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Learn to get in touch with the silence within
yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
~ -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself.
Stop looking in the other way of looking.
~ Rumi
WHAT
YOU ASK FOR MAY SHOW UP
DIFFERENTLY THAN YOU IMAGINED
There is a story I once heard about a man who was in
an area where the river was about to overflow. He heard about it on the
news and got on his knees to pray to be delivered from the flood.
In a little while there was a knock on the door and
his neighbor was there asking him if he'd like to leave with he and his
family in his car. The man declined explaining that God was going to
deliver him.
The waters began to rise and the man's house was
beginning to fill up with water. In a little while another neighbor
paddled by in a boat and invited the man to join him in rowing to safety.
Again the man declined explaining that God was going
to deliver him.
This was a very big flood, and now the man was on
his knees on the roof of his house praying to God to deliver him. He hears
a noise and looks up and there is a helicopter with a rope ladder dangling
and he was being asked to grab hold and get pulled up to safety. Again the
man declined explaining that God was going to deliver him.
Now the man is at the pearly gates and he asks Peter
if he can have a talk with God. When he appears before God he asks God why
God had failed him? God replied, "First I sent you a car, then a
boat, and finally a helicopter!"
Sometimes what we ask for shows up differently than
we had imagined. It serves to pay attention to the essence, not only the
form, of what we are wanting.
It's important to be able to discern the essence of
the experience you are looking for. The essence is different than the
form. I really don't know what God delivering the man in the above story
looked like for him, but in essence it showed up for him in three
different forms. He apparently imagined something else and therefore
rejected the very thing he was asking for.
There was a time in my life when I was working for a
personal growth training company. Facilitating was the only thing I
envisioned doing as I loved this training and thought the value it offered
was outstanding and very much wanted to be part of what it had to offer.
For years my life was shaped by this vision. I went
to school for a Masters in Psychology in order to support myself in being
the best possible facilitator I could be. I traveled all over the place
training to facilitate. I even took a 35 day seminar (no days off) focused
on professional facilitation.
Then something happened, as often happens in life,
and I was no longer involved in the process of facilitating with this
organization. I was distraught. I had eaten, drank, and slept my goal for
a long while. I had nothing to replace it with.
It wasn't until I began asking myself what was the
essence of the experience I was looking for, that I realized what I REaLLy
wanted was to facilitate myself and others in manifesting dreams,
realizing goals, and learning to live in joy and abundance. In that moment
I knew that facilitating for this company was only one of MANY forms I
could manifest my dream through and that day was the birth of my own
consulting/coaching firm, which eventually led me to where I am today.
I now know that whatever happened that got in the
way of me having what I thought I wanted was a blessing. I didn't think so
at the time. But hindsight is 20/20 and I am aware that it was part of
something greater.
When you ask for what you want and begin to take
action toward that outcome, remember to focus on the essence and not the
form. You might find that something even better than you had imagined
comes in to your life!
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