Greetings!
Just when you think your plan is in place, sailing along and being grateful, a message flies in that grabs your attention and sends you on to a new discovery - or three.
I've said this many times in other words, but Joyce Meyer said it best last week on her television broadcast when she said, "Don't worship your plan."
I loved it, shared it with others, then found myself smack in the middle of my own plan, not once but three times, wondering why I was disappointed, conflicted, sad or angry when things did not work out as I expected these past few days. "Don't worship your plan." Ooooh that echo again and again.
I've created this ideal life outline. Not a plan so structured that it limits me, but a plan nonetheless. I think I am on the right track to visualize what I choose to create, but the unsettling nature of these incidents reminds me once again that the only way to live well and with peace is to breathe and move from one thing to the next, following wise counsel to "pay attention to where my attention is."
Period.
Now, when we share our lives with others we are programmed to make plans. So, as we "planned" to go to the 99th birthday party of a cousin today, I arranged with my mother, aunt and cousin to pick them up and drive into Wisconsin. As I drove over I had flashes of my uncle picking them up. Odd, I thought, and dismissed it. After waiting a while, finally speaking with my aunt on her cell phone, I....well, I won't go into all the bizarre details. Suffice to say that my uncle did pick them up about a half hour before I got there.
I proceeded to pick up Anita and off we went, the two of us, to Osceola (phone in hand since my aunt was to be my navigator).
It was a great party. My temporary headache disappeared with the first laughter, shared with the man of the hour. I brought everyone home.
I could say that planning with folks of advanced age is the wrinkle in a plan, but my other "plans" that dissolved involved folks my age or much younger. So there you go.
To stay in the moment, breathing, is the key, of course. Plans come and they go. If I am at peace with myself, no shift in activity is of any consequence. I wonder if I will live long enough to disappear all the snags life presents me; to delve into and dis-create all the karmic puzzles in my Plan. Best not to plan it.
Breathing,
I am Phyl-EL
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Gritty Adjustments
Good Thursday Morning!
With the rain falling and an impression that it is washing away all that is of no importance, I take a deep breath, wash away the cloud of yesterday and focus my attention on all the love that outshines any shadow.
An old wise counsel comes to me these days: "Pay attention to where your attention is." Not an easy piece of advice to follow when so much seems to crowd into our space, but so important.
Imagine: You're walking down a busy street, having to stop again and again to adjust your poorly-fitted underwear. Ha!, but the discomfort of these times is at least that irritating. We were not raised, trained and conditioned to expect this much change. We stop again and again, crying out, "Not again! More change? How much more can we be expected to do?!"
The new or changing - job, house, baby, relationship, health, school, move to a new state; none of this is the point of this pivotal time on the planet and in our personal growth. All of it is the mechanism by which we are tasked to learn ourselves.
We all have a right, and a need, to honor our vulnerabilities. We are human, we do have emotions, and of course all the structures and conditions of our lives have significance.
And let's also reconsider that all of those changes are created by us, however unconsciously, to set the stage for the primary goal: to learn to trust ourselves, exactly as we are, where we are, when we are. In this moment, with every breath we take, to know we, not any external force or condition, have created exactly what we face and we don't want to miss the significance.
This timeline on planet Earth is designed to provide the opportunities, to force ourselves, to learn these critical skills. All the physical changes on the planet force us to achieve this self-sufficiency. We need these skills in place. Here and now, or as soon as humanly possible :)
We have so much help. Let's take a deep breath and verbalize our willingness to accept that help. We're born with a team of guides and angels whose only purpose is to support us at times like these.
We're born of a Creator whose constancy is absolute.
Breath opens the door, breath sustains the channel between us and the help that is always available. We are not alone. Whatever changes we face, our support System is in place. We were never intended to walk this astonishing time of change alone. Trusting ourselves also means employing the assistance that never fails.
Breathing with you,
Phyl-El
With the rain falling and an impression that it is washing away all that is of no importance, I take a deep breath, wash away the cloud of yesterday and focus my attention on all the love that outshines any shadow.
An old wise counsel comes to me these days: "Pay attention to where your attention is." Not an easy piece of advice to follow when so much seems to crowd into our space, but so important.
Imagine: You're walking down a busy street, having to stop again and again to adjust your poorly-fitted underwear. Ha!, but the discomfort of these times is at least that irritating. We were not raised, trained and conditioned to expect this much change. We stop again and again, crying out, "Not again! More change? How much more can we be expected to do?!"
The new or changing - job, house, baby, relationship, health, school, move to a new state; none of this is the point of this pivotal time on the planet and in our personal growth. All of it is the mechanism by which we are tasked to learn ourselves.
We all have a right, and a need, to honor our vulnerabilities. We are human, we do have emotions, and of course all the structures and conditions of our lives have significance.
And let's also reconsider that all of those changes are created by us, however unconsciously, to set the stage for the primary goal: to learn to trust ourselves, exactly as we are, where we are, when we are. In this moment, with every breath we take, to know we, not any external force or condition, have created exactly what we face and we don't want to miss the significance.
This timeline on planet Earth is designed to provide the opportunities, to force ourselves, to learn these critical skills. All the physical changes on the planet force us to achieve this self-sufficiency. We need these skills in place. Here and now, or as soon as humanly possible :)
We have so much help. Let's take a deep breath and verbalize our willingness to accept that help. We're born with a team of guides and angels whose only purpose is to support us at times like these.
We're born of a Creator whose constancy is absolute.
Breath opens the door, breath sustains the channel between us and the help that is always available. We are not alone. Whatever changes we face, our support System is in place. We were never intended to walk this astonishing time of change alone. Trusting ourselves also means employing the assistance that never fails.
Breathing with you,
Phyl-El
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