Remembering this blog serves as the vehicle to express my Graitude, I have been reminded in the last couple of days how amazing it is that when we relax and let go of our anxieties all our needs are fulfilled. Rather than constantly worrying and fretting over how they are going to be met and just trusting that they will be met, we are freed up to focus on the business at hand. Whatever our real mission is -- to serve in the capacity that we are sent, and the role will be different for each of us, but to do it well. Our obsession with minor details obscures the path and clouds the vision. (And Anxiety is another manifestation of fear -- really a lack of trust.)
What has been almost funny has been the total beauty of seeing it in action. Sometimes it is totally small things -- like I couldn't find the receipt from Target after I came home the other day. I needed it to attach to my expense report for the specialty Post-It tabs that I got for the office. I looked in both of the bags where it should have been, but somehow it had just disappeared. Finally I gave up. That was Sunday. I took the Post-It tabs to work on Monday, figured I was stuck or whatever. This morning when I went to get the newspaper, there on the front sidewalk was the receipt lying there, nicely folded and waiting for me to see it and pick it up. After all this time with the postal carriers walking by, the garbage going out, the kids playing, the weather, and everything else that has happened in 3 days -- there it was just waiting for me to notice it when I had the quiet frame of mind to see it and focus. It was unfaded and had everything I needed right there.
Yesterday I couldn't get into the turning lane that I needed to for the route I take to work in the mornings, because the traffic was so backed up and no one would let me over. So I had to stay in the lane that made me go the opposite direction on the freeway. Well, it was a perfect wrong way to go because there was a huge wreck that totally screwed up the freeway and I would have been sitting in that snarl forever, even though my office was only a 5-minute drive away. My wrong-way course was not really a problem, because I knew exactly how to take a U-turn and go down the surface streets to take a different route. Somebody did me a big favor by not letting me over.
So, Thank You to those people that taught me to let go of my anxieties and trust that everything is going to be okay. Laugh at the unexpected detours because not only may they go an interesting direction, they may even save time or bring our path to the perfect person we needed to meet.
I got an unexpected car wash yesterday. Michael, how did you know I was dying to have all that pecan gunk washed off my car? My Gratitude to you, dear heart.
A Huge Hunk of Gratitude to the Company that has given a job to Mike! Hooray!!!
To all the mothers that day in and out do all those things you do -- kissing the bo-bos, washing the little bodies, trying to find something they will eat today (because they don't like what they liked yesterday), chauffeuring them all over town to doctor's visits, birthday parties, day care and a million other things you do: My Gratitude to you. You make our world of tomorrow.
To all the fathers, so do you -- because I know you do most if not all of those same things, too. Plus you get to be called in for the heavy lifting and artillery duty on occasion. My Gratitude to you also. You are also making our world of tomorrow.
I am not one of those people who is afraid for what our world will look like in the future. We are in good hands, I have no doubt of that. That, too, makes me grateful.
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