Opportunity

Do you drive a lot?  I do.  I have morning drop off and afternoon pick up.  I have noon pick up 3 times a week.  Soccer practice, speech therapy appointments, occupational therapy appointments, soccer games, track practice, track meets . . .  then the grocery store and Target!

I drive the same route for everything except soccer.  It gets kind of boring. But today it was different.

Each day I drive down a road that t-bones into a busier road–and I need to take a left.  So it is a “quiet corner” and no one in the car can talk.

As I wait to make my left, cars are bombing down the road going straight and many cars are lined up to turn down the road I’m on . . . and I need to wait for my opportunity to go.

Today was different.  As I waited for my opportunity to go . . . it became a metaphor of my life.  Things are rushing past me, turning next to me–sometimes with an indicator and sometimes not (so I can never really trust that the car will turn), cars blocking my left turn, as I wait for them to turn left (they have the right of way) and I sit–quietly–waiting for a safe opportunity to go.

How often do opportunities come in and out of our lives . . . but it is too busy, or we are distracted, or we miss them because we couldn’t pull out fast and safe enough to grab them.

I’ve been working very hard at creating opportunities but now I’m wondering if I should stop trying so hard and just let opportunity knock at my door . . . What do you think?  do you seek opportunity?  do you let it flow to you?  or a combination?

Be Blessed.