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It's Happening For You While Happening To You.


As we look at stuff that has happen to us in our lives, especially the bad stuff, if our only focus is something is happening to me, then we miss out on the greater value of what is actually happening.

So here is how to learn to appreciate your challenges. Frame it like this, it’s not just happening to me, it’s happening for me, while’s it’s happening to me. Let me say that again, things that happen in our lives, especially the bad stuff, if we can learn to evolve and instead of seeing it as why is this happening to me, and we start to go another level and say, this is happening for me, while it’s happening to me, now you start to step into a new space of understanding of how life is suppose to be shaped.

To be honest with you, mature adults should come to a point, where we don’t frame our entire life as only being positive, or only expecting positive things to create positive results.

Sometimes you need some crap to get a crop. So when we think about the stuff that is happening to us, in the moment that it is happening to us, we run the risk of really missing out on the shaping of that thing that we can’t even see right now.

Sometimes it’s not time to remove a thorn in your life. Sometimes we ask God to remove an obstacle. We sometimes read and study and council and it seems like that thing is not movable. It’s like a giant rock that just won’t move. No matter how much you push on it, it just won’t move. Maybe it’s there and it’s not movable because it’s serving a greater purpose that you can’t see and that’s why I say, it’s happening for you, while it’s happening to you.

For example, the time I lost my job, I was feeling sorry for myself, lonely and could not seem to find a job but during that time, I created this desire, a desire that was needed based upon a prayer that I had. What was the prayer, to start winning financially, that I could start over and overcome my circumstances, so I could live the life of my dreams.

Now, this didn’t happen over night but I do believe by me having a sense of despair and anguish, it set in motion a set of circumstances and emotions that rose up and if had not been for the circumstance I would not have gotten the desire.

The point is this was the devastation of what was happening to me at that time, was also happening for me while it birth the desire for me to be open to other opportunities.

And guess what, that’s what led me to getting on the internet, clicking on a link, watching a video and in that open space in my heart, based upon the devastation of pain, despair and fear, it allowed me to say, well maybe I should give this thing a try.

Because you know what, maybe 6 months prior to that, I would not have had the circumstances surrounding my life to get me to a place where I would say, let me take a look at this thing.

In 7 months, I made my first commission ever online.

So, all I’m trying to say is what was happening to me, which was the greatest struggle I ever faced in my life, all that pain and suffering was manufacturing a new version of me. I had no idea at the time because it sucked at the time. I couldn’t focus on anything except trying to overcome the suffering through meditation and prayer.

So believe it or not, whatever you’re going through right now that you are fighting to correct - It may not correct itself right now because you are not fully mature in the suffering you need to go through to correct it.

Maybe a year from now, 2 years or even a week from now, I don’t know how long it will take but maybe there is a greater need for you and you are being prepared for that thing that is prepared for you so you can handle it and it’s not always going to come with sunshine, rainbows and happy feelings. Sometimes it’s going to come from tears, devastation, frustration, anguish, loss, terror or even destruction.

I know it sounds crazy but that’s how life is.

You need to take a step back, and if you are honest with yourself, go back into your mind, and find that story that was devastating to you at the time and because of what you went through, your smarter, more patient, your more understanding, you prepare better than you ever have before. You express your love more where as before you probably wouldn’t have.

It's a risk, it’s a formula. You need something bitter mixed in with the sweet.

And if you don’t have the bitter, it just wouldn’t taste as good as it would if that little bit of bitterness wasn’t mixed in with the sweet.

I know for a fact what it’s like not to be able to feed my family, to have utilities cut-off, to not have enough money to send a card to a family member for their birthday. I know all too well what it’s like to be evicted, so I’m not going to act like I don’t because there are times I still have those challenges.

Challenges are designed to strengthen you. If you don’t understand the design of challenges, then you will Fear them or avoid them. You will blame life and people for the challenges. So what you need to do is move into the mentality of Life and stop isolating things that suck, pain and challenges as things that are just strictly happening to you and that whoa is me mindset. You need to Victor Mindset because to have a victory is to have a challenge.

The only way for you to have a triumph is to have a challenge. You need to get punched in the face, get knocked down, stomped on, spit on, discouraged, laughed at, cheated on or injured at some level because if you really appreciate life and understand the greater good of the suffering that your going through then you’ll find a way to recognize and say Thank you for this suffering right now because I know I’m being prepared for something else that I need and I can’t get it if I don’t endure this.

When you have endured or completed the trial, there is a crown waiting on you. So stop trying so hard to abort the process. Let it hurt, cry if you have too, it’s ok.

Yes, it’s going to hurt but allow something greater to come in. Endure the pain so you can be stronger, faster, or whatever it is and you need to know your suffering is not just for the sake of suffering there is a greater you out there waiting to come in.

P.S. I’m ALWAYS on Facebook

So if you have any questions or feedback for me personally, just send me a message on there and I’ll do my best to answer it ASAP.

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