DESTINY MOMENTS

“This is my moment.” We all have known that feeling, haven’t we? – that special occasion when something stirs within us and we know that a unique opportunity is now available to us, and maybe never to return again in just that way. We know the feeling of the crucial moment.

Sadly, however, we must confess that we also know the empty feeling of “missing our moment,” letting the moment pass. The truth is that life is a series of crucial moments, destiny moments, moments of decision. All of us have had the experience of sensing that this time, this occasion, is a special moment and we should say or do or be something. But because of fear, or timidity, or insecurity, we let the moment slip by. We do nothing, we miss our moment, and then we regret it greatly because we know deep down that we cannot reclaim it – that special moment is gone forever.

There is an interesting point here. Psychologists tell us that if we do not act every time we have this kind of feeling, we are less likely to act later when other such moments present themselves. Each time we fail to act, we become more closed, more hardened, more desensitized, more emotionally paralyzed.

…Unless we act on the feeling, unless we act at the crucial moment, it will soon pass, and nothing will have been done.”