August Meditations

“Trust the process of your life. A path we choose may turn out to be difficult, but that doesn't mean it was the wrong choice. All we can do in this life is to handle what's in front of us, accept ourselves and others as we are.” Dan Millman

It would be hypocritical of me to tell you that I always trust my life, and at the same time, as I type this, I think it so odd that I don’t. I guess it is scary to do so. To get into the passenger seat of a car with a driver you can barely see and declare, “I trust you to take me where I need to be.”

Who does that? Strangely enough, I do.

And I do it almost everyday. I get on my bus and our driver takes us where we need to be, or I get on a plane and the pilot takes me to my destination. I don’t attempt to tell either of them where to take me; I don’t offer my “route” to them. I just get in, enjoy the ride and listen.

I listen to the sounds of life around me…

A little girl was flying back to her parents from her grandmother’s house and the little boy was flying between parents. The little boy spent his entire 100 dollars on this visit... with whichever parent he was leaving. The little girl was just excited to have a layover in the town where Myle Cyrus was born. She was excited about a layover.

The 16 year old kid next to me, across the isle, was escorting his grandmother on this flight. He ordered her drinks, covered her in a blanket... held on to her shoulders down the isle when she had to use the restroom... and he was just happy to be able to hold on to her shoulders, to cover her. At 16 life handed him the lesson of unconditional love and he was living it.

It was at this moment I reopened my book and read the words, "Trust your life"

Can it really be that simple? Just…"trust your life"... really? I paused and glanced up. I guess the kids next to and across from me were just living life, just dealing with it as it is....so why can't we?

Because we don’t want to. Yes, it is that simple. If we trust our life, we have to accept the disappointments, the sorrow, the anger, and the hard times. We have to accept all of it, as is. And, we don’t want to, but we have to start.

I have to start, because if I don’t then I am negating who I am. I am saying that the life I am living isn’t worthy of being lived and I am discrediting the process. I am not acting with “childlike faith”, like the kids on the plane. I am trying to control, maneuver, negotiate and most likely mess up the process that I am living.

So, for this month, “trust the process of your life”. Be a perceptive passenger along for the ride. Watch the way that children go with the flow, oblivious to the unnecessary drama that can envelop us. See, with clear vision, what is directly in front of you and deal with that first, no matter what it is. Tackle it, set it aside and move forward.