Hey Wonderful Souls!
What if life is just not going your way? What if life is challenging and feels like a struggle? Does that mean that you are doing something “wrong”? Are you missing something? Do you need to change your path? What if nothing needs to change and everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen is occurring for you?
Even though I have been through many challenges in my life, including some of the biggest “struggles” in the last two years, culminating in the passing of my 26-year-old son, there’s a part of me that knows that, “A path is just a path,” as my guide once told me years ago. What if it is all happening to expand and heal you in the exact way that you needed?
To be honest, there have been many moments and days that I did not believe this. I fought it with every fiber of my ego and mind. And that’s okay too. The biggest teaching I have gleaned from all of this is summed up with a phrase from Matt Kahn: “Whatever Arises, Love That.”
If it is coming up into your awareness, what it needs is more love. What does that part of you need to hear and feel that it didn’t hear or feel in the past?
This doesn’t mean that I don’t prefer things to be different. Of course I prefer my son to be with me in physical. It also doesn’t mean that I don’t ever feel angry or sad. I just accept what is and love that. And, if I can’t accept what is in the moment, then that is the part of me that needs love.
These are my thoughts as I move through grief, grace, and gratitude.
Much love,
Peace Goddess