When you ask God for clarity and seek answers with a heartfelt earnest prayer, my goodness God will give you the answers.  God has a way of speaking to me through my child.  I was trying to teach him how to ride his bike and the lesson ended up being for me more so than it was for him. 

He was all geared up… dressed the part and ready to go!  He was highly motivated before we got started.  So excited to go outside and ride his back that we could barely get out the door.  There was one problem… he had not mastered the skill of how to push the bike with his feet by himself yet.  I assisted him to push for a few minutes so that he could get the feel of what his feet were supposed to do in going forward to get the bike to move.  After I assisted him by pushing the bike, I stopped and told to give it a try all by himself.  He could not get the bike to move forward.  He stood up and gave it a try, but it would not move.  I would see his little feet trying to get it to move but it just would not go.  I could see how frustrated he was getting because in his mind he knew that the bike was created to move but he just could not make it move.  I let him keep pushing as I kept saying “move your feet forward and around, forward and around Jace, keep trying” but the bike still would not move.  At this point he was trying hard; he would try to get his feet to move but the wheels just would not turn.    

• Keep Pushing!

Every time I saw my son trying to push those pedals and getting frustrated I kept saying “you can do it, you can do it” but the bike still was not moving.  He kept saying “I can’t do it, I can’t do it!”  getting more and more frustrated I kept saying YOU CAN, keep trying!!!  It still would not move but he kept trying.  Have you ever been so frustrated that you said to yourself I can’t do this again!  But hear the God in your override the “ I can’t do it” with yes you can, keep trying!  We have to keep pushing, no matter how hard it is, no matter how long it takes, no matter how frustrated we get because it’s not happening on our terms or time frame but we cannot give up no matter what and we have to KEEP PUSHING! 
 

•  Don’t look back!

When he realized that the bike wasn’t moving, he kept looking behind him trying to figure out what the issue was.  Every time he looked back I said “don’t look back, keep looking forward and you can do it!”  How many times do we look back at our mistakes, circumstances, and try to justify why we aren’t qualified for the manifestation in our future.  What happened in the past didn’t work and people may have devalued you but don’t beat yourself up about it thinking you would never be capable because of what someone else said, did or because of what happened in the past.  Let me tell you how FALSE that is!  The past has NOTHING to do with your future!!!  You are qualified, you are more than enough, you can be in a healthy relationship, you can run a successful business, you can do anything that my heart desires!!! And the good news is, you have everything already in you to do so!
 

• Don’t cheat the process!

After all that work in trying to ride the bike, my son finally got off the bike and attempted to walk the bike back to the house because he was so frustrated.  I stopped him mid tracks and said no baby… get back on that back and keep trying.  Just keep trying.  How many times have you tried to cheat the process or manipulate our own lives?  If I just “do this” maybe it will change their minds.  If I just “do this” or “ do that” it will change my situation knowing it’s nothing that doing that “this or that” is not of God’s will for my life.  It may get you to the finish line, but if it will not manifest and you will end up back at square one and having to start all over again. 
 

•  I am getting in my own way!

This one right here ministered to me some kind of tough.  While my son was not able to get the bike to move, he would stand up and push on the brakes in his attempt to move it forward.  He didn’t quite understand that he was pushing against the wheel instead of pushing the wheel forward.  He was stopping himself from getting the wheels to turn.  This concept right here is probably the most important of them all.  I attract what I think and believe about myself and for myself!  Here are the patterns …. “I’ll never get this thing to work, It’s probably never going to come to pass, there’s not enough available to go around, there’s something wrong with me, I’m not sure if I can ever finish this book, I’m never going to make over $50K a year, this is good for me considering what I’ve done this far”…. MANNNN this right here! After months of therapy, I come to recognize that source of my pain developed in me over time and I had to learn how to change my thoughts to change my life.  Now, I’m changing my thoughts to thoughts of abundance to shift my vibration and energy.  I never realized that my thoughts were getting in my own way of my hearts desires!
 

•  You may not get it right on the first try (or 2nd or 3rd)

After all that pushing and trying to ride that bike my son was still not successful.  But I kept saying “ you can do it so much” that even when he got off he was smiling and had enough confidence to try again another day.  You may not get it down the first few times, but speak life into yourself enough that you keep trying.  No matter how many times it takes, how many tries, if you stick to the process it will get better and better every time.  Even if it doesn’t manifest and it doesn’t seem to get better if you stick to it at some point the flood gates will open!  You are still a step closer than you were before!
 
The moral of the story is…. Don’t ever give up on yourself!  Keep pushing, keep trying, keep speaking life into yourself and it will manifest for you when the time is right!  And even if that specific task doesn’t, you will be stronger than you’ve ever been before and most likely will manifest something bigger and better than you ever dreamed would be possible for yourself!  So….. keep going, keep pushing!  It’s just like riding a bike!  

It amazes me the revelations that can be received through children.  It often comes at the most unexpected times!  My four-year-old son and I were driving to school as we usually do every morning.  He had a penny in his hand that seemed to keep his attention for most of the drive until he dropped it.  He dropped the penny in his car seat and could not seem to find where it was.  He began to cry out of frustration and disappointment at the thought of losing something of value to him.  I could see him moving his little hands trying to feel around the seat of the car and in his car seat trying to find the penny.  He never did find it. 
We finally got to school, and he was still in a strong sense of frustration because he lost something valuable to him. 

As I was getting him out of the car, I looked down on the floor of the car and saw a shiny quarter.  Immediately, I got the revelation.  So often we respond in frustration, anger, disappointment, uncertainty, lack of understanding due to the loss of something that was valuable to us.  All the while, something bigger, better and of greater value is right there in front of us!  Is the penny still valuable, ABSOLUTELY!  But the quarter holds a value that is 25 times greater than the penny.  The beauty of it is, that quarter is readily available to us.  If we stop looking for the penny, release the resistance of it, we can see that quarter was there the entire time.  Too often we cannot see the quarter because we are still holding on to the remnants of the penny. 

​So… the next time you experience a loss of anything from a relationship, a job, opportunity, or when things don’t go as you planned or how you were expecting it to go, release it!!  Trust the process and KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that there is a shiny quarter waiting for you and is available to you once you let go of that penny!