We each build a life framework in which we live. It is constructed through experiences and the balance of our dance between ego and the Divine. One of the results is that most people hate change.
When I was in college, I got involved with the Dean of Students office. I was mentored by a truly amazing group of people as I learned to spread my wings. The result was that I started to make choices based upon what brought the most change in my life and was the biggest risk. I learned to say "yes" with little thought to the possible impact to me. Today there is an organization in the world called the Giraffe Project. It honors those who take big risks and stick their necks out.
I learned that our little framework is what our capability level is to take in things. We often will see someone who has unexpectedly won something and they will state, "It hasn''t sunk in yet!" It's because the carefully built framework has been torn apart.
It happens with good events and it happens with tragedies. I remember a friend of mine whose young child was diagnosed with leukemia. The friend said it was so difficult because it seemed so surreal.. This was something that happened to someone else. The next step is rarely clear.
I watched a video of a young girl who was in a terrible auto accident. She was a passenger in a car which hydroplaned and hit a tree. It destroyed the car. It happened near her home and both her father and mother got to the accident site right away. Her dad was a detective. He was in uniform and he came to the site and walked up to the mangled wreck. The air bags were in front of him and he lifted one up and there was his daughter who promptly said, "Hey dad, how you doing?" It took forty-five minutes to cut her out and the main injury was to her left leg. She was later interviewed and said she was filled with gratitude. She said it was so surreal.
In my life this process has been very strange. I've said 'yes' in so many instances when I had no logical or sane reason to do so. In the end the rewards were off the charts. But it causes havoc on traditional life.
Just below the framwork and this change process when we say yes there is another trust. I don't know how I grew up with it. It is that unconscious feeling that my true partner is God and no matter what my decision God is walking with me and in the end 'all will be well.'
Recently I had a series of precious conversations with my brother and sister. In the end we are so thankful that spirit/God has allowed us to survive some of the really poor judgment choices we have made. We trusted God!
There is an underlying truth. When God is speaking to us within it is always about love and it is always about empowerment and it is always from the point of view that we are whole and complete just as we are. Negative thoughts and doubt are ego based and will continually take us down a path of disconnection from spirit.
This is the spot where we slow down - we slow down - we slow down. When we do slow down we find we were never off the path and although it may be uncomfortable, all is well.
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