In our walk and throughout our lives, we experience and witness many things. Everyday, we see, hear and think about different things. There are things going on within us and around us all the time. It never stops. We can even have dreams and visions of things.
But for the most part, we don’t pay very much attention to them. We brush them off like they are nothing because we don’t understand them. “After all,” we think to ourselves, “they really don’t have anything to do with me or have any meaning to me. Why should I care about them? Why should I worry about them? Why should I hold on to them or try to analyze them?”
They are signs, warnings or messages. They happen within us and around us all the time. In a way, they are like a letter, a card, a gift, a present or a package. They come in many forms, shapes, sizes and ways. We can see it. We have an idea of what it is. We know what it looks like, who it is from and how big it is, but we do not know exactly what it is because we have not opened it, read it or looked inside of it.
People are the same. They send messages to us all the time and they try to communicate with us all the time. Sometimes, these messages are communicated to us in writing, verbally, visually or by actions, and other times, they are sent to us mentally, emotionally, physically, socially or spiritually.
A lot of times, we don’t get the message because we only see, hear or think about the things that have an impact or an effect on us. We worry too much about ourselves. We have our own problems. We have enough things going on in our own lives. We are too busy. We don’t have enough time.
Some of us even get that institutional mentality that boils down to “it isn’t my responsibility. There are programs and services provided for things like this, and the people running the programs are the ones who should be doing something about it not me.”
One thing that we have to realize and understand is that people or things aren’t always as they appear to be on the outside. Too many times, we only see or look at external or outward appearances, the covering, the current circumstance, the current condition, the current situation, the current actions or words being spoken, but it is bigger, deeper and more then that.
Regardless of how the message is being sent or communicated to us, we need to take the time to stop, look and listen. We need to be multidimensional. We need to open up our eyes, our ears, our minds and our hearts and receive the message that they are really trying to send or communicate to us.
Our people are hurting. They are crying out, and they reaching out. They are trying to get our attention. They want help, and they need our help. They are doing things that they shouldn’t be doing. We can’t continue to be one dimensional or narrow minded. We can’t continue to see things as they are or as we see them. We need to see things as they can be.
Sally Koch, a well known writer, once said, “Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us everyday.”
The message is clear, and there are a lot of things that we can and should be doing. A quote I read a while back said, “Small things accomplished are better then great things talked about.” The small things that we do today can make a big difference tomorrow, but we need to take the time to do it.
Lastly, “What we have in the present, was created in the past. What we want in the future, we can start creating today in the present.”
God Bless!
But for the most part, we don’t pay very much attention to them. We brush them off like they are nothing because we don’t understand them. “After all,” we think to ourselves, “they really don’t have anything to do with me or have any meaning to me. Why should I care about them? Why should I worry about them? Why should I hold on to them or try to analyze them?”
They are signs, warnings or messages. They happen within us and around us all the time. In a way, they are like a letter, a card, a gift, a present or a package. They come in many forms, shapes, sizes and ways. We can see it. We have an idea of what it is. We know what it looks like, who it is from and how big it is, but we do not know exactly what it is because we have not opened it, read it or looked inside of it.
People are the same. They send messages to us all the time and they try to communicate with us all the time. Sometimes, these messages are communicated to us in writing, verbally, visually or by actions, and other times, they are sent to us mentally, emotionally, physically, socially or spiritually.
A lot of times, we don’t get the message because we only see, hear or think about the things that have an impact or an effect on us. We worry too much about ourselves. We have our own problems. We have enough things going on in our own lives. We are too busy. We don’t have enough time.
Some of us even get that institutional mentality that boils down to “it isn’t my responsibility. There are programs and services provided for things like this, and the people running the programs are the ones who should be doing something about it not me.”
One thing that we have to realize and understand is that people or things aren’t always as they appear to be on the outside. Too many times, we only see or look at external or outward appearances, the covering, the current circumstance, the current condition, the current situation, the current actions or words being spoken, but it is bigger, deeper and more then that.
Regardless of how the message is being sent or communicated to us, we need to take the time to stop, look and listen. We need to be multidimensional. We need to open up our eyes, our ears, our minds and our hearts and receive the message that they are really trying to send or communicate to us.
Our people are hurting. They are crying out, and they reaching out. They are trying to get our attention. They want help, and they need our help. They are doing things that they shouldn’t be doing. We can’t continue to be one dimensional or narrow minded. We can’t continue to see things as they are or as we see them. We need to see things as they can be.
Sally Koch, a well known writer, once said, “Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us everyday.”
The message is clear, and there are a lot of things that we can and should be doing. A quote I read a while back said, “Small things accomplished are better then great things talked about.” The small things that we do today can make a big difference tomorrow, but we need to take the time to do it.
Lastly, “What we have in the present, was created in the past. What we want in the future, we can start creating today in the present.”
God Bless!