Recovering A Sense of Possibility

LESSON TWO: Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can. Julia Cameron

First we have to believe that we are allowed to catch the bus.

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, except abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. Eileen Caddy

I have a saying that I trot out at times when people are looking for a miracle. ‘God does the supernatural, we do the natural.’

No matter how much we pray that our creative work will succeed or be finished, we have to actually do the work. We can’t just pray that the bus will come and pick us up we have to actually do something.

Sometimes we have to let something go before new opportunities can open up. We hold tight thinking that what we have is all we’re going to get, all we’re entitled to, all we’re worthy of.

Julia Cameron puts it like this: I want to sound a cautionary note here for all artists who put their creative lives into solely human hands. This can block your good.

Nitty Gritty: I quit teaching to take up writing. Teaching was my identity— it was where a lot of my self worth was based. It was the place where I was respected. The day I wrote my letter of resignation was the day that I began a whole new adventure. I had to trust that what I needed would be provided. That when I quit teaching a new era of creativity would begin.

Before I could ‘chase that bus’, I had to believe.

Do you believe in possibility?