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Problems are rarely as they may seem. The term “blessing in disguise” doesn’t do justice most of the time. The better the disguise, the bigger the blessing.

Shell-shocked wartime veterans never fully get past the hidden enemies of the past. Maybe it’s time history not repeat itself. Anyone can be new.

Memories of enemies are always bigger than enemies themselves. Headlines of “war” always sell better than headlines of “peace”. Those little “set-backs” we run into along the way are often times shortcuts to the very victories we seek. With everyone being in such a hurry, don’t hate the shortcuts.  · · · →

Movers and shakers always have a list of things they wish they could get done today, but just can’t. A thousand other projects keep their plans in limbo.

It would seem that God might feel the same way, which is why many good things haven’t happened yet. But, God is not “slow” as some count slowness.

So, perhaps those plans we have for today really aren’t for today.

Everything has it’s place and time. The things that can be for today and tomorrow will be. If tomorrow is the only day a thing can happen, it will probably be best.  · · · →

All the little, petty reasons why people win or fail—whether business, administration, love, or war—aren’t the actual reasons. Those are the excuses. We actually win and lose according to the foresight of greater players: high-rollers in power, visionaries, good and bad angels, and the God of everyone’s molecules.

“Big picture painters” rarely target those who see them, even their enemies. Call it a “professional courtesy”, but people who see a thing before it makes smoke on the horizon, who recognize the lowering sea before the tsunami breaks the horizon… their prize is the same as their price: survival.

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If this life is focused on a God-given test of our ability to love, then it is a teaching test that trains us through what we miss.

All the things we seek turn out to be the very things we failed to grab when opportunity presented itself. Visions are birthed in pain. Foresight is our anecdote to our past blindness.

This is true of everyone.

What makes us different is learning foresight earlier or later. The timing is a symphony of circumstance, people in our lives to lovingly make us miss out while explaining why, and our willingness to care.  · · · →