Obstacles or Interventions?

You all know that I am a big believer that so much of life is about perspective. I am constantly trying to adjust the sail of my life to use the winds to move me in a more positive direction. But let’s face it, life isn’t always smooth sailing.  We run into obstacles that seem to be keeping us from the things we feel we want/need to be successful, happy, healthy, safe, satisfied. But what if the obstacles that we run into are actually interventions? What if they are carefully placed in our lives in order to move us to something better? What if the relationship that falls apart is leading us to the one that will last a lifetime? What if the job we didn’t get frees us up to accept the one we love? What if the light that turns red when we’re running late keeps us from an accident further down the road? What if?

There are so many things in our lives that we cannot control. The older I get the more I see the illusion of controlling my life was hysterically misplaced pride. BUT, I can control how I view things and I can control how I react to them. Charles Swindoll says, “We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.” How would our attitudes, and in turn our lives, change if we began to reframe obstacles as interventions?  Let’s test it out. When the obstacles come, and we can be certain they will, how will we view them? Obstacles or INTERVENTIONS?

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. Genesis 50:20