How does the saying go? The only thing constant is change? I think we are all seeing that truth dramatically playing out in the world and most likely, feeling it in our own lives. How are you doing with it? Some days I just want to pull the covers over my head. Other times, I am in awe of the level of transformation we are all going through. I think the key to enduring and dare I say enjoying all the change is to stay connected to what is changeless.  All the thoughts, the feelings, the outer forms – they change.  But the beingness of who you really are is unchangeable.

Most often we have pictures in our minds about what is ‘right’. I watch people (myself included) get stuck on the story in the mind instead of just living the moment.  It’s in the moment where you can just be, where everything is alive and revealing itself. When you are in the moment you can respond and be creative. You can participate in what is being revealed and be open to what the healing opportunity is in the situation. When we get stuck on being right we block the flow of energy within us and in life.

I was watching an interview recently with a possible republican candidate for the next election. I was shocked that in this day and age we would consider electing a candidate as, may I say, crazy as this woman. I decided I was right and she was wrong.  I was doing the same thing that she was!  I realized she is simply a mirror of a certain level of consciousness that is obviously alive and well and I am a part of that consciousness.  If I can see it in another, then I have it to heal in me.

Everyone reveals ourselves to us if we have eyes to see and ears to hear.  There isn’t a ‘right’ to attach to – just the shedding of layers that keeps us from the truth that we embody divinity. No one is less important in the scheme of things. We are all necessary threads in this tapestry always guiding us to discover the God within.  When we get caught up in the outer details of life we often lose track of our inner purpose.  And that is the reason we are all here. You know when you put your car in neutral? Sometimes it behooves us to park ourselves in neutral so the mind doesn’t shoot out in a direction that doesn’t serve a higher truth.

I was at a spa recently celebrating a friends’ birthday. While there I decided to go to the yoga class that was being offered.  The instructor was teaching a familiar form in a way that I had never encountered. My mind initially judged what she was doing as wrong or ineffective.  Once I let go of my mental construct that there was a right way of doing it, I thoroughly enjoyed myself and learned something new.  I let myself be in the moment and it was pretty darn good. Ever notice there is never a problem in the moment? Or if you think there is one it is because your mind is preventing you from simply appreciating the richness of each adventure.

I have been getting all kinds of great life feedback of when I get caught in thinking there is a right way.  The thing is it all comes down to love, right? I want to appreciate each person as a beloved child of God. Within the outer form lies the one spirit and it is on this level that we can realize that none of us are so different.

Be okay with where you are.  Know that as you ask you will receive but maybe not in the way you thought it would come.  Life is a spiritual grinding stone –honing you to your brightest brilliance. I trust there is a higher order running this show. What returns to me via my experience is always perfect. It is up to me to see how each challenge is coaxing me to grow. Life is moving rapidly these days. It helps to stop and remember what is real. Allow yourself to breathe deeply and feel the “peace of God which passes all understanding” – and that is in inside of you and very real. Enjoy the ride!