Trouble Ahead: how to avoid danger

Change lanes to avoid unpleasant trouble

Wouldn’t it be nice if life were like a map app? When trouble comes up, we would know where to turn or where to go. Maybe we would stop and turn around. Take a detour or plan accordingly. Life isn’t like that. We don’t always know what’s ahead. We can plan our day, our year or future and plan goals to the detail yet things don’t always go as we hope.

Imagine you have a plan for the year, you have a great job lined up, ready to get out of your comfort zone and step into your future! The new impowered you. It took courage and strength you knew you always had, but still struggled with. Everything is lined up and the week of the move, the job falls through. Where is the road map for that? Where is the life manual that tells us what to do or who to turn to when life doesn’t go the way the best laid plans are set to.

Look for the positive

The truth is no amount of planning or detailed process is going to always go as planned. You can plot and outline, but if people are involved, you cannot change another person nor know how they are going to react. Out growing situations, relationships, jobs. Some people handle change well, others not at all well and don’t like it. The problem with this is that everything changes.

Signs everywhere

There are signs everywhere, if we are just open to them. There was even a top 5 hit song in 1971, by Five Man Electric Band called Signs. “Signs, signs, everywhere signs, do this don’t do that, can’t you read the signs”. Some signs aren’t visual, but if you are open, you will know they are there. All around you. Open an email, hear a song, a commercial, a chat with a friend. All pointing you in a certain direction.

Learning

It is in the trying, difficult times we learn the most. You can take any situation and learn something from it. If you can spin it negative, you can spin it positive! God will not move us or reveal to us what we should be doing if we can’t handle the little things well. Until we can prove we are worthy of more, we may stay stuck. Face it, most of us would turn and run if we knew how things would play out along the way before we get the big picture. While we may not know how it all works out or how it ends, trust and do your best. See that you can turn it around and by taking small steps each day, you can achieve big things.

Take small steps

What are some of the ways you find to avoid the big roadblocks or small steps you take to reach your goal? Write below in the comments, maybe add a list! Do several small steps. One step at a time.