(Questioner): Some people I've talked with do not understand - and I am
going to include myself in this - how they create their misfortunes.
Not knowing how they created these things has generated more fears
about what they might unintentionally create. In other words, how does
someone create something that she or he wasn't focusing on - like, for
instance, a car accident? The person wasn't focusing on this or putting
her or his energy into this, and yet it happened.

(P'taah): You know, beloved, all of the assumptions in your question
come back to the idea that to have the accident was a bad thing. You
see, if you start with the premise that everything is perfect, then no
matter what it is or how you create it or from where you create it,
always it is an opportunity to come to know more. You could say that
the important point is in the question, "What is the reaction?"

(Questioner): That's the point?

(P'taah): Indeed... there is no such thing as an accident. You have
created a circumstance, and that circumstance results in a different
paradigm from the one that existed before this incident occurred. And in
this new paradigm called "after the accident," what then is the
reaction? How do you act in this new situation? What does it force you
to do? What are you unable to do? And what is the gift?

In other words, everything is a gift, in one way or another. Find the
gift. Is it that you have the opportunity to look at a belief structure?
Is it that you have created an opportunity to stop and to be still, to
look inside instead of always outside? Is it a situation where you are
required to rely on someone else to serve you rather than for you to
always do the serving? And remember, it does not have to be something
dire. It does not have to be so serious.

(Questioner): Okay. So, even a little annoyance like, for instance, I
got a spoon stuck in my garbage disposal the other day. Even something
like that, if I can look at it and I can see that I created it for a
purpose, then I can sit down and figure out what it is that I am trying
to show myself?

(P'taah): Indeed. What is the gift? What does this story lead me to,
emotionally speaking? What does it lead me to that will give me a
broader understanding of myself?

(Questioner): Okay. So that's how you honor those buried and
hidden-away beliefs? By asking those questions?

(P'taah): Absolutely. By looking at the reaction to whatever the
situation is, by the emotional reactions or even by the circumstance
that we have before stated, you can come to see something about
yourself that perhaps you were not previously aware of. You see, you
cannot ever know, in your human state, all of the answers. It is
necessary for you, all of you, to learn to allow the mystery to exist
and to simply focus on how you are being. Never mind the outside story.

We will give you an example, beloved. Let us take the situation of the
spoon in the garbage disposal. Let us say that, before this occurred,
you were about to rush from your house to do some business, and that
because of this situation you were not able to rush away. Now, let us
step well back from the situation and consider a possibility. Say that
you got into your vehicle and rushed off to your business appointment,
and that doing so would have involved you in some kind of
traffic-related situation that would not at all have been pleasant for
you. Because you stayed to deal with the situation in your kitchen, you
created a smooth passage to that appointment. You went a little later
than you had planned, and so everything was perfect. Do you understand?

(Questioner): Yes, I do.

(P'taah): You can never - any of you - see around all of the corners to
know what is occurring in the bigger picture. You can only have the
knowledge that everything that occurs is for your benefit, if you only
allow it to be so. Remind yourself that everything is perfect, always,
and that everything exists so that you may come to know the miracle
that you are. Thus you may come to know your connectedness with All
That Is, and come to know that you are indeed All That Is playing this
game called life. Nothing could be anything but perfect in the broader
truth of it.

(Questioner): Right! Thank you, P'taah.

(P'taah): Also, remember that all of you are very busy trying to make
sense of something that will never make sense.

(Questioner): Is that going back to the mystery?

(P'taah): Indeed.

(P'taah through Jani King) - www.ptaah.com

This excerpt compiled by www.groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDose_Gratitude