I couldn’t hack hard enough. Spit flying out of my mouth. Gagging and coughing I hacked as hard as I could.
Trying to wrangle the kids just inside of the garage, the electricians were behind the house on an electric pole running wire for internet (Yes. There are still areas that do not have internet- smile). As I turned to command the kids – not one but two flies flew down my throat. Immediately I began to gag. I couldn’t hack or spit hard enough.
The kids roared watching me. I could only envision what the men on the electric poles thought. They probably froze in unbelief as I stood bent over gagging up flies onto the garage floor. Before they left they asked what was for supper, “Beef tips and rice, carrots and cornbread,” I stated before thinking. Realizing they knew what had happened, I should’ve said “fly casserole.”
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
William Gladstone
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In contrast. I was working a craft fair not long ago and met another book seller there. She came up to my table and we visited about our books and how the day was going. I told her I was expecting to sell out and grinned as we visited, expecting her to say the same. Instead, she said that she didn’t expect to sell any books at all. I thought about what she had said when she left. If we live our lives not expecting anything that is exactly what we are going to get. I would rather be guilty of believing God for too much than for nothing at all. “Now to HIM who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all I could ask or think, according to the power that works in us,” Ephesians 3:20.
It is indeed wise to believe something wonderful is about to happen.
Pursuing the isles of the local drug store, in search of after Christmas treasures to purchase, I heard two ladies talking behind me, “You know,” said one to the other, “I wish I had been like that when I was young; taking chances, buying the property, living for my dreams. Instead, my husband and I played it safe. We never had the vision for anything past what we had. Now I regret it.” Picking up unique little trinkets and deciding on a set of beautiful deep green hobnob candle holders that would decorate my kitchen table beautifully, I listened intently. They had no idea in my shopping I was overhearing their conversation. Without realizing it, they encouraged me to take chances, calculated risks, to sail out into deep waters, to live my life in such a way where I do not have any regrets. “Again, he measured on one thousand, and it was a river that I could not cross; for the water was too deep, water which one must swim, a river that could not be crossed,” Ezekiel 47:5.
The long gestation period of an elephant allows for advanced level of brain development. It’s used to recognize the structure of the matriarchal society around them. And to help them feed themselves. Also, when an elephant herd is on the move, the pace is adjusted to allow to the calves to keep up. But none of that would be possible were it not for the 680 days in the womb. The complex neural development that occurs during this period has given them a head start, allowing them to survive from birth.
If the vision you’re carrying inside of you is birthed too soon it won’t be able to sustain itself or have the ability to keep up when the herd around you is on the move.
There is a season when development of vision and dreams is being nutured in the womb of the Holy Spirit. -but never is there a place for apathy or no vision. God will cast vision so long as we continue looking for it. He doesn’t have a retirement date set for you.
Don’t pay too much for a whistle, don’t live unexpecting, and don’t live without vision. Make the world better for those coming behind you- go slow enough for them to keep up, they may be in a growing season themselves; take chances, sail into deep waters, get a vision for what God is calling you, and live believing something great is about to happen.
And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. 1 John 1:4
