How to Uncover Your Purpose, Part 2
This is the second in my series of postings on how to identify your spiritual Purpose.
Keep your eyes peeled for mini-miracles. As soon as you ask God to begin to reveal your Purpose to you, you will begin to experience mini miracles in your life. At first, you may not be open to them; for they defy logic and your normal ways of working and being. In fact, sometimes they may seem like impediments, hinderances or even obstacles. This is where surrender comes in. Not surrender in the sense of throwing up the white flag and giving up; surrender in the sense of relaxing and letting go of your agenda and ways of existing and doing things and opening yourself up to doing things differently. Not in your way, but in God’s way.
As you lay back into this shift, you will find yourself in the right place at the right time -- a lot. You will run into people who are a lot like you -- people who are on similar paths. You will stumble upon information you need. This past Saturday, against all logic I “lost” the final version of the first video I’d made. I rushed to the Apple store only to be greeted by a woman named Lilly, a young woman in her mid-20’s who works part-time at the store, who has helped me and with whom I’ve become friendly.
“Oh, my God! I’ve been praying that you’d come into the store,” she exclaimed. “I really need to speak with you.”
“You are the reason my Obama video disappeared?” I asked her with my eyes squinted.
“I’m sorry -- maybe I did,” she laughed. “But I need help -- I really needed to speak with you.”
Lilly believes that I have some answers to questions she’s asking herself about her Path. Who knows? Maybe I do. And she can talk to me about working part-time at the Apple store, which I’d had a fleeting thought about as I’d searched unsuccessfully for my file as a way of becoming more competent with computer stuff. While we were talking about her Purpose, Lilly showed me her blog, which -- not coincidentally -- contained answers to questions I’d had about blogging, which I’ve been exploring as a new vehicle for expressing my Purpose.
Could it be that helping Lilly was so important that God had me lose or misplace the file so I could come talk to her? Maybe so. Then again, maybe I did some stupid human trick and lost the file myself. Either way, hearing Lilly’s pleas helped me surrender to the delay and possible need to recreate parts of the video and open myself to sharing with -- and learning from -- Lilly. As a result, my blog will be up by the time I release my video.
I’ve learned that if you follow these types of experiences like invisible breadcrumbs through the Universe and you will learn that such “magic” is not only normal, it points to -- and is part of -- your spiritual Path. And it makes “bad” things not seem so bad.
