Life Question: What would you most like to see changed in your life, or in your relationships?

One of the most difficult emotional battles that we have often are those in which we are faced with having to believe that tomorrow will be better. When the realities of our situations, relationships, and outcomes of previously made decisions weigh heavy on our hearts, we cannot help but feel a little helpless. Perhaps even a bit angry.

Life Question: Is there anything you can do to change your current situation?

Facing solvable issues is one thing. Getting from point A to point B when we have a map to follow and know the direction in which to start is more about just getting there, than how to get there in the first place. How can we expect to change our current situations when we are not at the center of the situation? When there are others who must also change direction with us? So many of us have felt, at one time or another, imprisoned to the abilities of others. We feel that we can't move without their moving first. Often times, this is the reality.

Life Question: What needs do I have that are not being met right now?

Not only do we count on the fact that with every tomorrow comes a new hope, and that others around us will honor the necessary continued growth and change that must be accomplished ... but in the middle of it all are those small little voices of our need. The need we have when there are things in our lives that cannot be changed right away. The need we have when there are questions that do not have answers. The need that speaks up every time we ache to go forward, but are faced with a closed door to which we do not hold the key.

Life Question: What in my life is suffering because of certain changes not occurring?

So often we find ourselves at the closed door, waiting. We grow impatient and beat on it even. We grow weary and lean up against it. We don't want to step away from it, because if we do, we may miss the moment it opens. We even find ourselves yelling through the thick metal ... "You've got to open this door!!!" All the while there are other things in our lives that are suffering because we are un-able to step away. Those in our lives that need us, or love us, and the many other tasks and duties that may be falling by the wayside without our total emotional and physical presence. When we feel that we've done all the we could, and now believe it is up to others to do their part, to open the door for us ... we feel stuck.

In our situations, those we have the opportunity to grow with and change with, and those we have no control over, we can only believe that the best is yet to come. When we believe that the best will come ... when we step away from the door long enough to take care of ourselves and everything else in our lives ... by the time we return to the door we stand before it with our needs met, our lives full, and our hearts open to whatever we will find when it opens. As we operate in the hope of all things yet to come, we prepare our hearts to greet them when they arrive. Focusing on what we can change, on what needs we can meet, and cultivating goodness in every other aspect of our lives will result in our opportunities to step through the future open doors with our complete selves.

Life Question: What can I do now with the present that will result in greatness of what is yet to come?

Doing our best in the now will result in small glimpses of things to come.

We plant seeds of change, growth, and purpose and though it may take A while ... we will see the beauty of our labors.

There is always something we can do ... even in the face of a closed door.