“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” (Benjamin Disraeli)
Who would have thought that a little inspiration for my ongoing journey to spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well-being would have come from a video game? I sure didn’t. But in fact, that’s precisely what happened recently while playing a game called Bean Dreams on my Iphone. If you’ve never heard of this game, it’s essentially about a jumping bean that never stops jumping and for each level of the game, the player must guide the bean to the exit in a certain number of jumps to fully complete it. Basically, each level is somewhat of a puzzle, which normally I’m pretty good at solving. In this case though, I hit a level I just couldn’t get beyond, one where I needed to do it in 7 jumps, but could only manage 9 at best. I kept trying over and over again until my hands, fingers, and wrists hurt so much that I had to put the game down until the next day. Unfortunately, I experienced the same lack of success once again, having to put the game off in total pain for yet another day. Day after day I repeated this and kept coming up short. I began to think about giving up, even making ego-based assumptions that the creators of the game must have made a mistake! The nerve of them! But then one day, after what most likely was over a thousand attempts to solve this level, I accidentally sideswiped my finger on my phone’s screen and watched the bean suddenly do a new move that I didn’t know it could do, thus changing everything. And wouldn’t you know, within minutes after that I had finally solved the level! I think life is sometimes like this, that when we encounter those trials and tribulations which feel completely impassable, that so long as we continue to persevere through them, our Higher Guidance will eventually provide us with a way to transcend beyond them. So, I give thanks to God for a silly game call Bean Dreams, that truly helped to remind me that success can be achieved through perseverance, even when things seemed destined for certain failure.
I pray that I will always persevere through all the trials and tribulations I face in life, even when it may feel like the odds are stacked against me and that I’m destined for failure, because I know that through my perseverance, God will always provide a way for me to achieve success.
Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson
