Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dreams
…29 Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt, 30 but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten and the famine will devastate the land. 31 The abundance in the land will not be remembered due to the famine that follows it, for the famine will be extremely severe.…
The ebb and flow of life is a constant awareness that the years of plenty, are followed by lean times encouraging us to take stock of the lessons that we are being taught, to better prepare us for the unexpected.
During my early school years my history lessons attracted me to the voyages of discovery by Vasco Da Gama, Francis Drake, Christopher Colombus, and James Cook encouraging me to venture outside my home town to visit peoples, and places expanding my experiences, enabling me to bloom, and blossom into all that life invites me to become, by participating in its dance to discover who I am.
Meeting and overcoming obstacles is one of life's many opportunities to grow us into a wiser, and more enterprising explorer never waylaid by the trials we meet on our trek into our tomorrows.
“Know Him in all your paths, and He will keep your ways straight” ~Proverbs 3:6
Our path ahead transforms us into all that it bestows upon us, when we freely choose to accept its invitation to follow its route through our life rewarding us with joyous surprises, and wonder born out of our faith in its devotion to our well being.
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. ~Pope John Paul II
One of life's many lessons informs us that our fellow travellers can be our most rewarding teachers, for they reveal to us that which we should avoid to ensure that their destructive habits should never become ours.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. ~ Khalil Gibran
To do, and do not journeys with us to educate the enthusiastic pupil of life's adventures that our schooling is a door leading us out of our self imposed boundaries, into a world where we participate to the fullest, with our creator's invitation to dance to our heart's desire.
All we can ever know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown, luring us into its embrace to better know who we are becoming.
William Shakespeare's words attributed to Brutus encourage us to act with some urgency, upon the inspiration that emerges from our inner self, enabling us to flow with the rising tide:
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
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