INFINITE POSSIBILITIES

Continuing my reflection on this prayer of Saint Terese of Liseaux: "Today may there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content and give thanks in all situations. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us." 

Don Quixote could dream what everyone else believed to be impossible only because he had faith in himself. Maybe no one else had faith in him, but that was all right with Don Quixote. He did not need their faith to accomplish what he set out to accomplish. But he certainly needed faith in himself otherwise he would simply be chasing windmills, which is exactly what all those unbelievers told him he was doing.

 

We can do most anything if we have faith in ourselves, believe in ourselves. That is not always easy especially if we have failed more often than we would like to admit. However, when we think about those failures, we often find that there were the result of simply not having enough faith in ourselves to do what we set out to do. We were in a no-win situation because we believed we were in a no-win situation and not because the situation was not winnable.

Then there are those times when we have all the faith in the world in ourselves but know we cannot accomplish what we want to because we cannot do it all by ourselves. If we begin to believe that victory rests solely in our hands, defeat will almost always be the result. Our team will never win the game if each of us believes that s/he has to win it all by one’s lonesome self.

There are indeed infinite possibilities ahead of us, even where we are in the moment, if we believe in ourselves and believe in one another. We need this faith especially when we find ourselves in situations where we would rather not be, wondering why we are here and how we got here in the first place.

So much in this world and in our own lives that could be done, that needs to be done, is left undone because we do not have enough faith in ourselves or in others to get it done. We are afraid to dream dreams because we believe them to be impossible.

However, for these dream to become realities, this faith of ours, individually and collectively, has to come alive and be the controlling factor in our lives. And in order to accomplish what needs to be done, we first must be at peace within ourselves, trusting that this situation, this place, is exactly where we were meant to be at this moment in time. When this is our mindset, the possibilities, the dreams, are infinite.e did notHe d