Thank you for my way. Thank you for the way before me and the way I have come. Thank you for signs. I am grateful for taking the time to read them.
This is how I frame my prayers when I don’t know exactly what it is I’m praying for, other than to simply feel better. This is how I ask God to show me what I’m supposed to be seeing.
All of us have and will experience hardship in our lives. What is your emotional fitness in preparation for them? Our emotional fitness determines our ability to cope with grief and sorrow when it inevitably comes. How we feel about things now will determine the way we choose to heal ourselves later, or if we choose to find healing at all. Feeling better helps us find our way.
This is why personal joy and happiness matters so much. We are a much greater service to the planet by finding our own inner comfort. But we are expected to be a secondary consideration. Society tells us we’re only supposed to think of others and remain selfless. But there’s a flaw in the terminology of self-less. Because while its ideals are noble, its words are misleading and have borne false teachings. The word selfless is an oxymoron. There is no circumstance in which the self is not considered. We will always be a part of any equation. Forgetting to include ourselves is a deep inner declaration of worthlessness. Without even realizing it we make it part of the foundation of our house.
Which brings me back to the word way. What is your way? Knowing that what’s intended for you is just as important as what’s intended for everybody else, can you identify yours? What would your higher self have to say about the way meant for your life, your life’s path? Are you on it right now? We all occasionally stray from our intended path. It feels terribly uncomfortable whenever we do it. Prolonged discomfort is sadly unhealthy. Seek to avoid it.
Think about what “your way“ might be. Did you make some agreement for this life before you were born? Did you make a promise about where you’d go or whom you’d love? Did you covenant to leave the world a more loving place than you found it? Consider what your soul’s intention might be. Are you doing anything against it?
Finding our own path and knowing for certain we are on it is a Herculean task. We always doubt. Yet it must be possible to work toward aligning with it. How much do we resist our own intended path, our own desires, thinking they will infringe upon the paths of others? We don’t need to abandon the ones we love in order to understand our own way. Do not be afraid. Coming to terms with our path typically helps us find comfort with where that path has led us. Being true to yourself might not be as hard as you fear.
The prayer I say to myself is, “Thank you for my way.“ Whether I understand it or not, I am grateful for the idea that there is an intention for me. I am grateful for the intention itself. I don’t have to clearly know where it is or what it is in order to be grateful for that it is. I believe that type of thinking attracts a deeper understanding of what we are each truly meant for in this life.
The secret in the prayer, “thank you for my way,” is that it’s not trying to define what that way is. It is non-resistant by its own wording. That’s an important component of efficient prayer and personal growth: a lack of expectations of the ways they are to be achieved. When we wish to participate in forces we may trust but do not understand, it’s best to frame our meditations around how we want to feel. It’s easier that way. Emotions are the only things about which we have some control or imagination.
Can you find a way to be grateful for exactly where you are and what you are experiencing? Can you be glad for your way? Use your imagination to conceive that some good might one day come from our traumatic experiences. Step forward in time and sink into the gratitude of that whenever possible. You won’t realize it in the moment, but you’ll be cultivating a garden from that manure. And amid that garden, a little pathway shall form.
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