The Beautiful Mystery of Divine Appointments
The unexpected people you meet in life are some of life’s greatest treasures.
The friends you meet along the way.
The one’s who become like family.
The one’s who travel with you for a season and then part ways.
The one’s who have always been there.
It’s all so incredible when you think about how these seemingly “chance occurrences”, or, rather, our souls came to cross paths.
There’s this beautiful orchestration at play weaving us through life as we respond with a Yes to this or a No to that, all of which has an outcome leading to who we may or may not meet.
I think it’s less up to chance and more up to the soul’s vibration and divine destiny calling those into our life who we were always meant to meet.
I met my first friend simply because our parents knew each other. Proximity of existing circumstances brought us together. No work required on our part.
You’d think this may have only yielded a circumstantial friendship, but it’s one that’s lasted a lifetime.
Our souls were meant to know each and walk through life together.
The next …
KEEP READINGTrust That You’ll Be Guided
I see life as a series of assignments in helping us to advance in our inner journey. My trip to Panama has been no different. It has primarily been full of opportunities to grow in my faith that there is a greater plan at work. This has been most evident in my journey to share A Call to the Heart with the community.
I didn’t have an exact plan for how this would unfold when I arrived. I just had a few ideas that I initially acted on, and from there, momentum was created. The doors continued to open as I responded to the new ideas that were suggested.
As my final week was coming to a close, I’d sold over 90% of the books that I’d brought with me—I only had four copies left!
Even though I was immensely grateful for all of the opportunities that had opened up to share A Call to the Heart, I was still hoping to sell all of them. There was only one slight problem—besides having them on display at a local store, I didn’t have anything set-up for me to connect the …
The Rollercoaster Ride of Walking Out On Faith
For the last few years, it has been my goal to live in alignment with the unfolding of God’s plan for my life. This, of course, always sounds much easier in theory than in application. But, regardless, it has been my goal.
When Lindsey first emailed me back in April about coming down to visit her in Boquete, Panama, my heart raced with excitement in anticipation of the trip becoming a reality. In her email, she’d proposed that I come down and help her with her business and non-profit and that she’d help me organize opportunities to share A Call to the Heart.
It was a genius plan in terms of tying the trip to purposeful objectives. But as much as the trip made sense and felt exciting, I still wanted to make sure that it was aligned with where I was supposed to be, as a part of God’s divine plan for me.
We agreed not make a decision until a few unknown variables revealed themselves to determine if the trip was meant to happen or not. The rest of April passed, and then May, and before we knew …
Investing In Other People’s Journeys
Sometimes we fall into the trap of investing in other people’s journeys through the expectations and desires that we have for them. This can happen when a parent strongly desires that their children take a certain route in life or when a spouse invests in how they believe their significant other should think and behave. In my case, I have a tendency to invest in my friends’ journeys.
This is simply another trap set by ego. We think by investing in the outcome of their journey (by trying to control the choices that they make along the way) that we are helping them. Each time they make a choice outside of what we would have them make, we think we are “saving” them by attempting to intervene. But if we are intervening from ego (as opposed to spirit), we are doing more damage than good. Ego acts through an energy of control; whereas spirit acts through an energy of acceptance through love.
We are also under ego’s trap that our inner peace depends on them making the choices that we desire for them. We would no longer feel frustrated if …
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