Stupid!

She was almost frantic.  She had to get to work and couldn’t find her car key.  I was hoping that she was referring to the circumstances and not to herself.  She’s not a stupid person.  I helped in the search.  

No luck.  No place clever, like left in the ignition or near the frig since she had brought in groceries last night.  No time.  I took the key off of my ring and handed it to her.  “Thanks.”  Relief.  

Then she found it.  

How many times has a childless couple adopted…  then came the pregnancy?  

How many times has an anxious family situation finally, maybe after years, been just “given up on.”  Then came the solution.  The troubled child, the lost friend, the puzzling question, a war, a game of chess, anything unresolved can be food for stress.  

Karma, I’m told, means “action.”  It’s the things we do, and it’s also the consequences of any action for the universe.  I like the idea of God’s one-ness with the universe.  I like the idea of God’s interaction with all things, and some people believe that a kind of universal connectedness is true to a degree for everyone.  Maybe our attitudes move things.  Maybe there’s even physical change.  

Anxiety, fear, anger, negativity, just “lock things up.”  And although there is a clear time to strive and work toward a goal, there are also times to “go with the flow,” wait, calm down and find “God’s will” in my circumstances.  In my life a “coming-together event” happens too often to be coincidence.  So even though I can explain some of these results up to a point, I can’t explain them away. 

It's not stupid.  It's awesome.