Ready Or Not, The Future Is Coming

​The future is always an opportunity.

Until we decide it's not.

It's interesting. If I look upon my life today, so many of the opportunities I have this day are built on experiences and days that I would have considered threats in my life. Built on things that at the time made me fear the future - debate whether or not I even WANTED a future.

Many of you who have been reading me for some time don't need me to tell you that many days I am writing about the life I am trying to make of the broken parts of me, and not about a guy celebrating an unbroken journey through life.

What a gift it is to come to know - to believe - that even the things that make us fear or mistrust the future can be the blocks on which we build a future.

What a gift it is to come to know that time isn't waiting for me to decide what I will do with tomorrow before tomorrow comes barging into my life. In fact, tomorrow has barged into my life in spite of my objections enough times now that I can no longer consider tomorrow some kind of a surprise party.

Maybe some of us need to get better at surprising tomorrow. Surprise it by standing at the door waiting for it instead of hiding in a closet hoping it won't notice you're still around.

Hoping it will give up on the knocking and simply go away.

Tomorrow is here. And we can now make something of it.

It might be a scary day, a day filled with challenges, a day we had planned to look quite differently when we were planning for its arrival - but we CAN still make something of it.

Or not....