Dealing
the Cards of Life
“Life
will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution
of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you
need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”
Eckhart
Tolle (A New Earth)
My
friend, Harry, and I had a conversation yesterday during our Friday
coffee hour, about the way life serves up experiences you don't see
coming. For example, I am a control freak. I like everything to be
predictable and planned; I don't do spontaneous things very well.
Spirit has been trying to shake me loose from this rigid position for
as long as I can remember. Life has kicked the props out from under a
couple of marriages and careers, and I have lived in twenty-some
different places. You'd think with all the topsy-turvy goings-on I
would have learned to let go, but you would be wrong. I still fight
it. Just the moving of furniture from one level of my house to
another is enough to keep me up nights. When I do sleep, I dream of
making lists and writing down questions to ask the “Board of
Directors.” I'm in turmoil until I get things straightened out and
running smoothly. And just when I get comfortable with the unruffled
operation of my life, it turns upside-down again. I know when it
happens what's going on, but knowing doesn't make it any easier.
“Okay, already!” I yell at the 'Board,' “I get it! Let go and
let God, right?” I am trying to learn this lesson so we can move on
to the next one. Besides, I'm tired of having my life in a uproar!
I
wonder about you. Is there a recurring theme in your life? Is there
some situation that keeps repeating? It's a little like Ground Hog
Day, the movie, isn't it? Somewhere in the midst of an experience,
you think, “uh-oh, I've been here before.” We experience these
difficulties as negative, but usually they are the actions of Spirit
rearranging our psychic furniture so we can see clearly. Space is
being created in our familiar patterns of behavior for something new to emerge —something vital and alive. All we have to do is stop
fighting it. Let go and let...well, you know.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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