Angels, Wars and Pyrrhic Victories

You find a friend who walks into your life when you most needed her.  This angel incarnate senses discomfort, maybe distress before you know it.  Takes your hand, the pressure gone as if it never existed.

The angel vanishes once your strength matches the task at hand.  She’s shown you inner strength you didn’t know existed.

The angel is gone, but is she?  Not if you believe in yourself and those who care for you in ways that you may not understand.  The angel is always there – providing reminders that life’s challenges are really blessings in disguise.

How do we grow and expand boundaries without challenges?  Any thoughts? I’ve not figured that out. 

“Why can’t life be easy?” 

How do you define ‘easy’? Is it absence of challenges, obstacles, detours and roadblocks?  Or is ‘easy’ the ability to dispense of these things in ways that provide courage to over come fear, pathways to victories upon which we can build? To be clear, victories do not mean only vanquishing the foe.  You can be victorious by not fighting.  Don’t start a war you can’t win.  Wars of opinion, political, religious or other situations devoid of logical conclusion is only a pyrrhic victory, attrition is painful and devastating – the scorched earth effect – recovery, if at all, will be long and arduous.

Do you believe in angels?  No, I’m not going spiritual or making reference to a biblical entity.  I’m talking about in the flesh people who have a way of knowing your need before it dawns on you.  Tell me you haven’t had at least on experience in your life when someone entered, without prompting, and supported you, underpinned you when hints or gray infiltrated your horizon.

They stay with you, in spirit and in reality; checking in from time to time just as a friend would.  Except these angels have a seventh sense. They can read you, maybe better than you can read yourself.  They will counsel you but you may not always accept their counsel.  That happens when pride gets in the way.

“Come on Nikki, how can someone read me better than I can read me?”

There is an advantage to not being in the weeds of our lives.  Any height above ground level (stepping back from a situation) can be revealing.

You’re an angel to one or more friends.  Am I telling you something you don’t know?

Heed the wisdom of your friend(s) as you would anticipate your friend(s) to heed the wisdom from you.  This is the way to ‘easy’.  Strength begets strength converting impossible to possible, difficult to easy.

Tell you angel you appreciate her; she will enjoy hearing the acknowledgment.

Love and hugs, Nikki DeCaro