Four Leaf Luck???

I am not really sure how I feel about luck. Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary defines it as “A force that brings good fortune or adversity, favoring chance”. I more often use the word fate. And Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary defines that as “The principle or determining cause or will by which things in general are supposed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do, whatever is destined or decreed, final outcome”. As humans we have the power of choice. So when I make a choice, but have no control over the process, is it luck that brings me to the outcome or is it fate? I guess if I am true to myself, I will say it is a little of both.

I felt a need to share some things with you today that involve luck and so much more. I am not sure why, just following my heart I guess.  These being, a poem that hung on our bedroom wall in the house I grew up in, a life experience, and a few pictures of my findings. I will begin by sharing the same poem with you that I read nearly every morning, growing up, as I was getting dressed and ready to take on the day. It hung just above our bureau, so if we happened to look up it met our gaze. It is a poem by Ella Higginson that I hope you enjoy. Here it is:

                        Four-Leaf Clover


I know a place where the sun is like gold,
   And the cherry blooms burst with snow,
And down underneath is the loveliest nook,
   Where the four-leaf clovers grow.

One leaf is for hope, and one is for faith,
   And one is for love, you know,
And God put another in for luck --
   If you search, you will find where they grow.

But you must have hope, and you must have faith,
   You must love and be strong -- and so --
If you work, if you wait, you will find the place
   Where the four-leaf clovers grow.

BY:
Ella Higginson
1862-1940

And search we did. I like to walk. When I was young, I did a lot of it. Every once in a while I had a sister that would walk with me. We would inevitably end up at this little area with a swing set. Not really a park, just a vacant lot covered in clovers. Every summer we would have a clover finding competition; to see who would find more four-leaf clovers. It always was my sister in the end. Although, I did find my fair share. Maybe because she had more luck than me. Or was it that she had more of the rest? Hope, Faith, and Love. I am not sure, but the more I become, find, and realize who I am in this journey, the more I realize it matters not. The sheer fact that I could find them too, shows me I had whatever she had, including luck. I have continued to find them, and so has she, whenever we feel like putting in the time to look. It is just a matter of slowing our lives down long enough to enjoy them.

So I guess with the way the world is going, I am here, along with Ella, to remind you that no matter where you are in life, or whatever is happening in it, remember to have a little hope, remember to keep the faith, remember to love wholeheartedly and unconditionally, and always stand strong in all of them, you just might find a little luck along the way. I am attaching some proof of mine and maybe you will share with all of us stories or proof of yours.