Hindsight is a wonderful thing. When you look back over your life, things seem to make sense, they seem to follow a coherent narrative. However at the time things probably made a lot less sense, and the narrative that is reasonably clear looking back, was not so obvious as you lived through it.
Perhaps your higher self could see it, but down at street level the fog was swirling in the crosswinds and you sometimes weren’t sure if you were going uptown or downtown, or even which way you wanted to go. There were so many options and choices that might have been, which are smoothed and filtered out in hindsight. Because you know where you wound up, its easier to “see” the flow that led there.
I’ve been noticing lately that history is also like this. In a basic history book, certain people did certain things which led to the known outcome. Only when you dig into it you find out that other people were doing other things that aimed at different results. Writing out history, or telling your life story, it reads much better to leave most of that out, to create a clear, strong narrative following the flow of “what happened”.
A certain level of conflict and uncertainty gives the tension that makes for a good story. So there may be a war with two sides in conflict. There may even be a few people who have some internal conflicts that intersect with the large scale conflict. This allows complex characters and character evolution. Also good story telling. Too much detail, though and it becomes confusing, which is closer to how it would have seemed at the time, before you knew where it was going to wind up.
Any collective human endeavor is going to have a complex mess of motives, goals, strategies and personalities pulling this way and that. Differences of opinion, of strategy, of goals and personal ambitions on all sides, at all scales and all levels. Living through it the crosswinds are often more obvious than the net flow that we focus on later.
This is as true of each of us in our individual lives as in historical dramas. We have many voices inside us, doubts and uncertainties, usually compounded by actual uncertainties of what the “facts are”. There are internal crosswinds reflecting or intersecting the external ones. No wonder we some times become discouraged and give up.
So in your life, you can expect things to be complex, that there seem to be forces arrayed against whatever you are trying to do, create, or manifest. This is always true for everything. But take heart, there are always forces arrayed with you as well, and those crazy crosswinds often combine to take you to your goal.
This is not to be delusional or in complete denial, but keep your eyes on what assists you, what needs to be done and surrender the rest. Keep a focus on what your heart tells you, your joy and inspiration, and refuse to be distracted by the apparent negatives. A few crosswinds are par for the course, not a sign that you are off track.
Work the internal conflicts, the doubts and fears and consciously forge a unified intent and vision. When you are true to your heart, Spirit will be true to you. Ride that through the crosswinds and while they are averaging out, you are creating your own story, including all the twists and surprises that make it better than your original vision.
(© 2/2014)
