Destiny secured

My eye recently fell on a pregnant friend. I saw how she sat with her legs raised on a chair. I commented on how comfortable she looked, yet her puffy feet and the expression on her face told a different story. Her anticipation of meeting her beloved daughter is more than her desire to see the culmination of her pregnancy. This process also entails hearing her little girl testing the capacity of her lungs to announce her arrival on earth. What awaits my friends would be watching over their bundle of joy, naturing her, protecting her interests, and making key decisions vital to her development. Naturally, there will come a time when this young baby will develop into a young woman deciding the direction, she will take to follow her destiny. 

Along the way, I am certain that she will one day realize that there are moments when we have to wait on the door of opportunity to open and other times we have to create the conditions for which to fit the door frame to those opportunities. Life is a gift, but it will only reward those who do not subscribe to a mentality of entitlement. Unless we embark on a journey with the intention of reaching our destiny, life will not chauffeur us to its driveway. It is along the journey that character is fortified and the framework of one’s identity is solidified. It is when others expect one to take what is less than your worth, in your stride, that you have no problem in closing the door on mediocrity. 

There is no doubt that life is not scripted to be without challenges. In fact, the pitfalls of life create the soil in which we are often destined to flourish. We can never abandon the promise of a greater future on the doorstep of misfortune. It is here that we break free from the mundane grip which has an objective to discourage us. Destiny is reached through determination and leaving the ruin of the past is shrouded in an ability to decline fruitless propositions. The reality is that every door, both good and bad, holds the potential of propelling us closer to our predetermined fate. It is when we are brought in conversation with what is foreign to our destiny that we have important decisions to make.

I am of the belief that arriving on the doorstep of destiny should be a crowning moment of all the experiences we have gained along the way. If we have not appropriated the wisdom, we have gained through our dissipation, we will never be able to appreciate the banquet of plenty. Often the losses of our former life provide us with greater freedom to be domiciled in the atmosphere of abundance. It is when we have been defrauded of opportunities that we learn how to appreciate the ownership of a commodity. It is only when we know the heart-wrenching pain of a disloyal friend that it teaches us to value those who are all-season comrades. 

We were all once babies nestled in the womb. Now we live a life, hopefully of purpose. For no one comes this far to be satisfied with living an accidental life. For a life of purpose clearly demonstrates the desire to not merely accidentally fall into destiny, but to arrive at its door being fully aware of the value of what is required to journey there.