FINDING THE ANSWERS

Greetings!

We all have guides, If you’re reading this you know they’re right next to you.  Since this world we live in consists mostly of space (looked at a model of an atom recently?) it should come as no surprise that what with all that space, there must be room for something. Can you have 95% of your closet or garage totally empty? Right, I thought so. I’m pretty sure the Law of Correspondence looked in my garage first before it decided it was a Law of the Universe. Just to make sure.

But it isn’t really just empty space. (we’re talking the atoms, not your garage, and certainly not mine.) Quantum physics would show you a picture of an atom that looks blank – and tell you that there’s actually nothing there but energy. Same thing with your and my world. Nothing but energy. Just some of it we don’t perceive the same way as everything else. Some of it is just outside the range of our conscious perception programming  – our patterns and templates, if you will, More about that another time.

But if we do exist with all that so called space around us, what’s there? Nothing? No Thing? Nada?

Nope, there is something there, and it’s called a MYSTERY. I’m talking about a noun here,  not the usual adjective we use to describe the unknown. A MYSTERY is an alive place! It’s a place of discovery, an adventure, and a space of enlightenment all at the same time.  We often think that a mystery is an adversary, since it is unknown, and we typically fear those things we know nothing about. We really don’t want to wait to know what it is until AFTER we’ve partaken of it. We usually want to know about it BEFORE. Would you put mystery sauce from an unmarked, unfamiliar bottle on your food at a restaurant you’ve never eaten at before? You get the idea. You might want to taste a little first, then you might slather it all over your burger, fish taco, or hummus dip. Or not. You might want to make sure what you’re getting first, then you’ll let go and allow the slathering to begin, or perhaps choose to eat it completely unslathered and never experience that unknown condiment. Or just dive in to the experience headfirst.

The times we’ve moved into are a lot like this. We want to know where we’re heading and then we’ll let go. Or let go just a little bit so we can have a taste, then decide. That’s called trying to bargain with God, Spirit, the Universe, or whatever you call that ineffable Being. Of course, the way the universe works, you have to let go FIRST and then you get to find out where you’re actually headed. It’s a little different from our experiences in man-made people school, where we have lessons and then we have tests to find out what we’ve learned. But in Life on Planet Earth, the Universe gives us the test first, and then we get the lesson. Which one is backwards? Well, neither one, actually. It’s just that we live in a world of reflections, and you know how things look backwards in a mirror -  a little less clear to read sometimes, though so often the answer is there and just takes longer to unfold.

Here’s an example I just experienced (short version). One of my hobbies is restoring a piece of audio equipment, and I’m typically thrilled with the results. Well, this time something went wrong and it didn’t work right. I was bummed because I had no idea what it was and I thought I did something wrong, despite all my efforts to be careful. Not knowing where else to turn that late night, I started asking my inner guidance for help. I kept hearing that nothing was really wrong. Heard the words, “simple, solder”, but I looked and looked and found nothing. I was disappointed, for sure. And frustrated? You bet. Finally, I let it go. Had to – the brain was overheating and starting to cook.  Soon, I thought of someone who could help. As it turned out, the “problem” was actually very simple, there was nothing I did wrong, and it was fixed in two minutes with a very quick and simple solder. My guidance was completely accurate! Not only did I get the amp fixed, but I also got to learn a few really cool things about how it works and learned to make a signal tracking tool that I could use over and again. And I got to share and relate a bit to another spirit in human form, also on a journey, who was glad to help.

None of that would have happened if my guidance had given me the direct answer I was demanding. I would have missed both the inner and the outer world experiences.

So, I think that when guides go to guide school, they have to learn to actually guide us instead of doing it for us, lest we miss the lesson. And to stay out of the way when guiding us. Probably not such an easy task. I think mine are particularly good at communicating at a frequency just on the edge of being out of range. That way I have to get quiet to hear it, and it sounds like me. In other words, I get guided without it seeming like I’m being guided. So somewhere in that 95% of the universe that’s space -  it isn’t all space. In fact, it’s a MYSTERY. And I’m having fun playing in it.

So the next time I run into a situation I recognize as a mystery, I’m planning to just smile and take it as it comes without the judgment of self or others, including my guides. (I mean, who knows? They might have a guides union. ) And if I do fall into that same trap again, I’m just going to remember how this one turned out. The keywords are …. TRUST, and PATIENCE.