When things are going wrong, have faith that they’re right.

Dear Em.

The trick with this one is remembering it when everything’s going bloody wrong.

So, here it is: Whatever is happening, however bad it looks, it is the right thing to be happening. You probably can’t see why at the moment, but you will at some point.

Someone very wise once described this as like traveling by car at night. Your headlights light up just enough of the road to keep you moving forward, not the whole journey. It’s the same with life – you only get to see what’s happening now, not how it fits into the bigger picture. Your job is to relax and try to enjoy the ride, (and not to worry that the headlights are failing.)

It’s best here to give an example –this is a simple one. Remember coming back from shopping on your bicycle that night? You were in a new part of town, in a new city and had ages to ride home. It was getting dark and you didn’t have lights, so you were starting to get anxious. As you took what you thought was the road back, you wound up on the wrong side of a busy traffic, going in the wrong direction.

You decide to turn around but as you do, you see an almost hidden bike path running under the freeway. The path is smooth and safe, away from traffic and runs next to a river and trees (pretty rare in downtown Los Angeles.) A cyclist tells you the path will take you all the way back home – simple.

So, what did you learn? Had you not got ‘lost’, you would never have been on the wrong side of a freeway, heading in the wrong direction and been able to see the path. It felt like things were wrong, but actually they were right, you just didn’t know what was coming next. 

It’s at moments like these when you can feel the universe is with you. Like when a parent teaches a child to swim, they put their hand underneath for support. They let go and the child feels like they’re on your own, but as soon as they need it, the hand comes back up – it was there all the time. 

It’s the same with the universe. You think it’s not there, loving you, listening to you. You think you’re on your own, but if you stop trying to figure it all out yourself, and just surrender, you’ll feel it rise up to support you. 

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