Do you ever wonder if things might be working out in your favor, even if they appear to be going wrong?  Or if the power of your intention can attract to you your desired results in ways beyond your conscious manipulation?

     We had an amazing demonstration of this principle at our first Mastery Training in Fiji in August, a phenomenal week in every way. At the outset of the week our resort assigned our group to a meeting room at the top of a hill. Since the terrain was a bit steep we needed to arrange vehicular transport for the entire group for several gatherings each day ― not an attractive prospect, but apparently our only choice. The first evening of the program we discovered the room was rather cramped, had poor acoustics, and would likely be hot in the daytime. The space was far from ideal, and we did not look forward to pushing through the week there. 

     The next morning as we gathered to board the vehicles to ascend the hill, the resort manager apologetically informed us that a bus had broken down on the road to the meeting room, and it was impassable. To accommodate us, he had ordered an open-sided tent which the hotel staff erected a few steps from the beach. When we met there for our seminar session, everyone in the group sighed, “Ahhhh!This is really it!”  Our classes were blessed with a perfect view of the ocean, swaying palm trees, and several islands offshore. The sound of the gentle waves and birds provided background accompaniment, heightened with soft breezes. This was indeed the perfect setting; the entire group marveled at the synchronicity of the bus breaking down on the first morning of the week. It was obvious that the universe had a better option for us than the resort had offered, and our perfect situation found us. Another one bites the light.

      A Course in Miracles asks us, “What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?”  To the cynical, judgmental mind, this notion seems preposterous, even insulting. Yet to the spirit that has captured faith in the unseen, it speaks of well-being that runs far deeper than the stream of the obvious. Albert Einstein noted, “The most fundamental question we can ask is: Is the universe a friendly place?”

     Certainly if we gauge our assessment of the nature of life from the news, gossip, and the behavior of people in fear, the universe seems chaotic and unkind. If we shift our vision, however, and look at life through the eyes of appreciation and wonder, we find so much good and worth that we must say, “Thank you for my life and all of life.”

   The next time something goes wrong, hold some space for the possibility that something bigger may be going right. You may even get upgraded from a stuffy room to an ocean view.