We are “called.” Those who join us are “called” too.

I find such comfort in the idea that we are “here, now,” intentionally.  I love the awareness that whomever I meet, only casually or quite seriously, was sent.  In fact, I had “requested” the meeting at a time and in a space I have long since forgotten about.  My first sponsor told me this in 1976.  I completely dismissed the idea then.  In fact, I felt uncomfortable around her for a time.  Her spiritual beliefs often seemed farfetched to me.

She was a psychic.  She did readings and healings for women and men.  Many in our circle of friends relied on her for help for their every decision.  I was concerned for them.  I knew I didn’t want to “make her my Higher Power.” She was a loving and very wise woman, however, and I learned much from her.  In time, I came to believe that what she said about the people we meet was right.  At least believing it relieved me of many hours of anguish and confusion.

Now I share this same idea with others all the time, in my books, when I am speaking to a group at a seminar, and even in casual conversations.  Caroline Myss is “the mother” of this idea.  Perhaps there were many spiritual guides who preceded her, sharing this same idea; but it was from her book, Sacred Contracts, that I found confirmation for what my sponsor had told me many years before.

Adopting the idea as a truth I can count on has changed my experience of life.  I no longer quake with fear when someone I don’t know shows up on my path and makes a fuss about something.  I understand that he or she is serving as my “teacher” for that moment, and all I have to do is observe, taking from the experience whatever I want to.

Every moment of my life, and yours too, is divine, filled with the exact experiences we need to get to the very next moment.  An awesome philosophy, isn’t it.  Every step we take is a baby step toward the divine ending we all will experience one day.  In the meantime, enjoying every person and each moment is what we have been invited to do.  We can be assured that no one will show up who shouldn’t.  We can also be certain  that we will know how to handle every experience, and “teacher,”  if we turn to our “inner source” for the direction we have been promised is there.

How simple and loving our life is when we see it correctly.  There is nothing to fear.  Ever.  We are where we need to be.  Always.  We get what we need.  Now.  Let’s rejoice.