The Zen Master says...

The following is from the movie Chalie Wilson's War:

There's a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse.  Everybody in the village says, "How wonderful, the boy got a horse."  The Zen master says, "We'll see."  Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everyone in the village says, "How terrible."  The Zen master says, "We'll see."  Then, a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight, except the boy can't cause his leg is all messed up.  Everybody in the village says, "How wonderful."  The Zen master says..."We'll see."

The wisdom in the concept of "We'll see" is simple, yet profound.  As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Life is a journey, not a destination."  Everything we experience, both good and bad, is simply a precursor to the next life event.

Too often my reaction to situations has been based on the short-term and I would quickly respond in one of these two extremes.  A while back, I decided to stop making quick assessments, to stop worrying about situations and allow time to prove everything out.  As Jesus said in Matthew 6, "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself."

Will it be wonderful or will it be terrible?  We'll see.

I'm out.