A friend of mine posted an article on his Facebook page tonight, “Beautiful Advice From a Divorced Man After 16 Years of Marriage,” and, naturally, it got me to thinking – I’ll get into what I was thinking about in just a moment, but first, I highly recommend clicking on this and reading it. Then, come back…because I’m not quite finished yet.
Everyday a Little
Magic Happens…Providing We Aren’t Too Blind to See It
I don’t know how, why, the rhyme, the reason or the logic
behind it (if there is such a thing), but it seems as though every day since
November 5, 2012, as I scroll through my newsfeed, I get a message. It’s a compilation
of things most days, but the funny thing is that there are four or five posts,
always in a row, with a recurring theme…and they all match or compliment the other.
Of course, the magic is that they are each from a different source and it’s as
though each day I am given a message, and it’s exactly the message I need,
although it might not always be the one I want.
The Only Problem was
that For a Long Time, I Refused to Listen to These Cues
What can I say? Rebellious should have been my middle name.
Tell me to turn left, and I will likely turn right. Tell me to look up, and I
will probably look down. That’s obviously something I need to work on.
But, despite my rebellious nature, I also believe that we are all sent signs throughout our lives, or maybe even guided, down the path we are meant to travel. And, ironically, the rebellious nature I have often been so proud of for all of these years was the self-same thing that prevented me from hearing what the Universe had been trying to tell me all along. That it might be more important for me to listen and apply than embrace my belligerent nature.
But, despite my rebellious nature, I also believe that we are all sent signs throughout our lives, or maybe even guided, down the path we are meant to travel. And, ironically, the rebellious nature I have often been so proud of for all of these years was the self-same thing that prevented me from hearing what the Universe had been trying to tell me all along. That it might be more important for me to listen and apply than embrace my belligerent nature.
Because I Learned
This: Everyone Comes With Their Own Set of Instructions
I believe this, sincerely. Everyone we meet on our journey
has their own set of uniquely different, wonderful, flawed, broken, bitter,
angry, happy, joyous, gleeful instruction booklets. The problem is that we are
all so busy reading (and maybe even rewriting our own) that we don’t take the
time to learn what theirs are. That is, until we begin listening to their cues,
watching how they behave, but probably the most important of these is being
able to look into their eyes and see their soul…for it is there that their
instruction book lies – even if it’s a little suppressed, hidden and tattered
on the edges. And once you have read it, you know exactly how to love them.
The verbal among us
need to hear things. The action-oriented among us must be shown. Regardless,
return the love you get in kind, and in spades, and you can never go wrong.
It’s really that simple.
But Here is Something
Else That’s Just a Little Magic In Itself…
There is a blog that has literally changed my life. (Don’t laugh.) But it was an article
titled, “Time
to Ditch Your Back Up Plan.” As I read it, I said, “Oh my God, it’s sounds
just like me.” I had back up plans for my back up plans. And it was after I
read it that single blog that I knew I needed to change that.
I started to listen to the cues, to really hear the magic in
my life for the first time, enough to ditch my back up plan(s), began to
streamline and I made a choice.
From there, it was
easy.
My “Secret”…As It
Were
Beginning on August 25, 2013 I began jotting down (on my
phone) 10 things I am grateful for each day. And, whenever I am having a miniature
emotional crisis, whenever I begin to doubt my cues; to talk myself out of
whatever goal/dream/wish/plan I have, I refer back to those 10 things. Why? Because
those 10 things are magic. And those things become the magic that leads me down
the path I probably should have been travelling all along…with precisely the
people in my life I was designed to travel it with.
And that…that is
really magical.
Because, in the end, all life is an adventure…and it’s the
people we travel with who make the journey worthwhile.
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