Sweet rewards

My wish is that you have been having a Happy Monday.

Sometimes we need to be reminded that life come with a number of uncontrollable factors and there is the need to precondition the mind. These uncontrollable factors sometimes are obvious so a parent will just have to deal with the child that get sick overnight. The highway may be known to be crowded so it requires leaving an hour early to be on time. There are the subtle uncontrollable factors such as our desire to be loving and patient. To learn to be loving requires that you have someone unloving to deal with. No one goes about broadcasting that they want to be loving but it is the desire to be loving that is going to attract the unloving into our lives. We will never learn without this.

In a similar way the desire to be patient will naturally attract  trials and trouble. These will remain with us until we learn to be calm in spite of them. The person who never experiences trials and troubles cannot rightfully  be said to be patient. The patient person is the one who remain unruffled in the most testing situation.

Everyone is not built with the same constitution and so we  all look at life differently. In life many times we hear about immediate, intermediate and long-term goals. Due to the uncontrollable factors if we are not careful we spend our lives attending to the immediate goals which is always demanding and forever delay the long-term. It takes a special breed to put in place the long-term goals  first and then attend to the immediate and intermediate goals.This may not be easily done but in the end it bring sweet rewards.