While charity shopping at the weekend I stumbled upon a copy of Success Intelligence, one of the few Robert Holden (www.robertholden.org) books I haven’t read. That was a happy accident in itself. But when I flicked through it later I found that one section of the book is about grace. That’s the very word that came to me in a visualisation I did the other night about aligning with your highest vision for 2012.
I didn’t really know what it meant, but I let it be. When I found the book, I felt a tingle, smiled to myself and thanked the universe for unfolding as it should, yet again.
I love it when these little synchronicities occur. But back to grace. Robert Holden says grace has something to do with the universal dialogue between all things. “People who believe in grace believe that life is a collaborative adventure and a joint effort. Grace is the meeting point between an open-minded individual and the whole of creation. It is the experience of being moved or inspired by something bigger than your ego.”
Many people would say it was pure chance that I found a copy of the book. But as Ben Renshaw, Holden’s co-director at the Happiness Project, explains in his book Success But Something Missing, if we subscribe only to chance our standpoint must be “me against the world” as we have only our independence to rely on to navigate us through space. Whereas if we subscribe to grace, we make ourselves available to collective assistance and infinite possiblity. Grace is the realisation that we live in a friendly universe that wants us to succeed.
So grace can count on me to be a subscriber as I have experienced hundreds of these “chance occurrences” where something seems to be giving you a helping hand – from small up to life-changing. A recent example was when I was casting around for a life coaching course and a friend of mine, after asking a few contacts, told me about a “Dr Mark Atkins”. I Googled the name but couldn’t find any reference to life coaching so I let it go.
Days later I was flicking through a free magazine that I get through the post from a company that sells food supplements, and I saw an article written by a Dr Mark Atkinson. Several lightbulbs went off in my head and I thought this must be him.
It was another tingle moment – especially because I hardly ever looked at the magazine before putting it in the bin. After another Google search, I found Dr Atkinson’s website, clicked on to the prospectus for training as a human potential coach, and decided to sign up almost immediately.
So that one “happenstance” was life-changing. But then I’m the sort of person who is always scanning for “signs” that I’m on the right track.
So I guess that I’m already open to grace, to that sense of infinite possibility. Look for the signs and you might find some amazing grace too.
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