Finding My Way Via a Crooked Path
I had created a course to teach people how to interpret their own dreams…and it had been sitting on a shelf for three years! I needed to find a new pathway, but what was the right way?
Nothing seemed to be happening for me lately and I just didn’t understand why!
Even my dreams seemed to have abandoned me….and I truly felt despair…and anger, jangling my nerves and making me tearful and angry in turns.
Rage at the Machine (or Mirror)
And then, one day…..
“I can’t TAKE this anymore!”
I raged at the sky.
I screamed until I was hoarse…and my husband came into the bedroom to ask who I was yelling at.
“ME, I’m yelling at ME!”
But Spirit had another plan for me….
Temporarily calm after my screamfest, I was suddenly reminded of a joke – the one where the man of faith is waiting on God to save him from a flood and ends up drowning while waiting. He gets to heaven and he asked God:
“Why did you let me drown? My faith was strong and I just KNEW you were going to save me!”
God answered,
“I sent you a boat and a helicopter, what more did you want?”
The irony of it – we don’t even recognise our salvation when it comes our way!
Remember that joke…you’ll understand why later!
All I knew at that point was I felt frustrated and nearly broke, despite doing everything I could to get my life moving again, I was going nowhere….
But if you look at the word nowhere more closely….instead of being nowhere suddenly Spirit showed me that Spirit was working and was NOW HERE and was about to shake things up a bit!
Out of the blue, I received a free ticket to one of those Tony Robbins-type events.
It was a weekend that changed my life.
Writing Straight with Crooked Lines
There’s an expression in Brazil which translates as:
“God writes straight with crooked lines”
and I found out just how crooked the lines could be…..
As for that Power to Achieve event and my free ticket….I hated the event – I disliked a number of things, such as the late start (my pet peeve, I arrive everywhere early!). However, there were a couple of diamonds among all the slag of the weekend.
Two of the speakers received a standing ovation – a 12-year old author of an inspirational book documenting his recovery from illness and a lady named Cheryl Chapman from an organization called Find Your WHY – they highlighted the day, as far as I was concerned.
I really liked Cheryl – she was witty and down to earth and I could relate to what she was saying….she talked about finding one’s WHY in life and being/doing that.
Cheryl ‘s offer of a prize drawing of a week in Morocco on a retreat to help women find their WHY in life – THAT, as you can imagine, caught my attention!
I eagerly filled out the raffle entry (placed on everyone’s seat) and when I saw people dropping theirs on the floor, I picked them up and filled those out too! I really needed help and I had always wanted to go to Marrakech….
Finding My WHY
I didn’t win the prize, despite all the cards, but I registered as a member of the Find Your WHY group and had online support.
And then I got “the phone call” – you know the kind of call….the one that changes your life.
It was a call from Cheryl Chapman! After introducing herself, she began to explain the reason for her call:
“Due to a bereavement we had a sudden cancellation; since you showed you are obviously keen to go, I thought I’d ask if you were still interested in going to Marrakech.”
I replied that I really did want to, but money was tight and I didn’t think I’d be able to pay for it….and then an extraordinary exchange began, in which Cheryl asked an important question:
“If money was not the issue stopping you, would you attend the retreat?”
Cheryl had barely finished the question, when I broke in,
“Hell yes, I would! I have been asking (screaming) at the universe to show me a way forward, and maybe this is it!”
I felt this was so important I was willing to draw against my pension to pay for it!), the discussion drew to a close….with a joke!
Remember that joke I mentioned earlier? Well, the joke was on me – and it was the joke that sealed the deal!
Why?
Cheryl just happened to mention the very joke that had popped into my head while I was having a go at the universe days before –
“Who knows? Maybe this is the lifeboat you’ve been waiting for!”
BINGO!
This excerpt is from my book, Finding the Gold in the Gobbledygook, which can be found on Amazon.
Have a dream that’s got you stuck in the slow lane? Get in touch for a mini dream consultation to help you to look at that puzzling dream from a different perspective! Schedule your consultation with me at: Mini Dream Consultation
Need help in finding your WHY? Get in contact with Cheryl Chapman, the founder of the Find Your WHY Foundation, and let her help you find your own WHY. Cheryl can be reached via email.
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