I trust that I am always provided for.
Chandra Alexander
When a bird looks for food, it makes an implicit assumption that it will find the worm and all will be okay. It does not get up and start thinking "What if I can't find food? What will happen to me?" It does not anticipate that there will be a problem.
There is an ease with which it moves through its day, an underlying instinct that is minutely in keeping with life's basic nature. It does not think anything. Its being trusts that all will be provided for, and it does not question how.
The universe operates with speed and efficiency in direct relation to our degree of trust. When we feel stuck, we need to get out of our own way. This does not mean that we simply sit back and do nothing, but rather that we know when to let go, when we have done enough. When we move through the world knowing that we will be provided for, magic happens.
A Heartfelt Blessing
Kate Nowak
"If you don't release those who hurt you, you will begin to resemble them."
~Rick Warren
No one benefits when we insist on holding on to old pains or old enemies. In the process of holding on, we tether ourselves to them and are therefore trapped by a prison of our own making. It is only in our release of those who hurt us that we can find freedom. Letting go of that which does not serve us will not only change the way we look and act in the future, it will also change the way we live.
Who's Packing Your Parachute?
Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent years in a communist Vietnamese prison.
He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience!
One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, "You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!"
"How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb.
"I packed your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, "I guess it worked!"
Plumb assured him, "It sure did. If your chute hadn't worked, I wouldn't be here today."
Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb says, I kept wondering what he had looked like in a Navy uniform: a white hat; a bib in the back; and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said 'Good morning, how are you?' or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a sailor."
Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent at a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn't know.
Now, Plumb asks his audience, "Who's packing your parachute?" Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day.
He also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory—he needed his PHYSICAL parachute, his MENTAL parachute, his EMOTIONAL parachute, and his SPIRITUAL parachute. He called on all these supports before reaching safety.
Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason. As you go through this week, this month, this year, recognize people who pack your parachutes.
Mountain Life
©2005 by Don R. Wilkins
(73 years old and began writing poetry about 7 years ago)
Live life the way it was meant to be,
accomplishments great or small,
by granting grace to everyone
and speaking peace to all.
From high atop the Mountain peak
the view is so sublime.
Look back upon your life with pride,
see how you have climbed.
You've overcome the obstacles
that would have kept you low.
Kept your feet upon the path,
learning how to grow.
The road of life is rough my friend,
challenging good deed.
But when you walk by Spirit led,
God meets your every need.
When need looms large within your view
with circumstances tall,
there is an answer to your prayer
when on the Lord you call.
I can trust the Source of my life, in all things.
Lenedra J. Carroll
I was asking the question, "What can I trust?" when I heard, in reply, this from my soul: "You can trust that your life is on course, that you are exactly where you should be, in every moment and situation."
I realized then my life was not a series of accidents; it was managed by my soul with great purpose.
Coming to know that deeply, I understood that I could trust the Source of my life, in all things.
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