“It all works out in the end. If it’s not working out, it’s not the end.” Thomas Wilkins (conductor)
I saw this quote on Instagram a few minutes after I’d been doing some ruminations about a recent conversation with a friend, contemplating a major life decision. She told me, “You know that in the end, this won’t work out.“ Now, she’s not a “Debbie Downer.” No, this a friend that I treasure for her vivid imagination, which sometimes may be a doomsday scenario, but I’ve learned to let that go and not engage with it… for the most part. Instead, I lean toward appreciating and focusing on her imagination that firmly believes there is no limit to asking for what it is that we really really really want. This major life decision will be making a change towards what I really really really want. Yet at moments I feel some trepidation – maybe it’s just plain old fear -- but it’s not fear that is overwhelming anxiety producing. Rather, this is more of a lingering doubt of “what if blah blah blah.”
But then I let that doubt go as I remember what another dear friend from the South says to me with her beautiful drawl: “Sabrina, it allll-waaays works out for you.“ When she first told me that a few years ago, I felt my body go into a visceral defense mode of wanting to reject that statement and let her know that it “hasn’t always worked out for me.“ But then I came to the clear realization that this was an old response, because in fact it always has worked out for me. The reason it has always worked out for me is because I have yet to see the end.
One client told me that although she didn’t believe in God, she did believe in “a bigger picture that she couldn’t see.” This is another way of expressing the infinite eternal living loving presence that I call God. We humans in our finite humanhood, cannot really see or experience the fullness of God, but we can see glimmers of it and experience a few moments of it as awe. The allness of God does not have a beginning or an end, for God is the alpha and the omega. We, as individualized re-presentations of God, are part of and one with this allness and fullness of God, and so we also have no beginning or ending. We are now in this moment the embodiment of God in the form of our body temples, but we will transition from this form of Spirit into another one when our body dies.
Although at times it felt as though it wasn’t working out for me, I now understand from lived experience that it was in fact all working out for me. This is because it is continuing to work out for me as I continue to be in the here and now – not claiming this present moment as the beginning or the end. And being in the present moment doesn’t mean that I don’t think about the future, rather it means that I look forward to the future with joyful curiosity. This is living with an open heart, trusting that it is all working out right here and now in Divine Right Order, as it has from timeless beginning to timeless ending. I just don’t see the big picture of it all.“It all works out in the end. If it’s not working out, it’s not the end.” Thomas Wilkins (conductor)
I saw this quote on Instagram a few minutes after I’d been doing some ruminations about a recent conversation with a friend, contemplating a major life decision. She told me, “You know that in the end, this won’t work out.“ Now, she’s not a “Debbie Downer.” No, this a friend that I treasure for her vivid imagination, which sometimes may be a doomsday scenario, but I’ve learned to let that go and not engage with it… for the most part. Instead, I lean toward appreciating and focusing on her imagination that firmly believes there is no limit to asking for what it is that we really really really want. This major life decision will be making a change towards what I really really really want. Yet at moments I feel some trepidation – maybe it’s just plain old fear -- but it’s not fear that is overwhelming anxiety producing. Rather, this is more of a lingering doubt of “what if blah blah blah.”
But then I let that doubt go as I remember what another dear friend from the South says to me with her beautiful drawl: “Sabrina, it allll-waaays works out for you.“ When she first told me that a few years ago, I felt my body go into a visceral defense mode of wanting to reject that statement and let her know that it “hasn’t always worked out for me.“ But then I came to the clear realization that this was an old response, because in fact it always has worked out for me. The reason it has always worked out for me is because I have yet to see the end.
One client told me that although she didn’t believe in God, she did believe in “a bigger picture that she couldn’t see.” This is another way of expressing the infinite eternal living loving presence that I call God. We humans in our finite humanhood, cannot really see or experience the fullness of God, but we can see glimmers of it and experience a few moments of it as awe. The allness of God does not have a beginning or an end, for God is the alpha and the omega. We, as individualized re-presentations of God, are part of and one with this allness and fullness of God, and so we also have no beginning or ending. We are now in this moment the embodiment of God in the form of our body temples, but we will transition from this form of Spirit into another one when our body dies.
Although at times it felt as though it wasn’t working out for me, I now understand from lived experience that it was in fact all working out for me. This is because it is continuing to work out for me as I continue to be in the here and now – not claiming this present moment as the beginning or the end. And being in the present moment doesn’t mean that I don’t think about the future, rather it means that I look forward to the future with joyful curiosity. This is living with an open heart, trusting that it is all working out right here and now in Divine Right Order, as it has from timeless beginning to timeless ending. I just don’t see the big picture of it all.
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