We all have a destiny, we just have to find it
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There are no coincidences. I'm sure you have come across something that makes you think "what are the odds?" Today, I was sitting in Sacrament meeting until I felt like I needed to look at the lyrics of "Savior, Redeemer of my Soul". I had the song whispering in my head and I felt like I needed to go home after church and listen to it. As I listened through the speakers, the intermediate song was by two brethren, who happened to sing "Savior, Redeemer of my Soul". Wow. There are no coincidences. I needed to hear that, I needed to already have read the words and understood it before it was sung. I don't cry often in sacrament meeting, but today I couldn't help it. Heavenly Father helped me understand that that song was exactly what I needed to hear, I just needed to read through the words first before listening to it. There are so many other things that happen often that it always makes me wonder. I sometimes wonder how I meet certain people that I knew from Hawaii, or they're a cousin from a distant friend, or a man that was our bishop in Kansas. What are the odds? So while you think of the different things that happen, it is there for a very specific reason. It could be so minor, it may not affect you in a big way, but it is there. Sometimes, the matter may be a trial, but there are still no coincidences. It is there for a reason, it was placed there to help you learn and grow into a better individual. I truly believe there are many things that are placed in our path that we need to know, it wasn't there by coincidence. It may be wonderfully satisfying, or it may be difficult to go through, but the path is clear ahead, just allow these events as a stepping stones.
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I'm going to first start with a quote from CS Lewis: “Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”Wow, Just think about it. Do I really even need to make an entire post about this? We are always being repaired and fixed, built and built again, but we are being built to be this amazing palace that God has planned for us. Our house is not perfect, but with both ours and His efforts, we may eventually be the perfect palace God intends us to be. Let's expound on this. I'm sure you've heard of the quote: "our body is a temple", well a temple is the house of the Lord. It makes so much sense why our house would be like how C.S. Lewis described us in this quote. There is a primary song called: The Wise Man Built his House Upon a Rock. It's sung between the Wise man who built his house on a rock and the foolish man who built his house on the sand. Of course, when the rains came and the floods came, the house on the sand washed away and the house on the rock stood still. When we take care of our homes, we become firm on our rock, but if we choose to not take care of it, it would be like the house was built on the sand. When the storms come, your house will be destroyed in the floods. So as long as you take care of your internal home, keeping it clean, watching over it, taking care of it like it should be, Heavenly Father will provide the means to build upon it until we are a beautiful palace upon solid ground. I'm sure we all understand this. We have something all planned out, and then suddenly, it doesn't go as planned. It's disappointing isn't it? I really wanted to be this big trainer and all of that, but I also wanted to do other things to fulfill what I want on this mission. When they put me as a trainer, I suddenly couldn't train. It was disappointing, nobody knew I was a trainer, they kept having training meetings when I somehow had other obligations, and even when I was a trainer, someone would get trained next to me and not realize that I could've done it. I knew I had to make some sacrifices to get what I wanted, but what I was doing were so good and I couldn't really get rid of them. Doing tours at the Conference Center was my stress relief and a way to get away from the desk, and I'm never going to lose being choir director. An important lesson I learned is if I'm doing my best and doing things that I enjoy, other opportunities will come towards me in its own time. Being a big trainer might've not been right now, the time may come, it may not, but if I keep working hard, I can find a path I possibly wouldn't expect ahead for me. And I did receive a training opportunity as they were willing to adjust around my schedule. Now I get the opportunity to train off-campus missionaries on our work online. That way I can do it any time I am able to, working around my schedule. That was an opportunity I was not expecting. Things may not go as planned, but they need to work out the way it needs to. If you were planning something and it fell through, it shouldn't be the end of the world. It means that Heavenly Father had something else planned for that moment. It doesn't matter how minor, as perhaps whatever that was, it wasn't supposed to happen, rather something else will come up, something that is meant for you. Change happens, I've spoken about this in previous posts about change. This follows very much along those lines, as change is a common happening in our lives. Perhaps it didn't go as planned, but there could be something personally to you that is even better than you had ever anticipated. We are all born to create An idea can be anything It's all in our fate By how God created man Like a rock in the sea Rubbed by water and sand Becomes a beautiful stone Just like we can Create naturally on our own A businessman, a fighter A lawyer, an actor We are all the writer Of a glorious fate We are born of God Because we are born to create I know there is the subject on who is left brained and who is right brained, but if you really think about it, both sides create things. Perhaps one is of the arts, but the other is just as creative as logic is still filled with ideas. Heavenly Father includes that in the major part of our destiny, the destiny of creativity. Ideas is what makes this world where it is, and ideas turn into inventions or things you have never seen before. Who do you think invented mathematics? Made a light-bulb light our our bedroom? Who do you think created the computer so I can even write this post to you? What about the internet, the start of a new business, the style of clothes, the personality studies, who created those? We are all creators. It's amazing isn't it? You don't need to be right brained to create something. God created us "like unto Himself", and he created the entire Earth with us on it. If we are like our Heavenly Father, he also created us to create. So think about what you have created. What things have you accomplished? You create your way towards your destiny, that is how life takes you whether you realize it or not. |
Kaylee CasuttI have been writing for over eight years now and have been both building to publish my first book and serve as a service-missionary of The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Everything I write will contribute to the journey destined I have been striving to find and build. Archives
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