Small Miracles & The Divine Flow

August 16, 2009

Dear Friends,

I just returned home from presenting my workshop in Pacific Grove, California, at the annual gathering of the United Centers for Spiritual Living.

Like I always do, I passed out a form at my workshop so people could sign up to receive my weekly inspirational messages via email.

Soon after my workshop, I sat down to enter all the email addresses I had collected into my contact list. One of the email addresses was difficult to read, and when I sent a test email to that address, it bounced back as “no such address.” I tried several more letter combinations, but none of them worked either. Finally, I gave up.

The only thing I knew for sure was that this person’s first name was Sadhna. And sadly, Sadhna was not going to be receiving my weekly emails. I did not know who Sadhna was. And whoever this person was, he or she was just one individual out of over 800 people attending this particular conference.

About an hour after giving up on Sadhna, I had a sudden urge to go down to the social hall for a cup of tea. When I walked onto the deck of the center, someone motioned me over. It was a woman who had attended my workshop, and she wanted to tell me how much she had enjoyed it.

We had only talked for a few seconds, when another woman standing nearby asked me if she could purchase a book from me. This woman happened to be wearing a green jacket with her name clearly embroidered on the front. And guess what that name was. You got it! Sadhna!

Out of 800 people—and in a very short amount of time—the divine flow had brought Sadhna and me together, and I was able to sign up her up for my weekly emails after all.

Now, this story is no major miracle—I realize that. But that is exactly the point I want to make today.

I think I have made it very clear in my book, in my workshops, and in these weekly messages, that it is extremely easy for you to unconsciously block or limit the experience of the divine flow in your life. Obviously, when you live life forcefully or fearfully, you are going to experience the divine flow to a lesser degree, because you are actually interfering with the manifestation process itself.

But even if you are doing a pretty good job of recognizing and cooperating with the divine flow in your life, that experience can still be diminished if you don’t make a conscious effort to appreciate each and every little miracle that manifests in your life—even something as “seemingly” insignificant as two people running into each other in a timely manner.

Like everything in life, even the divine flow can be taken for granted. And the more you take it for granted, the more likely you are to easily forget many of the miracles that have happened in your life—especially the smaller ones. Even recent occurrences can quickly be forgotten.

If you really want to fully experience the divine flow in your life, I suggest that you always take a moment to stop what you are doing and be consciously grateful for every little miracle that occurs. Celebrate it! Revel in it! Only then will you begin to get an accurate sense of how miraculous this world of ours truly is.

As Albert Einstein is quoted as saying: “There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

I choose the latter way of living. And it has improved my life dramatically.

Steven

© 2009 by Steven Lane Taylor
Author of Row, Row, Row Your Boat:
A Guide for Living Life in the Divine Flow
www.rowrowrow.com