{"id":4097,"date":"2012-10-25T17:32:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T21:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2012-10-25T20:24:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T00:24:44","slug":"cracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2012\/10\/cracked.html","title":{"rendered":"Cracked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sharefaith.com\/images\/3\/a1405005aa\/img_a1405005aa1.jpg\" alt=\"Church Bell Swinging\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That&#8217;s how the light gets in&#8221; &#8211; Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n<p>Like many of you who are reading this entry, I want things in my life to feel phenomenal and flow effortlessly. At the moment, it doesn&#8217;t feel quite like it.\u00a0 Throughout the day, \u00a0I have been consulting with my friend Mike Chadwick who is a computer whiz about my\u00a0right livelihood tool, my link to the world, a source of education and entertainment, that was reluctant to start this morning. Once it did, then something else conked out too. I took it to Best Buy from whence it came and a very nice and quite capable young man named Zach, gave it a once over and suggested something to repair it which I purchased from them. As I am writing this, the new program is humming along quite nicely, thank you very much and along with it, its hardware host and its owner.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few weeks, glitches have been occurring in what I would like to be a seamless, crackless existence. First I lost my iphone (and it was returned unharmed after camping out overnight in the bushes in my front yard) and then I misplaced my credit\/debit card (it too is being replaced after the original was canceled) Then clients who had scheduled appointments at my counseling job (like the one I had now) canceled or didn&#8217;t show. One person I spoke with recently feels that she is addicted to complaining and doesn&#8217;t know how to stop it. She sees it as more of an issue than the substance abuse for which she is being treated. It\u00a0is a wake up call for me to be aware of places where I am more\u00a0focused on problem solving than solution finding. I would rather be in the latter state.\u00a0I&#8217;ve needed to postpone workshops because of scheduling snafus for participants. In the face of all this, I am doing what I suggest clients and students do, since I believe we teach what we need to learn AND I practice what I preach the majority of the time. I am taking slow, easy, deep breaths, taking care of the practical components of what needs to be handled and then surrendering it to the Cosmic Tech Support Team. I know that I am always protected and held safely, so that no amount of &#8216;mal-ware&#8217; can ultimately do me harm personally. I am allowing the Light from within and above to stream up and out, in and all around. I am trusting that the Highest Good outcome will prevail. I know that my computer and I are Higher Powered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/W-vSfwIJkjY\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/W-vSfwIJkjY<\/a>\u00a0Ring the Bells-Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That&#8217;s how the light gets in&#8221; &#8211; Leonard Cohen Like many of you who are reading this entry, I want things in my life to feel phenomenal and flow effortlessly. 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