The World Is a Circle

Circles.

You know how people say, "What goes around, comes around"?  Most people use that phrase to mean something like that other saying: "Karma is a bitch," meaning that if someone does something bad, something bad will happen to them in return.  I have been guilty of using that former phrase that way, too.  A lot.  I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Because forgiveness makes the negative jab of that phrase go away.



So does faith.



Now, when I hear "What goes around, comes around," I think....YES....it does.

The world is a circle.

It's that road you take in the forest

that you get lost on and somehow wind up back where you started. Only when you get back to the beginning, everything has changed so profoundly, you may not even recognize your surroundings.
Or yourself.

But I wish you would.

Because what you might find...the second time around...is that circle is so beautiful.  As well as all the people in it who love you...especially YOU, if you can find it in yourself to love yourself as well.

I can't explain why things happen.

But PLENTY happens as you walk that forest road.  Bugs bite you...it hurts.  You may fall down and hurt yourself much more.

 You may even...and this is likely...lose people entirely along the way.

angels are everywhere

But.

There is So Much Beauty.  And it's not just the glance-at-it-once-and-sigh-rapturously type...although there is plenty, plenty of that.  It's the type of beauty where when you come around again, instead of feeling lost, you look and see how the forest is all interconnected, in ways you couldn't see the first time.  It's so complex that you know that YOU couldn't have created it, and you start to get just an inkling of that higher power.

And that inkling starts to grow and grow.

So. Beautiful.

Because when you start to see the connections, you know that EVERYTHING DOES happen for a reason.  Not my reason, maybe, and yet....YES...it is my reason, for everything, for life.

Sound complex?  Maybe, unless you are in my head today.  To me, it's simple.

Stop worrying.  It will turn out okay.  Better than okay.  Rapturously, perfectly, beautifully okay.

Dominus Vobiscum.

Amen.