“Off The Table” written by Rev. Pamelagrace Beatty

Long Time Happening…

Things change. What was no longer is…yet we might cling to it as though somehow that clinging will bring it back into our reality. I have found myself clinging to situations and even people from my past when, in effect they are “off the table’! That wonderful young man who walked across the dance floor and asked me, of all people, to dance is long gone. The memory of that moment still lingers in my mind and sometimes I have wondered whatever happened to him. That incident occurred over thirty years ago. Perhaps I should move on?

It Was Better Then

I have lived in three states and six cities. Each time I moved, the last place I lived seemed better than the city I just moved to even though I was truly glad to be leaving some of those places. Sometimes we find ourselves looking back on something and it has “grown wings” as my mother says. It has become something far better and dearer than it was when we were smack dab in the middle of it! That relationship we couldn’t wait to get out of or that job we were dying to leave now seems to be the best thing we ever had (well, maybe not the best but better than what we have now) and we mourn it for days…weeks…years! Of course while we do that, mourn what is lost to us, we are energetically keeping new and possibly better experiences from coming to us.

Don’t Block Your Blessings

Often, we stand in the way of our Good. It is right in front of us but we are looking to the right, the left or behind ourselves. We have an indelible picture of what our “Good” should look like and that stops us from seeing the Good that is all around us. As we pursue that picture or worse yet hang onto something that is “off the table”, gone, no longer in our lives, we are blocking our blessings.

Somersaults

The Universe is turning somersaults to bring us the Good we seek. The “Force” IS with us (for non- Star Wars fans, the Force is the Universal power in and around everything). Opening the door to our blessings is as simple as assuming they are there, regardless of what we are seeing and looking for the blessing within the situation. Sometimes this blessing isn’t obvious. Sometimes it is beyond our understanding. But all of the time, it is there and we may just have to trust that. So, knowing your are blessed and a blessing…and so it is.