26 October 2009

Monday Musings...
Some days are diamonds...some days are stone (as the John Denver song used to go).
Which means that sometimes you bite the bear, and other times, the bear bites you.
Life is funny that way.
Some of us manage to eek out a few great days in a row, while others struggle with a series of bad days (usually also in a row).
Most of us love Friday, but detest Monday.
And there are times we might wish we were never born. While there are those moments we're so damn glad to be alive.
Like I said...life is funny that way, and not in the "funny-ha-ha", but rather the "funny-peculiar" manner.
Be nice if we could have every day be a good one, but what would we possibly LEARN from something like that, other than how to allow our lives to run US, instead of the other way around?
It would also be nice to have all those "bad days" at once, if not to get them all OUT OF THE WAY (and behind us), then to glean what life has to teach us in one fell swoop.
Trouble with that, is we'd probably not "learn" whatever it was we were supposed to learn, as we often become fixated with other things that detract from the tasks at hand.
So...for some strange reason, all the good OR bad stuff is doled out to us on what appears to be an "as need" basis...
Which brings me to that time-honored statement that goes:
"God never gives you more things than he knows YOU can handle".
Now, I don't know about you, but I believe in a supreme being BECAUSE of that statement alone. "HE" must know I can handle a LOT.
There is no way in creation that I could have gotten through a lot of crap in my life unless I had "help", which means all that crap didn't come flying at me all at once (thankfully).
Things in our life are portioned out to us...
Sure, some things are extremely traumatic, and we think "this is it...it's the end", only to find that a little further down the road, it WASN'T "the end" we thought would be coming.
We got through it....and in some cases, we have no clue as to HOW we managed such a feat.
We KNOW we couldn't have possibly done it "on our own"...we'll swear to that.
Maybe we had some "help"?
Perhaps friends or family...or even strangers figured into the mix?
Or maybe...it was "God"?
I've always been a firm believer that nothing happens without a reason, and that "someone" MUST be flipping all the "switches" in our lives...and at the proper times.
Can you imagine if every one of us was "left alone" to run or manage our OWN lives, without ANY type of intervention, positive OR negative...from ANYONE?
I don't even want to think about such a prospect.
I know there is a "watchman" in my life...seen evidence of it more than a few times.
I like to joke that MY Guardian Angel must have to put in a LOT of "overtime" in MY life, the way some things turn out.
And when things go awry, I just chalk it up to that Guardian Angel having a "day off" ...(much needed I might add)...LOL!
Now you can say all this is "mumbo-jumbo", and that it's only a belief, and no tangibility can be attributed to all of this.
And if that works for you...great.
For me, I have to concede that there simply HAS to be a higher being whether we can that being GOD...or ALLAH, or YAHWEH...or even RALPH.
To think for a moment that I, or any other human being is the "supreme intelligence" in our entire universe, is laughable beyond belief.
Think about the problems we have here on THIS Planet, and then think about WHY we have them.
How's that go as far as the claim to the "most intelligent being" work for you?
We can't even manage to balance a checkbook, or remain at PEACE with one another...and we're the "best" this universe has to offer?
Come on, now...
There just HAS to be someone "at the top"...making sure we're not offing ourselves en masse.
As a race (the human one) we're barely out of the womb, and as such infants, we need to be nurtured, lest we harm ourselves.
So, if we're chastened from time to time, it's always for our OWN good (sounds a bit parental).
But don't fear...it's not all bad news...
The GOOD news is that we have POTENTIAL...as a species, AND as individuals.
We CAN learn, therefore we are taught, by whatever comes into our lives.
Hopefully, we can apply that knowledge along the way.
And as we learn, we acquire wisdom to temper than knowledge.
All in all...it's a pretty good fit for us.
Now...what every one of us decides to DO with this knowledge AND wisdom will be the stuff that our descendants will hopefully be able to speak about in our distant future.
So, never think of yourself as insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
And always believe you never face an obstacle alone, even if no other person is about.
Some days might BE diamonds, while others are stone, but even if that stone lacks the luster and brilliance and the "monetary value" the diamond does, it truly has it's OWN use, too. We just have to know that from the start.
Life is funny that way.
And it is something to ponder...
Stay safe out there, America.

2 comments:

indy said...

a diamond is nice to look at, but dont have the depth that the stone has. i would perfer the shiney stone from the ocean to the diamond. the stone is just my diamond in the rough.

if there was no God i know i wont be around. i cant even go under for surgary without constant attention from God to wake back up. this is why i find as many non surgicial means as needed.

Bob G. said...

Indy:
There are a great many stones, that...if properly polished, DO turn out as a nice, finished product.
Good observation there.

I guess we can make the best of bad situations, right?

Thanks for stopping by.