Oh, the possibilities!

Unpredictable Life

“Life is unpredictable and usually never goes the way we plan it or would like it to go, but we have it, and with life anything is possible.”

Rashida Rowe

January is an tricky month for me. I always try to see ahead and plan for every possibility, and I always fall far from the mark. This year, I did not do what I have done in the past—run my credit card bills up buying Christmas presents. I thought that by being conservative and paying for gifts at the time I bought them, I would not end up in January scrambling to pay off credit cards. And it worked! I don't have high credit card bills! Instead, I received the quarterly statement for my homeowner's Insurance and my car insurance bills in one fell swoop! Bang! It's always something! Sometimes, I feel like The Joker is in charge of my life.

You know, we humans are strange animals. We get bored if a book we're reading, or a movie we're watching is predictable, but we we expect life, with all its variables, to be. Like that old poem, “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley, we want to believe, “I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.” All I can say is, don't let Spirit hear you say that. She'll throw a wrench in your works in a nano-second.

Fact is, only a few things in life are predictable...taxes...death...and we don't like either one of those, so let's get with the program. Let's learn to be light on our feet, so we can dodge and weave, and be ready for all possibilities. Life is unpredictable, and truth be told, we wouldn't have it any other way.

                  In the Spirit,

                    Jane