So there is good news… and there is bad news…
Let’s start at the bottom level. No matter what your government might want you to believe, there are some things in life that you cannot prepare for or protect yourselves from. Closing your windows will not save you from radiation, and no matter how many cans of tuna you might horde, they won’t be very useful if they have been blown into the next county by a tornado. Of course, I’m not saying not to be prepared… Even a wild animal—or a boy scout—knows the wisdom of preparation, but preparation only works if it supports the unfolding of what is… what is determined to be.
So, the bad news is that you can’t prepare for every possible danger… And the good news is that you can’t prepare for every possible danger. How lovely is that? What a relief it is to know that, in the big picture, no amount of caution will keep you in your body if it is your time to move on. No carefully crafted words of passionate wisdom will convince your mate to stay if the relationship has completed its work. And there is not enough obsessive worrying in the world that will keep your child safe if that drunk driver comes out of nowhere… And a billion drunk drivers could come out of nowhere and your child would be left in their wake playing peacefully… if that is her soul’s desire.
And that’s the good news… the great news actually… It will do no good at all—and might actually cause a great deal of harm—if you spend your days trying to prevent life from unfolding. So “what’s so great about that?” you may ask. And I would answer that there is a profound liberation, a great freedom, in knowing that each soul has come to experience certain adventures and that you don’t have to take responsibility for keeping everyone you love safe from intensity… or even death. Each of us comes with an agenda and your tiny mind and your puny personality cannot outwit a soul gleefully determined to live and die exactly on schedule and each in its own unique form.
I definitely am not suggesting that life is predetermined. In fact, I am holding out for the opposite of predestination… I am advocating an understanding that in each moment, our souls decide exactly what event would launch them into the next level of aliveness… and that they create that in each moment. Dead or alive… In or out of a body. And each time the blueprint of the next stage comes into view, everything that does not match that shining possibility drops away… dies so that the new can take form.
Therefore, on a physical level, please do store you food, take your supplements and make sure you have batteries for your flashlight. Listen to your instincts. And above all, let your life force run faster and stronger than ever. Do what you love every day, in each moment, and keep choosing the path that lights you up. The blessing of this is that often your energy will be running too high to be dragged down by a lethal germ or a particularly depressing version of the nightly news. But again… only if this matches your soul’s desire.
And on a spiritual level… Ah, now this is where we find the choice point… On this level of consciousness, we can choose to stay in alignment with our soul’s purpose and so everything we choose gives us a free ride toward becoming ourselves. From this magnificent perspective, we can wake up from our nightmare and remember that nothing can happen by accident. We cannot live by accident and we cannot die by accident. Nothing can occur which does not express the unfolding of our consciousness.
It helps me to remember that nothing is random. For example, after an earthquake or some other natural “disaster” we always hear the story of how an entire neighborhood was destroyed except for one home which was completely untouched… not even so much as a teacup rattled off the counter.
And recently I was in awe as I listened to an interview with a very old Japanese man who had lived through the bombings of World War 2. With such tenderness, he agreed that yes it was true that many people who were exposed to the radiation had later died of cancer. But with exquisite love in his voice, he mentioned that for every person who became ill, there were many, many more who did not—even though they were all exposed equally. “When will people learn to focus on all of us who went on to live lives of love and fulfillment? “ he asked. What a state of grace…
Will you allow yourself the gift… the grace of relaxing into life?
Will you allow yourself the gift… the grace of being truly present for whatever life brings you?
You know, I have had the sense, even as a young child, that I was born… that I choose to be born into this particular time in history. When I was eight or nine years old, I did rehearsals… I practiced helping the old world die and the new world birth itself. And so I am not surprised to bear witness to the dying of our culture as it makes way for the birth of a new consciousness. Instead, I would say that I am proud… I am relieved…. I am excited. Do you remember that you were born to be here at this time also? Can you be proud with me? Can you be relieved that our time has finally come? Can you be excited with me?
And having been present at many physical births, I understand that one can be excited and fearful in the same moment. One can be experiencing intense pain and even more intense joy simultaneously. And of course, staying present with each of those emotions is the key. No struggle. No forcing. Just allowing. Just softening. Open your heart to the pain and it is no longer pain. Open your heart to the death and it leads to life. Open your heart to whatever is happening and safety will no longer be an issue. If you are in the present moment, Love will direct you to the next step. No problem.