When Things Don't Work Out ...

ALL of us have gone through these "phases". You wish earnestly for something, set your heart on it, work hard at it, and it looks fairly achievable. Something happens, and you don't get it. You come crashing down. Your mood nosedives. At the extreme, you sink into depression. Scars are etched in some people's consciousness. Many of us wonder what did we do in order to be wronged. Did we lack in something? God knows why it happened. There you go ... you said it! God knows. Here is the simplistic analogy that helps wonderfully.

Say, you are a baby too eager to go out and play on a road. You love doing so for some reason. Alright. But that road is frequented by too many speedy trucks. Obviously, your "Father" does not want you to play. But that is not what YOU want! Your playful spirit demands what it demands. You are a child with all its naivete, inexperience, and little ability to gauge the consequences of many events. You do not realize how your NOT getting what you want at that instant moment fits perfectly with the much grander desire of your soul - and other souls who might be involved too! The child's instant desire is to play. But the child's grander desire is too live, to go through what it has come to the world for. So playing on the highway does not fit well into the overall scheme of things.

Sounds cliched? Perhaps, a lot of people come and fuss over you saying "it didn't happen because it was GOOD for you". And you hate hearing that mighty consolation. The above looks like a "turned around" version of the same? You anyway don't know about what your "grand plan" is supposed to be, and how this all fits in ... and blah-blah-blah. When you are in the "phase", you don't want to hear anything anyway.

Meditation is one key is to develop that intuitional power to foresee how things that happen are fitting in, what they are doing to you, and where you are going with that. One of the things that helps is silently reflecting on your past. What was the significance of that major event that happened years ago? Would it have been great today if that had happened the way I had wanted it then? Look at it objectively, in a detached manner.

Your Father also wants you to play, even more than you. KNOW that now the ripple of thought of playing has arisen in you - a better, more beautiful, and much more grandiose situation will be created where you may choose to play, play, and just play.