Blog 732 – 08.24.2017

How Best To Deal With The Hand We Are Dealt

Kenny Rogers in his well-known country western song, The Gambler, sings:

“You’ve got to know when to hold,
  Know when to fold,
  Know when to walk away,
  And know when to run.

  You never count your money
  While you’re sitting at the table
  There’ll be time enough for counting
  When the dealing’s done.”

Life for many is like a poker game where the favorite strategy is bluffing. Never very good at that myself I have learned like most to just play the cards that I am dealt. So much of how we see life depends on our attitude. What we are looking for comes to us. If gloom, despair, and agony (like the Hee Haw song) is what we expect to see that is what we get much more of.

The secret to being dealt a better hand, or seeing a better tomorrow, is learning to see and make the most of what we have in our hand today. I told someone it is like priming the pump or another cliché, “You have to have money to make money.” As long as you see yourself, sick, weak, scared, unloved, and or poor that is what your reality will seem to continue to be.

The best way to deal with life and the cards that you have been dealt is to smile, gratefully, for each thing and be hopeful in everything. That smile and positive attitude will make others suspect and even you that you have been dealt a better hand (which makes bluffing a real option) and that is always true no matter the cards. No one ever has a hand so bad that it cannot be improved with a smile or thinking better, higher thoughts. Do the best you can with what you have got only then are you prepared to make the most of better when it comes. Someone has said, “When the student is ready the master will appear.” I paraphrase that – when and only when we act happy will true happiness appear. Want to be blessed, act blessed or happy and greater blessings (happiness) will appear. And don’t hold those cards so close to your chest – share the wealth, Lucky.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White