Don’t Miss New Opportunities!

By Dr. Synesio Lyra, Jr.

A great tragedy affecting large numbers of the human population, pertains to missed opportunities in life. Many live without a compass, never consult a map, and operate from the wrong script.

These are people who simply let life happen to them instead of discovering and following the plan and design the Creator had pre-ordained for maximum fulfilment in their earthly trajectory.

Many persons are easily satisfied with a mediocre life instead of the kind of existence available if they earnestly seek the pattern of what it can and must be for their personal enjoyment and for impact on others.

Very recently I was reflecting on these issues when my eyes fell on a phrase from an author I was reading, which somewhat sums it all up. He wrote: “Many of us refuse to grow where we are put, consequently we take root nowhere.”

A most meaningful challenge for all to heed is, “Bloom where you are planted!” Allow the storms which may surround you, and the winds of change which may confuse you, to provide new incentives to remain on course and fearlessly to keep on keeping on! Do not wait for conditions to improve before you attempt something great. Even in the midst of any other trouble, in the face of giant obstacles, in frail health or with limited resources, you can still take a positive step forward in the execution of any project.

Dr. Howard G. Hendricks offered a meaningful reminder when he wrote: “We are all faced with a series of opportunities, brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.” Indeed, some people thrive on challenges and even welcome impossibilities which they creatively transform into significant, new realities!

Others, sadly, become paralysed the moment things do not go their way; they prefer to seek a safe refuge elsewhere and dismiss all previous attempts in pursuing their objectives. But as anyone can easily recognize, the dictionary is the only place where “success” comes before “work.” Only through persistence, sweat and tears, may one’s goals be reached, and often transcended!

Sometimes you may need to take detours along the way and even experience unpleasant hardships, but as long as it is the unequivocal path for you to follow, such is the right road where you need to remain! After all, for every problem there is a solution; some take longer than others but all can be resolved!

As I’ve written before, no door of hope, no gate of opportunity, will ever be shut to you if, with endurance and determination, you seek to enter it. Along with the opportunities God grants us all, we’re also provided with infinite resources for real triumph! Remember, big opportunities start quite small before they reach the level intended for them. Don’t miss any which may seek entrance at the doors of your heart and of your mind, even when you least expect it. Capture the moment, seize the opportunity, and run away with it into fulfilment!