A joyful hello,
Every upset is a set up.
In turning around the arrangement of these words above, the statement explains a lot!
In life we are forever having experiences that are upsetting – be they minor irritations through to tragic events.
The universe is “creating’ or ‘setting up’ our upset, drama or disaster so we can learn and gain wisdom – often in hard ways!
The choices we make when in the middle of an upset, (and Christmas time can be a time of such upsets!) whether minor or major, can help us use or find tools to cope and resolve the situation, therefore adding to our wisdom and enabling us to gather and integrate hard won inner strength.
An Adventure in Adaptability
Recently, with a dear friend, I was staying at my son’s home in a country town (beautiful Margaret River) while he was away. It was the end of our cold, wet winter and the gas bottle that supplied the heating and hot water ran out of gas. My son had not expected us to be staying in his absence so had not considered this possibility! After contacting him he suggested we have our hot showers at the Recreation Centre. It was the weekend so it was not possible to get a replacement gas bottle.
As it turned out this minor upset led us to visiting the wonderful amenity of indoor swimming pool, basketball court and hot showers that we had not had cause to visit before! We chose to be adaptable and flexible and consider it an adventure! (Of course we were in need of a hot shower!!) By the way luckily I had brought to Margaret River from Perth a little electric radiator heater – so we were fine for house ‘spot’ heating.
Turning Negatives into Positives
We have sayings such as “Turning negatives into positives”, “Every cloud has a silver lining” and “Something good comes from something bad”.
Without my marriage ending many years ago I doubt I would have found my way to writing my trilogy of books or begun counselling and coaching – assisting and inspiring many to understand more about themselves and the meaning of existence. It was all meant to be!
I have heard Paralympians comment, without their disability they would never have achieved so much or have had the opportunity to inspire so many. They turned their situation into one of triumph and fulfillment!
We have ‘free will’ and yet I feel we each have our destiny path to follow and the upsets, big or small, are the turning points for us to stay on or get on our selected path towards our reason for being.
Go well in noticing the signs guiding you on and have a magical CHRISTMAS!
With much joy
Merriene
December 2016