Journey to the Heart of Beauty and Soul: Embrace Being Human

Dear Friends,

Last weekend I attempted to get out of town for an afternoon and evening.  However, once on the road I almost turned around and came back home.  I seemed to experience obstacles at every turn!  Prior to even getting in the car, I was frustrated as I was feeling how difficult it is for me to get away these days even for a short time.  With 5 animals, lots of gardens, large home,  my own business, I find it’s easier to stay close to home and find fun things to do around here.

After getting in my car and being on the road for about 5 minutes, my tire light came on registering that the air in one or more tires was low.  I pulled off the interstate and pulled into a neighborhood so I could get a better look at them.  After inspecting the tires, it seemed that they were okay so I proceeded back onto the highway.  A short distance down the road the bridge came up to let the boats through and I was sitting there for a short while. 

I went to a tire store and there was a 2 ½ hour wait to have my tires looked at.  I then went to another tire store and it was almost 2 hours there as well.   I then got back onto the interstate and took a wrong turn and headed back as if I were going home!  At that point, I was wondering if maybe I was receiving a sign from Life Force indicating that it would be best for me to get off the road!

However, I really didn’t want to go home.  It was a beautiful day and I was in the mood for a little drive.  So I turned the car around, tire light still on, and headed back towards my adventure!  I then felt guided to stop in a gas station to check the air pressure myself.  I was in luck as the air compressor was free and I didn’t have to drum up a bunch of quarters.   As I was starting to put air in the front driver’s side tire, I was prompted by my guides to go to the back tire instead on that same side.  I thought that was a bit strange as I was already filling up the air in the front tire but I listened and went to the back tire.  As I started to put air in that tire, I was prompted to “look at the tire”.  When I looked up, there was a nail in that tire right in front of my face! 

I knew at that moment, that this whole fiasco was not about turning around and going home as something “bad” might happen.  I was very clearly being supported so much so that I was led directly to the nail.  If I had just filled up the tires with air, I still would have been a bit anxious about what exactly was going on.   I then heard my guides ask me what my thought process was prior to getting on the road.  And I had to chuckle as my thought process was about how difficult it was for me to get out of town!  Well, guess what?  The universe provided for me exactly what I was anticipating and creating! 

I was so touched when I was led to the nail.  My guides really wanted me to get this lesson and were supporting me.  Now this is a lesson I work on all the time in my life but sometimes I’m a bit of a slow learner I have to admit.  Every time I think I’m being more positive, a situation crops up to show me clearly how my habit of negativity still sneaks in at times.

Today and the last couple of months I have been having a hard time getting my laptop to work properly.  Often it would take most of my allotted writing time to get the computer working correctly.  This is a new laptop I bought last January, so it should not be having significant issues already.   I kept delaying calling Tech Support as often I am on the phone for hours with them trying to remedy a situation.  Instead I stayed frustrated trying to work with a very slow computer.  I know basics about cleaning up a computer but this was more than what I knew how to handle.

Even yesterday, as I started writing this blog, my computer froze several times and I felt like I wanted to throw it out the window.  Now that certainly would not have helped my situation any!  Again, I heard my guides suggest that I look around on my computer as there might be something that could help me that I didn’t know about.  A technological wizard, I am not!   However, I did find that I had signed up for an assistance program that would help clear any issues with the computer.   After a little time, I was able to get my computer up and running smoothly again.

So what was my thought process leading up sitting down to write?  It was something like this, “it always seems like I have so many distractions to keep me from writing”!   A slow computer is certainly a pretty good distraction! 

Most of us who have been participating in the New Age movement for a while have been taught about the power of our thoughts and our words and how they affect our lives.    And being on this earthly plane, many of us still at times get stuck in negativity.  This is part of being human.  But even more than that, I wanted to point out how clearly I was guided in both the tire situation and with my computer.   I think sometimes we have to get to the point of wanting to throw something out the window before we decide to stop and listen.  The guidance is always there.

I know for myself when I have a lesson I need to learn that the longer it takes me to learn it, the more powerful the shift when it happens!   It is not about berating ourselves for our lack of consciousness, instead it is about celebrating the positive changes as they are happening.   I’m writing this blog and poking fun at myself a bit and hopefully helping all of you to be a little less harsh with yourselves as well and perhaps more conscious about your negative thought patterns that might still slip in from time to time. 

If we can embrace our challenges and find the humor in them, the change can happen much quicker.  And we might just help another person, who is also struggling with the same issue, feel a bit lighter within themselves about being human and sometimes being a bit of a slow learner as well.  Usually the more difficult a lesson is to learn, the more deeply this issue is engrained within our own psyches and spirit.   The good new is once we really get this lesson we have been struggling with for some time, the learning stays with us into the future of this life and lifetimes to come!  We are transformed.

Embrace being human, laugh at your foibles and slip ups if you can!  The journey will be that much more fun!

Namaste,

Rosemary