Sometimes We Inadvertently Take A Detour.
Do you ever feel like you’re headed down a path, a pretty straight path, and somewhere you take a detour?
It might be by misfortune, maybe a fluke or, by choice.
Either way …………
A new avenue has been established and there’s no turning back.
If you broke away from the road most traveled by choice, you probably have a plan. Proceed with caution but, without fear. You got this! And pray.
If your pattern of living accidentally was interrupted, well then, this is where you wilt or bloom. Making the best of a situation that you had no control over is where those “Life Lessons” take place. Pray more.
However, if you find yourself in a position of disaster , devastation, or illness, this is where survival mode kicks in. How you proceed from here is what makes or breaks a person. More praying 🙂
Do you remember the movie Phenomenon?
John Travolta stars, with Kyra Sedgwick. John’s character, George, is just your average townie whose life changes in an instant after witnessing a blazing flash of light. Afterwords he, inexplicably, begins to exhibit an extensive amount of knowledge along with a few special abilities.
He’s given a gift. Superpowers.
Phenomenon - Something that is impressive or extraordinary.
All George wishes to do, with his new-found intellect, is help the other townspeople improve their lives and help them solve their problems.
He does just that …….. for a while.
George finds out, after helping many of his friends, that he has a huge Brain tumor. His time with all the people he loves has been defined.
So what part of the movie is “the phenomenon?”
The fact that he becomes a genius overnight?
The part where he can move objects merely by looking at them?
Perhaps it’s the part where his loving and generous soul gets to help all of his friends with their problems?
The part where he helps to save a child?
Towards the end of the movie, George finally concludes that because his time is limited, he will expend whatever energy he has left on the people most important to him.
Is that “the phenomenon?”
All of it, of course!
Phenomenon - A remarkable or exceptional person; prodigy; wonder.
- With adversity we can find the silver lining.
- We have to be willing to look for it.
- We must be grateful for it.
- We have to know there is a reason for it.
I think God gives us all superpowers to use for good.
How do you use yours?
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C. S. Lewis
xoxo, Katy