There’s all this talk these days about “change your thinking, change your life.”  Making intentions, screaming affirmations, creating your own reality.  Sure, makes sense.  Everything you see around us started with a thought–the keyboard, my blog, the clothes I wear, my job, etc. 

But what about when life just gives you a bump.  Somebody dies unexpectedly.  You lose a job and can’t find one like you used to.  A cold sore comes out of no where and each movement of my lip hurts and I’m obsessed with how ugly it looks.  From tragedy to hangnails, stuff just simply happens.  And I didn’t intend it, or affirm it, or work to manifest it.  What’s up with that?!

Dunno.  But I suppose the best phrase that helps is: “I may not be responsible FOR it, but I am responsible TO it.”  And sometimes just facing it, allowing it, seeing it as a symbol or a sign, and just rolling with it, helps to assuage the frustration of it.

That and a big does of gratitude gets me through some days.  No heat in the car?  Just keep breathing, I have a car.  Body not working quite right; deal with it with a smile.  My body is upright and I’ve got viable daily work.

Always bringing the Divine Energy into the complaint, hearing Her smother a giggle at my little stamping foot like a toddler tired and cranky wanting to play at naptime.