If you can only see a few feet in front of you, can you still reach your destination?

This morning a friend of mine reminded me of a scene in The Secret (if you have not read it, I highly recommend it, if for no other reason than to make you aware of your thought patterns) where a car is driving at night with the headlights only showing a few feet ahead of the car --and the narrator was saying that the driver can drive all the way to California just seeing ahead a few feet. Within the hour my husband emailed me telling me how excited he was because he had 104 hits on his website today and was anticipating anxiously that this might be the day that his website hits 200 in one day. He of course immediately recanted and said “I should just shut up and be happy I hit my first 100 hit day” That scene in The Secret again played out in my head. I immediately emailed him back, expounding on what I had been reminded of just an hour before, saying “When driving down a street at night your headlights only light up so many yards in front of you, however with just that much light you can drive all the way to California if need be. Life is kind of like that – we may know our destination but we need only to know what is directly in front of us”.

This, of course, set the wheels of pondering in motion yet again. “If you can only see a few feet in front of you, can you still reach your destination”? I believe we can. Do we really need to know what tomorrow will bring? Do we really want to be that smart? (I stole that saying from a friend of mine who uses that line to open up a space within her when need be). What if we literally knew every single thing that was going to happen to us in our life? How many lessons would we forgo because the path seemed too treacherous? Can we honestly say that knowing everything would be easier? Okay, so maybe knowing some things would be nice, but if we knew even the little things would our freedom of choice step in consciously or unconsciously, and sabotage the event? It may not change for the worse or for the better for that matter but it would change it none the less. Then that event would no longer be what we thought it was going to be, the whole point of knowing would be moot, would it not?

I believe the entire secret of life just might be wrapped up in this one simple point. Do we have the faith to believe that a higher power than us knows what is best for us? Is it possible that all we need to do is trust that all is as it should be? Good, bad or indifferent. I strongly believe that even the lessons I have learned through the school of really hard knocks were lessons I simply needed to learn. Would I have chosen another path had I consciously know the heartache and pain that lay ahead? I know me well enough to tell you that the path of least resistance has always appealed to me. I can honestly tell you that each and every one of those hard lessons has made me stronger and wiser and, yes, more spiritual. I have learned that though I may not understand why something is the way it is at the time, at some point it will become crystal clear.

If I had known some of the things that were to be my life, and subsequently avoided them, one of the things I would have missed would be compassion. The compassion to understand someone’s pain, the compassion to understand someone’s frustration and the compassion to understand that life just simply does not seem fair sometimes.

These lessons have allowed me to go inward and find the God light that resides within me. In my darkest hours that light has shown brightly and has always, without exception gotten me through. Had I avoided these lessons on my journey because I knew what was past the light of my headlights I would have missed this most precious of gifts.

If we do not know what lies in store for us tomorrow and simply live for now, wouldn’t life be so much simpler? Trust me I have yet to master this philosophy 100%, and I totally understand the people that tell me to go *&%$ myself when I start talking the talk. I get it, I have been there, I have been where they are now. Promising them that there truly is a light at the end of the tunnel falls on deaf ears more times than not, but I do not say this stuff lightly, I talk from experience.

People tell me all the time, “I just wish I knew what is in store for me”. I can tell them bits and pieces, the bits and pieces my Angels allow me to know, but they want it spelled out for them in black and white, I understand. I believe that if we were indeed supposed to know we would. There is a divine plan and though we can’t see it or understand it, for sanity’s sake we need to have faith it is in place.

Just remember our headlights shine the light only as far as they need to. It really does not matter how steep, curved, narrow or wide the road may be, our destination awaits us and the light will show us the way.

Love, Light and Angel Blessings
Theri