what makes you who you are today. It is all preparing you for what lies ahead. Maybe you take the stepping stones to a final goal. Maybe life is one continuous trail of stepping stones until you finally fall off the end and there is nothing left.
All we can do is live our lives to the best of our ability, take was is given to us and make the best of it, and learn from our experiences. Maybe along the way you can help others that need some assistance in finding their next stone on which to plant their feet. Lend a helping hand when you can, revel in the joys, take the heartache without letting it keep you down, and realize that it all has a purpose. There will always be stumbling blocks on the road of life. It's how you handle those stumbling blocks that define the person you are.
And that is my philosophical rambling for this Sunday morning.
DV
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