Monday morning cup of thoughts
redefining our beliefs
I received more responses to last week’s post than any other post I’ve written. When I first sat down to write it, I had intended to talk about my yoga class (still coming). Instead, I found myself writing what was the first half of Imagine. After an hour or so I stopped writing, thinking I must not have been in the mood to write. I deemed the writing to be a bit of personal gratitude.
The next evening, the night before my post was due, I sat down again to write about my yoga class. Instead, what made its way to the page was the completion of Imagine.
Tonight as I was catching up with one of my favorite shows Ted Lasso, I heard this quote,
It didn’t happen to me. It happened for me.
The quote summed up so beautifully what I shared in Imagine.
We go through much of our life with blinders on. Must be a reason, don’t ya think?
But let’s play with that quote, what if… every experience we deemed negative would, in time, be considered a blessing?
It didn’t happen to me. It happened for me.
Is it just me? I love this idea.
That can be a helpful attitude and often turns out to be true when we look back after we have recovered from bad experiences.
However, I don’t think it’s always true and sometimes it helps to just acknowledge that bad things can happen without any later benefit. Kate Bowler’s book “Everything Happens For a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved” explains that far better and in greater depth than I can here.
I watched that same episode. Great quote.