I have recently started to see life and the many encounters, relationships and even challenges we go through, not as single events that happen just to us, but threads, stitches and sometimes beautiful everlasting knots, that are all part of the tapestry of life we weave. And I see us as all part of the same, amazing and universal tapestry.
Not one of these threads is wasted, no matter how brief or insignificant it may appear to be. A lone thread (occurrence, experience, encounter), might not seem to add to the overall picture we call our life, and in fact, we may see it or feel it as a great hardship or hindrance to our progression, at least on a physical level.
But what if all threads – the perceived ‘good’ and ‘bad’ were actually essential to the whole tapestry of the collective; and the experiences and relationships that leave us with a bitter taste or heavy heart, are there not only to help us evolve in our own lives, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, but to help others too, or in the words of Rod Stryker, “We are each a single cell in the greater body of this world, with a unique role to play in the service of sustaining and advancing the whole of which we are a part.”
What if we were to see our own life, as really just a beautiful part of the bigger tapestry of life, transcending time and space? And that the experiences we go through, are there not only to weave our part in the tapestry, but to help us tie up loose threads we have been hanging onto for many lifetimes, at a soul level, or to help others do the same, also known as clearing karma.
The great thing about life is we don’t always need to understand the context or our karma (from past lives), we just need to live the experience in this lifetime, all the while trying not to judge it or ourselves.
