Breakthrough
photo credit: Roger Smith
I’ve had a major breakthrough!
But not the kind you might expect. I was driving home yesterday on the highway and not five minutes from my home, I heard this big
POW!
I looked up to see my sunroof had exploded. Shattered glass went flying into the sky and danced on the road behind me. Some fell into the car on me. I peered up cautiously again.
What the “bleep” just happened? What just came flying at me directly from above????
I was completely stunned. I couldn’t figure it out. It didn’t seem like a rock hit it. It’s like the pressure had gotten so intense that the sunroof window reached its breaking point.
And then POW, it released, without any warning.
Hmmm… a perfect reflection.
Luckily most of the glass flew out of the car, not in. Luckily Hanna wasn’t with me.
(But we know luck has nothing to do with it. Don’t we?)
I came home to discover that the window will cost $1,000 to replace. Then 5 minutes later I received an email from a joint venture that I’ll need to invest another $4500 in one of my investments. All of this in a month where I’m practicing financial serenity!!!
I sat even more stunned. Shannon, this was the SAME afternoon you and I had lunch. HOLY! For the rest of you, I spoke very vulnerably with Shannon about my current truths surrounding money.
Then another email lands on my laptop.
When we attach value to things that aren’t love — the money, the car, the house, the prestige — we are loving things that can’t love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It’s not that they’re bad. It’s that they’re nothing.
—Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles by Marianne Williamson
By this time, I’m almost in disbelief that this can all happen on the same day! I’m struck with the timing of it all. Okay Spirit, I’m listening… But can you please tone down the drama?
And instantly I feel myself breaking through.
The drama originates within you, Paula.
O Paula, I sit in silent awe and wonder….the glorious power of the Universe in leading us. Amazement at how when we truly seek to reach those levels of purity and serenity within us - we are lead to the most powerful places of healing and awareness (ie sought-humility truly found whilst speaking at an event with no front tooth
I guess that’s another thing we’re attracted to in each other - we sometimes need the ‘big drama items’ to finally take heed :-)….some lessons in that for me, too.
You are on such a brilliant path of healing - your internal awareness is heightened. You are ready. All you have to do is sit in the knowing… & Listen….you have all the answers. It is from the darkness of the cocoon that the beautiful butterfly gets her wings.
“What the caterpillar calls the end of life, the Master calls a butterfly.” (Richard Bach)
Soon you will soar, my friend.
Love you….xo S
Dear Shannon,
Thank you for being you… and for sharing your heart and wisdom with me! Yesterday, I pulled an angel card that said, “You are a spiritual teacher.” It also said, “You are on a healing path so that you may help others heal.” At some level we are all on healing paths… the journey home to our own divinity. Thank you for enriching mine! Lots of love, Paula