“I wonder how THIS is going to work out perfectly for me?”

is what I ask whenever I’m having a particularly rough moment.

Often I can’t see any good solution, but I never want to decide there isn’t one because I know there is a vast intelligence out there working out much bigger, much harder problems than I’m probably having.

I trust that time, combined with me letting go, will adjust perspectives and usually move things.

Asking that one question is helpful because it keeps me from starting on the all-is-lost-downward spiral that I may otherwise be about to fall into.

Sometimes, I even remember past issues that felt insurmountable, then gently played out into better than I could have imagined scenarios.

I have several examples, but here is one I’m experiencing right now:

Back on the east coast, many of the issues we endured previously have resolved and been replaced by good things. On this first day of May, I already have a fun new position teaching cooking class and meditation. My book is being sold in three separate locations, I dropped off paintings ready for hanging in a gallery, yoga is even better than it was, I just today got my keys to a studio/work space.

Its starting off in a completely different way than other years.

I had to let go of many things, many concepts, many beliefs. I had no choice but to let time do its magic. Plus I think I had lessons I needed to learn. How to care differently for one thing and how to disern what truly matters.

A lot can change as the years pass. Asking good questions is one way for me to find some perspective and remember there are possibilities I wouldn’t have thought of.