If I close my eyes, a thousand dots begin to shimmer

stretching out from my sides

to the front

behind

If I close my eyes, a thousand lines begin to connect

one by one

When I look around me I see nothing particularly magical

right now..

But when I look within

behind

it settles in

the knowledge that we are constantly walking on a guided path

flowing

It’s only in the aftermath

that we can see it

The people who guided us

The events which shaped us

And the sparks that became lines, trailing off into new adventures

If it hasn’t happened yet?

Perhaps the dot you are standing on is just waiting for a line

*I am inspired by the idea that our lives are constantly being woven, not just walked through.

The notion that some master weaver is taking pieces of thread from over here, binding them together, linking like with like, bringing us through, under and around the events that shape us.

Perhaps the master weaver lives inside us, accessing intelligence and energy that we cannot comprehend.

After all, hearts are magnets, ask any ECG machine. We draw others to us like iron filings based on thoughts, energy, mood and whatever lessons and rewards we are acquiring

Although I have always been able to see the patterns in my past, it never occurred to me (doh!) that right now, this connection and magic are also occurring. It has to for the results to show up in my future in the same way, that certain people and events have brought me to where I am today.

How many times do we get in our own way? Doubt, fear, obsessive thoughts, anxiety or even just ho hum procrastination and distraction?

When we realise that we have been supported and aided and guided through all of “that” back there, then all the fear just goes away. Or it does for me.

I wish I had known that I would be where and who I am now when I was in my twenties. I would have been far more peaceful in the knowledge that everything was going to be just fine, that I was going to be just fine.

Life doesn’t work like that. It can’t, or we wouldn’t grow.

But knowing how it all turned out, regardless of how many times I put myself in the way, worried, prevaricated and doubted….

How could I now be concerned for the future?

We are always loved, always supported, and always fine – no matter what is occurring. If this is hurting right now, there is a new line to a new dot opening up, it’ll be here soon – so keep your heart up and look around.

You can’t see the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust the dots will somehow connect in the future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down and it has made all the difference in my life

Steve Jobs

I’ve been travelling again, and am about to go again this week-end. As much as I try to stay in touch with blogging on the road, sometimes, it’s just too hard, but also, sometimes, I only find what has been perculating after a few days at home. Have a beautiful day X

PS photo taken over the Brisbane river/city from our hotel room the other night. It was an amazing view and I couldn’t sleep for trying to take it all in. Lines and dots everywhere, all lit up. If only it was so clear all the time.

I snapped it on my iPhone, Steve Jobs, your legacy lives on.