Nevertheless, I am Willing

Here I am 24 hours past the newsletter deadline emailing the editor that after 7 months of writing I have missed my first deadline all because of a box of detergent. Sorry it wasn’t going to happen this month and the article on cleaning up our oceans will have to wait till May. This was going to be a good article all about the feng shui of water and how a clean planet is just as important as a clean home. I was to write about the barge of plastic the size of the US floating in the ocean and the steps my family has taken to stop buying plastic. It was going to include my hours of research to find the perfect lunch containers, wooden toys and our switch from seventh generation liquid laundry detergent to powder form. This is where I got tripped up, the box of detergent while organic had perfumes in it which turned my body into one big rash. Was I really going to blame a box of detergent for not getting my work done? You bet! Ironically, I have been taking Nancy Headly’s book study class and our last assignments was to write this statement on an index card “Nevertheless, I am Willing”. Ever time I arrive at an obstacle I should read the card. I looked at this card for a very long time, put it back in my purse and still decided to skip the article and go to yoga. Thirty minutes into Connie’s Hatha Class, I felt a drop of water, thought nothing of it, but 5 minutes later the ceiling over my mat and only my yoga mat started leaking. Here I sit wet and back from yoga reading my card one more time. Nevertheless, I am willing to keep my commitment to write a feng shui article on water and my commitment to the planet. Ironically, water is what helps us move through things, its what helps with career and feeds our abundance corners of our homes. It can be rushing like the ocean, or still like a lake. It can be sinking and depressing or uplifting like the dancing water fountain in front of the Bellagio hotel. Our journey down the river with obstacles makes life interesting. It gives us a chance to grow and learn and sometimes if we are lucky we run into rainbows after a storm. It is how we view these obstacles that directs our lives. If you knew the ending of each book you read or each game you played would you bother reading or playing? Yeah, me neither.  

For more info: http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/10-the-worlds-largest-dump