The last blog I posted was a little over a week ago. At that time, things seemed to be going swimmingly: I completed my last final for my first semester ever in college, and I currently have a 4.0 average. I had rediscovered my admiration for the Hawaiian healing art of Ho'oponopono – which I wrote about extensively in this very blog. And I had decided that after many months of hardly moving around, I was going to begin a diet and exercise regimen.
Here I am one week later.
I am starting the summer semester on Monday. I am looking at my courseload wondering if I have made a mistake.
I was in a car accident exactly one week ago, causing over $2000 damage to my car. The insurance companies are attempting to determine who was in the wrong.
Because of the car accident – and several other issues that I neglected to tell my work about – I was almost suspended from work due to attendance issues.
And of course, due to all of this stress, my exercise regimen went out the window.
It seems that as soon as I was beginning to live positively, the world conspired against me to keep me down. At least that's what I was thinking during the past week. To say I was in a foul mood did not even begin to scratch the surface.
Luckily, the Universe has placed me in the care of a very loving and understanding woman, who loves me so much that she sent me a virtual wake up call yesterday. "I know you read a lot of stuff in the morning. I think you should read the first 4 posts on this website: http://www.theglobalconversation.com Especially the third and fourth one from the top. Oh, and don't forget the litterboxes and garbage."
This website is actually a blog written and moderated by Neale Donald Walsch (http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com) in which he shares an open dialogue with the world to help create, in his words, a "new cultural story" that is written by all of us. I highly suggest you all to at least take a look at this blog, it's very powerful. Neale also writes a daily positive email called, "I Believe God Wants You To Know…" I highly suggest signing up for this as well.
At any rate, in this blog he had an article called When Life Seems Contrary, which is very long but worth the read. In a nutshell, the article tells me that of course I was doomed to seemingly "fail".
Really? God wants me to fail?
Not exactly. The article goes on to say that whenever you declare something to the Universe, the opposite is bound to appear somewhere. This is known as the Law of Opposites, and it occurs because as you know nature abhors a vacuum. You can't have positive without negative, light without dark, life without death, and peace without chaos. So, when I declared all of that good stuff to the Universe, all of this other stuff showed up as well. The difference is all in the perspective. We can fall just as we are rising and shout to the world that it is unfair – and so it is. Or we can embrace these "challenges" as proof that we are headed in the right direction.
How bad do you want it? With enough passion, nothing is going to stop you. Of course, if there is no passion in your declaration, then things like this will always stop you. Like they did me.
Of course, the wonderful thing about the Universe is that it will give you chance after chance after chance. I'm taking my chance now as we speak, and I am going to go forward with my declaration.
It is my hope that all of you will as well.
To your success and mine!
Love,
J.C.
