“What if you experience a miracle and it all just works out? Stay open to that energy,” Dr. Claudia Thompson.  We can’t make our delusions a reality if we aren’t open to the possibility of them working out.  For a delusion to become reality, we have to be open to some pretty crazy/interesting alternatives.  Doing anything new requires us to do something different, possibly things we haven’t done before.  It may feel awkward or even a bit scary, but as long as we are open to the idea that those steps, no matter how scary, will work out, then we are on the right path to things happening that will take us where we want to be.  Things get dark sometimes, that’s just the way life is in certain moments.  But it is often in those moments that life has a way of working out.  When we try to control everything, to make sure every little detail is how we think it should be, we restrict the flow of life.  I’ve talked about that many times before.  Sometimes we just have to take the leap and go for it, even if it doesn’t seem to make logical sense. 

I will be the first to admit that sometimes life hits us upside the head with a 2×4—it isn’t always pleasant and it takes us by surprise.  The thing we never want to experience happens, we lose what we thought we never would.  But we always come through on the other side.  Just because we look different than we imagined doesn’t mean that wasn’t how it was supposed to go. It still worked out.  Miracles look like many things.  For every time we get caught in traffic, that email doesn’t send, we don’t get the job, that person breaks up with us, a friendship turns sour, or we lose someone or something we love, we also manage to be right where we are meant to be with the exact people we need, doing whenever we need to.  I have a story that I will share in a few days about this—and when it happened, it hit me like a ton of bricks: sometimes the universe gives us NO CHOICE but to let go.  There is nothing to hold onto. And that’s what is supposed to happen.

I guess in some ways what I’m saying (even as a reminder to myself) is that everything ALWAYS works out.  No matter what has happened, we are still here, we have made it through.  No matter what it looks like now, we have made it through.  No matter what we lost, we made it through—and chances are we gained something in that loss as well.  No one ever said change was easy or painless or pretty.  No one said getting what we wanted was what “things working out” means.  We need to tweak our definition of miracle a little bit so we always keep perspective on what a miracle really is.  In its simplest definition, a miracle is a sudden or unexpected outcome turning in our favor.  Doesn’t mean it was pretty or how we thought it would be—it just means it turned out.  If that doesn’t work for you or you’re struggling to believe it, then try and get comfortable with the idea that whatever happened is exactly what was meant to happen.  The fact that all of these things aligned to bring us to this exact moment, to the moment when it all comes together is itself a miracle.  The fact we exist is a miracle.  The fact we exist means that it’s all working out and coming together as it was meant to anyway.  Be open to it all.