LUCKY

When stuff isn’t working in our life we become stuck on what’s wrong rather than the Grace in our life.  We feel anything but lucky and so we engage in some self indulgent whining about why is this happening to ME, poor ME, woe is ME, blah, blah, blah.  We’re so busy throwing a pity party that we can’t see what this trouble truly is.

It’s true that we can have success in one area of our lives but be a complete failure in another. This helps us stay stuck because it’s confusing.  We want to know how we can rock so seriously on the one hand and be such a screw up in another?

If we’re very lucky Grace (GOD/UNIVERSE/PROVIDENCE) will put a thorn in a part of our life, a pebble in our shoe in another part of our life, or whack a brick upside our head  when we’re messing up our whole life.  And then, when she wants to be a righteous bitch, because she’s sick and tired of us not listening, she’ll bring us to our knees. 

Nothing will focus us faster than the kind of trouble that brings us to our knees.  Nothing will get our undivided attention on the matter faster and teach us to shut our mouth and listen.  Nothing will teach us gratitude and prayer faster like BIG TROUBLE.  

It’s the kind of trouble that’ll makes us a ‘prayer warrior’ says Bishop TD Jakes, because it’ll throw us up against the wall and have us screaming to the heavens. 

The last thing we’ll be thinking about is how lucky we are.  But we are.  Grace cares enough about us to talk to us this directly, this vividly, this emphatically.  She’s trying to make a point, teach us something, help us figure something out.  We need to quit whining, shut our mouth, sit still and listen.