While there is nothing we can do about the interruptions and obstacles-- whether small hiccups or rug-out-from-under-you crises-- it doesn't take too many visits to the mat to realize that there is much in this life that is not in our control. However, there is one big thing that is very much in our control (if we want it to be) and that is the reaction we have to the situation at hand.

Example: I should be writing to you this month from Belize, taking a break from a little yoga, snorkeling, exploring and napping under palm trees to share the bliss of time away. I am not. I am writing from an odd-looking propped position in my living room, where I have been for over two weeks, with the brown dog staring quizzically at me from the other side of the room. I had plans for Belize. The Universe had a different idea. I'd been getting a series of internal "STOP" messages about my pace, my workload and my choices for a while. I filed each of them neatly in the "to-do" box. The Powers that Be took matters into their own hands and WHAM! I got the message. So here I am. Not at all where I had planned to be.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very sad to miss some time in a place that a love, with my dear friend Carrington and a pack of happy yoginis. I'm disappointed in myself for (yet again) filing Messages from The Universe instead of listening to them. But this is not a punishment. This is, as another friend would say, another opportunity for spiritual growth. And so I have slowed down to a glacial pace unrecognizable to me as actual movement. I have asked for (a lot of) help- something I am not in the habit of doing. I am using this time to reframe a few things that have gotten out of perspective. I feel good about this odd, propped, painful place. Like everything else, it's temporary.

Where are you, and why are you there? Are you making the best of it or making yourself miserable? It's a choice.

Blessings and thanks to so very many people. You know who you are.

Peace,
Jill