All Will Be (fine) ....... WELL!

I’ve always admired Maya Angelou.  But seriously, who HASN’T?  My first ‘Maya Experience’ was at President Clinton’s Inauguration.  Whoa.  That poem knocked my socks off!  I can remember thinking, “That took a lot out of her.  Not only did she look a bit dazed when she finished the last line,; she didn’t even seem to have the strength to put an arm around The President when he hugged her!”

Over the years, I’ve read her books (starting with Why The Caged Bird Sings) and have seen her interviewed on several shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Super Soul Sunday and the Master Class series. 

Let’s face it, Maya is…………..A force, a phenom, an icon, a loving mother (to her son and to other men and women she calls her ‘children’), a teacher, a scholar, the REAL DEAL!

So, recently, when I heard Dr Angelou utter the phrase ‘all will be well’ I took particular note.  Why?  Because, as she explained it, it meant that things might not turn out  1.  The way you wanted  2.  The way you expected  3.  As good or great as you had hoped, but……….The way they were supposed to turn out.   

Get it?

Okay, for example, say you were trying to get pregnant and weren’t able.  You might be tempted to become very upset and frustrated because the idea of motherhood/fatherhood was not coming as easy as it seemed to for others.   Not the way it was supposed to.  If you stopped right there, you would miss the opportunity to surrender to the bigger picture (call it the universal plan).  You’d get stuck in the mire of ‘THIS IS NOT MY PLAN!!!!!!’ 

What would ensue?  Negativity, anger, sadness…………..?

What if you were to consider Dr Angelou’s sage words (“All will – not fine as in a storybook ending, but - be well”)?  What if you were to choose to surrender and create a space for the universe to do it’s work? 

There might be a pregnancy, there might be an adoption, there might be a change in your life’s purpose (from parenthood to entrepreneur, perhaps). 

If you truly begin to subscribe to this state of mind, you cannot even BEGIN to imagine how FREE you will feel!