Is your biggest frustration your biggest blessing disguised as trouble?

My brother is literally 2200 miles away from me, but sometimes we are so much on the same wavelength that it is scary! He and my mom are my sounding boards about everything! They hear it all! When I’m happy, when I’m sad, when I’m scared, when I’m depressed, when I’m lost, they know it all! I recently sent them a text and I was so upset over a situation that I couldn’t see the big picture, or a way out. Sitting at my desk one morning, my brother sends me a text and says you need to call me, I need three minutes! I went into the conference room to call him, he says to me, you have been on my heart for three days, I need to tell you something, you need to shut up and listen to me, and don’t get defensive. In the course of that conversation, he said this, and I quote “What if your biggest frustration is your biggest blessing disguised as trouble?”

Deep!! It took me 24 hours to really process what he was saying. He told me about this great opportunity that I was being handed and I wasn’t seeing it! He told me how I needed to quit doubting myself and realize my potential, and what I am capable of doing!

What if you were keeping yourself stuck in lack, stuck in depression, stuck in life because you’re failing to see the blessing of where you’re at! What if it is really you keeping yourself stuck in that rut! The mind is a very funny thing! The heart is a very funny thing! Like the Scripture says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

What are you doing right now to get out of your rut, to get unstuck from that deep wet muddy situation that you’re in. Are you spending so much time staring at the dark rainy clouds to see that the rainbow has popped out and that the sun is shining over your life?

Honestly, for me the jury is still out on whether I find this situation a blessing or not, but maybe by changing my attitude about it, I will gain clarity and direction that I wouldn’t receive if I were just sitting around down in the dumps only seeing the bad in it. This troubling situation may just be the education that I need to change things in my life and without it, I wouldn’t change. I don’t know yet, but I know that when we need wisdom and direction in our life, God sends us a word, a person, a situation, to shake us, to wake us up and re direct us on where we’re going.

So, I say this again…Is your biggest frustration your biggest blessing disguised as trouble? Change your thinking and you might find your answer.

With love for you all,

Shauna