Cleaning Up Messes

Pretty much everyone, sometime in their life, has negotiated with Spirit in whatever manifestation they are connected with.  You know they “If you get me out of this I’ll do ______.”  We’re not actually pledging that, in fact rarely do we have any intention of doing it, but we’re trying to get attention of someone more powerful than us that can take a bad situation and get us out of it. We handing over our power to a higher power, as it were.  We think that this behavior only happens in extreme situations. We see it often in movies when someone is about to die in a battle.  What we don’t notice is when we do it in our everyday lives.

This is what we’re asking for when we strive so hard to have a calling or to find our passion. We want to be shown what we should be doing and if we find it we will then live happily ever after having all our needs met by a path and occupation that brings us joy, feels like play, and showers us with abundance as well as vacations, a negligible and completely flexible work schedule, and the ability to have anything we want at any time.  Or there’s the “Looking for a Soul mate” version. We want a relationship that will not only solve all of our issues around relationships, but heal everything else about our self-esteem, our self-worth, our ability to nurture, care for, and even like ourselves. Once we have our soul mate we will no longer have personal issues and we will live happily ever after having all of our needs met…

The thing is, the universe works on a co-creative model. Spirit and our guides and teachers and angels and all the rest are here to help us, but not to do things for us. They provide the insights, the opportunities, the possibilities, but they can’t choose to act on them.  It’s kinda like that old proverb, “You can bring a horse to water…” We have free will and are responsible for what we choose to do or not do in this world. That includes being available for that miracle we’ve been asking for, making a space for the relationship we’ve despaired of ever finding, and being willing to act when opportunities arise.  The first step towards that is realizing that we got ourselves into the situations we’re in and we are amazingly capable of getting out of them again.  To make space, prepare, and be ready we first need to clean up our own messes. To create the life we want to have we first need to turn ourselves into the person we want to be. So start setting your own house to rights and you’ll be amazed at how many blessings start coming your way.