Super Sizing YOUR Sweet LIFE!
It takes time to become what we already are. Think on that for just a moment. Life moves through seasons and with each one it is sometimes a joyous time while others are quite stressful.
We spend our lives moving through various states of being and the key to a fulfilled life is recognizing in the changes that great days are coming again. Being excited about our life, particularly when we have achieved many things and are no longer moving at a rapid pace or are facing a darker time is not always easy; and knowing what needs to be uprooted and likewise what must be nurtured sometimes are not so crystal clear. This Summer season marked the end of my sisters marriage and a year of her living with me. For her the changes are bright for a fresh start at a real life and a chance to significantly alter the raising of her boys in a more positive place.
Consequently, I was listening to Pastor Osteen recently and he was discussing how God can and does supersize our lives. Basically his premise was that each one of us has a predestined cup filling over of potential and prosperous planning that our Heavenly Father has stored up for us. When we feel like our lives are empty… (gearing towards the depressed) or more precisely that we have already hit our mark in life..(gearing towards the successful and stagnate) that we haven’t even really begun yet. God always has more in store for us. How refreshing to always know there is more we can expect from our lives!
Similarly, the book that I was reading in the moment coincided with this thought but on a different level. Same message, different path so to speak. Tibetan Buddhism teaches that we each must tend to our gardens in life and through weeding out what is not good or no longer working we free ourselves to be what we already are.
This is a great message in a few ways. For me it resonates that despite doing cancer calendars for 10 years, and traveling to India a few years back I still can hope for and expect grander opportunities to give back to my community. These have not been revealed to me as of yet but God does in fact have a larger plan for my life to impact the lives of others. He clearly has placed me in a position to create art and use my talent to make a difference. My life and yours has always got the potential for more…
For my sweet sister who has suffered much and has been brave enough to flee to a new life, it means the hopes and dreams are just awakening to her. Her life is just beginning and she need only be open to the possibilities! God has in fact planned for her divorce and He provided her a place to move to and will of course provide more opportunities and hopefully someday a new husband worthy of her love.
If you look at what you have done and where you want to go in life it is amazingly clear that God does indeed have a method to the madness. The process of discovering our greatest potentials is the journey that takes us to the next place of prosperity. Each person has been given an undeniable potential to receive pureness, consciousness, peacefulness and love. Each of us become wiser as we go through this life and are given more and more. Something to think about when we go through the tough times. One success leads to yet another, you must be willing though to pull weeds and rest up for God’s next big thing to supersize an already wonderful life!
Take Care of YOU! 
