are you ready?
do you think you're ready?
If all your most secret wishes, your private dreams, your prayers, your wildest hopes, were answered in one fell swoop, would you be ready? Would you be ready to step into those huge dreams? Those secret thoughts?
I know a lot of people spend a lot of time praying for blessings, and hoping God will show them favor. But are we all ready if/when those prayers are answered?
I got one of my most fervent wishes, my most sincere and passionate prayers answered recently. And guess what? I wasn't ready. God gave me exactly everything I asked for, and I wasn't ready.
I've got to accept full responsibility for that. I've been given signs that it was coming, plenty of opportunities to prepare myself, and ample checks & balances (tests, if you will) to allow me to validate that I'm ready. And I passed up each and every one of them.
So, now I'm preparing. Now, I'm getting myself ready. Now, I'm taking advantage of those opportunities, and when the time comes, I'll validate that I'm prepared. This is just a lesson learned for me. For you....well...you know what to do.
And I'm not praying for a do-over. I had my chance, and if it's meant for that chance to come again, it will happen. Either way, I'll be ready.