Day 083j: The wonderment in the waiting … (July 06, 2019)
Patience is a funny thing; it is only when we are unaware of embodying it that we can truly embody it. In this case, having already been blessed by a recent lifetime filled with trials that had indeed inspired me to become a ‘patient person’ (i.e. challenges that had proven to be unbeatable, and as such challenges that had soundly beaten me into finally submitting to the ineffably greater flow of the unknowable Higher Good), I found myself once again succumbing to the lesser desires of my lesser self; on this mid-morning openly professing to Mate my desire to be on our way quickly, so that we could arrive at a specific ‘better stopping place’ that evening. And of course, no sooner than I gave in to such banal temptations than the flow of life interjected and informed me that my way was clearly not the best smoothest way. For the more we seemed to strive to leave town, the slower our progress seemed to become, until we finally found ourselves waiting in line at this particular (and particularly popular) provisions-vendor for over an hour before Mate was finally able to purchase his desired foodstuffs for our journey … Of course, this entire seeming snafu was simply yet another opportunity to remind myself what I had long since already learned; namely, that my theories and my plans and my desires and my visions, while not ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ per se, were often not the ones most in harmony with my current surroundings or circumstances, and that the challenge we all face in every moment is not how to best get where we are going, but rather how to most fully immerse ourselves into where we already are.
“The more you remember the caring being you are – the more you remember that you are ever here to serve any & all nearby, and not be in any way to be served by them – the less external happenstances are able to frustrate or upset you … And as such we are to remember each day that life is but a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Refuse to resist or strive or struggle to alter them; that only creates sorrow. Allow reality to be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like, and simply choose to flow – smoothly, yet also courageously – along with them.” ~ inspired by Stephanie Perkins & Lao Tsu
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