After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies ~Samuel Rutherford
There is a tendency, sometimes, to think we have it all figured out. When it should happen, how it should happen, who it should happen with. And "before it's too late".
And in fact, we are powerful creators. We can intend for many great things for our future or in our now, but the truth is, we're not in this alone. What we tend to forget is that we are co-creating in partnership. Not only that, we are co-creating with an energy that creates worlds!
Have you ever had something occur in your life that you had wished for years earlier, only to realize that now was the perfect timing? That in fact, you wouldn't have been ready for it any earlier? That in retrospect, everything was leading up to the perfect moment of this unfolding?
We want to feel in charge of our lives. It makes us feel safe knowing that we have control. And to some extent, we have complete control in dictating our desires, in stating our ambitions, in following our best laid plans.
But sometimes life has a way of throwing us curve balls. There is a delay in an outcome we are hoping to produce, or the timing doesn't work out as we planned. We're not where we think we should be, financially, socially, professionally, creatively, or romantically.
And yet. Even in this, there is perfection.
In other words, for those of you who think your time has passed, or it is too late, or there is not enough time, I ask you: How do you know this? How do you know that in this moment, right now, you are not exactly where you are supposed to be?
That things are not working out for you on your behalf, despite appearances?
I had a teacher who used to pose the question: "If everything is perfect exactly as it is, what is it that you are not seeing?"
In other words, what are you gaining from this situation that is perfect for your unfolding, right now and how is this preparing you for the thing you desire?
Abraham-Hicks, who I quote a lot in my memos, talk about your "ship" never leaving without you. They remind us that our ship may come and go, but there will be another one and another one and another one. And another one.
In other words, we are coming into our own in the timing we need. And we live in a benevolent universe that allows us our unfolding. For each of us it will be different. But for each of us, it will also be perfect.
I referenced Mary Morrissey in last week's memo with her analogy of self-development to bamboo. She talks about Chinese Bamboo and how it is a very slow-growing and fragile plant. She says, if the bamboo is cared for and watched over and nurtured, in one year it grows two inches, in the next year it grows two inches, in the next year it grows two inches, in the next year it grows two inches, and then in the fifth year, it grows 80 feet!
This is how it is with our development. We intend. We make incremental changes. We show up for our success in whatever way we can. And then everything comes to fruition, harmonizing all aspects in a most creative way, that if we were to look back on it, we would marvel at the perfection of it all.
And we would realize that we were being supported all along.
This week, trust in the perfection of your life. Trust that you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Know that what you have to look forward to is greater than what you are leaving behind.
And trust that you will "arrive" in time and on time and yet not a minute sooner.
