Promotion by Demotion

While I have always been taught that "promotion comes from the Lord" something that I recently struggled with was demotion. Our minds immediately begin to race towards the opposite, it must then be a negative and evil event. My personal prayer has always been to gain wisdom from each experience in life, and something I have come to recently understand is promotion doesn't always come in the form we believe it should come in. Sometimes elimination of extra work, projects and responsibilities (which I now see is not always a demotion) is necessary to position us for greatness. As Jennifer Hudson accepted her Academy Award for the role she played in Dream Girls, the most noted point of her speech was she would have never been able to accomplish such greatness without having lost the American Idol competition.
Before conceiving Dorian, I suffered a miscarriage. It was a surreal moment. In the same breath I found out I was pregnant and losing the baby all at once. Several months after the lost I conceived Dorian. After discussing it with my doctor, he began to tell me how I was more fertile due to the loss of the previous pregnancy. I did not feel the loss of the first pregnancy because I was unaware of it, however I am extremely grateful for my soon to be 7 year old who daily redefines my life.
You may have been the most qualified on your job, or had great visions for your business or organization, and suffered great loss. Great setbacks make for even great set ups for an even greater come back. Following your dreams and passions sometimes requires you to eliminate all that you feel is necessary to get you there. This is not always a pretty process, nor painless one. Sometimes you have to close the doors to your business, allow foreclosure to take place on your house so that you can develop a better business and purchase/build your dream home. Sometimes dropping unhealthy relationships is not an option. Everyone (including relatives) is not in your life to help build you, some are sent to attempt to tear you down and help sharpen you. Some people are only sent for a season, and not meant to be lifelong relationships. The only way to get clarity on your direction in life is you must stay connected to the one who has ordered your path. It's easier to get to where you are going when you know which roads to take. We often become comfortable with the familiar faces around us, the daily activities in our schedules and are paralyzed by the mundane.
Take a different perspective when you lose positions, job opportunities, businesses, and relationships. If you were never liberated from that job at McDonald's, you would never found time to build your vision of owning your own business. Sometimes demotion positions your for promotion.