Flexibility

Flexibility is one of the characteristics needed to have a happy and fulfilling life. Flexibility is the ability to adapt to different circumstances. If we are unable to adapt to the ever changing circumstances of our life, it is easy for us to find ourselves coming to the "breaking point." The world is full of troubled circumstances at times. We all need to be able to adapt and change with where God may take us. We often may miss where God is working in our lives because of our own refusal to be flexible in our thoughts and in the circumstances that are presented to us on the path of life. We may so hold to old patterns of thinking, old ways of doing things, stay where we feel safe rather than risk a new change and miss out on opportunities that God has placed in our path. We all have "rules" in our head that we just cannot "break" and we are going to stand firm on this way of thinking.
Imagine a tree that is inflexible being blown by very strong winds. If it does not have the flexibility to bend and give as the winds are blowing it is snapped off and broken. It is why bridges are built with space in mind for the give and take of the weather and the weight of vehicles. If it was not flexible it would collapse. This does not mean that we are totally like jello, because if that were the case, bridges would collapse also, trees would just fall over. No I mean that we can take the circumstances of life and move with them. We adjust our thinking, our ways of living, our relationships, and our behaviors as it is necessary to stay connected to God. If we stick so hard to rules in our head and rules in our heart with no flexibilty we may be broken when a life storm comes along.

One Sabbath, Jesus was strolling with his disciples through a field of ripe grain. Hungry, the disciples were pulling off the heads of grain and munching on them. Some Pharisees reported them to Jesus: "Your disciples are breaking the Sabbath rules!"
Jesus said, "Really? Didn't you ever read what David and his companions did when they were hungry, how they entered the sanctuary and ate fresh bread off the altar, bread that no one but priests were allowed to eat? And didn't you ever read in God's Law that priests carrying out their Temple duties break Sabbath rules all the time and it's not held against them?
"There is far more at stake here than religion. If you had any idea what this Scripture meant—'I prefer a flexible heart to an inflexible ritual'—you wouldn't be nitpicking like this. The Son of Man is no lackey to the Sabbath; he's in charge."

Matthew 12:1-7

Allow your heart to be flexible and molded by the Spirit of the living God, not the rules of men or your ego. Today be able to take time and think when something comes your way that may make you angry or upset. Challange your thinking and see if it is flexible or rigid. Be mindful - are there any other explanations, is there another way to think and act about this rather than the way I do it everyday? Then you may be like a tree that is blown and gives enough not to break and continues to stand and live on. Remember that clay if flexible in the hand of its creator.

Still, God, you are our Father. We're the clay and you're our potter. Isaish 64:8

Namaste'