Time - Acceptance - Joy
Time can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Five minutes with a person you detest seems like forever. Yet five minutes looking into a loved one’s eyes seem like a fleeting moment.
In my life, I have wished for things, dreamed of things, hoped for things to happen. I begged for time to be on my side. However after the fact when situations changed and new perspectives gained, time had been on my side all along. If I had done what I wanted at the time I wanted it, it wouldn’t have worked out. Is it fate or destiny?
I am a strong believer that there are no coincidences and that everything happens for a reason, good and bad. Lessons come to us all the time. Patience and acceptance of life in the moment is very difficult especially for us looking for specific happenings or goals to be made. Especially when culture or perspective puts time constraints on how and when things should happen.
For Example.
There are things that we want or feel that we have to do before we die, but sometimes those things just don’t work out. When those things didn’t happen in so many years and the clock was tick tick ticking…I felt out of time. I felt in turmoil like perhaps it isn’t for me. Perhaps It was not meant to be and for me to know the joys, trials, and exploration of that experience. That thought made me sad until my strong belief in pastlives let me know that I most likely had the experience of doing that thing that I so longed to do before. With that, I was able to let go of my desire, time clock, and be happy with what I did have in my life. I now leave it to the universe.
Yet, I fall into the when..when…when…..when I’m encumbered in the day to day stuff that pulls me out of the reality of the generous universe into the worrying world of the earth community. It is when I remember all those things that I’m grateful for in my life that I remember that whenever it is my time I will be grateful.
This is easy for me to say now. I have been lonely. I have been poor. I have been spiritually and friendship starved. I have had my hard times. I will certainly have my hard times again. There are always lessons to learn. Yet, my life is good. I am happy with my simple life. One thing that has helped me remember in those worrying world moments is my Joy Journal. I keep a journal with a list of simple things that give me joy.
Example.
A Log Cabin
A walk through the forest.
My Children
When I get bogged down with the nit-picky stuff of life. I re-read my joys and add some more when I can. It reminds me of things I’m grateful for.
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