.. It doesnt exist. Sorry. It just doesnt. You either bring good things into your life by your thoughts and actions, focusing on your instinct and intentions to create and build the life you desire, or you ignore those things. You shut off the inner voice, ignore history and all the other things that teach us that amazing phrase "now I know better" and repeat mistakes only to be surprised when you have something happen to you that isnt quite what you desired.
The final lasting permament revelation of this truth was provided, as all eternal truths are, by a status update on facebook the other day. It went something like this:
"During a torrential downpour I went outside to secure a loose downspout on my house and fell and broke my ankle-- I have the worst luck."
To my friend who experienced this, I feel bad for you I really do and I hope you have a fast recovery. If we lived closer I'd bring you food every day and help in anyway I could.
But I have to say I think something other than luck is at work here. The odd thing is how many of us do this-- paint luck as this great external force that controls our destiny-- more than God or ourselves. More than a few souls I have encountered along the way lay the blame for everything good or bad that has ever happened at the feet of luck, apparently satisifed at what little role they have in the play of their own lives.
Perhaps the words of Richard Bach offer a lesson here for all of us, who even occasionlly, fall into the luck trap:
"If it's never your fault, you can't take responsibility for it. If you can't take responsibility for it, you'll always be it's victim"
From Messiah's Handbook- Reminders for the Advanced Soul (c) 2004
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