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Are You Unwittingly Running Away From The Things You Want?
By: Jimmy Roos
Yesterday while I was sitting on my bed working on my laptop I suddenly heard the sound of flapping wings. When I looked up I saw a small bird flying around in my bedroom.
I was shocked for a moment, trying to figure out how the bird could have entered the house. So I just sat there for a moment observing it, flying from window to window as it looked for a way to get away.
After watching the bird for about two or three minutes and seeing that it wouldn't be able to escape by itself, I decided to catch it and set it free.
So, I got up and tried to catch the bird, which was trying to avoid being caught. After chasing it around for about 3 minutes I finally cornered and caught the little bird.
It was so tired of all its efforts to try and escape and was obviously very scared. It probably expected to be killed any moment now.
However, I did not kill it. I took it outside and released it. But strangely enough, it didn't fly away at once. It stayed at the same place where I put it down for a little while, before it eventually flew away.
Afterwards I thought about what had just transpired. And as I thought about it, I started to become aware of similarities between what had just happened and what is happening daily with us in a mental or spiritual way.
Most of us don’t like what we are experiencing daily, in other words we hate our lives and we want to change it. So we start to pray about it, affirm it and visualize it.
And before long, a series of things start to happen. It seems as if things are going from bad to worse, and we become even more unhappy.
So, you do everything you can to resent and resist all these new "bad" events.
But what you do not know is that these events attracted by your desires. Your desire to be free... to have more money… to be more successful and to have more personal fulfillment.
You activated the law of attraction and the Universe responded, putting the process in motion.
But unfortunately you don't see it that way, and you resist it... in essence resisting the very things you say you want.
When that bird flew into my bedroom, it was outside of its comfort zone. It wanted to get out of that situation, and was doing everything that it knew how, but didn’t succeed.
So I saw its problem, and got up to rescue it. However the bird didn't see it that way.
In my getting up and trying to rescue it, it saw danger and a terrible outcome. It expected to be killed. So, it wanted to remain in control at all cost, to keep that from happening.
If it had just let go, I would have been able to capture it sooner and set it free sooner.
However, it didn't. It tried to get away and crashed into mirrors and into the window glass, injuring itself and causing unnecessary stress that could have been avoided.
I eventually captured the bird and it realized that I had no intention to harm it after all.
So you too are running, and running until you can't run anymore. Running from what you deem to be a terrible outcome, which is actually your freedom disguised as some unwelcome experience. You want to keep control at all cost, because you have this fear that the Universe will not supply in your needs. In other words, you don't have faith... that things will work out.
The sooner you become aware that the things happening to you today are not there to harm you, but to free you, the sooner you'll have the things you've always wanted.
Whether it is more money... better health, or more happiness... It is all ready and waiting for you as soon as you just let go and let God take control.
I'm reminded at this time of the saying, "whatever doesn't kill you, will only make you stronger."
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