When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat - Webs

“Don’t you have a sense of something important you
must do in this lifetime?” he questioned.
“Oh sure, doesn’t everybody? Survive—get through
today so I can start over and struggle with tomorrow. Anyway,
why didn’t you stay around to help me when I needed it? Why
didn’t you tell me these things were going to happen? <strong>You</strong>
knew, didn’t you?”
“Of course, I knew. But if I had told you about them,
you probably would have given up and never reached this
point.”
“This point isn’t much better than any of the other
points along the way. As you can probably see, I don’t earn
enough money to even feed my family. It’s all I can do to
make ends meet. I’ve been struggling so hard, but there
never seems to be any progress. All I do is struggle. Why are
bad things happening all the time, Gideon?”
“Bad things happen sometimes and good things can
happen most of the time. It’s how you look at it, John.”
“There you go again, more riddles. Why don’t you answer
my questions? Haven't bad things ever happened to
you?”
“Yes! Unpleasant things happened to me many times.
But that was when I wasn’t aware of who I was and all the
power I had at my command. It was only after I realized that
I was both the giver and the gift, the creator and the creation,
the teacher and the student, that I learned to change the
things that you call circumstances. Life then became much
more fun. <strong>You</strong> think that you have had tough times! Let me
tell you about tough times!
“It was another time and another place, thousands of
your earth years ago. It was the time of the Israelites and the
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