On Divine Timing

Imagine water dripping silently into a big plastic bag. The bag will hold for as long as it’ll hold, and once it can no longer withstand the weight of the water, it rips open and the water splashes onto the ground.

This is divine timing.

It is the spiritual equivalent to the laws of physics. It takes a certain temperature for a smith to be able to bend iron, and no matter how much he wants to bend it before the required temperature is achieved, he won’t bend iron, right? In the same way, no matter how much you want an event to occur, it won’t happen until the circumstances are right for the event to occur.

The event may or may not be significant. The water will break a plastic bag in time, and whatever you want to see happen, will happen in due time unless something interrupts the event: Someone takes the bag down and empties it before it rips, for instance. You give up before you achieved your goal. They give up and get married before you sorted out your differences. You lose faith, you lose hope, you give up… You delay the onset of the event you wanted.

Here is something that still boggles my own mind, too:

How is it possible that when  you decide that you want to experience something, you find that your whole life has been leading up towards that experience even if you weren’t aware of it, as if it was magically laid out for you. This is the best answer I can give you on that: The more mistakes you make the more you will learn. The more detours you take on your way to your actual goal, the more you learn.

All I wanted was to date a rock star when I was 17. I denied that wish because it was all around stupid. I made a dozen excuses to why not and why I don’t really want to. If I had been brave enough to understand that this is what I wanted, I would have taken the direct route to my actual goal, and I would have felt great about it, I would have thought I got everything I ever wanted and more! Would I have come to this point if I had gone through that path? Perhaps, perhaps not. But I know that what I learned avoiding myself potentially taught me more than what I would have learned going directly to my goal, but I would have been happier for 20 years out of my life.

I believe that because we are who we are, we are always in the state of potential of manifesting our authentic goals, simply because everyone and everything we need is right there waiting for the time that you become aware of needing them – “the right time”. The bigger the goal, the longer it takes to achieve it, but our personality holds the need to be what we are already when we are born… And before. Therefore everyone is simply waiting for you to become aware of what it is that you always wished for.

If I had known then what I know now, would I have taken the short route?

Yes. This wasn’t worth it.

And no. This was totally worth it.

I really cannot decide, but what I do know is this: We will never be able to make such poor life decisions that we wouldn’t be able to redirect our life path to where it was always supposed to go.

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