The answers to the most perplexing dilemmas usually come, it seems, in unexpected ways - quite out of left field, from outside the box, a bolt from the blue. Maybe that's why they strike and stay. Maybe that's what is meant to happen.....
A while ago an event occurred in my life. It was a repetitive situation, one that I had struggled with before many times. Each time, instead of the experience shedding more light on what to do and how to respond, I felt an increasing confusion as to how to respond and a heavier burden of sorrow. What to do? How to handle this? Instructions please. A How To manual for getting on top of this thing is what I needed.
This time I responded ...... exactly the same. I did the one thing I knew from past experience worked - I removed myself - but the feelings were just the same. I sat for a moment and waited. I don't know what I was waiting for but something much greater than me did, and it delivered.
Without ceremony, that unexpected thing happened, that out-of-left-field, outside-of-the-box, bolt-from-the-blue (and all those other weary cliches) event. A thought appeared in my mind.
Now this wasn't a thought that I put there. I know that for sure. It was far too profound for my basic mind. It was planted. It was downloaded by the Universe completely formed so that I could not ignore it, nor twist it into something it wasn't, nor tear it apart with analysis. It just was.
It said, "What just happened is now in the past."
I was stunned. I examined the thought as if it was emblazoned in lights across a neon billboard. Immediately the vast implications of this statement began to unfold in front of me. If what happened was now in the past why did I need to be experiencing it right now? Could I truly leave it in the past? How would I do that? Did that mean that I had a choice with this thing? Was it really that simple?
The effect of that moment is still with me. That's what this blog is about. How do I examine a thought that simple and.....that big? Probably only through rambling around the issues it raises.
I could do it alone in a journal but I decided not. I'm willing to share.....if you are willing to listen and maybe respond.
The rest of my life is NOW and I have a choice to make it so.
A How To manual for getting on top of this thing is what I needed. Do you feel others may need one too? Sounds like a marketable project to me. All too often we take for granted and regret later. However, if we were made aware of what that take for granted 'thing' was - making choices may be more likely. Just thoughts that I feel are worth your looking into. What is good for you will be good for us because your insights are where ours wish to be. Hmmm...
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