Growing Nonetheless

Lately I’ve been learning a lot about obstacles. As things have been thrown in my path that I didn’t expect, I’ve met them with my own resistance. I think that this is the baseline when living this life and playing the game of being human. Not always can I look at things from the highest perspective and see the meaning just under the surface, sometimes all I can do is feel the pain and process that first. I think that it is important for us when we do feel that pain when things are not going how we envisioned them, to just allow it. To be with it, and nurture ourselves in the way we need to be nurtured. And when the pain has been understood and let go, to drive to the deeper path, and ask questions about why this thing happened.

Whenever I have asked this same question lately, I have been given two different answers with the same meaning at their heart. The first was this: “Obstacles create a thirst that needs to be quenched.” To hear this when I thought I was on my path, at least for the moment and foreseeable future, made me realize yet again that there is always a plan that is greater than my own. It’s funny how we know these things, hold them in our consciousness, yet when we are met with them head-on, we, at least I am always surprised. The second teaching that I was given about this subject was that pain is “an intervention to awaken an internal desire.” This is obviously not universal, but more for the kind of pain that is merely a sense of discomfort. A feeling that you have met some sort of unhappiness but aren’t quite sure what to do with it yet.

I can see how both of these teachings fit into the paradigm that we live here on Earth. How pain and obstacles are often cleverly disguised markers leading the way to our highest paths, and how sometimes they are exactly what we need. A push out of our comfort zone and into greater happiness.

So, tell me, where are your obstacles leading you and what has your pain tugged out of your depths and awakened?

With all of my love,

-Elena