Why do things happen? (May 2008)

You know how it is when you are doing just swimmingly then all of a sudden you have a bump in the road?  Sometimes your body feels great, you are leaping over tall buildings with ease, then whack, something goes out of joint and you wonder: Why do things happen?

We all rush to our “bible” You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay and look up “the metaphysical causations” of physical illness to see what in our consciousness has caused the condition. But I heard Louise Hay say: “You usually don’t know why you are going through what you are going through until it’s over.”

So I was reflecting on this while talking with one of my private clients and she told me the following story:

When she was a teenager and she thought her entire family was already “done”, suddenly her mother got pregnant again. Janie thought: “How odd?” It was a very different development and seemed somehow “odd” as she described. Well this little child was born, and then suddenly three years later, her father died. It turned out that this beloved child was something like the glue that helped the family stay close together. She had a very special place and very special role that was so integral in keeping the cohesion of this family; but this could never have been understood while the mom was pregnant.

Even though this does not describe a physical malady, so many developments in life, seem so out of the range of our normal activities, and we think “Why do things happen?”

I believe we live in a divine and orderly Universe. I heard Wayne Dyer say that our destiny is decided before birth, and we are constantly being led to the perfect enfoldment of it. So these bumps in the road are not bumps at all. They are divine detours, specially place road marks, celestial intersections which must occur for us to find the prize of our good.

Yesterday Joel Osteen talked about being involved in a law suit many years ago and how painful and anxiety ridden that was. He could not figure out why he would attract such a mess in his life! Then several years later when they were planning on going into the Compact Center, he was faced with another lawsuit and he went in very calmly and triumphantly, having learned how to deal with this effectively in his last lawsuit. It was then that he understood the perfection of his previous challenge.

So our challenge is Grace Under Pressure. It is a great Master, who limping along with a broken foot, can say “Thank You God, Thank you Universe for blessing me with this broken foot.” Most of us are in that situation right now where we get to or balk and yell every step of the way or go with the flow of our eternal triumphant good.
 
Affirm often:
I think positive; I walk positive; I talk positive and I am positive!
 
Sincerely,  Joni

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