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“What you resist, persists” Carl Jung

It’s being a while but here I am. This has been such an interesting few weeks that I had to share. I have been on a bit of a “losing” streak of late. Two weeks ago I lost my drivers license. Last week I lost my tested sunglasses and on Saturday I lost my glucometer. 3 weeks ago I also lost a book that had some of my notes in it and that’s what really seemed to kick this streak off. You can imagine my frustration each time each item went missing!

Lost

Like I said, frustration has been the order of the day. The last time I had my book was in a meeting room. I only realised it was gone that evening at home. I didn’t worry as i just assumed I had left it on my desk and would get it in on Monday. I did have a nagging sense that I was lying to myself as I didn’t remember seeing it there but I let the thought go. The book was not there on Monday and to be honest, I still have no idea where it is. My driver’s license was last seeing when security scanned it to let me in on the Wednesday as I couldn’t find my access card. Luckily the access card was in my bag. My glasses were last seen about the same day. I was convinced that I had said to myself that I won’t need them so I will just leave them on the table. They weren’t on the table when I needed them on Sunday 🤦🏽‍♀️. And then on Saturday,I last remembered placing my glucometer in my bag before dropping my son off and going to a wedding. On Sunday morning it was no where to be seen.

Resistance

Naturally, with the loss of each item, I spent hours tracing my steps in my head, then physically in some cases. I beat myself up for being so careless. I couldn’t believe thatI now had to go and stand in that damn drivers license queue a whole year earlier than necessary! Really Michelle! 🤬 Naturally, the longer I tried to control the situation, the longer it took to find the items. So I stopped. The saying “What you resist persists” kept popping into my head so decided to stop resisting. Now those who know me, know that I am a bit of a cynic but in order to not have to join that darn licensing queue,I decided to put the “What you embrace, dissolves” saying to the test. I had nothing further to lose and everything to gain.

Man on edge of mountain ledge
Quote: Florence Scovel Shinn. Image: Canva. Created by Grounded African

Embracing and having Faith

What do you know, it worked! You know how that say that no problem is too big or too small for God? Well “they” know what they are talking about! I can officially vouch for the small problems part right now. So here’s what happened… I prayed. I asked God to either send me to the area/person where my license was or send the person to me with it. I also affirmed that I cannot lose what was mine by Divine right and I put the issue out of my mind. Lo and behold people, that afternoon no less, I get a message to say that a lady at work had picked up my license in the car park that morning and was looking for me so that she could return it. Just like that! Boom! I had my license back 😃. How cool is that!

So yesterday I was having my nails done and related my license story to my beautician when I realised that I had better do the same for my glasses and my glucometer. Yes, you guessed it. Today I have both my glasses and glucometer back. Alex packed my glasses in an arb packet and left it in a corner when clearing the table last week. The packet caught my eye this morning because I hadn’t seen it previously when looking for the glasses. There amongst a toy ant water bottle was my glasses case. I did say it was an arb packet didn’t I. 😜 As for my glucometer, turns out it fell out of my bag and under the car seat on Saturday. The car wash guys found it today when they were vacuuming. I had put my bag in the boot on my way to the wedding so when I checked the boot and didn’t see it there I assumed I lost it at the wedding. I don’t normally wash my car for months at a time and todayI just decided to go for it because I knew there would be space on a rain threatening day. Glad I followed that instinct.

The book has yet to find it’s way back to me but I now have faith that it will. Everything else did. For all I know, this was God’s way of making me put the texts I have been reading to the test so I increase my faith in Him. If that was the reason, then you better believe it worked. I am so excited! I just need to remember to put the big things in His hands as well…

So there you have it. Keep the faith and trust your instincts. As Ram Dass says, ” The next message you need is right where you are.”

