Luck Be a Lady

Who is this lady luck I hear about? She sounds a little mysterious and seductive. Does she live in casinos, lounge bars, and 007 movies? Is she real or is she just an idea in our heads?

We all want to live in the luck corner of the world or at least find the gold at the end of the rainbow. Why do we always look outward for the luck? What about looking within for the answer or should I say winning hand. We all have problems, but God is right there, living in our hearts to whisper the solution. Even if we feel like God is far away and you want your luck to come in now, remember God never leaves. If we stop looking for outward answers for our problems, we’ll know that God, the one who knows all, already knows your situation and already has a great plan to solve it.

We see someone rolling in luck and start to compare it to our dried-out-of luck lives. That is not healthy. Never compare your life to someone else. Never judge someone else or even wish you had someone else’s life. We all have a cross to carry. Our crosses are there to help us, stretch us into stronger, wiser, people. I heard someone say, “all saints have a past and sinners have a future.”

There is no such thing as bad luck, only bad perception. View every experience as a learning lesson. And if you see someone else get lucky in an area you’ve been praying about, don’t get upset; instead say thank you God, because if you did it for them, then I know you can do it for me…thank you for working in my life!

If I reach out to God and develop a relationship with him, then I know he will help me and protect me, and that’s the best luck of all.

In fact, I laugh at lady luck…how she’ll come and go whenever she pleases, leaving me to feel the highs and lows of life. For I am the lady of expected blessings! Blessings beat luck every time. I choose to be focused on God and all his abundance. God never leaves, and the bible says, all things are possible with God.

If I was a gambling woman, I’d bet it all on God.

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."~ Lucille Ball