There is always a way to get something done, even when you do not see a possibility on your radar screen. What is viewed as impossible, is simply a place where the answer has not revealed itself yet. When you are open to the possibility an answer or solution exists, you move in a manner that allows you to see what is right before your eyes. As an example, if I chose to look out certain windows in the front of our house I could come to the conclusion there is no way I will ever get any mail because I cannot see a mail box out at the road. However, should I believe there is a mail box, I then have the opportunity to consider, why not look out a different window. When I do, I can then find a window which reveals there is a mail box there.
Now I am in a position to be able to determine whether I have mail, because I can see if the flag on the mail box is up or down. I know this is a strange concept for many people who collect their mail from a community box, or have it delivered to their door. But we actually get rural mail delivery while residing in town.
It seems we are more unique than many people, and I suspect, this applies to a lot of areas in our life. While seeking to bring insurance policies from several companies together, our two month journey, which took us to the territory of, “this is a unique situation,” ” it is impossible, you can’t do that,” to the reality of all papers signed a couple of day ago!
Did the process mean some effort? Did the process mean some creativity? Did the process mean some perseverance? Was there an answer to the “impossible”? Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! To each of these questions.
I put up a post on Face Book a couple of days ago in which I apologized for the quality of the live streaming of our Church service on Sunday. We were looking to live stream a training event the next day on the Monday morning, but chose to delay the start of the event in order to attempt to find a solution to the glitch. The challenge for us related to the fact while we were using the highest speed levels and band width available from our phone company, it barely meets the minimum required for live streaming. Anything which diminishes that transmission tips the scale against the transmission quality. In looking for options, our phone company has no plans to upgrade the quality of service for at least 5 to 10 years. Oh by the way, your contract was automatically renewed and there is a steep penalty if you chose to end it. Cable does offer a variety of options to meet our current needs, but finding a way right now to absorb the cost of the penalty, plus the costs of setup on cable is impossible, right? Not if you know there is an answer, you just haven’t found it yet.
The cable company is scheduled to come Friday morning to install their equipment. We will be able to do what we need to do for live streaming without the question will this work? It will no longer take more than four plus hours to upload a thirty minute video to the internet. The cost of installation? Oh, there was a promotion right now for new customers. The installation fees are waived. The large up front cost to break the contract? Well, if we simply keep the service and pay the monthly fee until the end of the contract, we pay about the same amount, but we don’t have to pay the total right now and get nothing for it. We also have a back up option, poor as it might be, should we need it.
Having a mindset which believes in the possible, even when things look impossible is something you might want to consider moving towards in your life. There was a father whose son was having physical challenges. The situation was desperate. No one had been able to help his son, including the disciples of Jesus. When the father finally met Jesus, he said, “if you can do anything, help us.” Jesus response to the father, as recorded in Mark 9:23, is very important and revealing. He said, “If You can? Everything is possible to the one who believes.”
Your faith, your belief, is the catalyst which allows the possible to reveal itself when the impossible looms large. What do you believe?