DIVINE ORCHESTRATION
“Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. You may find one more agreeable to look at, but you cannot say one is true and the other is false.”
There are moments in our lives when things happen that defy any logical explanation. Although I think these moments are more frequent than we think, they are often overlooked, unless one is acutely tuned in to spotting them. A sort of divine orchestration that, once recognized can leave you crying and laughing at the same time in your car possibly coming across to those in your peripheral like some crazy person, but because you are so amazed at the serendipity you haven’t the slightest care about any such appearances. This is, in fact, an intentional oddly specific description because it was literally me today.
I had recently became so frustrated at a particular circumstance I was dealing with that when the latest manifestation of this plight occurred in the preceding weeks I found myself screaming out loud at no one in particular asking “why is this happening to me?!?” Now, I’m intelligent enough to recognize when difficult things happen there is usually some underlying reason or lesson we are supposed to learn from it. But in this case I hadn’t the slightest idea why this was happening. And there was and still is nothing I can do about it. It’s a hopeless and depressing situation and further not recognizing why it is that it’s happening adds an additional layer that makes it seem pointless and therefore had me screaming into the “void”. The parenthetical void meaning I was not directing at anyone or any thing but I would soon realize that “void” was listening nonetheless.
It wasn’t long before an answer was provided: clear as day and without question. In such a random way that I’m still reeling from the implications. A chance encounter that was most likely never to occur but still did. An outside third party intervention that ensured the subsequent chain of events would indeed come to pass. And another’s similar but also very recent personal revelations and their graciousness to share transparently left me speechless.
The answer to my question was not an easy one. And will require a lot of meditation and introspection on my part. But it was given to me by another, for lack of a better phrase, “on a silver platter”. And because of that method of delivery, and the orchestration it took to get it there, it has been received loud and clear.
All of this of course, including even my unintentional blindness to this personal self realization was not coincidental at all. Had these things not happened as they did, I would have not arrived at this point today where I am laugh/crying like a mad person and in complete awe and deep gratitude for such an orchestration to have occurred on my behalf.
This lesson I share with all: don’t allow the minutia of daily life to obscure the fact that we all have profound roles to play as we constructively weave together this tapestry of life. And although we cannot see the completed picture from this side of things down in the trenches, the more we tune in to the process and lean into the things that make us unique, the more we are allowed to see just how beautiful of a work of art we are co-creating together. And this thing we are putting together has to be something of profound beauty because just a small glimpse can leave you a puddle of emotions: looking like you just stepped out of the mental facility. Which, if such a prerequisite is required to arrive here, then please check me in because I would not hesitate to endure it for such a small glimpse behind the proverbial curtain that I’ve just witnessed and am eternally grateful for
