To Pursue or Try Another Avenue?

To Pursue or Try Another Avenue?

Original Article by Minister Leslie

April 2018

So, you have your sights set on a particular item; your dream house, a new car, custom yacht, tailor-made wedding dress. or one-of-a-kind, imported piece of furniture from Japan that you found on eBay.  Maybe it's a new career you've been tenaciously pursuing. Maybe, come hell or high water, you've vowed to get a mail order bride from over seas or Mr. Right, whom you found on a dating site and already have his and hers pillows purchased for.  You may be pursuing a particular cause, in an attempt to help the underdogs, or trying to raise funds for someone less fortunate. Whatever it is you've been trying to do, for some reason or the other, it hasn't been working out.

We've all been there.  What do we normally say when this happens?  "Maybe it's just my bad luck." Well, maybe it's not.  What's that famous line in the movie Star Wars?  "May the force be with you."  If, during your most important endeavors, you sense the "the force" has abandoned you even though you've aggressively sought to reach your goal, believe me there's more that lies beneath than bad luck.

If the "the force" seems to be with you through your other endeavors, yet evades you in one particular area, it simply means that "the force" or Spirit is trying to gently redirect you. If you fail to redirect you're like a mouse in a maze attempting to get that yummy piece of cheese; the poor thing smells the cheese but keeps running into the wall that separates it from its prize.  Maybe it's meant for the mouse to obtain the cheese, but it's not meant for it to obtain it today.  The maze it's in today may just be the testing ground to see how ambitious it is; how badly it wants the cheese.  Maybe the lab technicians prefer to reward the mouse with a better tasting piece of cheese in a different maze in the near future.  Little does the mouse know that today's maze doesn't have a clear path to the cheese and will only be met with walls. Yet, the ignorant creature has crawled that maze 100 times today to no avail.

So are we, when we pursue that which will never be.  Can that mouse still get the cheese today? Maybe, if it bites, chews and claws its way through the wall.  But, in the process it may bloody itself, break off a few teeth, or injure its fingers. So, it gets what it wants, but at what price? We, too, can reach our goal after defiantly going after it by throwing caution to the wind and disobeying our intuition and spiritual helpers.  You know, that gut feeling we get when "something" tells us not to cross that busy street. yet we cross it anyway.

I've learned throughout the years that "the force" is indeed with me when I pursue something, and the door opens without me having to pick the lock (so-to-speak).  Are there times when using some of my own creativity and skill help open those doors?  Absolutely.  But again, when "the force" is with me and I use my own wits and/or skill, the door will open the first or second time.  I won't have to wait for the 50th time for it to open.  So, if you find that you had to kick the door down and you broke your foot in the process, don't jump up and down with joy (especially not on that broken foot of yours) and break your arm patting yourself on the back because you cleverly found a way in.  Most likely, when you finally got in you were met with chaos, drama, pain, and heartache instead of peace, harmony, and happiness. There were plenty of times that my tenaciousness got me through locked doors, but terrible things ensued afterwards. 

I've demonstrated my point with many analogies and, hopefully, my point has been taken.  If you still require clarity, I'll just tell you plainly.  If you applied for a job, didn't get an answer or was given a flat-out "no" and you reapplied right away, demanded a second interview, or attempted to get the job in an unethical way, the force was not with you and it wasn't meant for you to get that job or at least not at that time.

If you relentlessly went after someone who has declined your offer too many times to count and you wound up dating or marrying them anyway, most likely a more suitable suitor or companion was on the way.  You may have gotten whom you wanted but your situation could've actually been a lot better had you let the fish you caught escape.  In telling you this, I'm not implying we don't have free will or that we must look to destiny by waiting for someone to fall into our lap.  On the contrary.

This may sound funny but someone in search of a house may think it's the right time to look.  But if they've viewed house after house, reach the brink of their frustration after viewing the 50th house, then miraculously all goes well, and they buy the 51st house... watch out!  Could it be haunted? Could the walls be mold-infested?  If they had to view that many homes before settling on one, they're probably in for some rough times ahead after they move in.  I've had many of these types of experiences in my life.  It took years for me to stop fighting against the grain, learn to obey my intuition, (yes, that gut feeling), and know when to pursue or try a different avenue.

If you get readings from ten psychics when you want to find out if you should pursue a person, career, or make an important purchase and all or most of them advise against it, please stop, wait, or do something different altogether.  If a tarot card reader said "The Hanged Man" card came up in your reading, that's a definite sign that you should at least wait to proceed with your tenacious pursuit.  In many cases it's warning you to stop that which you are doing because it's just not working or may be working against you.  Don't go against the grain.  Know when to pursue or try another avenue.