Prepare for the blessings that you are expecting

Prepare for the blessings that you are expecting                                         020111

            Happy New Year to you all! What a blessing to be found alive in 2011. I hope this year will bring to you the blessings that you expect. May it bring prosperity beyond your expectations.

            When some cargo is to be transported to some place by water transport, the boat or ship that is dispatched depends on the size of the river along which the goods are to be transported. If the goods to be transported are few, the smallest boat can be employed and all is well. If, however, large quantities of goods are to be transported, a larger vessel is needed, and a larger channel for the boat to fit in. The largest vessels are used to transport goods from continent to continent via the sea because there are no limits as far as the sea is concerned. It is wide enough and deep enough for any ship to travel.

            Water transport is used to move goods across big dams too. These vessels have a limit in terms of size because the dams on which they travel allow only a certain size of boat to travel comfortably. If the goods have to move through a river, the particular river has to always contain enough water to allow the boats to pass through; otherwise they get stuck in the sand. The river has to be deep enough and wide enough. If the river is small, it will allow only small boats, which will be able to carry only a certain amount of goods. If large quantities of goods are to be carried through a narrow channel then the small boats will have to do many runs through and in most cases only a limited number of these vessels can travel through at any given time since they may not be able to pass each other when travelling in the opposite direction.

            Your life is a destination of certain goods every time. The amount of goods that can come your way at any given time depends on the size of the river channels that you dig around you. If you have only small rivers around you, only small boats can come your way with limited resources. If you dig big rivers there is capacity for big vessels to bring larger loads to your port. A small channel compromises, not only the size of the vessels to come at any given time, but the number too. If your channel is one hundred kilometres long and allows only one boat at any given time, (because two boats cannot cross each other anywhere along the channel,) then it means for the duration of time when one small boat is bringing the few goods it can carry, you cannot hope to receive anything else. You have to wait for it to go back again the whole way before another one can come to replenish your supplies. If the goods brought are not enough to last until the next vessel comes then you are in trouble.

            There is hope in that the blessings that you want to come your way do not come via some physical river which you do not have control over its size. They come to you depending on your preparedness. It takes some time for a river to cut a channel deep enough for big vessels to come through. It may take a bit of time before you can receive the goods you want but you have to keep working at it. If you do not deepen and widen the channels, no one will do it for you. It is your responsibility to prepare yourself for the blessings you want.

            The areas you want the blessings to flow will determine the amount of work that you have to do. If you want academic rewards you have to increase your capacity in the academic sense. You have to spend many hours studying in order to get good grades. If you expect distinctions but continue to spend more time playing then you will not get the reward. The academic boats that can travel such a narrow channel will not be able to carry the distinctions that you want. You have to widen the channel and deepen it enough for big things to flow.

            If you want a promotion at work you have to work for it. The amount and quality of work that you produce should be commensurate with your expectation. You must have the papers that qualify you to occupy that position. If you do not do enough you may not be able to see the ship that you expect to come carrying your promotion because the channel that you provided is too narrow for such great things to fit in. Those who seek spiritual blessings will have to prepare themselves to work hard in the same way. Without this hard work there is no hope of receiving the blessings that you want.

            There are many things that could be yours this year if you work hard enough to prepare the way for these blessings to flow. What you will have depends on how prepared you are to receive it. Keep deepening and widening the channels.