Yesterday I clicked the BUY button to purchase tickets to an event I knew was happening all year. An annual event I have loved attending in the past.
It’s a Solstice Feast! People dress in the most fabulous costumes. Fawns and Centaurs, Garlands and six-foot long loaves of braided bread, music and dancing. The great hall is lit with candles and twinkling lights. People bring magnificent food, and their own plates and forks.
I love the dreamy, dark, magical experience….like being in a theater show as a part of the “crowd” and loving the creativity all about, and the joy of celebrating light and dark.
Last year, I couldn’t go to anything normally happening this time of year.
I had major surgery on my leg, I was lying very flat in bed on this day last year, hardly able to turn over, barely able to get up out of bed to go to the bathroom.
Ahhh the memories!
So this year, I’ve been looking forward to being at events like the solstice feast, that I haven’t attended in what feels like a very long time.
But after I clicked the BUY button, a message appeared.
SOLD OUT.
This event is no longer available.
What? Seriously?
But. That was going to be fun.
I’m missing out.
Pause.
Who would you be without the belief that when you get a “no” or it turns out something isn’t available, it’s BAD.
What if it was a good thing?
It saves so much time to have this new turnaround idea appear, excited about what new, different, unknown experience will happen instead.
Sometimes people have excited feelings about how they can approach a barrier from another angle.
Perhaps they’re figuring out a great challenge, discovering the cure for polio, or inventing the lightbulb.
So it doesn’t mean giving up…just a joy at a very deep inner place that says all is well, whatever occurs.
Even if it’s nothing….silence….staying home for the evening.
That’s wonderful, too.
“When you no longer have a will of your own, there is no time and space. It all becomes a flow. You don’t decide, you flow from one happening to the next, and everything is decided for you….
It is always more beautiful here, wherever I am, than any story of a future or a past. The here and now is where I can make a difference. It’s what I live out of. Nothing more is required.” ~ Byron Katie in 1000 Names For Joy
Much love, Grace
P.S. See all the new classes and events right below here, in bright colors? You can find them on my website, and by clicking the event you’ll be taken to the right page for more information. I’d love to have you. Write if you have questions or need more information.