Did you grow up believing that life always support you? I did not grow up believing that life always supports me. I grew up believing wholeheartedly that life was against me while it was for others who were lucky or special. I did not really expect to get what I wanted in life except for in school. As I have grown wiser, I have learned to trust life. I know from the deepest part of my soul that life really does support me. Life wants me to have everything that I want, as long as nobody else gets hurt in the process.
A few years ago, I learned how life always supports me. I was in the market for a sleeper sofa. After visiting several furniture stores, I had not found anything that I liked or anything within my ideal price range. My boyfriend suggested that I check out Ebay. Sure enough, I found a wonderful looking sleeper sofa and matching loveseat. All I had to do was submit the winning bid and drive to New Jersey to pick it up. I had this sure feeling that I was going to get that sofa, but somebody else wanted it more than I did. I had reached my bid limit and the other person was willing to spend even more. It did not make any sense for me to bid more, so the other person got the sofa. At that moment, I was angry. I was so close and then it was gone just like that. I was not happy that the other person got the sofa that I really wanted.
I took a step back out of my anger and realized that I was not trusting life. I was guilty of thinking in terms of limitation and lack. I was thinking that this was the only sofa that I would ever like. It seemed like this sofa was the only affordable priced piece of furniture that I would ever find. Instead of trusting life, I was thinking that life was shortchanging me. My boyfriend reminded me that I should not be angry about losing out on this sleeper sofa because something better was coming to me. I was not really losing out on anything. Maybe the other bidder needed this sofa more than I did. I had a bed to sleep in. Maybe this person needed this sofa to be her bed.
I remembered reading that life always supports me. This experience was giving me an opportunity to learn and apply this spiritual teaching to my life. If I did not get that sofa, it did not mean that I would never get a sofa. That sofa was not for me--it was for someone else. All I could do was to bid up to my limit and be happy with the results, even if I did not win. There really was no competition between me and the other bidder. My sofa would come to me in the perfect way at the perfect time.
My sofa did come to me with ease and very little effort in less than a month. My boyfriend's uncle has a hauling business and one of his clients had a sleeper sofa in perfect condition that she wanted to get rid of. He offered the sofa to me free of charge and even delivered it to my home free of charge. It was everything that I wanted-- comfortable and the perfect color. I got my sofa without having to drive out of state and haul it back to my home. This situation was perfect and tailor made for me.
Trust and believe that life always supports you with your most trivial circumstances and your more challenging circumstances. Life is supporting you, whether you get what you want or not. Sometimes, we think we know what we need, but the Creator has other ideas about what is best for us. In these instances, we may not get what we want because it is not best for us. It is during these times, when we really need to remember that life is always supporting us. It is wise to surrender or defer to the Creator's wisdom and judgment. We can ask for what we want, but it is wise not to allow ourselves to become emotionally attached to getting it. Whatever the results, we must trust that life is always supporting us and our highest good.
We try to order the how and when our good will come to us. When we cannot figure out how we are ever going to get what we want in light of present circumstances, we may doubt if life is really supporting us. It is during these moments when what we want seems impossible that we need to remember that all things are possible. We never know all the unexpected ways that life will support us. We have no idea all the channels through which Life works to support us in getting what we want. That is the beauty of it all.
We simply need to trust that life is always supporting us, no matter what is happening in our lives. Life is still supporting us during our darkest moments as in our most joyful moments when everything seems to be coming together and working well for us. It is so important to remember that life is supporting us, even when our lives are falling apart. We may not understand how going through our difficult moments is serving us, but we have to trust that there is always a reason for the chaos and confusion within our lives. Our lives are always balanced by the high and low times rather than be a continuous cycle of happy, high times.
Affirmations: Life supports me everyday and in every way. I am always being blessed by the Creator.
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