Fingers ready for Five Minute Friday to be back. Anticipating. Here comes the word:
Opportunity.
I stare at my screen. Short on words.
And I realize, opportunity swirls around as negative in my mind. Opposed to trust.
Maybe I confuse it with being opportunistic. Surely that’s not good.
Or perhaps it’s my MBA days and I think of opportunity cost, alternative courses of life. Trying to calculate the best action.
Yes, that’s part of it! Opportunity seems so business-like to me.
I breathe deep. Reshuffle my thoughts.
I glance at the New Year’s calendar: open, ready, full of hope.
Full of unknown opportunities, hope- the redemption of the word.
Opportunities offered from God’s hand. Rather than spreadsheets and silos of selfish gain.
On that rock and offering I place my hope, the opportunities to be unveiled.
Thank you for journeying on my random trail of processing the word and my resistance to it!
Participating in Lisa Jo’s 5 Minute Friday. Write for five minutes- no over thinking, no backtracking. Link back. Encourage the person whose link is before yours.
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Prompt today: Opportunity.
Yes!! The new year is so open and full of hope!! Like a giant canvas waiting to be painted! May you be ever so in tune with God’s whisper leading you to the opportunities he has waiting for you. Open doors all around! I extend my encouragement and hope to you, oh sister of mine! May this year hold all kinds of adventure 🙂
I was thinking the same thing. I just couldn’t find the words to express my prayers that God’s opportunity awaits our action. Prayers that we will all grasp and take firm hold of what He puts before us.
I think you make such a good point here — often we get so bogged down in our connotations of these words that if we don’t open ourselves up to His spirit, we might miss His message. Wonderful!
Great post.
Yes, the secular aspect of opportunity often snakes around the spiritual truth of opportunity.
“we walk my faith not my sight” has been the verse The Lord keeps bringing to my mind this New Year.
Your post really expounds on that.
Cheers,
Leah
Thank you for your honesty! I suppose our opinions on “opportunity” depend on our experiences with it. Taking an opportunity doesn’t always work out and it usually requires some risk. That’s hard for anyone, I’d imagine.
Christy @ A Heartening Life
http://www.ahearteninglife.com
Oh how I get this!
hope- the redemption of the word…
amen.
complete side note–because you reminded me of it
I told my husband this morning that I must not have an issue with hope. he stared at me probably how you are looking at the screen right now. then I said “Think I’ll put my summer clothes away now.” 😉
enjoyed chatting with you last night–no matter how short! {HUGS}
When I think of the word “opportunity” I automatically want to add some color to it, as in “GOLDEN opportunity”. Being open & transparent w/you, I must admit how often I’ve procrastinated on doing what God has placed before me as YES His golden opportunity! For me, my procrastination is the GRAVE in which I too often bury divine opportunities!
Hi dear Melanie
So honest and truthful! Thank you. I think that to be opportunistic might just be the world’s way of seeing and living the wonderful opportunity we have to live in our Lord!
So nice to see your sweet smile again at FMF!
Much love
Mia
Ah yes…. I am learning to see Change as Opportunity… it requires a shift in my thinking and a willingness to take Risk! The New year is full of Hope and unknown… and no matter how we calculate it – He is holding it all in the palm of His hand!
Hey Melanie,
Happy New Year! How is house training your sheltie pup coming along? What a great reminder to not see only the cost of an opportunity…many blessings as you open to His leading in the new year 🙂
Yes. Opportunity. When I read that Opportunity was our Five Minute Friday my mind could not shake the business professional’s definition. I struggled with the harsh, cold definition that contrasts greatly to God’s definition of Opportunity. I love how you unwrapped and discovered the meaning of God’s Opportunity in this post! I was right there with you, peering into the box, as you opened the gift!