"By seeking the spiritual thread, I saw the purpose contained
within the individual events and how each event
was built on top of the previous ones,
creating a pattern of oneness, wholeness."
Machaelle Small Wright
BEHAVING AS IF THE GOD IN ALL LIFE
MATTERED
It is with the passing of time that we are able to look back over past experiences and connect the dots. What we once regarded as isolated instances suddenly present as stepping stones or a foundation for yet to come experiences. At a given time, we may feel as though we got hood winked into doing a particular job we would have never agreed to do if we had been more aware.
When I was hired as Director of LITTLE PEOPLES ARTS AND TALENTS day care center, it had not been made clear to me that I would be responsible for the bookkeeping. Math is definitely not my long suit even though I am highly organized. So it was an act of drudgery to learn how to balance the books. I mastered it, but I sure did not like it. Years passed and I found my self to be an entrepreneur and the owner of my own business, THE TOWN CRIER. I was remarkably confident to be able to generate my own bookkeeping based on past experience which I had resented at the time.
When piecing together a quilt, or using stitches to embroider, we become aware of how a pattern emerges and just how important our skill in creating a solid beginning has been important. The same can be true on the negative side. A college friend decided to continue her French rather than start a new language like Spanish. Years later deep into her career, she occasionally mentioned how sorry she was that she had not learned Spanish, the second language of our country.
All of our experiences eventually connect. We have a variety of decisions to make with our free will, but all efforts apply to the whole. There is an old saying, "All roads lead to Rome." We are not always aware of how our life is made up of many individual and often times random pieces that eventually form our unique self-portrait.
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