Hey there! It's been a while since I have posted.
Life has gotten busy which always means opportunities for new
lessons! My message to myself and to you, is to set
your intentions, and then believe they will happen. Much like if you
place an order on Amazon. How much worry
and emotional energy do you spend about if it will arrive? For me, when
the order is placed I let it go, knowing it will show up. For the most part, it
appears without fail. If there is a delay, just a brief conversation or
email rights its course and there it is on my doorstep a few days later. II am trying to have that same perspective with my intentions.
Our thoughts, prayers
and dreams manifest exactly the same way. If we place the order
confidently, we only need to let it go, sit back, and believe it will happen in
due course. No worry, no concern about how we want it to happen, but a
calm expectation that it will be delivered when it should. The tricky part is
that the opposite can occur too. When you doubt you deserve the delivery or
that the UPS guy will find your house, it might not show up at all. You
might be too scared to answer the door or open the box and the
dream/prayer/wish is unrealized.
I have seen this happen
again and again. I worked with someone years ago who told me about his
experience of losing his wedding ring. When it went missing, his initial
reaction was fear and panic. But he had read some new books, gained some
new perspective, and decided that he would act as if he still had the ring.
He washed his face and hands each morning and went through the act of
putting on the ring he no longer had. He wrote notes to himself that said
he still had the ring. He believed it wasn't lost for good. This
man worked out religiously and carried the same bag to and from the gym many
times a week. He had looked in the bag for the ring, but it was never
there. One day, he opened the gym bag and there it was. Either a
perpetual oversight or his belief/prayer/wish come to fruition.
As he told me this
story, I told him I wanted to put this idea to the test. I said, "I
want a big blue marble". Just some random object that you don't see
every day. I set this intention in my mind that this would come to me.
It was a bit of lark and I never gave it any thought or worry.
Just said the words and forgot them. It wasn't a week or so later that I
walked into my office to see this marble on my keyboard.
Of course, I was
astonished and amazed! Anyone within 20 feet of me knew something was up.
Finally another colleague confessed. He had overheard us talking about a "big blue marble".
Over the weekend he was cleaning out some "stuff" and found
this giant sized blue marble. He remembered hearing my conversation and
decided it would be fun to surprise me. He placed it on the keyboard on
my desk.
Who is to say it was coincidence,
just an anomaly, just a friend playing a joke, or perhaps the fulfillment of a
wish/prayer/dream? The why and what don’t matter to me all that much.
I will never be able to explain it, but to me, it wasn’t random. It showed me how much our thoughts and words set
into motion events that play out in our lives.
What we truly believe comes to fruition because it changes how we make
our minute to minute decisions. It may be
our doubts, fears, ambitions, calling, hopes, prayers, insecurities, visions, dreams, ideas or
things we haven’t even recognized. But
those things influence each decision we make.
So what are you
"ordering on Amazon"? What is
going to show up on your porch?
I am trying to be more
mindful – but it is not as easy as it sounds!
I got your back~
Patricia
