Don’t go sticking your head in the sand.

A little while ago I wrote about “To Jump or to walk away?” I feel like I tried to take the leap. …… and now I feel that I have fallen flat onto my face.

I was trying to take a route that I kind of didn’t want you take, but yet I felt compelled to try it all the same.
Has that route now finished?

At the time I was considering whether to apply for a patent, or not.
I did start to take the steps to apply. I contacted professional people to assist me. I even started writing a first draft to send to the professional person that I was going to work with.
Then I found the prior art that stopped everything.
Short version here, for a patent to be considered, there needs to be no prior art. So finding the prior art stopped me in my tracks.

I did try searching for the prior art before I started the process, but I didn’t find any, at that point in time. Then I found some, when I wasn’t looking for it. …… (Sometimes that’s just the way it goes.)

What to do now?
Ignore it?
Pretend that it isn’t there?
How well would that work out?

Not very well is probably the answer.
If I could find it, then a professional searcher is very likely to find it. Do I really want to set sail on a boat that has a large target on it, just waiting for the torpedo that will sink it?
Not a good option.

It has got me thinking, when we find something that we don’t like, then how do we deal with it?
Do we just try to ignore it and pretend that it isn’t really there?
We’ve all probably been there at some point in time. 🙂
How well does it work out when we take this tatic?
It’s called sticking your head in the sand, and it’s generally not a good thing to do.

If there is something that we need to deal with, then it’s going to be better if we deal with it.

So, now that I feel as though I have fallen flat onto my face, do I regret leaping?

No. I don’t regret leaping.
I am a bit upset that I didn’t find the prior art when I first went searching for it. But I have learnt from the road I travelled.
I have made a new contact that could be useful in time.
Maybe the value has been the lessons that I have learnt???
I have written about this in a previous post of, “Do we sometimes need to try again?“

Another thought that keeps coming back to me is, “We are only meant to bring the loaves and fishes.“
Ultimately we are meant to walk the walk that is before us, but does that mean that we will always have success in all that we do? In our own eyes I’m talking about. All we are meant to do, is be willing to bring what we have to the table. What the results will be belongs to another.
Are we willing to bring what we have to the table, regardless of what the outcome will be?

It’s one thing to write or just talk about these things, it’s another to actually walk them. Sometimes things are just not as easy as we would like them to be, but, will we be willing to have a go at, …… anyway?

Ultimately I’m just so pleased, and amazed that I found the information out before I really started to spend any real resources on a ship that was possibly bound to sink.
I have to give thanks and praise to my Lord God for this.

So is the path that I was trying actually over???
Maybe, and maybe not? I might just need to take a different route?
I just need to keep looking to my Heavenly Father and ask, “Where am I going to next?” He does have my back and I can trust Him and His plans for me.
Back to a bit more smoke grappling for me then. 🙂
For the moment, I’ll try to continue in the same way as Habakkuk did.

Habakkuk 3:18-19

¹⁸ yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
    I will be joyful in God my Saviour.

¹⁹ The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
    he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
    he enables me to tread on the heights.

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I wrote the above last night.
Today is a new day and an email from the professional seems to indicate that what I thought was dead, might not be quite as dead as I thought it was……

Just need to hear my Heavenly Fathers thoughts and try to follow His prompting, all the more now.