Miracles Do Happen

(originally posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 )

Successful therapy requires a certain amount of faith. Not so much in the therapist, as in oneself, and in the possibility of change. A great deal has actually been written about that, and I won't attempt to improve on that here. But there is another sort of faith that I think must be acquired for therapeutic changes to have a lasting beneficial impact on the person's life. They must have faith in life...or in the Universe, if you prefer. They must come to see the Universe as a place to play and thrive and grow, and not as a problem they need to solve, nor a mess they need to manage.
If you come to see the Universe in that way, you get to see its miracles.
Miracles do happen, but you’ve got to open yourself to them. I don’t mean by getting religion, or meditating, or submitting to the Will of God. I mean by getting on the same page as the Universe. By conceding that you are NOT in control of the Universe, but live within its process, its flow. So, that if the Universe hands you shit, instead of bemoaning your fate, you look around for something that needs fertilizer. Later, when that thing has grown and flourished, you get to say, “Holy Shit! It was a miracle that showed up just when it did.”
To see the universe as a place to play and grow, you must be willing to play with and nourish yourself on what it has to offer.