Don't Rush The Process

today I experienced a moment of clarity about my behavior. I found myself wishing a particular experience would hurry up and be over. It is becoming my habit to ask questions so that I am clear on why I am doing what I am doing. So I ask "When was my first experience in this behavior"? The answer was completely laughable.

I am a preemie. I was born several months before the due date. It is laughable, that even in the womb I did not trust the process, even in my unformed mind I was rushing to get through what I was going through. Until today I rushed through the experiences I label as bad as well as what I label as good. When I did that I was missing out on all the richness the experience had to teach me. Where do I do this? When do I do this? Why do I do this? These are the questions We must explore to learn the lesson and to heal. When we don't allow the process to take it's natural course we miss valuable lessons and are destined to repeat it. Everything has a gestation period and a time to bear fruit. What happens when we pick fruit before it is ripe? It is usually hard and we manipulate it from the outside making it ripe without having everything it needs.

A country is a reflection of it's inhabitants prehaps this is why we are the most over fed and under nourished country in the world. We rush everything.

My lesson for today is a lesson my grandmother and many others elders have told me and I did not hear the wisdom in their words. "slow down", "Don't rush", Take your time". How many times have you said those words yourself and still rush to and fro?

thought For Today:

When we rush through one thing we rush through all things. Not allowing the process to naturally come to completion we miss out on the lessons that the process unfolds.

Todays Affirmation:

I allow the natural process of life to unfold. I will to will thy will Holy Spirt. I surrender to the process and trust your vision of my life.