“Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.” —- Byron Katie
For us to wrap our minds around this quote can become quite challenging. We become disillusioned with the constant barrage of what our lives dictate. When we are presented with difficult situations, people, opinions, circumstances, and confounding life/death decisions, we lose site of our very substance and capitulate by compromising a certain set of standards. Why would we make that choice, and for what specific reason? Do we even know? Science of Mind puts it in these terms . . . “Our perspectives and priorities are born from our experiences. We can’t know of our power until we’ve experienced powerlessness. We won’t recognize our full worth unless we have been mired in feelings of unworthiness.”
This is all part of our connectedness to being a member of the human race. There aren’t many examples of those who skipped that part of growth, during this process we call life. We are all products of our orientation and environment . . . the difference becomes evident when we make choices that enhance that point of origination or go in the other direction, contingent upon a conscious choice of will. Side-stepping responsibility or accountability only lasts so long. Eventually, through various twists and turns of fate . . . there is a price to pay for all of our choices, whether we acknowledge it or not. Have you ever noticed that when certain things happen good or bad, the timing according to our estimation may be absolutely right-on or detrimentally wrong? In the last analysis, it isn’t what happens to us that is the most important part of the equation . . . it is always our response that is the key.
Having a set focus today is almost impossible given the constant infusion of technology. However, given time and the capability of understanding what the outcome of such an evolution of technology may cost us down the road, the Science of Mind suggests the following, ” … the wonder of accessibility to constant information has a price and that is the capacity to be consistently distracted.” This quote is not suggesting a select few, but is unfortunately an accepted part of our culture which brings conflicted and convoluted direction not only enslaving us but our families, friends and loved ones. There are many forms of addiction, and technology is becoming another choice manifesting that proclivity.
Your response to life in this moment, and all that has happened is of utmost importance . . . more than you realize. Who you are and what you have become is of greater importance. There are no excuses, substitutes or fall back positions for your conscious choice of will. Accept the circumstances, and as you step into the future of the present moment reflect upon the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” JLR