3 Deep Truths About Being Open to the Miraculous Gifts of the Universe

The universe NEVER has just one possibility for your life, any more than it has one variety of trees, or one color for the sky. Here are 3 deep and powerful truths about what it takes to be open to and accept the many gifts that the world wants to bring you…

1. Being open to the many paths the universe has for you is not always easy or obvious

About 10 years ago I met a couple who was in the process of getting a divorce. They actually took me to lunch together, which was a little weird. But they seemed to genuinely like each other, and they were easy to be around.

That same day I invited them to come with me on a group excursion I was organizing, and Dillon told me he really wanted to come, but couldn’t commit to it, because his soon-to-be ex-wife didn’t believe in having any plans. It was her policy to never accept any invitations, never plan, and just show up to things spontaneously.

Which was a conversation stopper for me.

As I gaped, he explained further that this was, in fact, why his wife was leaving him; so that she would be totally uncommitted and unrestricted in all things.

Okay. There is a place for having a plan. Especially if you want to be connected with the love of your life. Which Dillon did.

And yet, blessings were waiting for Dillon. It was his dream to find his soul mate, and believe me, all of us who were his friends recognized her when she appeared in our midst a year or so later. 🙂

But you know what? It was harder for Dillon to let go of his ex – who had long ago let go of him – than any of us ever imagined. Even with a shining, wonderful woman right in front of him, longing to build a future with him, he struggled with looking back, rather than being open to the new.

Just because the universe brings you gifts does not always mean it’s easy to accept them. Sometimes beautiful, life-changing gifts are the hardest to receive.

Dillon thought he’d failed, he fretted constantly about where his ex was and if she was okay, he sent her money and tried to continue “taking care” of her… We all worried he would wreck his new relationship with all his looking back.

Fortunately, he was finally able to break his ties and accept the gift of a new life together with the woman who is now his wife. All of us heaved a huge sigh of relief. 🙂

2. Being open to what the universe has in store for you is about learning to listen deeply

Recently I was in a space of recovering from an intense and challenging parenting-teen-boys week, and on a whim I signed up to get a free numerology reading based on my name and birth date.

This is not something I’d ever done before (although I have a girlfriend who loves to read me my horoscope), and it’s also something I really don’t know anything about. I did it for fun and maybe to see what the universe would throw in my direction.

It was an act of being open, radically open.

And you know what? When I got my free reading, I sat there in shock. Some of the things it revealed were fascinating, and they prompted me to look at my life in a way I had not done for a while.

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Sometimes you get tired – you only see, hear, and think about things the way you always have. And that makes it difficult to make shifts that can benefit your life and grow your spirit in new, fresh directions.

3. Being open to possibilities the universe has for you means being flexible

There is great power in the “middle ground.” That’s the heart space you inhabit when you have a plan for who you want to be in life, but are still being open to the great good powers that swirl and flow around you.

Invite creativity and even ambiguity into your life. Try things that are utterly new now and then. Pick up a magazine you’ve never looked at, take a course in something radically weird and different…

Let those great currents of the universe help you look in new directions, and be open to sparkling new possibilities.

There are so many gifts waiting for you.