How is it that we hear what we need to hear when we need to hear it? I left my MP3 player on while I was doing a lot in the house — checking email, baking, etc and when I finally got back to hear it, it was playing the audiobook of Deepak Chopra’s The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. I have read the book but had not yet listened to it via audio. I walked in when Deepak was talking about The Law of Detachment which states that in order to acquire something you must not hold on to it as strongly. Sounds the opposite of what we are sometimes taught to believe. I heard it at the right time. I want to adopt a child if and only if it was something that was meant for us to do. I know my husband feels for the children there, and I also know he struggles with commitment to the decision. I am going to detach, something I’ve been trying to do for a while, but now I’ll do it Deepak Chopra style. If it’s something that I want strongly enough, then this detachment will actually help me acquire it. A dichotomy of thoughts but one that I will put my energies into. I also feel that perhaps this is just our way of saying that the child we were meant to have just hasn’t been born yet!
My dear husband and I celebrated our 10th anniversary yesterday. I recall my wedding day vividly and these ten years have flown by in the blink of an eye. I see the life we have made, the choices we make, the love we have for each other and for our children, and they to us and each other, and I feel so grateful. Despite all the craziness that can often be part of my days, there is also a calm and a contentedness in the feeling of everything right now being just the way it is supposed to be. My cup runneth over.
Peace.
S
