I keep a lot of notes. My friends say my life is ridiculously busy. That I need to slow down. I need to rest. And I don’t disagree with them, but honestly it’s all I’ve ever known. And so, if I don’t write things down then I drop balls, forget important dates, and all that bad stuff. One of the things I jot down are ideas that come to me because man oh man… if I don’t, they are gone like the wind 15 minutes later.
I recently had a close friend visit me from out of town and while she was here, I jotted down a blog subject that popped into my mind. The subject was “In any given moment…” And then, I went on my merry way.
As I write this, I am in a place of anxiety. It’s nothing anyone reading this need be concerned about. It’s just a personal thing I want for myself and the outcome is in question. And so, like a good little ADHD guy, I’m trying to analyze my way through it. I’m also trying to distract myself from thinking about it.
In this case, my distraction is my very considerable “to-do” list. And there, in black and white, it says “In any given moment.”
I’m going to be completely honest with you… I say a lot of very smart things. That being said, I don’t generally give myself credit for them. When I’m on stage, or when I’m writing, I just become a voice for the angels. They put a lot of very smart things in my ditzy little head, and then I say them. So yeah… I say a lot of very smart things.
One of those very smart things I (they?) say is that you never know that any given week/day/moment will be the one that makes the big difference. Examples:
- You never know that today is the day you’ll meet the love of your life at Home Depot.
- You never know that today is the day you’ll get that job offer/promotion you’ve been dreaming of.
- You never know that today is the day that you’ll get that clean bill of health you’ve been praying for from your physician.
In short, any given moment can be a miracle. In any given moment magic can happen. And it can happen when you least expect it. In fact, I can pretty much guarantee that at least 75% of the time, it’s when you least expect it.
I think this is a smart thing to say. I think this is good advice. So why can’t I follow my own advice? Why when things get iffy or worrisome or confusing, can’t I just take my own advice and say “But Rad, you don’t know that today/tomorrow/next Thursday isn’t going to bring the outcome (or just out and out miracle) that you’ve been waiting for?
I have lately felt like the angels were trying to muscle up my faith. This to me has been an exercise in frustration and out and out confusion. In my mind, I am SOLID on faith. I’m made of faith. Heck, the Divine event sent me a dog named Faith! Why on earth do I need my faith “tested?”
Well, let me tell you I have no answer for that. Nope. I got nuthin’. But here I am. Going through that something that feels like a song stuck on repeat that I was ding-dang sure I knew every verse of.
And yet.
Source gave me a blog title a few days ago. “In any given moment.” I wrote it down because I knew I’d forget it. And as I sit here in high anxiety, I look at my “to-do” list and see “In any given moment.”
Do you ever have moments where you know you should pray, but you’re so frustrated you just don’t want to? Well, that’s how I felt just a few minutes ago. I do not want to write this blog but I know for fact I need to.
So, this is for you. And it’s also for me (the guy that never remembers to take his own advice.)
In any given moment, you don’t know that your dreams are about to come true. On any given day, you haven’t a clue that it’s the day that your miracle is going to happen. Worrying about it doesn’t help.
But faith can.
Focusing on the fact that every moment of every day of every week of every month of every year has the potential for magic in it.
So that’s my advice to you (me.) Will you take it? Will I???
Race ya to the moment…