Gratitude
Today, I am grateful for my message from the Universe. After camping this weekend (and after the situation at work for the past several weeks), I have a very difficult time feeling comfortable in my own life. I feel an urge to flee, and yet, for all of this time I've made so many of my choices based on the well-being and security of my children. In order to continue in that manner, I'd really need to wait five years before heading North.
A five year plan.
I'm always hesitant to look so far into the future. I recognize that all we ever really have is Now... and if we keep our eyes too firmly focused ahead, we lose what is already ours. Because, even if my situation isn't completely ideal right now, beauty and joy surround me - it is simply up to me to notice. Yet, I also have to recognize that if I don't set things in motion somehow, at the end of five years, I may find myself unable to make the transition.
So much can change in the space of five years - especially me.
So, I think the trick is to set it all up in terms of goals which feed each other... a long term goal that can be met via many short-term and mid-range goals... short-term and mid-range goals that are ends unto themselves, and yet also provide the foundation for my ultimate goal. I reached all of these conclusions before falling asleep last night.
Then, this morning, the Universe said:
You see, Karen, latent within any clearly imagined dream lies the innate potential to literally craft the entire sequence of events necessary to make it manifest. And if you move with that dream, demonstrating both faith and belief, making yourself available to "accidents and coincidences," not insisting on the hows and rolling with what may come, the sequence is permitted to play itself out. Yet because you can only perceive this sequence with the physical senses through a linear time line, it will likely seem that much of your journey doesn't make sense, is unpredictable, or may even appear off-course.
About as clear as mud, huh? Well, it's Monday for me too, you know.
Any how, Karen, if your journey at the moment isn't making much sense, seems unpredictable, or even appears to be off-course, let's just say that in the bleachers, right now in the unseen, your name is being sung in a deafening chorus with each syllable being punctuated by primal drum beats, while cheerleaders are cheering, fans are hysterical, and happy-tears are flowing.
It is time to dream clearly.
A five year plan.
I'm always hesitant to look so far into the future. I recognize that all we ever really have is Now... and if we keep our eyes too firmly focused ahead, we lose what is already ours. Because, even if my situation isn't completely ideal right now, beauty and joy surround me - it is simply up to me to notice. Yet, I also have to recognize that if I don't set things in motion somehow, at the end of five years, I may find myself unable to make the transition.
So much can change in the space of five years - especially me.
So, I think the trick is to set it all up in terms of goals which feed each other... a long term goal that can be met via many short-term and mid-range goals... short-term and mid-range goals that are ends unto themselves, and yet also provide the foundation for my ultimate goal. I reached all of these conclusions before falling asleep last night.
Then, this morning, the Universe said:
You see, Karen, latent within any clearly imagined dream lies the innate potential to literally craft the entire sequence of events necessary to make it manifest. And if you move with that dream, demonstrating both faith and belief, making yourself available to "accidents and coincidences," not insisting on the hows and rolling with what may come, the sequence is permitted to play itself out. Yet because you can only perceive this sequence with the physical senses through a linear time line, it will likely seem that much of your journey doesn't make sense, is unpredictable, or may even appear off-course.
About as clear as mud, huh? Well, it's Monday for me too, you know.
Any how, Karen, if your journey at the moment isn't making much sense, seems unpredictable, or even appears to be off-course, let's just say that in the bleachers, right now in the unseen, your name is being sung in a deafening chorus with each syllable being punctuated by primal drum beats, while cheerleaders are cheering, fans are hysterical, and happy-tears are flowing.
It is time to dream clearly.