An A-Ha Moment/Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize

Guest Musing
By Morenike E. Evans

It's like an A-Ha moment!
Anyway just a thought.

Sometimes we want something so badly in our lives. In fact, we craft our entire career toward that end.

We do the work, we put in the time and we STILL don't get it! Sometimes this can be devastating, humiliating, definitely disappointing. Having invested so much time in a dream only for it not to come true.

But this is when it's time to examine the soul of that dream or desire. What is it we really want to achieve? What passion or cause are we trying to fulfill?

Perhaps our notion of how that dream will be fulfilled is not God's plan. This doesn't mean that the dream itself won't be fulfilled.

Take for example Al Gore. His entire career was built to serve society through politics. He was a congressman, a vice president of the U.S. I'm sure he felt his best way to envoke change and touch people's lives was by having the most powerful job in the world (arguably)-- President of the United States.

He worked hard, tirelessly but the dream was cruelly (if not illegally!) taken away from him. It almost seemed as if he had no more fight in him. How infuriated and slighted and humiliated he must have felt! But he went underground for a while. He reenergized and found his passion and was fueled by that.

Today he is an Oscar winner, an innovative tv exec and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient! He has fulfilled his passion of effecting change and empowering people, AND has achieved things he probably never dreamed of.

So remember this as you go through your days trying to navigate life. It may not be how we see things happening. It is how God wants it to happen. And it WILL happen if you keep moving toward your passion, but open your mind to how it will manifest itself.