Trust… All Will Be Well

When one door closes another one opens. I’ve heard people tell me this throughout my lifetime and I always knew they were trying to comfort me. People trying to help me see the “silver lining” in a painful breakup or just trying to be optimistic.

Recently, I’ve had a lot of conversations with friends and family who have been experiencing difficult times. This morning, while spending time with my fur babies, I was inspired to reflect on many situations in my life where I’ve actually experienced the “silver lining”. In fact, not only was I blessed with a “silver lining” ...many of them were mixed with gold as well.

For example, after my ex-husband died, I went to visit his family. I’d learned from a friend, a technique for putting “closure” on a life situation with an individual when a person was no longer in my presence.

I put a photo of my ex-husband in a chair and asked him to join me for a conversation. Within minutes I felt him around me. At that point, I started to cry and asked him questions I’d been asking myself for seven years. Why did you leave me? Why did you go with this other person instead of me? What did I do wrong?

The answers that came shocked me! Everything I heard in my head consisted of completely different answers than I’d thought about for seven years… simply amazing! The pieces of the puzzle started to fit together and I was seeing our life together from his perspective… something he’d never shared with me while we were together.

One of the things I requested of him was to have a piece of my heart back… the piece I’d given him when we got married. During the seven years, I’d slowly understood, in my own mind, the reasons why our relationship ended, and I’d pieced my heart back together. It wasn’t until just then I realized I needed to ask for the last piece, so I could feel “whole” again.

I told him I needed it so I could give it to the next love in my life. I’d casually dated numerous men during those years, but never felt ready or able to truly invest in any of them. With the missing piece in place, I was ready to give my complete heart to that special someone.

Within six weeks after lovingly releasing my “ex” and forgiving him and his wife for the betrayal in our relationship, I met Jim... the father of my children, the love of my life, the man I promised to love til’ the day he died. When one door closed, another one opened!

Ever since Jim passed away I’ve allowed myself to TRUST… trust that I would always have what I need, trust that everything would work out for my highest good, and trust that there were always going to be situations in my life where I needed to BELIEVE the Divine, God, the Universe, my angels had my back.

Once I let go of needing to control every outcome, find a solution for every problem, know what was going to happen next, my life started to flow. Now when I encounter a situation that brings up fear, sadness, angst, I TRUST and BELIEVE that everything is going to work out even better than I could have imagined. Powers higher than myself have big plans for me. They want me to be successful, joyful, abundant, and peaceful. All I have to do is “TRUST”, “BELIEVE”, and “ALLOW”.

Blessings Embraced:

• Trusting that everything in life will work out for my highest good is powerful

• Looking at situations from a different perspective can bring surprising results

Affirmation: I trust and believe things are always working out for my highest good