I’ll skip over luck, thank you very much, and go for opportunities every time.
Even those “lucky breaks” people talk about? Those were just opportunities in disguise.
Think about it: That time you met someone who knew someone … and that other someone helped you along the path to your dream.
Or that part-time, temporary job that somehow helped you be in the right place at the right time for the job you wanted all along. Or maybe you learned a skill that you needed to to help you land a better paying job the next time.
Sometimes we hear about someone else’s life and we think, “Wow! They got so lucky!” And we’re a bit envious, thinking about how easy it was for them to get where they got, to have it so good.
But we don’t know the whole story. The challenges they faced along the way. The step by step by step opportunities they took — the chances, the hard work, the doors they knocked on. Some doors opened. Some doors didn’t. And all of that added up to that “easy, wonderful” life we’re looking at now.
The next time you’re waiting around for luck to change your life? Looking for opportunity instead.
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Pancreatic cancer fell upon me from a great height, and instead of breaking me, it made me into a more hopeful and perhaps a better person.
I would prefer, of course, to be well, with many years ahead to which I might look forward, and certainly to avoid being up in the small hours with unstoppable pain and fear I could not have once imagined, but not at the expense of the experience of the learning upon this path I have been compelled to take.
But I stepped outside a few minutes ago and saw two Lyrid meteors. That’s something. A sound sleep, and I would have missed them.
Circumstance is what we fashion into luck.
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As you prove over and over again, Andrew, opportunities are often the last thing we’d ever go looking for. But that doesn’t mean that they are not opportunities that are not worthwhile … that God doesn’t use them … that benefits are found there in the darkness, both earthly and other-worldly.
I wonder … would our friendship have happened? Perhaps not.
Such good words, Beth. This post reminded me of the saying, “It only took her ten years to be an overnight success.”
It’s true. We don’t know the stories others have lived. I don’t believe in luck either. I like the idea of seeing opportunities though.
I have definitely seen God open up opprtunities into my life.
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Those “overnight success” stories are rarely just that, Jeanne, as you say.
And when success does happen quickly?
Consider what is missed — what opportunities, what relationships …
Jeanne has the key. It’s not luck it’s blessings brought to you by God if you Trust and Obey.