"Everything Isn't As It Seems" The "Is It True? Series Epsiode Forty-One

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The “Is It True?” Series Episode Forty-One

“Everything isn't always as it seems”

There is much I know and much I don’t know yet, about what I see. I accept the moment for what it is and truly know that in the coming days, weeks, even years….I will know more and I may see it differently. It’s a picture right now, without a frame to contain it….to make it whole. The present is fluid. The way I may frame something today, may not be how I would frame it tomorrow. I may re-frame it with a new perspective. It may have a completely different meaning in the future. There is more beneath the surface of any moment, any person, any place, and any thing.

I believe there is stuff happening in the dirt of my yard right now. I can’t see it, but I know that it’s there. Things are waking up, taking on a new life. My experiences are like that….and even after they break ground they will evolve due to conditions and circumstances. I have a rough idea what my gardens will look like this season. I have planted and tended to them over the past 10 years. All the plants, the flowers, the grasses are most likely going to bloom and prosper. Even those that do not, have not vanished entirely but have evolved and become part of the soil again. My life looks a certain way right now, but that will change. Even the things that seem bad, can be and most likely are, good underneath. It’s “all good” in the larger picture, one way or another.

In any given moment, I might feel very afraid. What is happening sure doesn’t seem “all good” to me. I might be frustrated. I can’t see how anything could possibly work out for the best. I’m in pain and fear that the future isn’t going to help me out. Maybe the reaction, the consequences of a choice I made, are not what I expected or was hoping for. I followed my heart and left a relationship that wasn’t salvageable, but it really hurts now. I followed my heart and left a job that wasn’t healthy or in line with my purpose and now my finances are temporarily bleak. My heart knows things that my head will never know, much less make any sense of.

My head can get very wrapped up in ego, in the past, the future…in fear. In attempting to make a “sensible” decision, in trying to “be sensible”, I ask questions like “Does the perceived outcome appear to be a good one, is it safe, is it rational?” Of course, I cannot control the outcome. I cannot control people, places, or things, but my head wants to think that it can. My head sends out the warnings….defining the indefinable moment. Even though I know from experience that the completely "irrational" can turn out to be genius in the end...like miracles.

The heart doesn’t have to make sense of the moment. It has a bigger plan. The heart lets go, the heart trusts, the heart loves. Sense is merely the human experience of perception. The heart has the sense of the divine. I recognize the fluidity of a moment, of a person, of a place, of a thing. I dont necessarily know what its past was, and certainly not what its future is. I know that if I close my eyes and shut myself off from the sunlight of my heart, I might miss the beauty of a moment. If I let the light in, my perception will open up and become more….the senseless can make perfect sense.

This is why comparing is so completely irrelevant (though I catch myself doing it). How can I compare that which is in constant motion? I might compare snapshots. However, even snapshots do not reveal the whole picture. How can I compare my outsides to the insides, to the heart of another person? Their heart has a plan that is none of my business and I couldn’t possibly know what it is from where I stand. Their outsides may have little or no semblance to their insides in the present moment. I accept what I see and feel but I know that my perception may change and evolve like the flowers in my yard. I’ll see more, see things differently. I bring my attention back to myself and what the next right move is for me. I Honor My Truth!

Debra Hadraba
Honor Your Truth
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