So practically everyone I know, including close friends and family-ask me, “Ang, what’s a typical day for you?” I always get stumped, because it’s hard to come by a typical day. I’m an artist, writer, entrepeneur, volunteer, and spiritual thinker to name some of my job titles and not necessarily in that order. Life is interesting, full, funny, sometimes hard…never typical. My biggest challenge is to see things as “opportunities” and not obstacles. When my husband Whit and I went to hear Maxine Clark (Build-A-Bear Workshops) speak several months ago, I was the first to ask a question. “What,” I said clearly, succinctly and with unmistakable wisdom [because she was about to say, I was sure, "great question! Let's talk after!"] “have been your biggest obstacles?” She didn’t hesitate or think hard. Hm, that’s weird. Has she gotten that brilliant question before?? “I’ve never had any obstacles, only opportunities,” Maxine said. RATS!!!! I totally KNEW that…at least, I should know that. I’ve been thinking about that every day since (and before, too, because as I mentioned one of my jobs is a spiritual thinker, so I kinda have to think and pray through things like “what’s really going on here?” when an “opportunity” presents itself).
Look up “opportunity” in the dictionary. The etymology is awesome!! It literally means to come into [the] harbor. Well, I think of a harbor as a safe place, as home. So an opportunity is a means of coming home…to who we really are, to what we’re really like (which is all good). We get to prove what we’re made of. And I know that when an opportunity presents itself, it means we are equipped to handle it. Someone once said, God equips the called, He doesn’t call the equipped (as can be seen in examples like Moses and David in the Bible). Isn’t that comforting? I am now striving to see then that what appears as an obstacle (financial, physical, relationship, etc) is really a call to see that I’m equipped to come home.
That’s a full time job all day every day! And hopefully what my typical day is like.
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