Hello, dear one!
When a door shuts in your face, do you accept the way it is? If something you want has a price tag that seems out of reach, do you stop there?
Recently, I learned from my friend that her son, a young man in his twenties, has a hearing challenge.
For the insurance company to pay for the astronomical hearing exam and possible hearing aids, he needs to first visit a primary care doctor. Once qualified, the doctor will send a referral to an audiologist.
The challenge is that he doesn’t have a primary care doctor at the moment and was told to wait for a year!
Since his hearing is still functional, he has chosen to accept the wait.
There are always two plans carried out simultaneously, the human plan and the Divine Wisdom plan. If you’re aware of it, the latter always supersedes the former.
If money is the primary concern, it can be simple.
Have you tried to ASK for money?
Many years ago, I fainted on the street and was taken in an ambulance to a nearby hospital’s emergency room.
My health insurance covered most of my emergency room visit, but I was shocked when I received a bill of $1,567 for the ambulance service!
The distance from where I was to the hospital was only 1.3 miles. Besides taking my blood pressure and heart rate, nothing more was performed for me on the road.
What a total rip-off!
When I called the billing department at the ambulance company, the lady on the other end was fully armed with my ammunition of questions. Oh, she was so experienced with customers like me that she spoke like an A.I. recording.
Realizing she wouldn’t budge no matter how I explained, I quickly decided to ASK,
“I don’t have the money to pay you at once. I need two years to spread out the monthly payment.”
“No, Ma’am. You can pay $130.58 monthly and must finish a total of 12 payments in a year.”
I didn’t stop and ASKED further, “I get paid twice a month. Why don’t you bill me $65.29 twice a month so that you’ll get my payment whenever I get paid?”
Since this was a rare arrangement, she was uncomfortable and reluctant at first. However, her goal was to collect my money, so we settled my way in the end.
Only after four billings of $65.29, I received a surprising final bill of $130.58.
Did I mention the word “final”?
It turned out that I cost the company more labor and money than its worth. It required too much work to bill me, record each received payment, and track the total payments.
The company chose the path of non-resistance; they gave up on billing me!
I ended up paying one-quarter of my initial bill.
I learned the audacity of asking from the Bible: You have not because you ASK not (James 4:2).
Reading the verse is to gain knowledge, but applying action with what I knew was the real deal. The power was not in how much I knew, but rather in what I acted with what I knew.
When you hear people mention how much they would love to do this or have that. If they’re not applying actions, they don’t mean it.
How did I end up writing and publishing this blog?
During the 2020 lockdown, I knew it was time to confront my fear of public speaking, so I joined the Toastmasters.
Very soon I realized my speeches sucked because they were poorly written. A lady in my speech club suggested I practice writing blogs.
In the fall of 2020, this was a far-fetched idea! The last time I wrote was for my graduate program; it was years ago. I never considered myself a writer, let alone making myself a fool by publishing it on WordPress.
However, I ASKED Divine Wisdom to walk me on this journey.
As soon as I asked, the Universe answered me and provided me with all the right writing courses, teachers, and the help I needed to write my first blog.
If you’re not manifesting what you want, have you ASKED enough?
When you rely on a human plan, it’s limited. But if you’re willing to ask Divine Wisdom for assistance, the “impossible” becomes “I’M POSSIBLE.”
Asking is an artful skill. How good are you with it?
I bless you with unshakable courage to ASK with a quote from Abraham Maslow: “What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.”
You’re more powerful than you’ve been told. If you accept that you’re made in the image of God, ACT LIKE ONE!