Perception. I've written about this again and again....but everything is the outworking of our perception. We are constantly playing out the scenarios and taking them in, because they are what we expect to see. If we chose to see differently, we would perceive differently.
Have you ever noted when you want to buy a new car and then choose one, suddenly you see many of the same ones on the highway, whereas before you hadn't noticed them? That goes for everything. We find what we seek.
I received an e-mail about someone’s near death experience that was very important. The individual who had it commented about how everything was an atom of God....every single atom has God imbued in it and has consciousness. And he remarked at how incredible it was to be given the gift of being a human being - this VAST collection of atoms! Not just one. but a universe of them! And in that, the gifts of all the bombs, all the adversity, everything to help us realize that we are co-creators and that God lives in and through us.
Suddenly, we stop seeing ourselves as error. We see ourselves for what we really are, a magnificent creation, not a fluke. We were crafted with intention, and when we get the ego separateness out of the way and allow ourselves to move into our true nature, we don't have to chase after anything. We just let ourselves be...we observe....we pay attention....we wait if necessary. And when it is time for an insight or an opportunity, it will come. WE DON"T HAVE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN! What an incredible idea! What a revelation!
Something is working within and without that is bringing cohesion to this whole system of energy called the universe. IT knows. IT engineers. IT crafts and dispenses. We just have to show up, shovel all the excess manure out of our mind field, and allow ourselves to be planted and to bloom as we are intended. Yes, we have to do our part. But our part is not to control. It is to be receptive - to hear the still, small voice within. And to follow with love and with gratitude.
It's that simple. And it's that hard.