Has it seemed like life has thrown you lots of curve balls lately? Have you found it challenging to navigate through all of the shifts and changes while staying calm and filled with hope?
If the last two years have shown me anything, it’s been how much expectation has played a role in my emotional upheaval when things don’t turn out the way I expect.
Usually when my expectations aren’t met, I have felt disappointed.
Disappointment carries an underlying belief that says “I’ve been separated from my life mission – my God appointment.”
Expectation is an attachment to a certain outcome as being the only good outcome.
Expectation and disappointment usually go hand in hand as we get an inkling for what God is doing in and through us, create a story of expectation on what that will look like, get attached to our specific outcome or scenario coming to pass, and then, if and when it doesn’t, we make up a story that somehow something we did or someone else did has caused us to get separated from our God-appointment.
Guess what?
Getting separated from your God appointment is impossible. God’s plans and purposes for your life succeed!
So what do we do when things don’t turn out how we expect?
First, recognize that you may have told yourself a story and created an attachment to a certain outcome. “What is the story I’m making up about this?” or “How am I making this personally about me?” are great starter questions to find out what your underlying belief is when things don’t work out how you think they “should.”
Second, give yourself permission to surrender all attachment to how the story of your life unfolds. When we do this, we can move from expectation into expectancy. The difference between expectation and expectancy is expectancy carries the message “however this turns out, I know it’s going to be good in the end.”
Third, in the in between times – in the moments where what is unfolding is challenging and intense – remind yourself that this is how things look as your miracles are coming to fruition in your life. The unfolding of miracles in our lives often, and perhaps always, brings upheaval, disruption, and change. These undulations of change support us in keeping our focus and our attention invested in what our highest good is versus on comfort and stagnation.
Fourth, embrace the changes and choose to see them as good. Yes, acknowledge how you feel and stay loving and compassionate with yourself in your metamorphosis. And, keep redirecting your attention to the goodness of God unfolding in greater measure within and all around you.
In this way, your life stays rooted and grounded in love, supported in hope, and energized by joy so you can stay active and present in your faith and courage throughout all of life’s curveballs.
Does this resonate with you? How have you been challenged by your own ideas of what “perfect” is? Do you have any tips to share? Please share them in the comments or email me: heather@untethered.life.
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