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