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When My Preparation Met Opportunity
“Everything we choose to do during our lifetimes and everything that comes into our realm of consciousness is preparing us for something we will be called to do in the future.” ~ Connie Ragen Green
I have long known that nothing is an accident or a coincidence or just plain luck. I came to this conclusion after too many things in my life came about after I planted the seeds in my mind and focused on them. I’ll share some examples here with you, but first I want to give this subject the time it deserves as a way to lay the foundation of this much bigger concept.
It was just my mother and I while I was growing up. There were a few other players, but none of them were committed to helping us live even a half full life. They came and went and disappeared just at the moment when we most needed something. Something like food, or clothing, or a place to live, or simply a break from being “as poor as Job’s turkey,” a reference used by my mother. It came from the Book of Job in the Old Testament and had been a part of her Methodist upbringing in Missouri during the 1920s.
Being poor is embarrassing for a child. We were surrounded by working class and middle class families who didn’t understand why we chose to not have a car, or fashionable clothes, or even a telephone. It never crossed their mind that it wasn’t our choice.
