About one month I ago, I dashed into a store for a few things. As I approached the cash registers, I noticed only one register was open with a line of five people in front of me.
I groaned internally because I was due to pick up my son and husband in five minutes. The store had plenty of associates (six people) stocking the shelves nearby and only one register open!
As three more customers joined the line behind me, I saw one associate, and then another, go into the register area without urgency and then leave again without urgency. They couldn't have missed the extremely long line of customers waiting to be checked out. And they didn't seem in any hurry to correct the situation.
I felt impatience welling up in me. I wondered: should put the items back on the shelves and leave without them? Or should I stay? A voice within me said: STAY.
This went against my rational mind's nagging fearfulness. "You'll be late, you'll be late," it was chanting and jeering.
Deciding to consciously practice spiritual natural law, I just as quickly let that impatience go, saying to myself, "The Universe will handle this situation. And I will not be late to pick my family up." I instantly felt relaxed and I smiled calmly to myself.
One minute later, an associate went to the check out area and slowly opened another cash register and stated in a monotone voice, "I can take the next person in line who is paying cash."
It took me a second to realize that all of the people ahead of me weren't moving to the now OPEN register. "I am paying cash!" my voice rang out happily. I was checked out immediately and on my way to my family without a hitch. Only one other person joined the cash line behind me, and when I left the store ten people were still waiting in the original line.
This is an example of allowing the Universe to handle the situation. Time was expanded - those five minutes were extended infinitely. A checkout line opened up almost exclusively for me. And the best part, I was not late. It was a wonderful lesson in Allowing the Universe.
Now that it's the Christmas holiday shopping season, I intend to remember this lesson and apply it liberally.
I groaned internally because I was due to pick up my son and husband in five minutes. The store had plenty of associates (six people) stocking the shelves nearby and only one register open!
As three more customers joined the line behind me, I saw one associate, and then another, go into the register area without urgency and then leave again without urgency. They couldn't have missed the extremely long line of customers waiting to be checked out. And they didn't seem in any hurry to correct the situation.
I felt impatience welling up in me. I wondered: should put the items back on the shelves and leave without them? Or should I stay? A voice within me said: STAY.
This went against my rational mind's nagging fearfulness. "You'll be late, you'll be late," it was chanting and jeering.
Deciding to consciously practice spiritual natural law, I just as quickly let that impatience go, saying to myself, "The Universe will handle this situation. And I will not be late to pick my family up." I instantly felt relaxed and I smiled calmly to myself.
One minute later, an associate went to the check out area and slowly opened another cash register and stated in a monotone voice, "I can take the next person in line who is paying cash."
It took me a second to realize that all of the people ahead of me weren't moving to the now OPEN register. "I am paying cash!" my voice rang out happily. I was checked out immediately and on my way to my family without a hitch. Only one other person joined the cash line behind me, and when I left the store ten people were still waiting in the original line.
This is an example of allowing the Universe to handle the situation. Time was expanded - those five minutes were extended infinitely. A checkout line opened up almost exclusively for me. And the best part, I was not late. It was a wonderful lesson in Allowing the Universe.
Now that it's the Christmas holiday shopping season, I intend to remember this lesson and apply it liberally.
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