When Plans go Kaput

This morning I walked straight to my computer to start writing my blog. It was going quite well, but I realized that I can’t publish it. I thought that might be the case even as I wrote it. That’s okay. It was for personal healing purposes. Now I’m sitting here thinking about all the different things I was going to accomplish today: I was going to eat before 3p.m. I was going to write my blog and transcribe notes for my volunteer gig. I was going to fold and put away laundry.I was going to go make donations after cleaning out the basement over the week last week. Was gonna.

It’s all okay. How I spent my day was better than all of that - and my “was-gonnas” can and will wait for another day. Maybe tomorrow? Today is about healing.

I started a new book this weekend. I’m only a couple chapters in and it’s going to take me awhile to digest all the content. It’s called Education of A Guardian Angel: The Training of a Spirit Guide by Annie Stillwater Gray. It’s AWEsome! It begins when a human passes and is given the choice to become a spirit guide or go back and live the human experience again. He chooses the spirit guide path and I’ve gotten all the way through lesson 1. Lesson 1 is learning how to love unconditionally. The Spirit Guide’s Spirit Guides told him it didn’t matter if he experienced unconditional love on earth, nobody is more or less likely to learn how to love unconditionally based on whether they received it on earth. In the first test, which was a hard one, he was sent into a simulation where a husband and wife were extremely poor and starving during the Great Depression. (This book was first printed in 1946 and my re-print addition is 2014). The wife asked a question and the husband responded very cruelly, shaming and berating the wife. The Spirit Guide in Training did a very good job of showing love to the wife, as he felt badly for her and wanted to protect her. He failed miserably, however, showing love toward the husband. When he was shown his rating and how to fix it, he was able to enter the simulation again. This time he was able to interject himself into the scene and show love and compassion for the husband. The man wanted to rob and beat him and he opened his arms and said, “I can offer you love.” This stopped the man in his tracks - as if the love had melted his cold heart. I went to sleep with that story in my mind and heart.

Today, I was awakened by a phone call about devastating news for a loved one. Once upon a time that would’ve been enough to derail my day. If there’s one thing that used to send me into a tail-spin, it would be finding out something I have absolutely no control over. Or… more correctly, something I perceived myself as having no control around. The truth is - We always have control. What?? Yes. We can control how we respond. Today, thanks to reading my new really-old book last night, I chose unconditional love.

Unconditional Love is the answer. It’s the answer to traffic that’s going too slow, or not at all. It’s the answer to the annoying co-worker. It’s the answer to the family member who screwed up the last celebration by drinking too much and saying something unnecessary and unkind. It is the answer to breaking a sentimental heirloom by accident. It’s the answer to multi-billionaires buying off politicians and making us fight amongst ourselves over the table scraps. It’s the answer to polar ice caps melting.

The wonderful news is that we seem to be getting it right more and more. It does me no good to “yell” and shame people on social media for not having the same values as me. If I want change, I need to write my legislators a letter, or better yet, I need to put the walk behind my talk. If I think healthcare for the dying is lacking, I need to volunteer in hospice, with love…not judgment. If I think the school system needs changing, I should start by volunteering in the classroom and seeing where the teacher is overwhelmed. When the person in traffic cuts me off, instead of driving more aggressively, I can offer them love. I have no idea what everyone is going through, but the older I get, the more I realize it’s like my Grandma Dollie used to say, “If it’s not one thing, it’s two.” We need to give one another grace and love. There’s no way we can be the ultimate experts on how everyone should think and do and act. We haven’t been in all of their shoes. What we can do is start from where we are and love, unconditionally.

I love you all. Thanks for reading this and sharing it, if you feel so-called.

Anyone who is wanting to reach me for a reading, a reiki session, a class (I just added Reiki Basics for Kids on 4/20, 10-4p.m. and have a couple slots open), or my Communicating with Angels Class, texting is the fastest way to reach me.

Love,

Margaret

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p.s. Don’t forget to use some of that unconditional love on yourself!