Obstacles

Obstacles in your path, such blessings they are.  Do you curse the tree that falls and blocks your way, or do you raise your eyes skyward, laugh and say, “Thank you,” for the turn your life must now take and the new choices you get to make?  See the blessings as they unfold and rejoice every moment as you grow old.  Life is one great adventure, unfolding not always as you foresee it with your ground-level sight.  That tree that fell across your path at night could be your greatest gift, causing you to stop and shift.  “Halt!  Don’t go there,” it says quite kindly.  “Do not move forward, oh so blindly.”  This obstacle is rather clear.  Others may not seem so dear, but each twist and turn your life takes has reason.  There is growth in every season.  So curse not the changes in your plans and the flexibility your life demands, but smile and say, “Ah yes, a bump in the road I did not expect.  The unseen reasons I now choose to respect.