There is seriously nothing better in the world, then when a great plan comes together and leads to the most incredible outcome.
We all love to manifest our desires; big ones and little ones; I love it when spirit delivers me the kind of work and life that my heart desires and I also love it when they give me a close parking spot at the grocery store. Both are equally as thrilling to me.
So, you can imagine my disappointment when I set out tonight for a bike ride and was finally going to have the time to put in some really solid miles. All season long it has been a little bit here and there, 12 miles here, a 16 or 18 mile ride there, never any real get on the bike and stay there, kind of riding that I look forward to in order to manage my nervous body and monkey mind.
On this particular evening, the Universe had cleared my schedule unexpectedly which seemed like a pure gift. It was a gorgeous late afternoon with very little breeze, warm sunshine and a free schedule. It literally could not be any better. I cruise through the first 11 miles and I’m absolutely elated. As I fly through a section of a trail, where apparently a branch had fallen down at one point recently, I suddenly get this drag in my back tire with this kind of gravelly sound. Shit! I blew a tire. I get off to inspect the damage and no joke, It is flat as a pancake. Bike ride = over.
It’s funny to me how sometimes the best laid plans can go awry, and honestly, as with most people, I never really understand why.
It was the perfect set up. I had the ideal evening and amount of time and energy and inspiration AND a simple little song in my heart as I set out. Seriously, I was doing everything right. And yet here I sit on a park bench in Pequot Lakes, waiting for my husband to come and pick me up with a truck and take me back to where my car is parked. Just needed a little more time together? I have no idea. Is there something else I’m supposed to be doing with my evening? I can’t answer that either. I have no idea.
Like most people I go to “why?” Why didn’t this thing work out? WHY did life/Spirit/God do that to me? I find “why” to be the most useless question in these cases. I try to work with “THAT” as in, “THAT is what happened.” I blew a tire, my evening didn’t turn out the way that I planned. ‘Why’ is useless. I understand looking for the bigger reason but we don’t get to know the greater purpose all that often, and too often we end up frustrated because we can’t find the answer.
Don’t look for it. Instead, trust.
Trust that there is a greater process and as much as we are the center of our Universe, we are not the center of THE Universe. It is not personal, it is not always about us, and the vast majority of the time… IT just is what it is.
Trust that there are way more wheels in motion– I now have a new inner tube so my wheels are personally back in motion so I can painlessly use that reference– than just your own. Trust that the Universe doesn’t make it personal, it simply IS, and we can let it just be so. Trust that as much control as we want to believe we have… we don’t, and that is actually in our best interest.
Imagine for a moment you actually had control over everything…
Imagine you actually always got what you initially believed you wanted…
Look back at your life and recognize when the serendipitous plan took over and gifted you what was best, even when it wasn’t what you were planning for.
Things work out the way they do for our best interest. Spirit reminds me all the time, in my own life, in readings with my clients, and LampLighter “all is happening FOR you.”
Get that, not TO us, but FOR us.
The best laid plans do go awry, but only so that we can get out of the way of what is being brought forward for us down the road… or trail as it was. Lol.
Earlier today Clarence asked me what I am doing tomorrow after work. I gleefully smiled, threw open my arms and yelled to the ceiling, ‘I AM GOING FOR A BIKE RIDE!!”
Wish me luck.
Forever the journey, Anne