Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n
This morning, the cat started meowing at 4 a.m. and didn’t stop for 3 hours. Why didn’t I just get up and feed him you ask? I thought about it in my half-asleep state but I simply couldn’t move my body. Bone tired.<\/p>\n
Finally, at 7:30, he staged a barfing session. I sat up with a jolt, as I usually do when he starts heaving up the hairball, ready to dash out of bed and set him on the fake hardwood so I don’t have to clean the carpet. But when I turned on the light there was nothing to be seen. It was a false alarm. <\/p>\n
Or was it? I got up, he got fed and I got to work.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, a similar alarm-clock-alternative occurred when the phone rang at 7:19 a.m. It was a friend calling from Back East, forgetting the time change. At first I was miffed but then I was glad. If I hadn’t received that call I might not have wakened at all and I had a ton of work to do.<\/p>\n
It occurred to me both yesterday and today that Higher Guidance was in on these shenanigans. Both times, I needed Big Help to get out of bed. Both times, I got it.<\/p>\n
When I see the world this way, it helps me. It can even turn my anger into laughter. Instead of being pissed off that I got woken up I can see it as funny. A barfing cat as an instrument of Divine Intervention. Hilarious!<\/p>\n
Last night, I started to go into a panic about scheduling a video shoot for the Big O Project. Organizing a shoot time for 15 different people was not happening. I began to trying to think<\/i> of a solution. How could I make it work? I could force<\/i> it to work somehow, if I only tried harder<\/i>. <\/p>\n
Then I remembered this other way of thinking. What if everything was perfect already? What if that person couldn’t make it because this other thing needed to happen? What if I were to move forward with things just as they were? <\/p>\n
I shifted my perception. “The Universe is conspiring to make everything work exactly as it’s supposed to.” Trust and let go.<\/p>\n
Total relief. Total surrender. Total freedom. <\/p>\n
Who needs an alarm clock when you’ve got the Creator of the Universe on wake-up call duty?<\/p>\n
Inspiring Message of the Day: When things appear to be going “wrong” I can turn them around by asking, “What if they are going right?” I can accept what is, and see it as perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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