Hello, dear one!
Whenever you’re resistant to a thing or a person, you’re blocking the energy flow which brings you peace inside.
Let it go.
Recently I was summoned for jury duty. Trust me, this was one duty I could live without from my past experiences.
Where I live requires me to drive 20 minutes to the courthouse, with no traffic jams. The downtown parking is considered remonstrance.
I cringed while recalling how I squandered time in a waiting room with a bored crowd, feeling smothered.
As the date approached closer, I worked myself up with anticipated frustration.
I could ignore the summon card and pretend that I never had received it, but as a proud American, why would I lie to reduce myself?
While playing out my self-induced drama, I still believed: The Universe had my back!
As I was aware of my worrisome thoughts, I listened to a podcast that completely turned my mood around.
It was a Zen parable.
A young woman in a fishing village was impregnated by a sailor. Out of fear, she lied to her father that the monk in the mountain was the baby’s father.
After the baby was born, her father brought the baby to the monk and said, “This is your baby, and you should raise him.”
Without defense, explanation, or resistance, the monk replied, “So it is.”
The monk took the baby and raised him.
Some years later, the young lady became very sick, and on her deathbed, she told the truth about the baby’s father to her father.
After she died, her father went back to the monk and apologized for accusing him of violating his daughter and raising a baby that didn’t belong to him.
He asked the monk for the child back.
The monk respectfully obeyed, “So it is.”
Aha! This was my message, and I decided on a new attitude for my jury duty:
“When it comes, let it come. When it leaves, let it go.”
As a recovering control freak, I still caught myself at times manipulating outcomes out of fear, lack, and insecurities inside.
Fear constricts while love expands.
Whenever I worried, I shut the door to possibilities and retrieved into limitations.
What if I just let it go and let God?
I threw my hands up in the air, “God, I surrender to whatever you bring in front of me with this jury duty.”
I didn’t need to waste my energy playing out my scenario, as Seneca stated, “He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it’s necessary.”
What if God had a better plan for me as He always did?
I felt instantly lighter.
I called in the night before as the jury card instructed, and I was pleasantly surprised!
There was no need to appear at the court at eight O’clock; the recording instructed me to call back the next day between 11:30 to 12:00.
So I obeyed, still reminding myself of letting go and letting be.
The next day when I called in before noon, the recording requested me to show up at the court that day at 2:30 in the afternoon.
It was a smooth ride on the way to the court.
Because it was later in the afternoon, ample parking spaces were waiting for my arrival around the courthouse.
Within five minutes after my security check-in, a lady walked toward me.
As she tore off the slip on my summon card, she said the most beautiful words to my ears, “There is no case for you. You may go home now.”
With gratitude, I treated myself to a mouthwatering BBQ rib dish downtown, and afterward, I strolled along the sun-kissed marina.
When I surrendered, I let go of my controlling self and created space to allow Divine Intelligence to lead the way.
God turned the jury duty into a memorable date with myself.
Whenever something is bothering you, let it go and let God do the work for you.
When you leave the state of constriction and enter the state of expansion, watch the magic gushing in from your least expected ways.