Maybe, like me, there are moments when you’ve grown a bit weary of the walking. It is daunting and frustrating to be sure when you have such a clear vision of what you’re walking toward and yet it is so seemingly unreachable. Fear would dishearten you. It would have you believe you’re not capable enough to reach your goal, not worthy of the prize you seek or any other number of fallacies. Faith, however, will sustain you. It will nudge you forward, providing you with precisely what you need to experience in order to grow, learn, mature and evolve so that you may get where you want to go. The Universe is not conspiring against us. On the contrary it is conspiring with us to make manifest the pure, true essence of love and light that are our very nature. If what you dream and desire is in the spirit of that nature, please have faith and believe that it will come to fruition.
And please know that I know well just how tricky it can be to walk this walk. I’m not preaching something I haven’t been through myself! If it were easy to wait patiently for life to unfold then we’d miss out on so many opportunities to become ever better versions of ourselves. We would not have a frame of reference from which to truly appreciate the abundant blessings bestowed upon us. We can better revel in light’s beauty because we have known darkness. We can better taste the sweetness of nourishing, delicious food when we have known what it is to be hungry or consume only impurities. We can truly revere the sacred importance of having a loving, devoted partner when we’ve known what it is to live life without one. I’m not suggesting you seek out the negative extremes just for the sake of having a richer experience with the positive one. Rather, be mindful of it all. Be keenly aware of every opportunity and experience, every brick on your path down the road of life, because it is there for a reason. Sometimes that reason is to teach a hard, uncomfortable lesson so you can better receive a blessing that is to come somewhere down the road.
Me, I’m not the most patient person by nature. It has taken a great concerted effort to practice more patience, and more mindfulness, in my life. I grew tired of suffering the consequences of living the other way. Lack of patience ultimately stems from control issues. When you’re impatient it’s because you want what you want, when you want it, because you want to be in control. When you finally have the ah-ha moment where you realize how precious little you get to control, patience is a lot easier to come by. And when you’re practicing patience, faith replaces fear almost effortlessly. Don’t believe me? Give it a try and see if it isn’t a little easier and more joyful to take those next steps down your Yellow Brick Road.
Happy trails!
