Take
Your Time
“The
bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
Helen
Keller
Sometimes
we feel frustrated when things don’t go as we planned and expected them to. At
times we have to wait, and at times what we planned never happens at all. What
then?
Carl
Jung said, “The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and
wrong turnings.” What we plan and expect is almost never arrived at by
following a straight line. Often there are unexpected twists, blind alleys, even
impenetrable barriers. Perhaps it is not what our soul needs to have happen, or
maybe inside us there is a deep-seated hesitancy that intrudes without
explanation, causing us to procrastinate, hesitate, doubt. Sometimes, we sabotage
our own plans unconsciously, and only in hindsight realize what we did.
The
fact is life has its own plans for each of us. Rainer Maria Rilke advises, “Let
life happen to you/ Beauty and terror/ Just keep going/ No feeling is final.” If
we can expect this—that life will have its way with us—then we can receive whatever
shows up and deal with it calmly, giving each twist and turn equal
consideration.
To
begin and end with Helen Keller, “The place between your comfort zone and
your dreams is where life takes place.” Don’t be in too big a hurry to arrive.
The journey is the destination.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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