Crossing the Lines of Our Lane
We can get caught up in the chaos of our own making when we think of what could be or could have been. We may find our emotions are strong and our desire for the outcome to be different than it really is. But if we allow ourselves this “egoic tantrum” for a moment, and we don’t shove it down, and then take a moment to be calm, we can see the inner motivations behind our desire to get out of our own lane, or the reality of what is, and let go. Once we let go of what could be or could have been, and we are in our lane or our boundary lines of the present, we can see the gifts that we would have never anticipated.
Our listening portion of the Pause today is from Rumi.
The Wheel of God
You are a wheel at which I stand.
Whose dark spokes sometimes catch me up,
Revolve me nearer to the center.
Then all the work I put my hand to
Widens from turn to turn.
