Everything always happens at once….
There are times, I’m sure you’ve noticed, when everything seems to happen at once, when the normally fairly calm and managable world goes into a strange version of mania. Things break. Lots of them. Cars, washing machines, computers, marriages (other people’s, in this case). And the balance that we’d been dealing with pretty well is thrown way off. For one thing, blogging gets pushed aside for a while.
It’s been a bit like that recently around here.
What I’ve also noticed is that when things go wrong like this there’s usually something else happening as well, beneath the surface. Anne Lamott says that it’s the universe trying to distract our attention. And I think she’s right. These events are all temptations to move our eyes off the target and to get stuck in the mire instead.
But she also suggests that when we’re distracted in this way it gives space for the universe to allow something new to be born. Perhaps it’s just that if we were still in our comfortable rut we’d never actually notice something new being born. Or perhaps it’s something more mystical. Who knows? But something new must surely be on the way. The signs are all there, after all.
on October 7th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Regarding your notion that things go wrong “for a reason,” my health problems may require that I leave the 9MM. If so, I need to regroup. Luckly I’ve made my schedule and filled out my contract.
Previously, Jean blogged that her yoga warrior pose fueled her warrior- memoirist.
If my health problems mandate that I leave the class, perhaps “the universe” wants me to take better care of my body. (Coincidentally, my favorite yoga treacher gives a three-hour class Monday nights.)
Previously Allan blogged:
“Rendering the truth of living experience doesn’t depend upon taming the life out of it. It depends upon letting it be itself; messy, unruly, alive. We don’t have to include every detail, or have processed all the emotions. And somewhere in all that movement and fuss we’ll smile and say, yup, that’s what life is. Good dog.”
And, of course, “dog pose” is one of my favorite yoga asanas. I shall do it over this quiet weekend as I ask the universe, “Whas’ up?”
Mary Lou