At first glance some patterns are too big to be seen. Life looks chaotic, random, and we wonder what is really going on and how all the chaos connects. These cosmic patterns within our lives and life story make us stop and scratch our heads or perhaps sit down for a glass of wine. Only two, five, or ten years later when we’ve found a person that changes our life, the perfect job, or the home that makes us feel whole, do we see the larger pattern and the meaningful place that strange time or happenings held. That “losing” or “ruining” whatever we had going played an intricate part in what was to come and the person we were to become.

Maybe these words don’t feel so reassuring when you’re in the middle of your life blowing up or burning down. Maybe it appears overly optimistic to point this out but everything happens for a reason. The problem is that we seldom know what the reason is. Often we are left in the dark searching for answers without knowing what questions to ask. This idea of everything happening for a reason makes complete internal sense to me and the longer I live the more these words ease into the corners of my life and let me know that, in fact, everything will be okay. It just probably won’t look like I thought it would.

The universe is large and the patterns that govern it and our lives evade complete understanding. We may never know the whys in our lives but can always be grateful for the what that has come our way. Seeming destruction is a genuine part of life that’s necessary for transformation. It’s what blows up the status quo so we can move into more of who we are and what really matters in our life.

Question, but don’t get lost in the questioning. Make friends with the larger than life patterns that lead you to your destiny.

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