The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second. -- Jodi Picoult, American novelist
Does it sometimes seem to you that your best wishes take their own sweet time coming true, even though you pray sincerely for them to happen and work diligently toward their manifestation?
I know that I've been guilty in the past of what's called "magical thinking" -- that's where you believe that an action not actually related to a course of events can actually influence its outcome. A very simple example would be when you cross your fingers, wishing hard for good fortune to come your way, and then shortly thereafter, good fortune does appear. Now, did the action of crossing your fingers cause that good fortune, or influence its appearance? Most probably not, and yet if you are a "magical thinker," well, then, you believe that there is indeed a direct correlation between crossing your fingers and experiencing good fortune.
At times I've attempted to employ this "magical thinking" belief to make a fervently desired wish come true quickly...but alas, the magic hasn't worked. The wish just will not come true until the time is right.
Example: For five years after I was widowed in 1994, I wished that I could find a wonderful man again and marry him. But all the wishing in the world couldn't make that dearly held dream come true until the timing was right. In 1999 I met Ed Geldens, who had driven from Miami to the little Bay Area town of Sausalito, where I was living, because he found a job online there. We really did experience magic (not magical thinking, however). That's because the time was right, the circumstances were right, and we "recognized" immediately (I mean, within 15 minutes -- and that is the truth) that we were the right people for each other. I'd been widowed for five years, he'd been divorced for twelve years. And there it was -- our mutual wish to find a wonderful mate had finally been granted.
So keep honoring your best wishes, and eventually, when the time is right, they are bound to come true!
Linda Jay Geldens, www.LindaJayGeldens.com
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