walking the sacred spiral
walking the sacred spiral
Some of us are visionaries: great at seeing what could be, but not so good at implementing the steps to actually manifest it. Others of us are detail people: we can pick up every imperfection, however slight. It may bug us until we can correct it.
Those who are good at starting projects with a lot of enthusiasm, but not handling the sustaining or completing of them need those who are good at the ongoing and finishing aspects of a project. I don’t know anyone who is really great at all of these. We are likely to have parts we like and do well, some we are okay at, and others we’d prefer to pass on to someone else.
I remember sewing new dresses for myself in high school. Beginning to sew pieces together as the dress took shape was fun. Hemming, and adding buttons, zippers or hooks and eyes as the finishing touches were what I wanted to rush through. Rushing meant I usually made mistakes that increased the time it took to finish the dress!
I still enjoy seeing big pieces come together at the beginning and middle of a project. The completion requires a detail-oriented slow down to make sure nothing is missed and everything is in place. As I have gotten older, I have improved a lot at this, but it still isn’t my favorite.
Over the past weekend I had a conversation with a friend in which we were considering a hypothetical driving situation. I asked him if he were in a freeway traffic standstill, and he knew that by staying on the freeway he would still arrive at his destination faster than if he got off and took surface streets, would he stay on the freeway and wait, or take the next exit and keep moving on surface streets. He replied that standing still would drive him nuts, and he would get off and keep moving, even if he knew he would arrive later than if he sat on the freeway and waited.
I’m the same way. It’s not logical, I know, but movement feels like progress while waiting without movement requires patience that is more difficult for me to sustain. How about you? Are you better at the vision and starting up big pieces than the details to sustain or complete something? Or are you great at the finishing work and not so good at the vision and start-up?
Last week I shared that I was republishing my book, A Darkness Filled With Light (formerly titled Guidance From the Darkness) as a paperback and an e-book, through Amazon’s createspace.com. Today I was ready to upload the manuscript and tried to save it from Word 2011 for Mac into a PDF, but the PDF didn’t look right. So I uploaded the Word document as a .docx file instead–one of the document formats that createspace.com accepts. That brought me an error message: my fonts weren’t embedded in the Word document. How would one do that? Usually by saving the Word document as a PDF (with a Mac), but what if that isn’t working? Beats me. Createspace gives detailed instructions for how to do this with Word for PCs, but not Macs, nor could I find instructions online for this. After wasting some time searching, I saved my Word document and stopped for the day.
I really wanted to be finished with the details, solve the problem, and turn the book over for its finishing steps, but I can’t do that yet. Time for patience and letting go.
I may be practicing patience until I fall off the twig. There are so many opportunities to take a breath and let go.
Another opportunity that revealed itself this week had to do with my planned tour to Ireland this August with Rev. Karyl Huntley. The tour will take place and it will be amazing and incredible, but I won’t be going along, after all. Financially it became clear this week that it wasn’t going to work for me to go.
The trip was bigger “let go” for me that the book format, because I’ve been thinking about it for some months. I know when the time is right nothing will stand in the way of my going back to Ireland, so apparently the time isn’t right yet. Bummer.
I do trust Spirit even when the appearances aren’t what I think I want right now. Who knows what will fill that time in August that I had set aside for Ireland? I certainly don’t. My intention is to open up to something even more wonderful revealing itself. Why not? (Wow! What might that be?)
Are you being invited by the Universe to “let go” of anything? You aren’t alone. Take a breath with me and let’s open our hands so even better things can find their way into our experience!
I Don’t Want to “Let Go and Let God”
Wednesday, May 20, 2015