Little Miss What Will Be Will Be…or will it?
Recently, one of my favorite songs is Dwin The Stoic's Winning bread. Though I'm not doing a lot of that Winning bread that is, Most of the lyrics resonate deeply with me.
At one point He sings "what will be will be but can it please be good" and call it wishful thinking, but I believe we all so desperately need the odds; fate, chance, destiny, the Universe, or God, whatever you think controls our experiences here on earth to constantly be in our favor.
I for one have a very go-lucky approach to life, taking each day as it comes and going with the flow of it but sometimes I wonder what if I decide to do things differently, what if instead of waiting to roll with whatever life throws at me, I grab the steering wheel and charter my course.
Truth be told, as exhilarating as that sounds it doesn’t come without its worries, as chartering new courses will mean unmapped terrains and would involve stumbling through dark tunnels without the certainty of light at the end of it. It will mean that if anything goes wrong, I’ll have no one but myself to blame and herein I believe is the comfort found in going with the flow.
When going with the flow, it is easy to say that someone or something has orchestrated all that is happening and as such has a plan. So I can rest easy in that great plan but a great fault to my logic is what I think is one of humanity’s greatest strength: the power of our will. Our ability to choose between different conditions or situations and follow through with it.
I believe in God and His omniscience as such I believe that He knows all there is to my life and has predestined all there is to me. Regardless, He has left me with the choice to do whatever I will even if it comes against all His principles.
That means the outcome of my life, good or bad will be a cumulation of all my choices. So life will continue to spin its wheel of uncertainty but my power lies in this moment in choosing what I will or will not do as I await whatever comes.
Don’t be a stranger, tell me what you think in the comments.
