When Life Throws Curveballs

Hey Dads,

I’m sure you’ve heard of the saying, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”  I don’t start this issue to share that it isn’t important to plan and have a road map of where you want to go – it’s vital to future success.  However, at the end of the day, life happens.  Loss of a loved one.  Layoffs at work.  Poor health diagnosis.  Divorce.  Broken relationships.  The list goes on and on.  I’ve been there.  The loss of my mother and a rough divorce all in the same year. 

There is good news – the story doesn’t just end there if we chose to press on and look for God’s grace & mercy.  Sometimes in the course of our everyday lives, an event unfolds, drawing us into communion with the Lord.  We can often realize in the blink of an eye what it’s all about.  We weren’t maybe even looking for it, but it found us.

We should remain receptive to the unexpected influx of grace. Once it arrives, release anything that hinders its flow and surrender to our Heavenly Father. 

In my experience, walking with the Lord (I have ups and downs with it) doesn’t mean we are exempt from suffering.  However a mentor once shared, rather than running from suffering we need to challenge ourselves to move into it where it can be transformed.  It is paradoxically through our suffering that we find the greatest freedom.  This is a muscle to train and worth doing.  It can take your spiritual life to greater heights.

My friend, go out there and live a life on fire.  The world needs you.  It’s important to plan, however, let things unfold as they will + trust that it’s all for a greater purpose.  Yes, easier said than done, but the peace you’ll have will be priceless.

To Fathering Well,

Bryant

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