{"id":395,"date":"2012-03-03T07:47:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T12:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2012-03-02T21:07:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T02:07:40","slug":"poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/poem\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: If You Don’t Know What You Want"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you don’t know what you want from life<\/span><\/p>\n

You are quite likely to get it<\/span><\/p>\n

This two-line poem deals with a basic theme of life: discovering what you want from life.\u00a0 Of course, the starting place for this is not knowing what you want from life.\u00a0 This is a universal experience.\u00a0 Nonetheless, if you continue in life not knowing what you want from life, you will probably end up where you are headed.\u00a0 Worse yet, if you don’t even know where you are headed, then you certainly cannot know where you are likely to end up.\u00a0 The second line is the real twist that can be taken several ways.\u00a0 First, what you are quite likely to get is not knowing.\u00a0 Second, you’ll end up where you’re headed, which can be problematic if you don’t want to continue in that same direction or if you don’t even know which way you’re headed.\u00a0 Third, and my favorite, is that life will bestow upon you a measure of grace and you may actually get what you want from life not even necessarily knowing what that is.\u00a0 This is an axiom of one of my favorite personal sayings that God never gives me what I want, God always gives me something better.\u00a0 This is the type of metaphysical optimism that I am prone to meditate upon.\u00a0 While this is not an argument for not spending time and effort discovering what you want from life, it is a recognition that our ability to fully see what is good for us is limited, and God’s grace can play key role in self-discovery and interacting with the universe.\u00a0 Surprises can be scary.\u00a0 Surprises can also be full of grace.\u00a0 One of the things I want from life is to be open to the graceful possibilities and surprises that transcends my finite mind and my veiled heart.\u00a0 May you experience abundant surprises full of grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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