Sometimes just knowing you have done your best is your reward.
Ever stayed in the right place too long? And at some point it just doesn’t feel like the right place any more?
I remember having worked hard at a career until I felt I was doing a really good job. Then after some years I kept having an intuition that it was time to move on to something else.
I didn’t listen because there weren’t enough details. We want all the details first, don’t we? Then we want to decide whether we like them. We want to be in control.
In this case, I realized eventually that it was right to move on. But it was not as smooth or easy as it would have been, had I danced graciously with those early intuitions.
Since then I have seen countless others in the same boat – staying in a relationship, career, volunteer position that they have outgrown, that just isn’t blessing them any more.
And it always causes rejoicing when these folks realize that the “unknown” future has turned out to be much happier than the “familiar” circumstances they were clinging to. The adage, “Better the devil you know, than the one you don’t,” is not necessarily good advice.
And one thing is sure – if what we are doing isn’t blessing us, it isn’t blessing anyone else. And vice-versa – if it isn’t blessing others, it is not blessing us.
Change involves a certain amount of trust in a higher intelligence as one who has our best interests at heart. A lot of trust, in fact, because lack of details pushes our anxiety button. It’s the control thing again.
The motives have to be right. A move must not be out of anger, frustration, or revenge. But rather because of this little voice that tells us we have given all we can. A quiet kind of, "My work here is done," message.
We can leave graciously what we have outgrown, and ask God, Elohim, Allah – whatever we call the higher power in our lives – to show us our next steps. To show us where we can be a blessing, and also be blessed. Where we can contribute our considerable talents for the common good, and find the ability to meet our legitimate obligations.
A simple willingness to let the Mind of the universe control the details of our lives is a great stress reliever. Anyone who hasn't tried this kind of yielding lately, might want to consider it.
In the collective experiences of all those I can recall, the details do unfold. And they are consistently very good.
I remember having worked hard at a career until I felt I was doing a really good job. Then after some years I kept having an intuition that it was time to move on to something else.
I didn’t listen because there weren’t enough details. We want all the details first, don’t we? Then we want to decide whether we like them. We want to be in control.
In this case, I realized eventually that it was right to move on. But it was not as smooth or easy as it would have been, had I danced graciously with those early intuitions.
Since then I have seen countless others in the same boat – staying in a relationship, career, volunteer position that they have outgrown, that just isn’t blessing them any more.
And it always causes rejoicing when these folks realize that the “unknown” future has turned out to be much happier than the “familiar” circumstances they were clinging to. The adage, “Better the devil you know, than the one you don’t,” is not necessarily good advice.
And one thing is sure – if what we are doing isn’t blessing us, it isn’t blessing anyone else. And vice-versa – if it isn’t blessing others, it is not blessing us.
Change involves a certain amount of trust in a higher intelligence as one who has our best interests at heart. A lot of trust, in fact, because lack of details pushes our anxiety button. It’s the control thing again.
The motives have to be right. A move must not be out of anger, frustration, or revenge. But rather because of this little voice that tells us we have given all we can. A quiet kind of, "My work here is done," message.
We can leave graciously what we have outgrown, and ask God, Elohim, Allah – whatever we call the higher power in our lives – to show us our next steps. To show us where we can be a blessing, and also be blessed. Where we can contribute our considerable talents for the common good, and find the ability to meet our legitimate obligations.
A simple willingness to let the Mind of the universe control the details of our lives is a great stress reliever. Anyone who hasn't tried this kind of yielding lately, might want to consider it.
In the collective experiences of all those I can recall, the details do unfold. And they are consistently very good.
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