Embrace what may and love it!

I went to visit Bianca in Connecticut for ten days from June 17th to June 27th. It was too short but sweet. I loved getting more acquainted with my cute granddaughters and their new addition so I can’t wait for our upcoming family reunion later this month. I normally don't write on this blog while I am away from home but today is the exception. I have been away for much too long. 

 As soon as I arrived in Argentina this morning, Daniel and I turned around and flew to Uruguay. We should go back to Buenos Aires on July 1st. As I got on that small plane, I thought about the many times I felt fear of the unknown. What if this little plane were to crash?  and that is when I thought about a book I read a few years ago about security because security is something we all long for. 

We all want to feel safe and secure. We want the same thing when dealing with our financial state, in our job. Security in our relationships. We look for security in certainty – in knowing what to expect each day, in knowing what our tomorrow will look like, in knowing what future we are securing for ourselves but that is not the reality of life. When you think about it, there is really no such thing as security in “knowing” because reality is that everything in our lives is uncertain.  And the more we try to seek security in the certain, the more insecure we will find ourselves, because life just isn’t.  So how then can we feel secure? The answer is: embrace what may and love it! 

In Deepak Chopra’s book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success he states:

“The search for security is an illusion. In ancient wisdom traditions, the solution to this whole dilemma lies in the wisdom of insecurity, or the wisdom of uncertainty. This means that the search for security and certainty is actually an attachment to the known. And what is the known? The known is our past. The known is nothing other than the prison of past conditioning.  There’s no evolution in that, absolutely none at all. And when there is no evolution, there is stagnation, entropy, disorder, and decay.

Uncertainty, on the other hand, is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom. Uncertainty means stepping into the unknown in every moment of our existence. The unknown is the field of all possibilities, ever fresh, ever new, always open to the creation of new manifestations.  Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just the stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities. In your willingness to step into the unknown, you will have the wisdom of uncertainty factored in. This means that in every moment of your life, you will have excitement, adventure, mystery. You will experience the fun of life, the magic, the celebration, the exhilaration, and the exultation of your own spirit.”

 Those words really got to me. I had always been a person searching for security, and that passage made me realize that I needed to find my security by getting comfortable with the notion of uncertainty.  I needed to embrace the uncertainty of life as a gift rather than something to fear.  And I needed to rely on faith that I could get through whatever uncertainties lied in store for me in the future. I am embracing uncertainty as we prepare for our new adventure in a land not so familiar to me but one my husband loves so much and for that I am grateful to make my new home in Argentina.  

Con amor,

Vero