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Sunset over a lake
Quote: Ram Dass. Image:Canva. Created by Grounded African

The Game of life and how to play it…

Life is a game that must be played by certain rules and laws. In this post, I share what I now know to be true as learned from the book The Game of Life by Florence Scovel Shinn

I was having a discussion with my boyfriend yesterday and at the end of it I walked away very frustrated. I felt like I was being judged on mistakes that I had made when we first met and that the changes I had made since then were largely ignored. While lying in bed it suddenly it dawns on me…I have spent my whole life judging people, including myself, why am I surprised that I am now feeling judged?

Then I remembered this quote from Florence Scovel Shinn’s book “The Game of life and how to play it”. I realised that by judging others I have brought judgement on myself. My heart sank. I immediately started asking God for forgiveness for my misguided behavior. I have been working so hard on learning to let things go and just accept people as they are and not judge them that I forgot that it wouldn’t erase the past. The are always consequences for one’s actions after all.

The great thing though is that forgiveness is always just a request away. A request through prayer to my God, my Universe. He will forgive me and I need to forgive myself as well in order to stop the cycle. I has taken me a while to understand this though.

I spent months at the end of last year and through January looking for answers. I knew that there was another way to approach life. I knew that there was something that I just wasn’t getting and I was right. Each book I read opened a new door of understanding. Eventually I happened upon Florence Scovel Shinn’s book and suddenly everything fell into place for me. At the end of the day there are spiritual laws that we must obey in order to live a life of love and abundance. There is a mindset that we must adopt in order to be open to a life of love and abundance. I think for me, her book consolidated everything I had read and put it in a Christian and metaphysical context in such a way that it all fell into place for me.

Life is a journey so I am learning as I go along. What I am sure of now is:

  • that God is my supply.
  • That everything that I need is already out there and available to me and I just need to release it with my words and show active faith.
  • That there is no loss. What’s not meant for me will fall away and it will be replaced with what is meant for me. This applies to people and things.
  • That active faith requires making space for the things and people that I have asked for and then letting go and letting God do the rest.
  • That I cannot ask for specific people. I can ask for the right friend or partner but not a specific person. God will send the right person to me as and when I need them in His time and not my time. His will be done and not mine.
  • Very little is actually in my control and that’s ok. When things aren’t working and feel disharmonious, I have to stop and ask myself where am I trying to control situation so that I can stop, mentally take my hands off it, and trust that all will work out as it should. Phew, this is a hard one but it’s getting easier.
  • Lastly, that there are no limits to what I can achieve. The only limits are the ones that I place on myself. This is also a hard one to accept and implement. I have spent my life believing in limits. Limits to the money I can earn and the things that I can achieve. Limits to the small things and the big things. There actually are no limits and I just need to accept and believe this. God is my supply after all and God’s supply is limitless.
  • Last lastly 😜, it is important for me to recognise when God is showing me what is meant for me. He will too. Then just believe, show active faith and then let go of it. What He has planned for me is always far greater than what I have planned for myself. God’s supply is limitless.

There is loads more that I have learnt on this journey which I am sure that I will write about in the future. Starting my day reminding myself that God is my supply gives me a sense of peace deep inside. I start the day knowing that no matter what happens, everything will workout as it should and that I just need to show up in faith. Forgiveness comes easy these days. Letting go is getting easier and my faith is growing. Life is beginning to flow more smoothly.

Thanks for reading. I will leave you with a quote from Florence Scovel Shinn’s book, “The Power of the Spoken Word:

You can never do a thing you cannot see yourself doing, or fill a place you cannot see yourself filling—not visualizing, making a mental picture (this is a mental process and often brings wrong and limited results); it must be a spiritual realization, a feeling that you are already there; be in its vibration.

Quote of the day: Wednesday

“What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.”

Florence Scovel Shinn

If I look at some of the situations I have found myself in and think back to what I was judgmental about in the past, it is pretty scary how often the things I judged eventually happened to me too. So, I am learning to forgive and let go and to bless others when they make mistakes rather than judge them for it. I am finding that I am less stressed because of it but I still have a long way to go. “What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.” Bless others despite their mistakes instead.

White tulips against a green backdrop. Quote by Florence Scovel Shinn
Quote by Florence Scovel Shinn. Image from Canva. Created by Grounded African